Shows and TV

This is what I commented on the other show/movies community:

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.

Had no idea Travis Fimmel was playing a role in this show. The worst part was the 3-5 minutes of exposition dump nat the start can't stand that stuff. Show looks wonderful and acting was great. And on my first point hope he plays a large role in the show. I'm optimistic for now.

Curious to see what everybody thinks

Found it good but slow, and a bit unfocused. Only 6 episodes planned for season one though? That's kind of phoning it in

Ive read a large chunk of the books, although only Franks more than once, Brians are to, erm, spicy shall we say to get read more than once.

Not impressed so far as they introduced too many characters in too short a time period with the majority of them not getting defined well enough to stick with who is who, and what they want. I think there was like eight main characters introduced? Contrast that with the Landman premier (which has entirely different problems) that focused on introducing a far smaller number even though it has a wider cast waiting the wings, some of whom are quite big names.

I also did not like that the interesting bit, how the Bene Gesserit actually got first started being trusted by the houses to where every one of them wanted their own was like 2 minutes. Its like they wanted to focus on stuff relevant to the recent movies to keep people interested but 10000 years is a huge time gap to be sitting at the same point all that time. Would have made more sense to start further back IMO.

It just feels like different writers are responsible for writing different characters stories and they being mushed together than than planned as a cohesive whole.

I will give it another episode or two to see how it evolves but at the moment it feels like a space opera version of the Wheel of Time show (not the book) more than anything else.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/11/dune-prophecy-hbo-max-show-review-emily-watson.html

I'm not sure I follow everything that's going on, but I guess that's ok for a first episode.

Knife guy is my favorite, burning a kid is certainly one way to make you memorable.

I'll probably watch the next episode but I'm not sure it's pulled me in yet.