The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x02 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:28 Two, Prophecy. Episode 2 of Dune Prophecy. Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? Or the Dune platoon. I enjoyed that quite a bit. I said at the top, and I think I said it in the last week's episode. I love the world of Dune. I liked the last week's episode, but if it hadn't been in the world of Dune,

Starting point is 00:01:55 I probably wouldn't have kept going just because there's a lot of movies and shows and stuff. watch it was very you know captivating in some ways but i didn't connect in others and like things you know to and froed this episode however was uh a few leaps up for me uh this was quite exceptional john what you think i thought this is pretty good i'm still in that place where i'm i'm waiting it's like there are these moments where it gets really gripping and the rest of the time it's quite interesting and i'm waiting for like the entirety of an episode to be like gripping from front to back but i'm always interested and yeah like i like i like i like I thought this built nicely on the first episode.

Starting point is 00:02:32 I thought this was a step up. Like, I kind of agreed with, I went back and listened to your solo review and that sort of B plus grade. I was like, yeah, I can get down with that. I felt like if it was a, not in the IP, a B plus, it'd be like, maybe I'll give it one more, but probably not just because of end. But this, if this had been the first, it wouldn't have made sense. But this is like an A minus, that step up.

Starting point is 00:02:51 Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. And I like the way that it's just, yeah, mounting the stakes and mounting the tension. And it's like they set the stage last time they showed you all. all this control that Valiah and her sisters have, and now, you know, we get, it almost feels like now the breadth of the story is about to kick in because we have, you know, our status quo shaken up. And now, you know, the pieces are starting to fall and there's about to be a lot more, I imagine unpredictability, you know, in terms of who's going to do what and what motivations are going to clash and collide. But yeah, as this is mounting, I've been enjoying myself quite a bit.

Starting point is 00:03:28 Andrew, episode two? Yes, my fellow geek checked. I really like this one a lot more. I mean, I still like the first one alive as well. But, yeah, the way the power struggles were going and also how we were learning about, like, you know, how he's in a Trades and now you got spies all over the place. And then you have that one woman who had the spiced up eyes. She's also in the sisterhood. I liked all those reveals.

Starting point is 00:03:50 It's just, it's very fascinating. But also, too, you know, there's, I was I going to say, I just found that a lot of the last thing. I just found that a lot of the tension was really mounted And I just really was I think my favorite thing is Bob Idaho I just I love the way his character just is just The way he emotes the way his body language Just everything about him

Starting point is 00:04:12 I'm just I'm so fascinated to learn more about him The thing that really struck me the most Was when they were doing the whole thing with You know having her drink the blue piss I forgot the character's name It's gotta be a different way to describe it I like saying it that way, the best. They didn't make her drink it either.

Starting point is 00:04:29 They put it in her eye. Sorry, they may put it in her eye. You know what I mean. But like the thing, but like golden blue shower. But you remember how I brought it up? I wasn't going to go into a tangent in a discussion, but I was thinking, like, you remember how I said, isn't she the granddaughter, the one that she sliced her neck?

Starting point is 00:04:44 I was like, so if you're going to have her meat or like, you sliced her neck, isn't there going to be some? Little animosity? Yeah, but I'm like, I'm surprised. Like, maybe that was just supposed to be meant to revite. I know that's a different person than who they wanted her to speak to. They wanted her to speak to the mother. I get it, but you're going to see the other answer.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Like, it's actually made into the dialogue, and we also know, too. But they don't know what Valiah knows about that. They don't know to expect that. Valiah killed her in secrecy. Okay, well, I'm surprised that. And I get, like, Volia wanted, like, the pertinent information. I get that, and she thought that she was just going to see the mom. But, like, I guess, like, the end result, like, outweighed the race.

Starting point is 00:05:25 risk or whatever but i'm like sister at first yeah sister at first but that just shows you like it's all about like you said sister at first so like um but my favorite scene though by far was that last scene like seeing them like uh just that face off yeah and where she's like we hadn't pulled the sword but i was like i was thinking too and because i figured there's no way we're gonna like pop ito was gonna die right here um but when she had him pulling out but again i just love the way he emotes in his body language because i'm like it looks like he's under but i still can't tell and just everything about him is so ambiguous and so he's shrouded in mystery

Starting point is 00:05:57 and I love characters like that because they're so unpredictable and I love that he's like he was just messing with her and like she's not a she's never been one to be tripled with I mean she's not a character to be trifled with but he likes trifling with her and I appreciate that

Starting point is 00:06:13 Oh yeah he has no respect to regard for who she The dialogue there was so damn good I'm like oh my goodness I I can't wait to watch those to interact more like again that was my favorite interaction And also, too, I love seeing the contrast between Mark Strong in the first episode and this episode. Like, in the first episode, he was more playing politics. And again, I totally get where he was coming from playing politics.

Starting point is 00:06:33 Hey, setting up the wedding with my daughter and the nine-year-old and all that. Just like doing all that stuff. And then in this episode, it was all, once he realized the weapon, I had, hey, I can position myself in a better spot here. And the confidence isn't blind. And the confidence doesn't undermine the truth of his insecurity. Yes. Which I like. He's not just Mark Strong

Starting point is 00:06:54 And 90% of Mark Strong's work suddenly He's still the guy that's uncertain He's still leaning But now that he knows he has that tool There's a little bit more of that confidence on top For sure and I think like one of the best points You made as well is like there was that scene Where he was talking to Bob Idaho

Starting point is 00:07:09 And like he revealed that he was the killing His eyes Dude he's like He's like pupil acting Yeah How do you pupil act? Mark Strong how do you go? But again like again

Starting point is 00:07:18 That's visual storytelling like Oh my God I did want this happen But I didn't order you like we're gonna we're screwing ourselves in where we want to be like power wise right now and like uh i gotta play politics what did you do like yeah it's just and the wife i love the oh my god yeah the real power behind his throne yeah yeah it's just it's just it's really fascinating well i mean he he still has to play poly like of course she she is the true like yeah confident leader among yeah between the two of them uh my favorite sequence was the uh super

Starting point is 00:07:51 terrifying psychedelic experience of a bad, like, you know, ketamine meets mescaline journey we went on. Yeah, when they go to reverse Azcaband, when they go to like the white Dementor realm. Yeah. That was a choice to do like the

Starting point is 00:08:06 rotten shifting face and stuff like that. The white de mentors. The rotten mends were terrifying. I really loved the circular imagery throughout the show. They use circles a lot, like cycles and repetition, but I love the circular imagery there of it's swarming around her

Starting point is 00:08:24 and there was that sense of pacing and the thromb of the light and that mirrored the electricity in her brain, which mirrored all the ancestors that all turned out of eye. There was a lot of really cool imagery that it felt psychedelic to me where things just kind of ramp up. And I also like this is a franchise about drugs. And I like that they use drug imagery. Like I really felt like that sequence was,

Starting point is 00:08:49 If you've ever had a bad trip, oh boy, I've seen some dementors. And that was a really interesting way to tell the story of the trepidation, the fear, the agony, the pain, and that it is all politics. They were willing to sacrifice that girl. That sequence was for the greater good of the narrative giving us that one little rhyme. And they've still got to move forward to that information, but that information was worth costing that sister. So all of the children, literally like children in this school are cannon fodder, if need be. And it's also really interesting to see what the mega sister is willing to do with even her underlings and like what the politician's willing to do and and everyone's sleeping with each other to get information. And it's really cool to see chess get played long form.

Starting point is 00:09:34 And that's why I think this second episode worked for me more is the first episode, we didn't, we couldn't care about everyone enough in an hour to be as invested in the slow methodical moves. But Dune is slow and methodical. So I hope and think as we care with each episode and as we're more invested in each character, the chess pieces are going to get more interesting. So every move that is made is going to feel more impactful because that's what I felt between episode one and two. Episode one, I was like, shiny, cool, production design. And I was in enough to give it episode two. Now with episode two, I'm invested. Thank you to Huell for sponsoring today's video.

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Starting point is 00:12:15 And also, too, you were talking about, like, the psychedelic stuff. Like, I thought the title sequence, like, worked with just giving us that foreshadowing for that as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, not enough water for Andrew. No, no, we need more. I didn't take enough drink. I also thought, too, that you talked about the white dementors, like, in terms of the visuals. I love that prison cell that we got, too, where he was, like, floating up in that.

Starting point is 00:12:37 Like, what a fascinating look. And, like, how you're just hanging there, levitating. Like, I just, I thought that was just such an interesting. visual motel uh it just look i just like they just hang in there and and his body language being slightly off center of his neck slightly turned like even when he's that quizzical thing was napping almost like but even when he's hanging he's still like scary look like yeah there's like a quizzical like dog like you know when dogs like turn their neck i'm always like he's like quizzical there's like an intuitive introspection going on at all times and you always mentioned that he doesn't really blink

Starting point is 00:13:09 no but he also he does this little twitch too with his eye i feel like too like where he's like this you know kind of yeah that's like i love these character ticks that he that he choose travis well yeah and when he starts like blinking in that one scene it felt like it was to manipulate it was it was very thoughtful and intentional and yeah he's he's captivating yeah i've only seen him in i think world of war or warcraft um but he was he was great in that i remember like him a lot but he's he's doing amazing too i never never saw that but again he's doing a phenomenal job so far i think he's probably my favorite character so far and then killing that kid made me worry for a

Starting point is 00:13:46 briefest of seconds they might kill him try to stumble I knew they wouldn't but since they killed someone I thought was the lead of the show I was like like are they going to establish how strong mother superior is by doing that again because of his the way he was expressed like he made it seem like

Starting point is 00:14:02 she was in control and again I like that manipulation it's just great well there's an interesting symmetry too to the idea that it certainly seemed like what I don't remember the character's name but grandma is you know it seems like we have this sort of rift in the sisterhood literally between realms because you have valia top side and then you have you know this other realm of the

Starting point is 00:14:25 ancestors where it seems like the seed has been planted to create this bob idaho presence this sort of anti-sisterhood power that can you know reset the balance of the universe yeah very early like the the prophecy of paul trades but there's someone of that power and it's him Yeah, and it's, and it seems like it's born out of this other side, dark realm of sorts. Yeah, and speaking of seeds being planted, the sex scene having an actual plot-driven narrative, I'd like, I was surprised, because there was a minute there where I was like, we're just doing this for a while. We're just doing the physical of this for a while. I haven't seen a scene just indulged in this, this way in a while, but then, yeah, then it does become like an info. Because it was like a two to three.

Starting point is 00:15:11 It's actually a prevalent scene. It's a very important scene in the episode. But I like that the actual, during sexy time, it was like a two or three level of chessboard. And then as soon as they finished, you saw them both playing each other, but you didn't know to what level, and then the payoff was worth it,

Starting point is 00:15:27 and the squelching wetly. Like, that was just so much. Like, this is the more adult-oriented, long-form sci-fi slow-burn intrigue that I wanted to feel out of episode one. And I think, for me, episode two, was a, like I said, a level up. I think the B plus I gave episode one, if it

Starting point is 00:15:45 hadn't been called Dune, might have been a B or B minus, but I really love this world. So I stand by my B plus. This, I think I'd give an A minus if it was just called like, you know, sci-fi show. Like if it spelled right, not S-Y-N. Would have got an A-plus with more water. I mean, that's what it was missing. A-minus A, really dug

Starting point is 00:16:03 it. Next time, bring more water. Yes. We'll see if episode three quenches Andrew's thirst. We shall see. We'll be back next week. Hit that notification. bell so you know when it drops let us know in the comments below what scenes you enjoyed what moments you enjoyed what you think is a foot please also if you haven't already like this video it's very easy just you just let us know you liked it that's uh you don't even have to like the show if you like the video if you like the commentary just like you just press like that's all you need

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The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x02 Breakdown & Review

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