The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x06 Breakdown & Review!!

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Starting point is 00:01:23 Absolutely. Yes. Let's get spiced up. All right. Episode six, commence. All right, guys, we just finished episode six, the high-handed enemy. If you are listening on Apple and or Spotify, make sure you give us five-star ratings. You have five stars.

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Starting point is 00:02:00 We got some really cool stuff. Anybody want to go first? I need a minute. This was a good-ass episode. I'm just going to take the mic, I guess. You need the minute, and by that it means a second. I mean he's going to finish this. I need a second.

Starting point is 00:02:14 I need a minute. Half a second later. Go ahead, John. I thought this is a good episode. I mean, you know, this season so far has had some high points for sure. It's had some, I feel like this season has wavered between like, it's all right, it's pretty good, to like moments of greatness. And I thought this was a very gripping episode that definitely got me excited for the prospect of a season two. There have been moments throughout this where I've been like, yeah, I'm happy to be here watching this, but I'm not like, God, I have more.

Starting point is 00:02:41 Whereas, you know, I feel like they have managed to at least sell me on the promise that the complexity of all this and the chaos of all this only gets greater and only gets more intricate. And I hope they can live up to that. Because, you know, looking at other shows in this vein, and I'm thinking specifically of like a rings of power, which is certainly a different side of the fantasy spectrum that intermingles with science fiction. But, you know, like the burden of a show like this is that you have to achieve some level of greatness within the writing and the themes in order to really live up to what people love about something like Dune, both in book form and in movie form. and not necessarily that this has like matched all of the heights of the best that those have been but also this definitely seems worthy of being a continuing part of that mantle at least to me at least as of this episode and at least thinking back on the highest points of the season and I'm glad that they've managed to stick that at least to a pretty solid degree because I think it

Starting point is 00:03:45 would be as again rings of power I think improved a good amount in the second season it didn't get like fantastic but it's it certainly got much better and i feel like this has a higher standard than that in terms of writing this this was i don't know why i'm using this comparison so you know overbearingly but yeah i feel like that is the true question mark this whole time is like can they achieve greatness and i feel like this episode certainly was the most i was gripped and the most I was sort of on the edge of my seat with the ideas of all of the machinations that are spanning through the centuries and watching everyone it's more interesting the more everyone in control starts to sweat and the more you can go wow you know like

Starting point is 00:04:31 I know what paths are heading toward collision and also I know that there are other paths that will collide in places I'm not even really fully you know expecting or aware of and I think that's a good place to reach so uh as of this episode I thought this was a solid season and I would be thrilled to continue. Fellow geek checked, what did you think of rings of power? I mean, this episode. Well, you know, you got to walk

Starting point is 00:04:55 without rhythm and you won't track the worm. And I felt the show did that. It was at points very meandering and at points it brought me back in. And it did in the end stick the landing for me. I definitely feel like the show

Starting point is 00:05:11 overall is above average but the highs were high enough that I'd love to see it Basically John was saying I'd love to see it continue now Because of the highs it reached But it definitely had episodes

Starting point is 00:05:26 That I would not have carried on Without the new name It's like 50-50 They're like three all right episodes And three like pretty great episodes Two, three and six For me Were those solid episodes

Starting point is 00:05:38 I would say three five and six Yeah I think three five and six So the first two were a bit of a struggle for me but I really felt once they did the flashbacks I was invested flashback was and then once the episode four happened I was like

Starting point is 00:05:52 oh no I liked the three more and then five and six were like oh we found our way into the modern timeline and then this one was a nice medley but I do want to give the caveat of you know this is seven hours probably of runtime or so or six

Starting point is 00:06:08 plus it I hope the second season finds a way to be a little bit more consistent because I would love for it not to be on the Dune name that I keep watching it because my love of Dune is why I wanted to keep going but I will also say with that caveat

Starting point is 00:06:23 notwithstanding it is above average enough that I would like this over most sci-fi long form like I struggle with a lot of shows to keep my attention enough to make it worth the time we only have so many hours in the day this episode was so consistently good so interesting it paid off a lot of the setup

Starting point is 00:06:42 we talked all about episode five being like how can they possibly wrap this up in one episode? I don't feel unfulfilled. With 20 extra minutes. With the runtime of a feature film. When I made that same, and I didn't know this episode was this long. No, but even if this was two hours,

Starting point is 00:06:56 they could have dropped the ball. There was so much to do. If the plotting hadn't been so good and like a Benegeser, it planned so far ahead, and the transitions were able to leapfrog you emotionally between the past and the present enough that you're connected throughout instead of being like, oh, they're doing so much, I feel,

Starting point is 00:07:12 I feel disoriented. Instead, they use that as a strength. So I think this was masterfully done. All of my asterisk is at the top aside. This episode is the bar at which I expect doomed to be from how much I love the movies. So that it landed all of those erroneous threads. I'm very happy. And the fact that I want more gives me a lot more hope than where I was episode one and two.

Starting point is 00:07:35 So I liked it a lot, comma. I would hope season two feels more like this. Agreed. And now that we've built there, we have our relationships established, though. Season two has a little bit easier of a task because we care about them. Yeah. So that's my, I don't know if that's, that wasn't hyper positive or hyper negative, which is going to confuse people with nuanced opinions.

Starting point is 00:07:57 I want to know, I want to know what they think. To tie up, and then I will let you speak. No, no, no, you guys go, I don't need to say any. To tie up that, that dangling thread of the Rings of Power thing. I think what I truly mean is I think everyone wants to have a game of Thrones. and we've seen this happen a lot of times with like witcher rings of power this i think this is coming the closest out of a lot of other shows to filling that void of like what people love about the good parts of game of thrones and about house of the dragon is like yeah the palace intrigue is

Starting point is 00:08:26 just as gripping and and and you know intense as action and as dragons and whatever else and i feel like that's the void so many networks want to fill now and the only way to fill that void is with really good writing on top of, like it's not to slight, like the acting is really good, the cinematography, the editing, like all the formation stuff, all the physical elements are there and HBO

Starting point is 00:08:50 has all the means to get those things we know. And so I feel like yeah, as of this last episode, it gives me hope that, yeah, like you said, the season two could give us truly great writing across the board, maybe. And Mark Adi's in both. Hey. Good point. And neither

Starting point is 00:09:06 of us will speak again. Corners So rings of power I thought Constantine was incredible in this episode They maybe gave him a little too much screen time Actually to be said I know we're gonna see I know in season two

Starting point is 00:09:21 We're gonna find out obviously his reaction To his mother Francesca But I would have been curious to see Like him finding out in this episode His reaction busy stealing a loaf of bread Or he's you know Well he's supposed to be protecting his sister too I thought like again like Coy said

Starting point is 00:09:35 Which I thought we were building up to like a hero's type of moment or something because for him to have a big redemption yeah for him to have some kind of redemption but yeah I guess he is but maybe in season two we'll see um but yeah I was fascinated by that having said that um I really enjoyed the episode probably definitely one of my favorite ones of the season which I know is that's a ton but still I really enjoyed it um I really liked in terms of volley I know like we always say sis or they always say sisterhood above all but I really like that decision they made in the end of the episode where she had the choice to try and take out Desmond Hart and she you know because everything is always a means to an end for her yeah and I like that they made the decision or she made the decision rather to be empathetic and sympathetic to her sister and like in her sister's needs like this is her son at the end of day and like hey the decision is yours and I think like going through the pain and nightmare of the emotion of her what she went through in that nightmare like really helped encompass that decision yeah and I think there's a lot of growth to that character

Starting point is 00:10:37 So I thought that was great. Also, too, got to give it to Mark Strong. I think he gave us one of the greatest gifts ever. I'm going to be using that. I'm going to be using that a lot. So thank you. But also, too, the fact that... I'm going to miss him.

Starting point is 00:10:51 Yeah, no, his performance in the, oh, I mean, in all six episodes, whether we, you know, thought an episode was meandering or not, I thought his performance was great. And also the fact that everything came, the walls were really caving in on him in this episode, for sure. just came to at the forefront and I like that you know I love how everything was just transitioning from and the nonlinear storytelling was just so seamlessly done in this episode when we talked about how great the the transitions were which again as I pointed out during the reaction like there were just a couple times from brains like holy shit like I did not even realize I was a

Starting point is 00:11:26 transition like it took me a second to realize so well done but the nonlinear storytelling was just really pulling me in emotionally because I just thought that it was so well done I love how they were cutting in and out from on it's a tricky thing with nonlinear storytelling like you can mess it up so badly if you if you do it uh incorrectly so I thought they were cut uh they were they were doing it at such such the right times is what I'm trying to say um so I thought that was great um the emotional depth I really felt because uh again I love the performance uh in terms of Desmond Hart uh what's that actor Travis Fimmel.

Starting point is 00:12:03 Tramette. I love his performance in this. I mean, obviously, we didn't know a ton about his backstory, but, like, seeing what had happened, and I was just, my heart broke for the guy. But I understood where Tula was coming from, just with how Vali is and, like, you know, the deceit and the destruction that's in her heart, like how she felt about,

Starting point is 00:12:22 and the sister above all and all that stuff. They did a really good job of, like, selling the muck. Yeah, yeah. The muck of everyone's backstory relations. Yeah, and too, Vali is like, Why would you keep this from me? And then it's like, okay, like, oh, it's who I am. Like, I get it.

Starting point is 00:12:35 Like, I just thought everything was just so well done this episode. And again, like Coy said too earlier, there's so much happening this episode, but not enough to the point where I felt disoriented. Yeah. It's thick in the right way. Yeah, exactly. Sitting here thinking back, I'm like, oh, yeah, and you have all that stuff with Lila Dorothea and all the other sisters. And, like, there are things I'm wondering about that obviously aren't wrapped up here. And it was very well paced for, I didn't even feel the runtime for the most part.

Starting point is 00:13:00 And Lila, like, you know, ending the AI tree was interesting because we didn't see her again after that. Yeah. And did I admit, again, I'm sorry if I did. I'm just asking a question to you guys. Did I miss something? Like, I love the whole reveal where she's showing the skeletons and all that. Like, look what Valle has been keeping secret from you. But that all happened because those were all the sisters that she took out after in the silent cone after she had taken out the one that she's now got the, Thortaia, right?

Starting point is 00:13:28 How did she know those bodies were down there as well? what I didn't understand. Did I miss something? Because that happened after her, right? They must have arrived in the afterlife, I would, I guess. Oh, she could literally say where the bodies were, because she was dead, too. Yeah, but she only has the memories of her, of her ancestors, right? She doesn't have the, but she's been chilling in the ancestral realm that I get the sense.

Starting point is 00:13:49 Oh, oh, okay, okay, so that makes more sense. Because we saw them as white dementors. Yeah. Okay, so then, yeah, I guess if you're saying that she's chilling in the ancestral plane or whatever, where she can see what's happening, like, okay, I guess that makes sense. It's the employee break room where everybody gets to go. You will not believe how I got here. I was just, my brain was just playing around.

Starting point is 00:14:09 I was just a little confused by that, but okay. Speaking of the hundred things happening in that episode, you were right, though. That was the Harkening's one moment. Harkin and being like, oh, got a little sick guy. Okay, rats. I got to watch my camera. I got to get my blackmail footage. Yeah, I could see a season two.

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Starting point is 00:16:02 Thank you for sponsoring this video. But yeah, I overall, I personally enjoyed it. I am curious what the average person thinks and then what the Dune people think. Yeah. I'm curious in the comments. Let us know as a Dunehead what you thought. And if you're just like us and you like, like the world of Doom, you're watching it casually, how did this apply to you? Were you Twist Eternie and also if it adapted well?

Starting point is 00:16:26 It's actually a really good question because I could see Dune heads having a higher standard but being more apt to like give it a chance and stay invested versus like yeah regular average viewer not yet too much experience with it might give up on this yeah and then you know miss the opportunity to get to a pretty great episode like this one yeah yeah and I'm curious too uh in season two uh Inez's journey uh to become empress and then obviously with the queen now she's finally gotten her power I'm just there's a lot of like storylines that are still open ended that I'm just I'm fascinated to towards seeing like this episode really again got me on board for season two i just want more

Starting point is 00:17:03 episodes like i think over yeah and that's kind of what i was saying at the top and along the entering way is like if season two feels like this because they found that attachment to each character that pacing everything is struck i i really like this episode so i'm hoping season two can feel like this yeah because that's how it's dune yeah i mean it's and it is very gratifying to see such a capable and and a cast with a lot of you know a cast of veterans and some new folks as well who are really shining like to get when you have an episode like this that gives everyone something juicy to act on to work with i think it's it's just rewarding and nice to watch and yeah and yeah just big respect to the cast and also the visuals in this episode's absolutely

Starting point is 00:17:43 incredible from you know the way they started off in that that whole uh how she was working off the nightmare with uh Travis femel's character oh yeah god the eyeball too and the eyeball was gonna get get there in a cycle like i did not think we were going there um yeah it was That was insane and awesome at the same time. And then, I was about to cut it out. Yeah, that was wild. Some incredible visual. And that moment, too, I promise I'll shut up.

Starting point is 00:18:08 That moment between him and Tula, I thought was great. And I really enjoyed. We were sitting there going one of them. There was a lot of suspense in this episode. And I genuinely didn't know, yeah, like you were going to say, I didn't know who's going to bite it. If anyone would, if someone died. Like, the stakes were real. And that's how you, I think, earn not having to kill.

Starting point is 00:18:23 I mean, you know, you killed Mark Strong. You killed Mark Strong. And you killed Sister Theodosia, who. had like an interesting power or it seemed like she was dead anyway i think they said up uh stringer up like i think i think she got put in prison okay okay because she was on the floor changing back yeah yeah i think he said he said he said a sent a center yeah so she's just changing back slowly and we'll be strung up okay but taboo and mark strong but yeah you lose taboo and mark strong which i mean are yeah they're not like the pinnacle characters but they are very you know

Starting point is 00:18:52 great to watch and also important and then yeah you have that question mark of like It would it be Valiah? Could it be Tula? It could. It feels like anything could happen. I told you they would both survive. You were right. You called everyone with this episode. But that was it. I was sitting there going, I don't think they'll kill them. I've just given the positioning of the characters and the stature of these actors. But in that moment, yeah, I wasn't sure. And I was like, this feels like Tula could die for sure. I thought Tula was possibly going to tell. Like if Valia was not going to, like, have some compassion in that moment towards Bob Idaho, I thought that she was going to say put the knife to your throat or whatever. She did to the... I could see that reverse... Yeah, and then I thought, you know, Desmond Hart was going to...

Starting point is 00:19:32 To his mother for abandoning her. I thought, like, I was being thrown, you know, subversion of expectations, so... And the fear thing, yeah. For this is the last point. For Valiah, I thought it was... This better be... For Vali, I did think it was a nice choice

Starting point is 00:19:45 that she actually... Someone who is striving for so much control and who would do what she did to Dora Taya is acting probably on a lot of fear and needs to walk through. that to do whatever season two has in store for her. So I thought for a character who at the top presents as

Starting point is 00:20:03 so calm and in control, halfway when she meets Desmond Hart, like that all starts to unravel and you see who she really is. In that moment where they have that exchange about like, oh, you really think I'm a monster, don't you? Like, and now we're finally on tattooing. Yeah, we're finally. I'm waiting. We need

Starting point is 00:20:19 it is so in planning watching this and being like, wow, the amount of stuff that George Lucas borrowed. Like, it's really left off from the tattooing. I'm always thinking that when I watched Dune. And the last thing for me, too, I love that sequence when we're watching that Volio is using the voice, that action sequence where she's, you, you defend me, cut yourself and all that to get to Desmond Hart. That was awesome. Like, she's very strategic and watching her use her power in that side scene.

Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah, that incredible. That was such a great. Incredible stuff. Such a great way to do that. Well, you guys, what did you think of season one, which was, which episode of the six, where your face? Are you looking forward to season two? What storyline in particular? Are you looking forward to season two? Let us know in the comments below if you are still with us up to this point. We appreciate you. Love you guys. And we will see you next time. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. You well.

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The Reel Rejects - DUNE: PROPHECY 1x06 Breakdown & Review!!

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