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If we stick to the chronology which makes Dune : Prophecythe prequel to Dune (the novel by Frank Herbert, the feature films by Denis Villeneuve), we can estimate that The War of Fire is the prequel to Spartacus. Ten thousand years separate this series, inspired by The Community of Sisters, by Brian Herbert (son of) and Kevin J. Anderson, films in which Timothée Chalamet is the hero.
But we must believe that in this distant future time lasts a long time, and we will find in this story of the early days of the empire invented by Frank Herbert costumes (the long black robes of the Bene Gesserit, the monastico-political order whose gestation is at the center of these six episodes), surnames (Atreides, Harkonnen) and customs (the use of spice, the narcotic produced by the planet Arrakis) which will be current a hundred centuries later.
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Dune : Prophecy therefore offers an excursion into almost familiar, yet exotic terrain. While rediscovering the dramatic and graphic figures of space opera and dynastic tragedy, the series created by two women, Diane Ademu-John and Alison Schapker, moves quite far from its competitors – stories from the universe of Star Wars, those inspired by Game of Thrones – to bring a current of fresh (and often chilling) air into the galaxy.
Emily Watson as Mother Superior
This season begins a few decades after humans crushed the artificial intelligence uprising and banned the making and use of thinking machines. Spaceships nevertheless manage to transport the spice to its consumers and humanity has conquered the galaxy, united into an empire led by a sovereign whose haughty appearance poorly masks his weakness (an exercise to which Mark Strong, who plays the role of the emperor, sacrifices brilliantly).
Two sisters, Valya and Tula, from a discredited lineage, the Harkonnen, set out to make the religious order to which they belong a political instrument, placing a nun with each leader of a great house. Valya (Emily Watson) has assumed the role of emperor, but must face the irruption of a scarred warrior gifted with supernatural powers (Travis Fimmel, spectacular). In the universe of Dunethese faculties of mystical origin make up for the absence of artificial intelligence.
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