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HBO’s Big Dune Show Is Here. [Bene Gesserit Voice] Don’t Bother With It! (slate.com)
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Dune: Prophecy lacks the spice.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well it does feel like a TV series alright. The sets look cheap and lots of enclosed spaces instead of the expansive and "everything is huge" feel of the movies. That's understandable though, since this is obviously not a movie with a movie budget. That aside, the older cast are great, but I'm not impressed with the younger cast yet, as with most shows with new, young actors. The full blown exposition in the first 10 minutes was a bad sign for me, because they're leaning on tell-don't-show. I know they have a lot of info to get through as a background, but the films were able to do that without just narrating everything. All the more for a series that has more than double the runtime in total.

I read the Frank books but not the Brian ones, so I'm going in blind except for the info I already know from the original books. So let's see, we're just in the first episode. I'm looking forward to the next one and hopefully it picks up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Don't be too harsh on the TV writers until you know how far they've moved from the source material. I read all the mainline dune books earlier this year, while I do recommend the chronological order read through, sometimes the writing struggles to do the concepts justice. But the world is big and interesting and gets more standard space opera like and less Warhammer-like in the prequels and more Warhammer like in the sequels. I'm excited for the show. Lots of good stuff to go with if done well.