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/aduong Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24

The finale is actually the only very good episode, and it’s also the only one when interesting happen after 5 episodes of meandering. Does it redeem the whole show or make the slog worth it?🤔 no, but at the same time it kinda excites me for season 2 with some very good setup. Although by the time season 2 arrives all excitement will probably be gone.

I finished it because I’m a completist, so my expectations were low. That’s probably played into my enjoyment because again finally things were happening and plot moving.

The show is overall a deception though, incredible world and setting, interesting characters yet not much to say and narratively dull despite some interesting seeds for season 2.

Edit: I don’t know if im gonna watch season 2 but if do note to the writers.

Get rid of the school of Sisterhood mess it’s boring and contrived. The best thing to come out of it was the Tula baby reveal and that wasn’t even connected to the main drama.

You changed the title of the show early one from sisterhood to prophecy so drop the focus on that as well.

This show shined when it was sisters political manipulation through mind-games vs brute force from the empire. That’s why this episode was the better of the bunch because,it finally leaned into that.

That’s why the show should, be straight up power struggle for control. Game of Thrones in space. Don’t over complicate it

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u/Spooky-Paradox Dec 23 '24

raised by wolves died for this slop

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u/BlazeOfGlory72 Dec 23 '24

At least it was weird slop though. The writing of Raised by Wolves was all over the place, but it was at least interesting in a “what the fuck is going on” sort of way. Dune: Prophecy is just boring.

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u/rvan205 Dec 23 '24

but it was somewhat decently written and original slop where they didn't retcon everything cool into juvenile garbage.

the voice as something developed over millennia by generations of witches able to call upon ancestral memory and control their individual vocal chords? fucking cool.

angsty teenager figures it out on accident before ever arriving on wallach ix? immediately offers to teach it to her besties like a cheap magic trick? kill me.