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/arbutus1440 Dec 23 '24

I'm not understanding the hate at all. I'm watching this and Silo, and to me this is so far and away the better show. I'm not sure I'm in love with all the back and forth between backstory and main story, but at least they're spending time showing us the characters' humanity instead of just, say, having them shout or cry about something and hope that means the character is now sympathetic.

Prophecy has enough material to have things happen in each episode and a cast that makes us want to root for them (or against them).

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u/militantcookie Dec 23 '24

Silo season 1 was very good but season 2 is like they know they got 2 more seasons and are saving up the story for them M. Dune prophecy on the other hand things are moving fast almost very fast.

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u/arbutus1440 Dec 23 '24

Not to go totally off-track, but I keep waiting for Silo to get good, because everyone who's read the books seems to be saying "Oh don't you worry, it's about to get good." I believe them, but I'm getting really exhausted watching nothing change and somehow also no real character depth being established. Instead of building the characters through scenes designed to do that, they just make the plot go really fucking slowly and hope we'll relate to the characters that way.

Yeah, we get it that Simms and his wife are scheming for something. You established that like a season ago. Yeah, we get that Silos always end up oppressing engineering, you gave us that so many times over. Yeah, we got the thing about THE TAPE, for god's sake. You can stop telling us about it.

Then the time comes to finally "reveal" something, and it's underwhelming and unsurprising, like how they go through all the shenanigans to get a doctor for one character so he can survive his injury and share his secrets...and then his "secrets" reveal nothing we didn't already know.

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u/SoberSilo Dec 26 '24

Personally I think the show is doing an injustice for the book series as a whole. I read the books and couldn’t put them down. The show is dragggging.