Dune: Prophecy (2024)

There are times I hate having my worst reservations, affirmed. Dune Prophecy has all the trappings of success. A great cast, mixing talented newcomers and experienced veteran actors, excellent production values, a well known sci fi saga "Dune" but for me, that's where the positives end. As far as I can see this series is far removed from the conceptualisations and story, as espoused in the novels and the films. What you get instead, in my view, is revisionism mixed with woke-ism and a noticeably unpleasant dash, of what I would characterise as, misandry. In summary, who is this pi…

I had pretty high expectation on this series. Hoped we would get a glimps on the AI-Wars and how Bene Gesserit, Mentat and Navigators came into play. We got a glimpse of the AI-Wars...like 30sec.....that's it. The Rest of the series evolves around some kind of boarding school / coming of age setup, wich looks cheap and brings no insight to anything in the Dune Universe. HBO simply tried to reporduce a copy of Game of Thrones but didn't want to spend the money to do it proper. Sometimes the shots of the Houses is 1:1 with game of thrones. Funny sidekick is the role of Travis Fimmel…