Dune Prophecy Ep.2 Two Wolves Review

Welcome back to the channel, guys. I hope you're having a great evening. So we want to review the second episode of Dune Prophecy entitled Two Wolves, right? And so like I have been saying the last review episode, uh, this is a slow— this is a slow burn but it's about my speed, right? This is the kind of production I like to see. Uh, I'm more into the more thought-provoking, uh, television shows, right? Um, now we don't get many that often, uh, but it seems like Doom Prophecy is going to be one of them. Now I did say something last week I kind of, uh, changed my mind on a bit, and that was the keep it kind of slow burning to kind of, uh, have everybody come to speed with Doom Prophecy. But to be fair, I do think that, uh, you know, that the production can throw some bones out there, make it a little bit more, uh, interesting for maybe a younger audience, uh, maybe a, an audience that does kind of crave, uh, action sequences a little bit more. You know, kind of just like how some shows always got to put in that comic relief, and you know, sometimes I'm like, oh, that's stupid, it doesn't fit. But you know, I get it at the end of the day. And, uh, I think maybe, I think maybe Dune could use just a wee bit of that. I, I think it's, it's going very Dune-like. And, uh, um, you know, maybe HBO just has so much money it doesn't care anymore and they could just stick to, to art. And so on, and I can respect that as well. Uh, but I could— but at the same time, I can understand why some people would just wouldn't ever be able to catch on to this. This isn't like Game of Thrones. Like, when I first started watching Game of Thrones, uh, I didn't read the books. I didn't know anything about the— about the novels or anything. And, um, uh, just watching the first episode, the television show, It actually got me reading the books the following years. And even having no background information on Game of Thrones, I was drawn in the first episode. And that works because Game of Thrones had elements that could resonate with people who didn't even know the source material. Whereas Dune Prophecy is more so you're either all the way Dune or you're probably not going to you know, be into this show, right? I, I will say since episode 1, I could see that there's a trajectory where it's picking up again. I, I feel like they should have done that, uh, episode 1. I would have preferred they have a big episode 1, bring everybody in, and then level off. Seems to me they're just kind of going on an incline, and I, and I think it's going to get a lot better I've heard rumors like around episode 4 is going to start to get really good, but— and it's only 6 episodes, so— but anyway, what do we get this week? Do we get more answers? Because we, we see Desmond Hart, right? Um, who's, uh, you know, of course the, uh, the mysterious, most interesting character, I think, from the series, um, who's, uh, basically able to kind of telekinetically execute these people. He does it with the Duke Richet's son, and he, uh, does it— it looks like with, uh, one of the Bene Gesserits, right, uh, back on their home planet. But we still don't have answers on how he's doing that or how he even survived the worm swallowing him up. Uh, a lot of Rumors are that he may be a clone engineered by the Tileksu, the Tileksu, or what they might term a Gola. And, uh, a Tileksu was basically kind of a race of genetically altered humans who, uh, basically create Golos, which are essentially clones, right? So as to say Desmond Hart really died on, uh, the planet Arrakis, on Planet Dune. But he is resurrected as a clone with all the memories of his former self, right? So he didn't stay in that prison long. He was very clever. He didn't put up much of a fight when he, uh, emerged in that, uh, the, um, prison. And so it led us to believe he knew something was going to happen. And of course, we get to see the Empress who's, uh, very anti-Benjazaret. Uh, she kind of wants the Imperium to be outside the Benjazaret control. The Emperor kind of follows her lead. You can kind of tell she's running the show. And, uh, she looks to have two enemies basically neutralized at the same time by Desmond Hart, as we got to see, by using him to use his telekinetic powers to, to get rid of these people. And then of course the Emperor's son, who is leaking information here to the Richets because of— he has a relationship with the Richets' daughter, uh, Lady Richets. And, uh, they're, uh, in a very Dune-like, uh, political fashion trying to get information from one another but leaking each other's information as it becomes available. So, uh, that's the part of political intrigue, and I just thought that, uh, the storyline this week was very, very good. Um, also we got to see— let's take a look at the Bene Gesserit. We get to see a kind of, uh, Water of Life scenario, right? Of course, that's, uh, the Water of Life, what we got to see in the Dune movies, which allows them to connect with their ancestors and all their memories and knowledge, right? And so, but, um, if you don't change the water, so to speak, as they use in the, in the Dune vernacular, you may not survive. You probably will die. And it seems like this is what happens to this Benny Jezreel in training, right? I can't recall her name, but hopefully I'll get better with the names as we go forward. I don't even know if she's part of the books or not, uh, done by Brian Herbert, but, uh, the son of the original author. But, uh, we do get to see, uh, her trial with the Water of Life not go so well, right? She's trying to actually communicate with the, uh, the lead, uh, or the first Bene Gesserit who started the sisterhood. And it's actually her mom she communicates with, who we saw murdered in episode 1, who, as they kind of did a schism between, um, uh, Valya Harkonnen, who became the Reverend Mother, uh, her mother is able to come back through the, through the kind of, uh, the Water of Life consciousness swap they did. And she's able to, uh, you know, basically stop them from using her to get information. It's kind of like a get-back type situation. And so, uh, I don't know if the young Bene Gesserit will survive this. It's— they kind of left it at a cliffhanger. Uh, she may come out of it. She seems to be kind of comatose and inhabited with all of the, the consciousness of her, uh, various female side of her ancestors. And, you know, I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'm going to make a prediction. And that is— and it's kind of spoiler alert too if you don't know the Dune lore— but many of you all know Paul's sister Alia, she was consumed with all the memories of her ancestors Gebirah Harkonnen being one, and he pretty much, uh, possessed her. Uh, I believe that this particular young Bene Gesserit is going to be possessed by her mom and, uh, you know, able to kind of derail what's going on with the Bene Gesserit. So that's a prediction I have with this week's episode. Um, I'm still waiting on Robert Baratheon, right, the guy who plays, uh, Mark Addy, right, who plays Robert Baratheon, he's going to play, uh, a Harkonnen. Now, uh, that will be coming on the third episode coming up this week. Uh, they're gonna actually be on the planet of, uh, I'm assuming it's Giedi Prime, or maybe they moved to Giedi Prime. This isn't an industrialized, uh, version of Giedi Prime. Uh, it appears to be an ice planet, right? So the ecological situation could have changed many years, many thousands of years later when we get to the present-day Paul Atreides era. But, um, I want to see— I think he's going to bring something good to the production. He's a great actor, but he's going to play some Harkonnen And he might actually be a— well, I might be reaching a little too far with this, but there are some ancestors in Dune that were actually part of the Butlerian Jihad. That's the machine war you see in the beginning. And some people through manipulation are still alive during this time after the Butlerian Jihad. Right. So maybe they'll do something with that, or maybe I'm totally off in that. But it'll be interesting to see Mark Atty either way. Of course, we get to find out Kieran Harkonnen, uh, is kind of a, uh, well, he'd be a traitor to the Imperium, but he seems to be a man of the people who are serving the good of the people, at least in his, uh, mindset. And, uh, so he has a plot in the palace to disclose information and leak it back to what seemingly will be this rebel group against the Imperium. And he, you know, the— we also find out that the bartender who was in the club, right, who seemingly knew him, is actually a Bene Gesserit in disguise herself. The one with the blue eyes seems like she's been exposed to spice on Arrakis, or maybe she's part Fremen or something. But she is basically a Bene Gesserit. So all of these characters now have their own individual plots. Kieran Artréides being the sword master to the palace and having this relationship on an intimate level with the princess. Inez, her being on edge with losing someone like her mom. The Bene Gesserit who trained her, uh, it's gonna, it's gonna be a very tumultuous relationship, it seems, between these two. And it's gonna seemingly put them at odds because, uh, what's happening is, uh, he's gonna turn out to be a traitor to the Imperium. And, uh, it seems to be kind of as well, they keep doing these fight scenes with them. I don't think that's for nothing. Uh, it seems like this is going to be a kind of Darth Vader versus, uh, Obi-Wan type situation. Anakin versus Obi-Wan, where they're gonna fight each other. And my prediction is she's going to use her weirding ways or Bene Gesserit, uh, abilities to enhance herself to stand against Kieran Atreides. I don't know if he's part of the books or not. But, uh, I don't think things are going to end well for him, you know. Uh, but he's basically a spy inside the pal— you know, the palace. And, uh, uh, interesting, it's kind of— he's kind of outside the Atreides code, so to speak, because my understanding with the Atreides was that, uh, to history they're seen as noble and good Although they might— they may be as politically scheming as everyone else, right, just a little bit more skilled with it, uh, but honor seems to be very much part of their code as well. You know, as to say they have a certain line they won't cross. They kind of remind you of the Starks from Game of Thrones and Ned Stark's honor. But this particular, uh, character here, Kieran, he doesn't seem to necessarily follow that honoring the Imperium and so on and so forth, right? So he's, uh, basically saying that he doesn't really care about loyalty to the Atreides family or the code as much as he cares about what he believes to be helping the common people to deal with the issues that plague the citizens of the Dune universe, right? And, and so in that situation, uh, so it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with him. I don't think it's going to end well for him, but, uh, I think it's gonna be interesting to watch, uh, how his relationship gets rocky with the princess and, uh, the, the Imperium and what happens with him. So, so far so good. I'm liking the show. Tell me all what you think. Are you watching it? I don't know if I'm gonna do an episode review every week on it. I might just come back and do a season finale in a wrap-up, uh, because, uh, I, you know, uh, I don't know if this show is going to be for everybody. I, I, again, I think I, I'm hoping that HBO's goal wasn't to bring in huge audiences with this. This seems like something to honor the Dune fans, right? Or maybe, or maybe it was quite strategic. Maybe they could be going on the movie successes of Dune. They know a lot of people have seen the Dune movie, so they'll be able to figure this out. And so there's that as well, right? Um, and so, uh, it could just end up being a good play overall for HBO, right? Because they're gonna soon come out with that third Dune movie, um, God Messiah, right? Uh, and I, and I think that's going to be probably the best of the trilogy. And I think that's going to have a lot of people hyped about Dune, and they're going to be looking for more Dune. And, uh, you know, you'll probably be going to season 2 of Dune Prophecy by that time and so on. So, uh, looks good. Uh, I'm there with it. Again, they're building up slow. They're building the momentum up slow. I wish they hadn't done it that way. I would have preferred a huge start and then a gradual leveling off and then final episode boom. Ah, but they're doing it this way. They're doing it kind of like, you know, what the Dune audience would— how all Dune productions have been, even the Dune movies have kind of been a slow burn, right? It's been like that first movie, you know, and so maybe they're taking a page from that book, but I'm on board for it. Uh, I may review the next week's episode, I may not. We'll just see how good it goes. But that's all I want to say in this particular video. Till next time, as always, take care of yourselves and each other.