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Dune: Prophecy

Yes, it's based on "Sisterhood of Dune" :rwmad:

Alison Schapker is the showrunner. She worked on Alias, and Altered Carbon... but also THE FUCKING FLASH. lol

I will not have very high hopes for this show, but I am open to the possibility that KJA's shit writing might translate into a decent tv show.
 
Oh it was going to be named Dune: The Sisterhood or something but they changed it, probably because they won't want people thinking about BAD BOOKS.
 
First episode was a lot of character introductions. It looked pretty nice but obviously not at the level of the movies. There was some nice sci-fi stuff that I am inclined to like. But a lot of it did just feel like a Dune remix. I'm not sure if it did a great job telling us why we should care about it all? I liked the Princess I guess? When she called her 9 year old husband a little shit that was good. I still felt bad when he got boiled, a bit.

The whole thing where it's 10,000 years before Paul is born and nothing much changes in that time is a bit crazy but I guess that's from the books.
 
Wacky, what happened at the end was some dumb shit invented for this series. No one has that power in Dune.

Anyway, I think it was pretty good for a series premiere, and the acting was good. I am trying not to be too biased against it!
 
Cassie said:
Wacky, what happened at the end was some dumb shit invented for this series. No one has that power in Dune.

Anyway, I think it was pretty good for a series premiere, and the acting was good. I am trying not to be too biased against it!
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Nothing can ruin an adaptation like reading source first.
 
Or refusing to read the source because it was written by a hack! KJA is the devil. lol
 
@Cassie I was going to ask you about the fremen girl at the bar with the blue eyes. Is it normal for fremen to leave Arrakis? I kind of thought they never did.
 
They didn't until Paul's jihad. It is possible she is not from Arrakis, and somehow has enough spice to turn her eyes blue, but if she could get it, so could the BG.
 
Second episode was better as they went deeper with the character relationships and set up the central conflict of the show. There's a lot of plotting going on and SECRET ALLIES. It still kind of lacks a sympathetic character we can get behind? I thought that was going to be Lila but then she died, so that was sad (at least it was unexpected.)

Why did the Empress call the worm "Shai Hulud"? Is that a CLUE or just sloppy writing? Why does the Princess have a foreign accent but her parents don't?

Breasts!
 
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The Empress shouldn't know "Shai Hulud" and even if she'd somehow heard a Fremen say it, she wouldn't have known it was in reference to a sandworm. It is a religious term for the sandworms, and the Fremen wouldn't have been sharing that sort of private thing with outsiders. AND even if they did, she wouldn't be using a religious term for a sandworm. The ruling houses never got inside the Fremen world until Paul and Jessica came along. The BG did, but they haven't yet (during this show so far). They will eventually infiltrate enough to plant the Missionaria Protectiva in the Fremen culture. I think they're using words to sound cool. lol

I don't like how weak emperor Corrino is. Doesn't seem like the kind of man to rule an empire. It is insane how powerful they've made Desmond Hart, it doesn't make sense for him to have this magic. He also shouldn't be calling the sandworms "Shai Hulud" since he is an outsider.

OMG that is Munch!

I forgot the BG used poison before they discovered the water of life. Lila being murdered by her female ancestors seems weird and dumb.

Desmond Hart is too powerful.
 
On the wikipedia page it says the Empress studies religions so I guess that's the "explanation" of why she said that (I know it doesn't make sense.) Would the Fremen even have been around 10,000 years ago? Would they not have been different and maybe not developed terms like "shai hulu" yet? It seems like every aspect of Dune supposedly remained static for 10,000 years, right down to starship design. I know the Emperor and BG kept things static for shifty reasons but it's kind of ridiculous.

They should put a time-travelling Shadout Mapes in it if they're just going to be silly.
 
The Fremen were around, but there's no way she studied their religion. Most of it came as a surprise to everyone, including Jessica, who wasn't even aware of the Missionaria Protectiva.
 
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