The first episode of Dune Prophecy didn’t necessarily have pacing problems but they did try really hard to do a lot in a short period of time. I am hoping that this episode slows down a little and allows the story they are building to breathe a little bit. We were introduced to a lot of characters in the first episode and they all seem to have their own stories going on.
The heads of the sisterhood are really leaning into not revealing everything that they know. Not to the rest of the sisterhood and not to the audience. There is lots of mystery now we are speaking of secrets and things that have been covered up.
The death of the prince is being blamed on “the thinking machine” that the kid had. This is before Desmond actually gets confronted by the emperor. I would like to know more about the war against the thinking machines. It is coming out in drips. But we really don’t know how the war started; we kind of only know who fought in it.
Crazy eyes definitely was the reason for the child's death, and now he is doubling down with the emperor. Who is this guy? He is so willing to kill for the emperor but we literally know nothing about him.
Lila is rochellas great great granddaughter and they want her to go through something called “the agony” and we are using it to tap into genetic memory. Not gonna lie “The Agony” doesn’t sound super awesome.
Even then controlling Arrakis was the sign of real power. Have we really been fighting over this desert planet for 10,000 years?
The prince can not keep his mouth shut…men are so easily distracted. Put boobs in their face and all the information comes out.
Momma definitely feels like she was trained by the sisterhood, she thinks like one of them. Yet she seems so against their presence and her daughter going there. There is something more going on there.
What we have among these three is really different ideologies, we have the one who is very spiritually sure in Emmeline, the one that is younger and a little unsure in Lila, then we have the one that has clearly been through a lot of trauma and seems a little jaded in Jen.
So crazy eyes admits to killing mother and the child, so I guess this is how we find out that sandworm blood grants the power of seeing. That is the assumption anyway, this was not explicitly stated. Though we are two episodes in and almost nothing has been explicitly stated.
SWORDMASTER IS AN ATREIDES.
There is a rebellion brewing regarding the great houses hoarding spice…we can conclude that it did not go well considering that is still the case in Dune. Well that explains that Mikaela has infiltrated the rebellion. Not infiltrated but fully set up the rebellion.
The concern that is conveyed so subtly between these girls. Sister Emmeline is very connected to the spirituality of the sisters and is clearly proud of her younger sister whereas Sister Jen is very concerned and clearly disappointed.
All the girls just watched their leader get called out as a Harkonen, my guess is that that doesn't end well and this little girl ends up dead.
Crazy eyes is taking on mother superior himself, it's bold but again, considering that the bene gesserit exist is full force in Dune it clearly doesnt work. That’s really the problem with prequels is that we know how the story ends up. Watching the journey can be fun and all but it just seems like a cash grab.
Girl is still using the voice but there is no evidence that she has taught it to anyone else, this guy seems to have a special resistance to the voice.
Well…that certainly ramped things up. Their structure is actually very interesting. Valya is obviously the driver of the story. However it seems like everyone’s individual plotlines are happening in isolated bubbles. Yet they all have a story that they overlap with. And all of these individual stories seem to be a part of Valya’s plan. I am interested to see where this goes but 6 episodes is not a lot.
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