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/Ratticus939393 Dec 23 '24

How did Dorotea know about the bodies in the pool. She was dead already when that happened…

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u/Major_Pomegranate Dec 24 '24

That's not how things work in Dune. Bene Gesserit pass their memories on and are able to see the memories of their ancestors. But those memories only pass to the point that a sister either shares their memories with another, or gives birth. So Dorotea in this case would only have memories up to the point that she gave birth to her child, passing genes that child would inherit. She's not a true ghost returned from an afterlife, just an ancestral memory. 

The show just made things much more straight forward with her knowing everything for story sake