Bridges and *****es will be burned.

Finally caught up. Last weeks episode was good. Will be interesting to see the one that drops tonight for the season finale.

Meh

I still liked the flashback storyline more than the present storyline. I didn't care about the palace intrigue or characters much. I think the whole season should have been the factions of the Bene Geseserit fighting for control after the death of their order. Valya killing Dorothea and slaughtering the other sisters with the voice should have been season finale.

Name of episode if high handed killer that is also a nickname of The Gom Jabbar. Which we see used against the neck for the first time.

Fear is feeding a virus in the brain, to survive it you have to let the fear pass through you = Fear is the Mind Killer ... I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me

Too cute of a prequel that tried to hard. We see too many origins: the Voice, Littany Against Fear, Gom Jabbar, fued between Harkonnen and Atredies, Kwisatz Haderach,

Actress playing Lila is very good swapping between the personalities

I think we went 6 out of 6 episodes with someone putting a knife against their own throat.

Good job by Valya making the Emperor distrust his mistress so that she is more motivated to kill him, out he himself.

One crowbar swing was enough to break open the locked door? And then one more to destroy the computer? I'm surprised that much of the BG are following an abomination.

The best the face dancer could do was a side wound on Desmond, couldn't have done more damage?

Bad looking CGI desert, they couldn't have filmed a real one? But the space fishing looked really good.

In Dune I accept you can pass your memories down to your ancestors because of certain drugs and ceremonies, but it has never made sense that you can pass down your memories of what happened after you give birth to those ancestors.

I guess enough people watched, it got approved for a second season. There a few plot points still out there for next season. This first season started of pretty weak but got better and better after the third episode. It's a shame there were only six and not more.

Quad Dog said:

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The best the face dancer could do was a side wound on Desmond, couldn't have done more damage?

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I was kind of surprised that Desmond didn't die instantly given the Bene Gesserit's propensity for using poison.

She couldn't have hit a lung or kidney?

Gorgeously shot episode.

In the end I guess what bothers me isn't that there's pretty much no one for the audience to identify with or root for (apart from our young, barely utilized lovers). Bleak is fine.

It's that they took the caricature of evil in Dune in House Harkonnen, and used the same baddies to tell the origin story of the Sisterhood by way of happenstance. Just two Harkonnen sisters who took over a coven through murder and conquered an empire with only imprinting, the voice, truth telling, AI, and a face dancer on their side against ridiculously hapless feudal nobility.

It's the story of how candy was taken from a baby by someone you'd have thought would be an interesting 3rd party but turned out to be the GD Sackvillle Bagginses again. And we can't even hope for the thinking machines not enslaved to the twirling mustache folk to prove more than an annoyance for the next 10k years.

I still watched all the episodes and hope it's renewed.

I enjoyed the last episode. As mentioned the "elite" soldiers were just pathetic.

My main questions are:
1) How did Dorotea know of the "CHOOSE" massacre and grave? She was dead when it happened, Lila wasn't there to see it. How does she find out about this massacre and mass grave?

2) Who do you think implanted Desmond with AI nanobots and why?

Maybe she talked to the other killed BG in the afterlife.

LB12Diamond said:

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Maybe she talked to the other killed BG in the afterlife.

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That seems a stretch though. The whole BG schtick is they have their maternal/mitochondrial DNA as a database of their ancestry that they access during the Suffering and can access from then on. None of Lidia's ancestors witnessed that massacre.

This is what my AI says. I still think it is a stretch.

What role does Sister Avila play in confirming the mass grave

Sister Avila plays a key role in confirming the existence of the mass grave in *Dune: Prophecy*. Although she initially aligns with Valya Harkonnen out of fear rather than loyalty, Avila ultimately pledges her allegiance to Dorotea after Dorotea's resurrection. This shift allows Dorotea to expose the mass grave to the Sisterhood, revealing Valya's past atrocities and undermining her authority[1][3].

Citations:
[1] Dune: Prophecy Season-Finale Recap: Going Viral - Vulture https://www.vulture.com/article/dune-prophecy-recap-season-1-episode-6-the-high-handed-enemy-finale.html
[2] Carmelites find St. Teresa of vila's body still incorrupt after ... - OSV News https://www.osvnews.com/2024/08/30/carmelites-find-st-teresa-of-avilas-body-still-incorrupt-after-opening-coffin-for-study-of-relics/
[3] 'Dune: Prophecy's twisty Season 1 finale, explained - Mashable https://mashable.com/article/dune-prophecy-ending-explainer
[4] Iran: Walls erected around graves of massacre victims show urgent need ... https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/iran-walls-erected-around-graves-of-massacre-victims-show-urgent-need-for-international-investigation/
[5] Real Estate Appraisal - home appraisal - appraiser - real estate ... https://smithappraisalgroup.com/content.aspx?linkprop=3&URL=https%3A%2F%2Fxn--80aafff7ahwbdaxs9f.xn--p1ai%2Fsfizqetatg8betrfe61orv

It really seems they had a deleted scene with Avila telling Dorotea what happened. If starting it with the conversation then moving to the choose scene would have worked.

They did the same thing with swc93.

So a loser(s) and/or psychopath(s) that didn't have power rises to the top within a powerful organization using violence to get the power they've craved, then *******izes that organization into a more evil version?
A very common plot that can be interesting, but this just felt like a basic story in DUNE clothing. I agree about what was said earlier; I'd be way more interested in seeing how the bene gesserit got their abilities and to see some actually impressive deep-state like manipulation.

Them going from a group of 4 following the mass "suicide" to an organization of that size in the ears of every house in what I would guess was less than 40 years, seemed like too big a leap to make to just leave unaddressed.

Solid points

They are just making the same family that is hated in Dune the one to hate all the way back to this time due to one psychopath. Another type of story line I would have preferred.

I also don't like how just about objectively the Harkonnens are the bad guys in this. Even in the Dune story there's a bit more wiggle room in there in my opinion.