Dune: Prophecy

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spronk

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yeah dull show, it copies Denis V's visual style but someone who isn't really great at it so it looks like a copy. I don't think Denis V would ever mix Cyberpunk with the Dune "nature" aesthetic.

That intro voice over was something else, I dug it but if you don't know much about Dune I don't see how a info dump of thousands of years of history and then a bizarre time skip 30 years would want you to keep going. They literally could have had an episode where they show the start of the machine war, the end of the jihad, the establishment of the Bene Gesserit, etc instead of a 5 minute voice over trying to explain it all. Especially since little happens in 70% of the first episode. Then they weirdly do a 30 year time skip!?!!? This so feels like a movie that got turned into a TV show.

I like Ragnar Lothbrook but his character is bizarre here, not sure if he is a Fremen spy or an AI agent. He literally can't do anything but one accent hahaha

Wonder if the guys with the blue eyes in RM's visions is the God Emperor or someone else in their contemporary time.

The biggest flaw with the show is its heavily leaning on Brian Herberts (son) books which are dogshit. They are clearly using major plot points from his book series.
 
Gravel

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Was going to ask if you needed to have some Dune knowledge going into this, in the event my wife wanted to watch. But from the above post it sounds like they just do a massive exposition dump to start it? Ugh.

Don't know how many times it's been posted on these forums, but the mark of bad writing is "tell, don't show."
 
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Izo

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Gravel said:
Was going to ask if you needed to have some Dune knowledge going into this, in the event my wife wanted to watch. But from the above post it sounds like they just do a massive exposition dump to start it? Ugh.

Don't know how many times it's been posted on these forums, but the mark of bad writing is "tell, don't show."
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Wait, wait, wait, you haven't forced your wife to watch all Dune movie iterations incl. the mini series? Have you not also read aloud from the coveted Ecology part of book 1? For shame.

Anyway, watch with your woman, receive bj. It's a great couples show that way.
 
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Izo said:
Wait, wait, wait, you haven't forced your wife to watch all Dune movie iterations incl. the mini series? Have you not also read aloud from the coveted Ecology part of book 1? For shame.

Anyway, watch with your woman, receive bj. It's a great couples show that way.
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like most big HBO productions nowadays, there's a companion podcast if you want a little more behind the scenes discussion:

 
nu_11

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interesting spoilers for Dune book 4 or later

The God Emperor said that the only group he considered wiping out was the Bene Gesserit. He was greatly disappointed for their simultaneous ability to plan long-term and not plan long-term enough
 
Bald Brah

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Was their supreme patriarch lady an aboriginal australian? Kind of the last group of people I'd expect to see running interstellar empires.
 
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nu_11 said:
interesting spoilers for Dune book 4 or later

The God Emperor said that the only group he considered wiping out was the Bene Gesserit. He was greatly disappointed for their simultaneous ability to plan long-term and not plan long-term enough
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also said that without the spice, they were a band of whiny females.

He hated them. He states that they're the only group he ever seriously considered exterminating.
 
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Izo

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Grez said:
also said that without the spice, they were a band of whiny females.

He hated them. He states that they're the only group he ever seriously considered exterminating.
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Bald Brah

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I got about halfway through the first episode. It was slow and plodding and the main cast is pure ass.
 
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Bandwagon

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I'm halfway through the first episode after trying to watch it 3 times. No one is likable, no one is a good actress, don't care about girl power nonsense when it's told like girl power nonsense.
 
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Zapatta

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1/2 in EP1 and this feels like House of Dragons meets Harry Potter produced by SyFy.

HBO seems not to remember how to make epic TV
 
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Rajaah

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spronk said:
i'm confused what you guys are talking about, my understanding is the Dune series is a PREQUEL which means it'll show the creation/rise of the Bene Gesserit, has nothing to do with the Honored Matres which takes place years (thousands?) after God Emperor of Dune and I doubt we'll ever get to that, much less God Emperor.

sadly Herberts son wrote a bunch of shitty fanfiction about those time periods and they were really, really bad. I'd expect to see the creation of the Spacing Guild, that weirdo daughter chick who designed highliner engines and her son who was the first guild navigator, etc.
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Isn't Dune: Messiah in development? Too bad we won't get to God Emperor in the next four years (if at all). The timing for God Emperor would have been perfect if it came out next year. There's still Children to get through and even if Messiah and Children are each one movie (which I'd expect) that's still well after 2028 for God Emperor.

Something else I've mulled over before: Given how hard space travel actually is, an empire spanning thousands of worlds seems like an impossible proposition at this point in time to the point of being basically too "out there" compared to when I was reading this stuff as a kid. Maybe it'd be easier near a galactic center though? As in, all the solar systems are close together and you pretty much enter a new one the minute you leave yours. Smaller solar systems too. Maybe more habitable worlds due to their compactness (or maybe habitable worlds are common, fate just burned out 3 of the 4 in our solar system a long time ago). I guess that's a discussion for the astronomy thread though. I need some coffee.
 
Zapatta

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EP2 -

The writing is straight lazy. The casting was done by homosexual men who probably pick female Disney leads.

I am guessing we will get an old lady lesbian scissoring scene before this is over to offend straight people.
 
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Gravel

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Sounds like this one will be another like House of the Dragon where I download it and then delete it two years later without ever watching it.
 
Aldarion

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I've read all the son's books - some of them twice (may God have mercy on my soul) - and I can't finish this first episode
 
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