The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x01 Breakdown & Review!!

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Starting point is 00:01:51 Ganga-tang! We just completed episode one of Dune prophecy. What an hour of telly? Yes, it was. Geek Drex. Hey, sir. You guys got to fight it out. Which one of you wants to talk first? He has seen Dune two more recently, by all means. Yeah, no, I thought it was incredible. First of all, I loved

Starting point is 00:02:13 seeing the after effects of the machine. I know that's not what it's called in the book. I forgot the name because I did do a little research before, but seeing the effects, I love that transition shot. And then seeing like especially on the emperor's home world how much they fear and hate machines that was interesting but and then again the formation of the sisterhood and all that and then the inner conflicts that we got um i like seeing just again just the like i mentioned earlier at the beginning just the world building just so fascinating um uh that was all great also too like this was paste so

Starting point is 00:02:50 beautiful i did not feel that hour and five minute runtime in any which way um and And then, yeah, I got more thoughts too, but I'll go over to my fellow geek check. What did you think? I am fascinated by the influence Dune has had in pop culture that's been like just under the surface. I mean, obviously we know that George Lucas loves Dune, which is inspired, you know, Star Wars, which is fairly popular. But the 10,000 years prior stuff, I don't know the exposure it has. So I really liked that it is building on the lore. so distantly that you can see

Starting point is 00:03:27 the echoes throughout eternity into the stuff we know. But I genuinely didn't know what was ever going to come next. I guessed the kid, but what cost. And it was really interesting. Like, Travis Femmel, who plays Bob Idaho there,

Starting point is 00:03:43 I've heard of as being like this really intense actor. Like, I think he's on some show. I don't know his work, whatever the show it was. I'm not familiar with him. But it was really cool to see, his intensity and the assumption

Starting point is 00:03:59 I had was he was going to be a positive and I loved that I just never knew which way it was going to go because the Benegeserate are not trusted in the dune that I know

Starting point is 00:04:13 so I think I inherently didn't trust them here and they're the leads like we I think it's my association with the Harkinin I think it's my association with the Benegeser it's like really cool what that association means

Starting point is 00:04:24 I found that fascinating. Emily Watson was great. The acting by everyone was outstanding. We talked a lot about Mark Strong playing against type, but I was just most impressed by my association with the Benadjazzar at the Harkin

Starting point is 00:04:39 and all that being like a confusion because the show opens with is it history or is it prophecy and I feel like I'm trying to balance that. Yeah, like I'm, I judge the Harkin and name. So I'm like, screw them, but I'm like, but are they wrong?

Starting point is 00:04:55 At this point in time? Yeah, like have they yet been corrupted? So that was really interesting. Absolutely. You know, I think this, this to me, was a strong start to the show because I feel like you could have, I think there's a lot of mileage you can get in this world out of production design and costuming and all the world building elements and stuff like that. Like, their just attention to the details of all that stuff is so breathtaking that, you know,

Starting point is 00:05:22 that in theory, you could coast. on that and I appreciated that like for me the test of a show like this obviously is going to be like is the quality of the writing going to live up to what we associate with the movie this is spinning off of and this presents kind of an exciting time to me because it seems as

Starting point is 00:05:39 though I mean like the response to penguin like this feels kind of like okay I see what Warner's is kind of trying to do now is there similarly to what Disney is done bringing their big movie franchises into the serialized television streaming space and this seems like the kind of thing that, you know, again, with the right writers could be dynamite.

Starting point is 00:06:01 And so far, as of this pilot episode, I think the, you know, just the prospects are strong. I thought, yeah, the cast all across the board did a really nice job and just watching, again, as they established this massive chess board that, again, spans hundreds and thousands of years and, you know, getting that little glimpse into the Emily Watson characters, you know, you know those that crucial moment where you know the mantle of kind of guiding the sisterhood and shaping their plans for the future is passed on to her and like that's such an interesting fulcrum point because so much does individually pass on to you and i mean you know there was one other person in the room we saw how that went and we see the resolve you know how what length she is willing to go to secure what she thinks is right and what mission she thinks she has been tasked with by this, you know, this mother figure who she has put so much trust in and who

Starting point is 00:06:58 has shaped so much of her existence. And that kind of leading to all this other stuff. And I feel like this is appropriately, at least as of now, you know, murky and flirting with complexity because, I mean, yeah, like an episode like this has to basically just set up all the different houses in the world and kind of what the, again, chess board looks like right here and now. And, you know, then we're going to spend the rest of the time dealing with that and, you know, having the curve balls and whatever else. But yeah, I thought this was a strong start and a good introduction for each of these

Starting point is 00:07:29 prominent characters. And at least so far, like I've got a bunch of names to commit to memory, but either Bob Idaho. We got Bob Idaho. We're sticking with that. I don't care what his name is. He's honorary Bob Idaho. And we'll see. I mean, you know, they were... I don't think they said his name.

Starting point is 00:07:47 I don't know. No, they did when he came in and the cool tracking shop, they said he survived. Yeah, they announced him. He said his name like Darren Bob Idaho. Darren Aronovsky. I will say, too, one of my things with Dune Part 2, which I think is a brilliant film, I was a little kind of sadden that we didn't get to spend a ton of time with Christopher Walkins' character. So I'm glad we got to definitely spend a lot more time with the Emperor.

Starting point is 00:08:08 But I like that inner conflict, too. Like he knows, even though he's being kind of manipulated behind the scenes with the sisterhood, I forgot the name of the one who was advising him that we saw Burnup at the end. Yeah, but, like, you know, she was great. But, like, you know, he even had that great line, like, she's never swayed me wrong, but something that feels off. I love seeing that inner conflict between him. It just gives a different side, but also he's got to play politics and his wife's trying to. It's an interesting side to see the emperor, like, he's got to try and rule and do the right thing.

Starting point is 00:08:37 But also he's got all these different voices, like, coming at him, and he's, like, got to trust his inner gut, too. I think that was an interesting way to ground the emperor. I really like that we also didn't hear what they were whispering to each other or to him. I like that sometimes we get, like, a subtitle, but other times it's just little finger twitches. like they could let us in on enough without giving us too much so the mystery feels palpable. I also really like the, you know, wizarding world school, like the Hogwarts they're in. Like I'm really curious about these like young witches and training and I liked the visuals are super intense on the prison and that like an implication of how we treat them. It doesn't seem like very humanely.

Starting point is 00:09:14 It doesn't feel like any, it doesn't seem like anyone's treated well. Like no one in this. It's not a very pleasant future. Yeah, like, everyone, like, from the prisoners to the witches to the royals and their traps, like indentured servitude, their arranged marriages, that she has to marry a nine-year-old to leverage the future. Like, don't worry. Eventually, we'll get to the Dune skeleton crew where it's just like in the suburbs of this universe. Don't you worry. But right now, we are in, like, the most intense places where it does seem like only the most intense deeds are done.

Starting point is 00:09:44 Yeah, like the, even the one girl, the innocent eye, do-wise, they called her at one point. Like the empathetic. Yeah, she's seen as weakness. And like, that's so interesting. So I'm really curious, you know, if that ever becomes a strength, I'm really curious what it's going to have to say about, you know, power structures and like just everyone's so sad. Yeah. Well, and I think too, like it's cool to get that person. Yeah, it's like you get the above perspective from obviously this character who is, you know, leading the sisterhood now.

Starting point is 00:10:13 But you're also going to be looking from the perspective, you know, next generation. And I like that the whole, you know, the way that they work is not precise in the same way. It's like, you know, again, it's dilated over time. And so there are so many sort of tenuous aspects and elements. And I think that there's that little scene where they're debating about like, oh, you know, who should we, you know, who should we elevate of our, you know, current class here. And, you know, what qualities should we be supporting? And there is that sort of that tension of like, well, if we pick the wrong person, like maybe their natural tendencies won't fall in line with ours and we will have some kind of, you know, wrench in our gears. And it is like it's not just such that you can force whatever plan or machination.

Starting point is 00:11:01 You kind of have to set it in motion and then allow the ripples to ripple as they will and hope that that kind of lands. It's like they can only choose the track. They can't really ensure 100% the outcome because then you will have a road. character like Bob Idaho who does seem to have some of that, you know, extra sensory power that... Which we've, I don't think we've seen. I don't remember

Starting point is 00:11:26 seeing that. Nobody's been cooking people. No, no. It reminded me conceptually of the idea in the Dune movies that like Paul is able to bridge the gap and has some of the Beni Gessarit abilities along with the rest of his skill set and his, you know, abilities as a

Starting point is 00:11:41 leader and a warrior and whatever else. And so I wonder if this guy, if Bob Idaho is some kind of proto version of that. He also survived the Fremen. I mean, he survived the Fremen and the sandworms, which is, you know, a marker of the La San Al-Gib. I'm wondering if there's, like, a different holy one of another time and, like, maybe that's generational, like, Matrix.

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Starting point is 00:14:05 Because obviously they're going to have to tell a micro as compared to the macro of Dune. Like I'm really curious what that's going to land at Because like he's clearly important Yeah and I'm sure I'm going to repeat this too Throughout the episodes but I love to How they were able to make this feel so cinematic On TV show from the production design To the scoping shots to the music

Starting point is 00:14:24 I doubt this was Hans Zimmer But whoever the composer was One of his thousands of protages Yeah yeah probably But again the music just elevated So many the images and the interactions we were watching It just felt dune to me It really nicely flows out

Starting point is 00:14:40 of the movies aesthetics and it's very you know in line with that in a way like spice yeah like spice well and too in a way that that certainly seems like you know the people making this show probably hopefully we'll be able to you know bring their own flair and flavors to that but it it is cool that it does so nicely match it's you know you're your 10,000 plus years removed from what we know of do now so you get still in universe cake and eat it too it's like you can borrow what you want from that but you can also introduce new or different elements to that and is cool to see this universe slightly less removed from

Starting point is 00:15:14 the war against the intelligent machines and all that. I think, yeah, just at the outset of an episode like this, you want to have questions that you want to see answered, and I do, you know, you want to see expansions on certain characters, and you want to feel that unease. I think this was smart. It's like you set up for this wedding that is going to

Starting point is 00:15:30 clinch their plan for the next however many hundred years and, oh, crap, that plan has now gone to shit. So what are we going to do? I was like, that kid, damn. That was, and that's such good acting on his part. And that twitching eye, too. I'm like, oh, shit.

Starting point is 00:15:44 But I love how much that informed a moment. Yeah, I'm just so impressed about the, like, the visual storytelling. The visual, facial storytelling. Like, a lot of the stuff has been said in glances, and it's really impressive. I really dug this. Doon is a really special world, so I think the stakes were high for the show, so far I'm very in. Totally. Like, this could have easily been pretty, but fine.

Starting point is 00:16:04 And I think it's, I think it's pretty great screensavers in here. 100%. 100%. But I think, at least as of right. now I'm hooked and I'm hoping that it can just continue to deliver on that, you know, caliber of quality and to keep expanding. Like, it seems like this is certainly a show that will be, you know, invested in exploring some of these philosophical, political, and otherworldly, you know, ideas and themes and stuff like that. And that's, I think, you know,

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Starting point is 00:17:03 That's right. Do we make it to the third episode? We take a drink of water. I'll have to take a spaceway mode like they did to the spice opium lounge. We've got to get some spice in our water. We've got to get some whale fur coats. Whale fur, love the hierarchy too, how like the rich people are going, like, raving at opium dens.

Starting point is 00:17:22 I think blue-eyed girl bartender is going to be a... She got to come back. Yeah, she's going to be a little kink in the hose of her being hose. Oh, God. And what's this going to do to our newly wed? Princess Queen. We'll find out next week. That was those cool men.

Starting point is 00:17:41 And is there going to be like a war brewing now that this happened in the kingdom? There's already a war going on in the kingdom. And he's the one I can see it. Bob Idaho sees it. Yeah, we're always on the brink. Gang, what did you think of this first episode? Are you excited for the rest of the season? Leave us your theories.

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The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x01 Breakdown & Review!!

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