Warning: spoilers for Dune: Prophecy Episode 6 – “The Excessive-Handed Enemy” are in play.
Associates and fellow followers, we’ve formally made it by Season 1 of Dune: Prophecy. Because the 2024 TV schedule attracts to 1 shut, followers have seen loads play out on this yr’s finale. With what we find out about Prophecy together with the contemporary Season 2 greenlight and within the wake of 1 final spherical of interviews timed to “The Excessive-Handed Enemy’s” debut, I felt prefer it was time to ask some questions. Particularly when in spite of everything that’s occurred over the previous two weeks has left me with some unanswered questions that also hang-out me.
How Does Desmond’s Parentage Go away Valya And Tula’s Relationship?
We just about want to begin with the apparent query, which is all about how Mom Superior Valya (Emily Watson) and her sister, Tula (Olivia Wiliams), are going to fare after Desmond’s parentage reveal. Through the digital press convention for Dune: Prophecy’s season finale, which CinemaBlend attended, Ms. Watson, Ms. Williams, and showrunner Alison Schapker all revealed their ideas on how this last-minute reveal will shake issues up.
Offered in edited excerpts, here is a part of what all three events needed to say:
- Emily Watson: ‘It’s blown every part up, however I feel Valya might be nonetheless holding ‘I’m the chosen one, I’ve the future’ [that] continues to be her information. That is her information by this. … I feel Valya’s intuition is to run for the shadows. ‘I’ll stick to my mission, as a result of that is what retains me alive.’
- Olivia Williams: ‘I feel an enormous factor for Tula is the second when she says, “please do not kill my son, belief me, I’ve acquired this.” … It is an fascinating factor although, as a result of generally individuals of that character like to remain within the shadows, and it is going to be fascinating to see what occurs, if she is pushed additional to the entrance and whether or not she will be able to deal with it.’
- Alison Schapker: ‘I additionally assume like every secret that comes out, the longer you retain the ache round it must be metabolized. It makes you need to rethink your relationship – going again over time, [thinking] “how did I miss one thing?”’
Judging by the occasions of the previous few episodes, Desmond Hart’s still-mysterious and facinating presence is about to grow to be a little bit of a ache level for an additional determine in Dune: Prophecy’s panorama. And, so far as I’m involved, it’s not a matter of if, however when.
How Will Empress Natalya React To Desmond’s Revealing Truths?
In current occasions, Empress Natalya Corrino (Jodhi Could) has been getting fairly cozy with Desmond. Due to his husband’s rekindled affair with Sister Francesa (Tabu), Natalya’s help of Mr. Hart’s anti-Sisterhood/anti-tech campaign has solid fairly a bond; with a bit little bit of potential romance combined in as effectively.
Right here’s the place Dune: Prophecy showrunner Alison Schapker’s remark about secrets and techniques complicating relationships comes again to hang-out our solid of characters. With Desmond related by blood to The Sisterhood and being fitted with Nanobots that give him the powers of the “burning fact,” he’s principally a ticking time bomb of antithesis to Empress Natalya’s beliefs.
So how does Jodhi Might imagine the reality will have an effect on this new alliance? Once I requested her that very query, she instructed CinemaBlend the next:
It throws up plenty of actually explosive questions, would not it? You already know? Yeah, that is undoubtedly gonna make her pause for thought to say the least.
Contemplating how Desmond Hart’s explosive encounter with Mikaela (Shalom Brune-Franklin) went, blowing issues up appears to be one other recurring theme of Dune: Prophecy’s first season. Hopefully, for Empress Natalya’s sake, she’ll have the ability to stroll away simply as unscathed.
There’s loads extra to think about with what occurs in “The Excessive-Handed Enemy’s” season finale storyline, too. I hate that we’re going to have to attend for solutions to those Prophecy questions in addition to readability in regard to how the foremost developments impression these gamers sooner or later.
On the identical time, I’m glad to say that followers really have a second season to sit up for in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. So, for those who haven’t caught any of Prophecy, and wish one thing to look at over the vacation break, seize a Max subscription and leap in!