"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.

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My go-to phrase now is , “don’t judge a book by its movie.”

What they did to Foundation should be a crime.

The made interesting and visually engaging? Oh and soandso is a black woman now.

Yes, clearly racism is the biggest reason to hate the Apple TV version. Not that the writers didn't understand the point of the books and turned Asimov's original thoughts on society into magic and mysticism.