Whose Eyes Do We See In Valya’s Imaginative and prescient?
One of many foremost drivers of Dune: Prophecy has been the titular prediction, the approaching of Tiran-Arafel, who will enact a counting on the Sisterhood. For a lot of the first season, that reckoning has come from Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel), the deserted son of Tula Harkonnen and Olly Atriedes. However within the finale, Valya sees inside Desmond’s thoughts to get a glimpse of the menace.
There, the identical glowing eyes which have haunted the Sisterhood adjustments into scientific gear that provides Desmond the fear-eating nano-machines he makes use of to burn folks alive, however not rather more. There’s a hooded determine operating the gear, however we by no means see its face.
Nevertheless, the books do give a couple of concepts in regards to the particular person behind the eyes. The thought of a nano-virus, mixed with the sequence’ curiosity in using nano-machines, factors to Omnius or Erasmus, main Considering Machine villains within the prequel books by Brian Herbert and Anderson. Omnius is the collective hivemind of all of the AIs within the universe, and did use a virus to debilitate the human armies earlier than the Battle of Corrino. Erasmus began the human resistance when he killed Serena Butler’s little one, and nonetheless exists within the Mentat Faculty through the Colleges Trilogy.
Nevertheless, the Dune motion pictures happen 10000 years after Prophecy, and there aren’t many Considering Machines round any extra. The powers that be at Warner Bros. could favor for his or her TV present to assist do world-building for the flicks, which might counsel that Ixians and even the Bene-Tleilax reworked Desmond Hart. We’ve heard discuss in regards to the Tleilaxu in Prophecy earlier than, an order dedicated to genetic engineering, however the Ixians are comparatively new (although one did assist Keiran Atreides rise up).
Ixians proceed to check know-how, regardless of the fallout of the Butlerian Jihad. As such, they are usually ostracized from the remainder of the universe, which implies that they don’t do fairly as a lot plotting as different teams. Nonetheless, they do become involved with common conflicts and play a task in later Dune tales, so that they can’t be counted out.
The Folly of Natalya’s Reign
By the tip of Prophecy‘s first season, Javicco (Mark Sturdy) is useless and Natalya (Jodhi Might) reigns as Empress, with Desmond Hart as her bashar. On one hand, the change is sensible, as Javicco confirmed himself to be a weak emperor. However for all of her confidence, it’s not clear that Natalya understands the bigger forces controlling Hart, nor that the Sisterhood nonetheless plans to place Ynez on the throne.
