Is Dune: Prophecy any good? Not really, but it's firmly in the "I'll keep watching that garbage" tier of television shows, which is good enough for me.
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I'll watch it. Just like I read most of his son's books.. But I have a feeling it's going to be utterly forgettable in the long run. I hope I'm wrong, but it feels like it could work in many SciFi IPs at this point.
I thought that the second episode was better than the first. I'm not one of those readers or viewers that looks at things through a critical POV going into a book or show. It either talks to you or you find something else!
I guess I'm missing something bc I thought the second episode was fantastic. Top tier HBO. Travis Fimmel is perfect casting. He's put out excellent Rasputin vibes
I thought the last line of episode 2 was redeeming enough to overlook the shoddy sex scene: "I always wondered what your greatest fear would be: Now I have seen it... It's not that no one will hear you, it's that they will hear you and just won't care."
They waited until the last possible moment for anything to happen in that first episode and it was just enough stuff for me to have to continue watching
That was legit my fear the moment the show was announced. Playing every angle to milk cash from the IP, regardless of the quality of the source material.
Brian is heavily involved in managing the IP, so it was inevitable they were gonna do some of his stuff. I'm just hoping that having some good TV writers can turn it into something at least watchable, and that the movies, if they do the whole series, stop at Chapterhouse and don't do Brian's sequels
I had to stop 10 minutes in with two characters engaged in a hand-to-hand duel that was visually identical to the Dune films, ostensibly set 10 millennia earlier.
Few things pull me out of science-fiction more quickly than arbitrarily long periods of time with zero change in tech.
It's something good enough for me to watch and distract me for almost an hour. My bar is still set lower due to 2+ year wait.
I like it better then LOTR series but could also still be jaded The Expanse was ended for it. At least they ended Expanse where they did.
there is no way dune prophecy is worse than 2003's short lived tarzan series. this thing is so bad I think watching it might be a form of self harm https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ludf2
With only 2 episodes out, hard to tell how it will progress. After the unnecessarily long and, frankly, terrible sex scene in episode 2, I’m leaning toward it not getting better.
It’s a cool premise but I think the show is a little undercooked. It’s meant to be set 10,000 years before the Villeneuve films but what’s shown so far is a carbon copy.
20 years ago it would have been on the Sci Fi channel with a way lower budget and way less melodrama lol. But agreed, I'll keep watching that garbage etc
I think this is the most level take in this entire thread so far. It's going to be 6 episodes. It's building a story as one whole piece. So far we've seen 1/3 of the story. Judge it at the conclusion of episode 6.
Replacing legless, zealot warrior Manford Torondo with some unexplained supernatural bullshit character like Desmond Hart is inexcusable. It's also #ableist!
Also, casting #EmilyWatson as Valya Harkonnen is malpractice. Valia is described as lithe & fierce, not Tubby & aging. Gimme a break!
Low expectations given it's working from Brian's material but I'll keep watching as long as Travis Fimmel keeps torching toddlers, so yeah it's definitely "I'm a pig and I'll eat my slop" TV
Remember when you watched analogue TV and there was suddenly a sci fi show, and it wasn’t great but it was on regularly and it was something to entertain or distract you for an hour every week for the length of its run? And the was always the chance it could develop into something interesting?
Yeah, I had a good time with the first episode. I was a little afraid it'd go in that direction, but I do like monastic orders of ethically dubious people with superpowers.
At this point, for me, the main reason to watch a Sunday night HBO show is out of nostalgia for the days when everyone watched shows at the same time each week, but without having to watch SNL.
I was enjoying it until Desmond apparently got a pyrokinetic superpower, at which point I got really annoyed. Like hey, that's cool if he has prescience and whatnot, but wtf?
Obviously they are going to explain more. And it is my opinion that he has technology with limitations, not power. Otherwise he'd just kill every BG sister right now, right? I think he has Ixian tech given to him by the Tleilax
💯 agree, and an excellent point. I do think it gets "dumbed down" for TV. Because you do need to make the show interesting for people who have not read one sentence of a Dune book. That's actually most likely the majority of your audience.
“CW” stands for CBS and Warner Bros., the two parent corporations that merged to form The CW network. Pretty hokey: 1. Mawkishly sentimental; corny. 2. Noticeably contrived; artificial.
I'm giving it a chance. It has some interesting moments, but it definitely feels like dumbed down Brian Herbert, instead of the wonderful depth and complexity of Frank's writing.
I like it because it feels like 30% Cheesy-sexy vibes from the 2005 miniseries, 50% of the Bene Gesserit infighting and niche debates about controlling the universe via pussy that you see in Heretics and Chapterhouse, 10% Lynch, and 10% Villeneuve. Toe to tip that's a Dune.
It came on at a perfect time in that there isn't anything else new to watch, but also at the worst time in that it's holiday after holiday and I will immediately forget it exists after Thanksgiving
this is how I felt about "manifest" for a bit. Unfortunately the more I find myself muttering "this show's so stupid" the less I can watch, and eventually I give up
I liked it. I mean you know who wins in the end since it’s a prequel, but they are doing a good job of creating mystery and suspense about it. Also, I haven’t read the books
I don't, I go to sleep and listen to audible and occasionally throw on Rick n Morty and stream, int'l news and independent journalism is news, not the people sitting behind a desk. If you want to know how a story ends, read the script, Death of Democracy, it's 100% on track to what's up Worldwide
I'm a Dune nerd and have liked a lot of what I've seen so far, but honestly a couple scenes have some (bad) SyFy channel-esque schlocky writing. I'll keep watching but it seems to be a middle of the road quality show.
It looks pretty as hell though. I'll give them that all day.
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More space nuns.
Less space sex.
I’ve waited over a decade for them to release a Dune cinematic universe. So I’m just glad we are getting that.
I had to stop 10 minutes in with two characters engaged in a hand-to-hand duel that was visually identical to the Dune films, ostensibly set 10 millennia earlier.
Few things pull me out of science-fiction more quickly than arbitrarily long periods of time with zero change in tech.
I like it better then LOTR series but could also still be jaded The Expanse was ended for it. At least they ended Expanse where they did.
Also, casting #EmilyWatson as Valya Harkonnen is malpractice. Valia is described as lithe & fierce, not Tubby & aging. Gimme a break!
It's NCIS set in a Rings of Power'd version of the Dune universe.
It looks pretty as hell though. I'll give them that all day.