The showrunners and writers chose to gender-swap Salvor Hardin—who was a male politician and Mayor of Terminus in Isaac Asimov's original short stories—into a female action-oriented warden portrayed by Leah Harvey in the television series. This adaptation choice was made to inject greater dramatic continuity, physical conflict, and personal emotional stakes into a narrative framework that originally consisted of disparate, loosely connected episodic short stories lacking recurring characters.
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