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#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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ive read a large chunk of the books, although only Franks more than once, Brians are to, erm, spicy shall we say to get read more than once.

Not impressed so far as they introduced too many characters in too short a time period with the majority of them not getting defined well enough to stick with who is who, and what they want. I think there was like eight main characters introduced? Contrast that with the Landman premier (which has entirely different problems) that focused on introducing a far smaller number even though it has a wider cast waiting the wings, some of whom are quite big names.

I also did not like that the interesting bit, how the Bene Gesserit actually got first started being trusted by the houses to where every one of them wanted their own was like 2 minutes. Its like they wanted to focus on stuff relevant to the recent movies to keep people interested but 10000 years is a huge time gap to be sitting at the same point all that time. Would have made more sense to start further back IMO.

It just feels like different writers are responsible for writing different characters stories and they being mushed together than than planned as a cohesive whole.

I will give it another episode or two to see how it evolves but at the moment it feels like a space opera version of the Wheel of Time show (not the book) more than anything else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Not a book reader, so I am coming in blind. But the 10,000 of things being the same really threw me. I read elsewhere that stagnation is part of the books, but this seems a bit much?

I am also confused on how these large families blindly trust people who are basically witches that all come from the same place? Why would they not all assume there are ulterior motives, especially when politics is always about that? They basically adopt these truth sayers and then expect them to be against each other?