After watching episode 3 of Dune Prophecy I'm wondering how this season is going to end and what I mean by this is how much impact it will have on viewers, after all this is suppose to be at HOTD levels and as we saw Season 2 of HOTD was really disappointing like they were wasting time during most episode even though there were dragons everywhere, well Dune Prophecy already show "the voice" been stop so all is left is strategy and tactics to win over power. This time around we get to dive deep into Valya's history and her connection to House Harkonnen, the episode starts by seeing Valya leaving the palace, this I think shows how far she has come from her humble beginnings and the whole episode develops around showing us exactly why Valya holds such a deep hatred for House Atreides, the episode really shows how hateful she can be and what hides behind the Mother Superior.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29313610/
- Platform: Amazon Prime Video
The most interesting thing about the episode is that it shows us Valya’s early life on Lanivil; which later became Giedi Prime, as outcasts after her family was branded as cowards during some previous conflict, the Harkonnens scraping by on whale hunting and trading fur to get by. The episode shows Valya having natural talent with the Voice before joining the Bene Gesserit, which adds a lot to her character and explains why she was so powerful within the order, no matter who was facing her it was a lost cause before it ever begins and we also know that when the times to take hard decisions Valya does not think twice, look at how she killed Dorotea and also for her it was a made choice to persuade Lila so she put Tula up to this task.
The show does a really good job of explaining how the Harkonnens became traitors, all the way back to the Butlerian Jihad and Abulurd Harkonnen actions, and tying that back to Valya's personal vendetta and why she wants to restore her family's honor through the Bene Gesserit, and it plays out really well. If you have seen the movies, I think many would tied directly Valya with Baron Harkonnen, they are so alike in many ways even on facial expressions and how they think, how they take decisions without remorse, Valya would be the female version of him.
The visual elements of this episode were some of the best so far in my opinion showing a total different environment of suffering, very traumatic, particularly the scenes in Lanivil because they feel very authentic in terms of what a Harkonnen would live in and how harsh the environment is, but contrast so well with the scenes of Valya in the present, really showing how far she’s come and what she’s had to sacrifice to get to where she is, at the same time there is this transition of a cold place where the Harkonnen are having such a hard time to where Tula was with her boyfriend Orry Atreides, a more calm place in the woods, like Atraides where having such a great life, same idea of the conflict Valya had in mind. I also enjoy how they started to transform the character of Tula from such a loving girl into and cold blood murder.
I don't know if this is the best way to put it, but I am really really impressed with how the show handled the big reveal about Sister Tula's connection to the Atreides family, I didn't see that one coming and it really brings so much more to both characters' relationship, Tula's ties to the Atreides family, a friendship that previously seemed close is revealed instead to be part of an elaborate game of revenge and manipulation, and of course Valya's natural gift with the Voice serve as the core energy for such manipulation making me think if she use the voice with everyone as she please, could become addictive too, she demonstrated even before becoming a Bene Gesserit and the episode also shows how her hate is above anything else, for example the moment her an Dorotea where to take the agony, Valya couldn't because before she had a mission she needed to finish I guess not bee 110% concentrated would get her killed, its also clear that for Valya and Tula is not Sisterhood Above All but Harkonnen Above All.
This episode ends wonderfully, tying together everything that has been shown on previous episode making me think that we wont have any battle action during this season with only three more episodes to go, showing us how Valya's past actions still impact the present in her relationship with Sister Tula and their shared secret of what happened to the Atreides family they found, and how the reveal that Tula wants to bring Lila back adds even more drama and complexity to Valya's story, but the most terrifying and confirm my theory of how addictive the Voice can be is when Valya use the Voice on her own mother, makes that clear that she's willing to go as far as she has to in order to get what she wants.
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