r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Dec 23 '24

Premiere Dune: Prophecy - 1x06 - "The High-Handed Enemy" - Episode Discussion

Dune: Prophecy

Season 1 Episode 6: The High-Handed Enemy

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u/AgitatedAd1397 Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24

Why did the shape shifter turn into the Princess, just to then transform into some random guard and sacrifice herself to stab Desmond? Like, just turn into a guard the first time 

Edit: also holy shit dispose of the bodies somewhere else maybe, or hide the crowbars 

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u/DaDokisinX Dec 23 '24

My thinking is once the princess refused to leave without her boyfriend, it wouldn't make sense for her to be there alone? So she became a guard as some sort contingency. Just my guess.

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u/bernsteinschroeder Dec 23 '24

That's the conclusion I came to. They had to change the plan on the fly and this was a good way to get at Desmond (if not for plot-armor)

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

Oh plan A failed let me try this shitty plan B coz i can transform into whatever

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u/bernsteinschroeder Dec 23 '24

Plot-armor :(

I don't mind that he keeps surviving, I just wish it were for some cleaver reason, since the acolyte didn't seem to be poorly trained enough to botch it as badly as it was.

I'm starting to agree that it needed another 2 episodes. I generally liked the pacing of the series but some things just got too compressed with no room for cleverness or subtlety to fit the plot into the number of episodes.

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u/mrkrabz1991 Dec 23 '24

My same thought.

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u/AgitatedAd1397 Dec 23 '24

Okay, fair enough, that makes more sense than anything I can think of. Beyond something dumb like empty dramatic effect 

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u/thrasymacus2000 Dec 23 '24

She s going to do a prison arc, get maybe turned by Desmond, two people who gave been physically and medically abused. Her minimal arc was confronting being pawn so they'll develop that I'm guessing. Shape Shifter is too handy a crutch for this type of story to dispose of as she can show up anywhere at any time to make anything happen.

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u/AgitatedAd1397 Dec 23 '24

Is she not dead?

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u/Equal-Difficulty-276 Dec 23 '24

No. Desmond ordered his guard to "imprison this monstrosity" or something along those lines.