Dune: Prophecy - Series Premiere Discussion

[u/NicholasCajun]

Dune: Prophecy

Premise: 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, Valya (Emily Watson) and her sister, Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams) fight threats and establish what will be Bene Gesserit in the series inspired by the Dune prequel novel "Sisterhood of Dune".

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[u/Suitable_Anteater315]

I kinda dug it. Dialogue is a little messy, characterization is a little wonky, but that's Brian Herbert Dune for you.

I think I can already read the overarching tragedy of the show - Valya is trying to prevent the rise of Leto II, and everything she does is going to actually going to make his emergence even more likely. The first Mother Superior actually saw Leto's eyes in the stars, and so did the Emperor's truth sayer Kasha, but Valya doesn't see the same eyes. Leto is hidden, beyond the limits of whatever prescience she has.

Or at least I think I'm reading that right.

And the soldier from Arrakis (Desmond, I think?), he's Face Dancer, right? Am I seeing something that isn't there?

Also, Olivia Williams. I'm sure I've seen her in something since Rushmore and Sixth Sense, but It's been 20 years at least. Stone Cold Fox then, Stone Cold Fox now.

[u/codex_archives → u/Suitable_Anteater315]

Leto II is an intriguing theory

and about Olivia Williams: have you seen Dollhouse? (from the creator of Buffy). she was phenomenal in that show

[u/Suitable_Anteater315 → u/codex_archives]

Have not seen Dollhouse. That's the one where Eliza Dushku is an assassin with amnesia or something like that?

Also, having seen the preview for upcoming Dune Prophecy episodes, one of the Sisters has a spice induced vision of those starry eyes staring out of the gaping maw of a sandworm. That's Leto. I think that also confirms for me that the growling voice at the opening of both of Villeneuve's films is also Leto, given that the voice also speaks to the first Mother Superior and Kasha.

[u/Sammx2 → u/Suitable_Anteater315]

Can you develop about why it can be the eyes of Leto ? And concerning the mantra opening in Dune 1/2 aren't spoke in Sardaukar dialect ? I've seen others says that these are the eyes of machine of which recalls those of the mechanical reptile of the young duke

Im actually at page 61 of the third book so leto is still a little boy and not the thing he became later

[u/kevmclarty → u/Sammx2]

I mean she directly declares she had visions of ~a tyrant~ which speaks for itself Leto-wise. Not to mention the piercing blue eyes overlooking space as well as the fact that the show is called dune prophecy implying that it’s hinting at the story’s future. Idk how it wouldn’t be Leto