Just read the credits.
Spoilers Dune: Prophecy - Spoilers!
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I'm sure the twist is going to have something to do with the water of life, probably with it allowing him to somehow make the spice in people's systems ignite or some-such nonsense.
They've already implied that enough people are addicts to justify a rebellion over the Great Houses hoarding spice, so apparently everyone has it . . . which just doesn't make any sense in and of itself. I mean the nobility being addicts, sure! They're rich; they can afford it. But the general population? Yeeeah, no! I mean seriously; where would a bartender ever get enough spice on a regular basis to get the blue-within-blue eyes? The Fremen have it because it's permeated their entire ecosystem, and the navigators have it because they mainline the stuff to not crash into quasars if at all possible.
Anyway; personally, I'm well past the point of having any patience for mystery boxes *unless* it's backed up by substantive character based storytelling and coherent world building. I'm not going to be led by the nose with the vague promise of "it'll all make sense at some point." Unless they're willing to put something interesting up-front instead of just vaguely mysterious, then I don't care what's in the damn box (pssst: it's usually pain.)
EP2 was better and the plot moved faster.
It was awesome how Desmond just played off Mother Superior's voice. Fimmel was amazing!
That was pretty much the only part of the whole episode that held any interest with me...and even that wasn't perfectly executed...and ended as expected.
I'm fascinated by the idea of Other Memory and I would love to see more focus on that, but clearly this show is much more interested in poorly emulating Game of Thrones (complete with gratuitous sex scenes to predictably manipulate weak men) than to do anything more than surface deep.
What's wrong with gratuitous sex scenes? Spartacus had loads of them yet it was an awesome show.
And it aided the story this episode.
Because it didn't add anything to the show other than pure sex. These were not a couple, it was a one night stand without meaning and the only story relevance was her extracting information from him. That could have been accomplished by skipping the actual sex part and just showing a fraction of it or implying it and then skipping to the story relevant part.
It's just a cheap sex sells approach, GoT has also its share of that but some of the sex scenes were story relevant such as the initial rape of Drogo on Daenerys or the incest of Jaime and Cersei.
Go look up the word "gratuitous". I don't think it means what you think it means.
Wow, that certainly will be the most boring entertainment hour this week, possibly this month but there are 3 more Prophecy episodes coming so there's competition.
The episode didn't reveal anything new and i don't find the characters especially Valya interesting enough to spend an entire hour exploring her past just to learn what i already suspected - that she never left the Vendetta against the Atreides even when committing fully to the Sisterhood.
Nice touch with the AI at the end though.
The episode didn't reveal anything new and i don't find the characters especially Valya interesting enough to spend an entire hour exploring her past just to learn what i already suspected - that she never left the Vendetta against the Atreides even when committing fully to the Sisterhood.
Nice touch with the AI at the end though.
And in the same level of quality i didn't care enough about the characters to want to see an entire episode of flashbacks and she just happens to discover she has the Voice and can use it perfectly? We know from Dune that it takes years of pracice to train to use the Voice and that's with practiced tutors, she just has it as it fell from the sky into her lap.
I so wanted this show to be amazing but as it turns out it'll be mediocre if they're lucky.
I guess it's a chicken and egg kind of situation? You have to start somewhere.
Sure, i just find it too sudden and convenient to give her this pivotal and extremely powerful abiity out of nowhere. No development, no leadup - she's just using it. It's just lazy writing to me.
Poor Tula! I feel like she's always just done what Valya wants her to. I think she actually liked the Atreides guy and her care for the horse and Lila show she has a heart.
Agree the AI was an interesting and unexpected twist. I wonder what Tula thinks it can do for Lila.
Agree the AI was an interesting and unexpected twist. I wonder what Tula thinks it can do for Lila.
I suspect the Spice may save Lila's life, and bring her back, although I have no idea what her condition would be after such a harrowing experience with all of her ancestors.
Something had to make the BGs aware of what Melange could do, and how it could help make successful Reverend Mothers...
She is the one foretold.
Is the subtext not there that Tula is Lila's mother?
No, in the second episode it was revealed that Lila's mother was the one BG mother with whom Valya had a rivalry and made her kill herself by using the Voice for the first time in a deadly manner.
Must have missed that!
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