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Dune: Prophecy Recap: A Harkonnen Never Forgets
Wait, so this 10,000-year plan to genetically engineer a messiah was just a revenge plot all along?
At the risk of sounding like the person who begs their friends to hang with a show that gets off to a clunky, purposeless start, the third episode of Dune: Prophecy goes a long way toward solving the problems with the first two — one of which labors under the gruntwork of science-fiction world-building and the other of which whips up palace intrigue seemingly to no thematic end. The ostensible mission of the Bene Gesserit under Mother Superior Raquella is to assert a kind of benevolent influence on the leaders of the Imperium, sending Truthsayers to help protect them from poisonous lies and manipulating genetic bloodlines to achieve long-term goals. What “Sisterhood Above All” begins to outline is the fitfully dark origin story, one where the Bene Gesserit leaders are truly representatives of House Harkonnen, driven not by an optimal vision of the universe but by the eternal quest for revenge that will turn their successors into rich, vile, self-indulgent mutants.
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