1 day Ago By Mamta Raut
The newly released HBO series set 10,000 years before the events of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, narrates the origin story of Bene Gesserit. Dune: Prophecy is an exhilarating epic with its eerily vast cathedral of interplanetary strangeness as the show follows the Harkonnen sisters Valya (Emily Watson) and Tula (Olivia Williams) running a sorceress cult of gifted youngsters. In a brutal effort to prevent a long-prophesied destruction, they begin a decades-long plan by murdering one of their own.
After a 30-year-leap, the Sisterhood comes very close to achieving its goal of securing a sister on the throne; all it needs is for Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina), the daughter and future leader of the ruling family House Corrino, to be wedded to a young boy from House Richese. But here comes the twist, the little boy was caught red-handed with a tiny toy robot or a ‘thinking machine’, capable of shifting back and forth from a ball to a lizard form. A post shared by Max (@streamonmax) The scene serves as a bitter-sweet reminder of the great machine war of the Dune universe where humans overcame robot armies to claim their independence.
Well, now it seems the recently released sci-fi fantasy is going to explore the conflict deeper. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dune: Prophecy showrunner Alison Schapker teased, “They’ve won, and thinking machines have been outlawed. But as with anything that's outlawed, can it ever fully be eradicated?” I think when we look at all our prohibitions throughout history, it's very difficult to fully put a genie back in the bottle.
That technology exists.” She continued, Yes, it has been banned, and yes it has been destroyed, but how might it return? That's something the books explore and we wanted to explore as well, because it's a very precarious time in this young Imperium, and they haven't gotten so far out that things couldn't start backsliding. That’s where we’re beginning our story.
” A post shared by Max (@streamonmax) Episode 1 ended on a shocking note with Travis Fimmel’s Desmond murdering the young boy, thereby spoiling the Bene Gesserit’s plan of watching a sister on the throne. “It’s the culmination of a plan they've had for like 30 years,” Schapker explained before adding, “The princess was supposed to get married, then she was going to go study and become a sister, and then eventually she would take the throne and she would be deeply loyal to the Sisterhood. It’s a plan that is decades in the making.
” Schapker continued, “I think it's important to see that that plan is shattered by the end of the pilot. What she does now, how she responds in this kind of crisis, is going to be very character-revealing and fun to see unfold.” A post shared by Dune: Prophecy (@duneprophecy) Dune: Prophecy will continue to release fresh episodes every week.
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