News culture This scene from Dune Prophecy is worse than the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones: the HBO series will traumatize you!
Published on 11/18/2024 at 8:35 p.m.
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HBO is a master in the art of keeping viewers glued to their sofas with extremely well-crafted plots as well as scenes that are quick to traumatize the most hardened. The Game of Thrones series has carved out a solid reputation in this area with The Red Wedding, but it's nothing compared to this passage from Dune: Prophecy. The trauma is real.
A scene more traumatic than the “Red Wedding”
Everyone who watched Game of Thrones still remembers watching episode 9 of season 3 years later. In “The Rains of Castamere”, the Stark family is massacred by the Fey family who are plotting revenge following Robb Stark's breaking of his oath. During this sequence passed down to posterity, several members of the Stark family are brutally murdered including Robb Stark, his wife Talisa Stark, his mother Lady Catelyn followed by the majority of bannermen and men-at-arms loyal to the Starks. As traumatic as this scene is, it pales in comparison to a staged murder in Dune: Prophecy.
At the very end of episode 1 of the new science fiction series produced by HBO, Desmond Hart – a survivor of the planet Arrakis played by Travis Fimmel (Warcraft, Vikings) – exchanges with young Pruwet Richese from the Big House of the same name. The child, saddened by the death of his mechanical animal, suddenly goes into convulsion, then turns dangerously red before finally burning up under the inquisitive eyes of the Emperor's mysterious soldier Javicco Corrino. The violence that emanates from this scene has a lasting impact, especially since it attacks a child whose skin is bubbling under the effect of a sort of spontaneous combustion whose origin will shortly be revealed. Little clue… Desmond Hart has not yet revealed his true nature.
Dune: Prophecy release schedule
Dune: prophecy is a prequel series to the diptych Dune directed by Denis Villeneuve with Timothée Chalamet to play Paul Atréides. HBO, determined to capitalize on the science fiction universe imagined in the 60s by Frank Herbert, offers fans the story of the origins of the Bene Gesserit 10,000 years before the events of Dune (2021) and Dune, Part II ( 2024). Dune: Prophecy begins on November 18, 2024 with the release of the first episode on Max (formerly HBO Max). Here is the broadcast schedule for the six episodes that make up the series:
- Episode 1 “The Hidden Hand” (18 novembre 2024)
- Episode 2 “Two Wolves” (25 novembre 2024)
- Episode 3 “Sisterhood Above All” (2 décembre 2024)
- Episode 4 (November 9, 2024)
- Episode 5 (December 16, 2024)
- Episode 6 (December 23, 2024)
