There is a disturbingly sinister presence peering from a darkish nebulous realm within the season finale of HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy,” which ended its short-but-satisfying debut season this previous Sunday night time with a mess of revelations, surprising deaths, household truths unveiled, and the arrival on one infamous desert planet named Arrakis.
After final week’s startling reveal that Desmond Hart was Tula Harkonnen and Orry Atreides’ deserted love youngster — marking the genesis of the millennia-long rivalry of those two Nice Homes — there’s an entire lot to unpack on this prolonged finale titled “The Excessive-Handed Enemy.” Let’s get into it!
On Wallach IX, Tula is fretting away, haunted by the ghosts of selections previous since studying that Desmond Hart is her long-abandoned son. With the assistance of Kazir, a former sister turned Suk Faculty physician, they decide that Desmond’s powers come from a bio-engineered virus that feeds on concern. Somebody (or one thing) mutated him with this virus, but when they will chemically counter its results, they will produce a remedy. In making an attempt to transmute the virus, Kazir has a imaginative and prescient of “The Monster of Arrakis” earlier than being roasted from inside and dying to Tula’s horror.
We then flashback to that pivotal second as Valya features the assist and loyalty of Tula, Francesca, and Kasha after she makes use of The Voice to kill her fundamentalist opposition, Sister Dorotea. Throughout a personal second, younger Tula tells her sister that she’s pregnant and a plan is put in movement for the kid to be protected. Finally, she’ll give him as much as an itinerant employee and swap out the infant for the nameless lady’s stillborn youngster. Sisters Above All!
Again to the current on the royal palace, Princess Ynez is arrested by Empress Natalya for attempting to free the incarcerated Keiran Atreides. Francesca takes that information to Valya, who swiftly whips up a fancy plot to make use of Sister Theodosia’s Face Dancer abilities and Francesca’s resurrected romance with the Emperor to assassinate him with a poison lancet.
Down within the Sisterhood caverns after Sister Jen loosens Lila’s restraints, which is a nasty concept provided that the tormented woman is a resurrected power to be reckoned with, particularly since she’s grappling with a number of personalities of deceased ancestors of the Sisterhood. The present resident is Sister Dorotea, the zealot who was murdered by Valya many years in the past. Now although, she’s an instrument of reality as she leads the acolytes to the mass grave the place younger Valya and her followers killed anybody who stood towards them within the aftermath of Dorotea’s self-inflicted slashing. It is a actually horrific revelation as we’re aware of the pit of piled-up skeletons on the backside of the reflecting pool.
To assist restore the Order’s righteous path, Lila then destroys the genetic considering machine, Anirul, which has been Valya and Tula’s AI breeding index program.
With Ynez in jail and Natalya aligned with Desmond Hart to play puppetmasters with the weakened Javicco, the ultimate kick to the abdomen for the despot arrives within the type of Francesca, who reveals Valya’s murderous plan. Javicco decides he can management just one factor in his preordained life and stabs himself along with his dagger proper earlier than Natalya enters. Seeing her massive energy journey foiled, she kills Francesca with the poisoned needle supposed for the Emperor. Not a really merry second on Salusa Secundus!
In the meantime, Theodosia shapeshifts right into a palace guard and sticks a knife into Desmond Hart, who falls however will not be mortally wounded. Valya arrives and calls for that Desmond reveal the imaginative and prescient of her “finish” that he talked about to her earlier within the season. In a trippy netherworld dream sequence, we relive the second Valya saves Griffin from the icy water by first utilizing The Voice.
This nightmare intensifies when Tula arrives to assuage Valya’s imaginative and prescient as she slowly transmutes the Omnius thoughts virus. This results in photographs of a colossal sandworm erupting from the deep desert and a horrific scene of Desmond being operated on by robotic arms, etching a considering machine into his eyeball (sure, it is ugly!). This comes from the identical shared nightmare of the Sisterhood, replete with the terrifying black maw and blue machine lights. From an remark window above the operation room, a blurry cloaked determine watches the grim experiment on Desmond.
Sensing she should kill Desmond for all this to finish, Valya is all of a sudden shocked when Tula makes use of The Voice to cease her. Tula lastly explains that Desmond Hart is in truth her deserted son. Surprised by the net of lies, Valya concedes and declares that she’ll proceed to dig into the thriller of who these considering machine monsters are and exits. Tula and Desmond embrace and share a whispered reunion, previous to Desmond ordering her to be arrested by the guards however clearly touched by the intimacy.
We finish this excellent “Dune” prequel sequence the place it form of all started for the harmful Imperial soldier Desmond Hart, as Valya, Ynez, and Keiran contact down on Arrakis, with Valya boldly declaring that “The trail to our enemy begins right here.”
What is going to turn out to be of Valya and Tula’s fractured relationship? How will Natalya and Desmond restructure the facility platform of the Imperium? What is that this shadowy evil power behind all of it? And are there solutions ready for Valya on Arrakis that may present private redemption and reestablish the Sisterhood?
Now {that a} second season has been ordered by HBO, these questions will all be fleshed out in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future, however we’ll should be affected person for now. Till then, extra fruitcake and fudge will definitely assist the interminable wait.
