Dune: Prophecy - The Death Of Prewet Richese Will Change The Imperium & Means More Than You Think

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  • @dad7130
    @dad7130 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Not anti-tecnology, rather anti-artificial intelligence. Thou shalt not create machines in the likeness of the human mind.

    • @EccleezyAvicii
      @EccleezyAvicii หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Correct!, for newcomers to the world of Dune fiction, here is an overview of what kinds of technological groups exist:
      Bene Tleilax - Masters of genetic engineering and biological technology, known for producing clones (gholas), shapeshifters (Face Dancers), and other bioengineered creations.
      Ixians - Innovators creating sophisticated machines that push legal boundaries, including advanced mechanical computing devices and equipment.
      House Atreides - Noble family utilizing advanced defensive technologies and military tactics, including efficient energy shields and weaponry.
      Spacing Guild - Controllers of interstellar travel using spice-induced prescience to navigate space-folding technology for instant space travel.
      Fremen - Desert dwellers expert in survival technology, notably the stillsuit that recycles body moisture, and possessing knowledge of ecological engineering for terraforming.
      CHOAM - Economic conglomerate overseeing trade and distribution of vital resources and technologies, including the spice melange.

    • @warpdriveby
      @warpdriveby หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm pretty sure you quoted Rev Mother Mohaim, and her "corrected" version of the "Thou shall not make a machine to counterfeit a man's mind" that Herbert attributes to the OC bible.

    • @Reaperofwind
      @Reaperofwind หลายเดือนก่อน

      There afraid of abacus./calculator.

    • @warpdriveby
      @warpdriveby หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Reaperofwind no definitely not, and Herbert is VERY spesific that nothing purely mechanical, however complex is prohibited. Our computers wouldn't qualify as thinking machines today, and certainly won't for a very long time, because it doesn't mean AI as we know it here. It is bio-electro-chemical circuitry shaped into systems that are conscious individuals, but with linear thinking powers a human can't hope to match, even the best mentats are limited by the size of their skull because a brain-circuit interface is also prohibited by the Great Convention, the "constitution" of the Landsraad/Imperium/Guild to simplify it. It's not a religious or superstitious reaction that any original series main characters have, it's the law of their government, and they have excellent documentation of what autonomous living computers get up to if given the chance. Contrary to how it is frequently talked about since the movies opened it up, simple circuitry like a radio, power cells and their regulators like capacitors/transistors are all quite obviously in use in Dune, as are simple "COMPILERS". There is a Grey area too though A great deal of the common people can't understand the difference between dumb circuits that only do what they're told and living non-organic beings with pseudobiomechanical brains and bodies (some humanoid, some gundam/transformers/Evas, some entire planets. So there can be what we'd call witch trials or linchings on some planets if sophisticated but still "letter of the law" abiding technology is found. This is also deliberately stoked and weaponized by some factions in the imperium as well.

    • @Buildindie
      @Buildindie หลายเดือนก่อน

      But there is zero technology in these films. Not just thinking machines.

  • @Okkotsu86275
    @Okkotsu86275 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I really didn’t expect Pruwet to die, especially so soon and so horrific. The little boy's screams still give me the shivers when I think about it. The Young Duke's death is definitely going to have major ripples across the Imperium.

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah I somehow didn't catch it the first time but the kid actor really sold it, believably screaming like you're being burned alive isn't that easy.

    • @Okkotsu86275
      @Okkotsu86275 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @HillsAliveYT Agree, the young man did an excellent job.

  • @pckrichards7980
    @pckrichards7980 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    This is gonna be some MESSY political drama…and I’m totally here for it!

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah I'm definitely hoping they play this out to the maximum drama level!

    • @richardfolden3860
      @richardfolden3860 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m just really looking forward to another disco scene

  • @silverprincess2642
    @silverprincess2642 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF VIDEO ESSAYS.
    I missed saying that. Got nothing to add, other than your voice is so soothing. I wish you could read me bedtime stories 😌

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      LOL thank you! I was struck by inspo earlier today and although recording is usually one of my least favorite parts of video making, I actually enjoyed it today. And we might call this more of a video blurb, but that's splitting hairs.

  • @michalgenesove1646
    @michalgenesove1646 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    So we know for certain that Ynez will have a child, she has to because the Corrino's bloodline needs to continue. I'm assuming they're going to have her have a child with the Atriedes swordmaster. Which would make for an interesting parallel: Ynez has a child with someone she wasn't supposed to, and the Atredies enter the breeding program. Jessica has a son instead of a daughter, and the Atrides bring the breeding program to an end.

  • @perseusveil9376
    @perseusveil9376 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The big elephant in the room about Javicco's terrible, not-good situation is that Corrinos haven't created the Sardaukar yet, and won't do it for a time (according to general lore, Salusa needs to get nuked so we can have the adecuate conditions for prisoners there to become the iconic death commandos). I like this aspect in the series cause it shows something so many people still don't get about the Imperium: Corrinos aren't Palpatine or the Emperor from Warhammer 40k, their actual power and capabilities depend a lot on the tolerance and loyalty of the Landsraad and the Great Convention, a bit like westerosi kings. In a way, Shaddam IV did something unacceptable by attacking the Atreides in the same way Aerys II fucked around and found out. Another important point is that by this time Corrinos are managing Arrakis directly - unlike the 'modern Dune days' when Arrakis and spice administration is something more like a contract in a quasi-feud (the big exception were the Atreides, who were given Arrakis fully but we already know it was so it would be absurd and almost traitorous for Leto to reject it).
    So we have an emperor with very limited forces and without the elite unit that will allow future emperors to act a bit more freely and like mafia heads, and who still has to deal with Arrakis as an extra responsability. Javicco's father, Roderick, was the one who managed a balance between the anti-tech butlerians and the more tolerant factions like the Spacing Guild, but no wonder now Javicco has to disturb that balance a bit by giving the Richese privileges and even by not punishing them for the robo-gecko. Wouldn't surprise me if at some point the show introduces this dynamic of giving Arrakis to a house major, of even showing the nuke of Salusa as a consequence for not punishing the Richese. We know a house named Tantor did it, but we don't know the details and reasons.

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Totally! The word "emperor" gives off an air of authority that the Emperors of the Imperium really don't have without the agreement of their subjects.

    • @perseusveil9376
      @perseusveil9376 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@HillsAliveYT Exactly and don't get me wrong, they are very powerful. Specially by the time of Shaddam and his father, Elrood IX, they acted like true bullies and got away with it most of the time. But during Prophecy they are still just your common noble house whose imperial title depends on its historic relevance and the victory against the TM, as you put it in your video.
      I like that in Villeneuve's canon we kinda have a visual representation of this difference. Javicco dresses like a general, a 'common' military officer, everything feels more 'normal' with him meanwhile Shaddam dressed more like your typical emperor from an advanced sci-fi setting and even has a big alien looking chromatic sphere as a flagship lol

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh my god yes I love your observation of the costuming! Javicco's aesthetic has a very military look to it, while Christopher Walken's Emperor looks a lot more Pope-like, which really matches with where their family is at each time period. The early Corrinos are still close to the literal warriors who destroyed the machines, but Shaddam and Irulan have a much more religious aesthetic, which suits a time period where the Battle of Corrin and the Corrinos themselves feel more like an ideological symbol of humanity in contrast to thinking machines.

    • @perseusveil9376
      @perseusveil9376 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@HillsAliveYT Totally! Never though of Shaddam as a pope-like figure but it even has some lore basis if you take the religious aspect of the sardaukar training into consideration. They are fanatical about their loyalty to the imperial house and the Corrinos were very cunning in filling the salusan 'culture' with empty rituals and liturgy to consolidate that fanaticism.
      It makes a lot of sense - the early Corrinos still can use the Battle of Corrin and the jihad as a symbol of legitimacy, but during a 10k year old reign you definitely need more.
      Dang they are the less popular of the three main houses but I can't help but loving them the most lol They are super interesting and the aesthetics are immaculate (Irulan

  • @gutika113
    @gutika113 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Technically Vorian Atreides won the war for humanity, and he was offered the throne, but refused it.

  • @GamerplayerWT
    @GamerplayerWT หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It wasn’t a wedding. It was an engagement ceremony.

  • @raf7665
    @raf7665 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    There is no guards or security for the kid, cameras? He is screaming pretty loud

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      LOL yeah I thought that part was a little odd too, but suspension of disbelief I guess.

  • @Chuckf66
    @Chuckf66 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fact that Google, Meta, Amazon & Musk are developing AI with absolutely NO independent oversight is fucking terrifying. All of them need to be nationalised, and any AI research placed under international, independent supervision.

  • @markerractrillion7267
    @markerractrillion7267 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The ONLY possible suspect in the murder of the Richesse kid is the once person who has absolutely no business being there: Desmond Hart. What is he doing there, he’s a spice-vacuumer from Arrakis?
    But I predict what will happen is that Desmond Hart will be nowhere to be found, and shortly thereafter the Emperor’s Truthsayer will return
    …because the killer is a Tleilaxu Face Dancer.

  • @andrewlim9345
    @andrewlim9345 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This makes me more curious as to who Desmond Hart actually is.

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same, I also wonder if he's a one-off character or if he's the origination point of some other family or faction that exists in the Dune universe.

    • @Imthesoulofthes
      @Imthesoulofthes หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He’s much too Important to just be a Ghola or an Ixian

    • @peterhanes7333
      @peterhanes7333 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I believe Desmond is not just an ordinary Ghola. He is a project by the Tleilaxu, trying to replace the Bene Gesserit. My guess is his powers will give the Bene Gesserit the idea of the Kwisatz Haderach.

    • @EccleezyAvicii
      @EccleezyAvicii หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peterhanes7333 the Bene Gesserit already are using the Genetic Bank.

    • @msolomonii9825
      @msolomonii9825 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you mean what he is.

  • @sethpajak
    @sethpajak หลายเดือนก่อน

    "HBO's quota of child homicide," I had a similar thought when I watched that episode. Thanks for breaking down the deeper meaning here.

  • @acephaedramusic9588
    @acephaedramusic9588 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I really didn't like him. That spoiled brat would've grown up into a dispicabale Adult, like his dad. The little actor did such a great job!
    But then, when he died alone and scared, begging for mercy... haunting! This better be important and have huge consequences. Don't make me watch a child die just for shock value!

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He was definitely a little punk! And I don't think they'll do it for shock value only, I mean frankly they kinda have to make it important to distinguish this as a non-"GoT-Jaime trying to kill Bran at the end of the pilot" ripoff, but luckily they can easily do that because this would naturally be a political nightmare.

  • @QuelSalius
    @QuelSalius หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I wonder if the Pro-Technological Ixians are somewhere in this galaxy and what they might say to Prewet's death? Or the Tleilaxu?!

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I would loooove to see the Ixians in the series, especially considering their role in technology and the way in which the show seems to be focusing on the conflict between anti and pro-tech POVs. I'd also love to see the Tleilaxu just because I want to see all of the really weird stuff in the Duneverse.

    • @djangofettt
      @djangofettt หลายเดือนก่อน

      Desmond=Tleilaxu?

    • @QuelSalius
      @QuelSalius หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@djangofettt I'm not certain WHAT his angle is or where his allegiance lies, but whether he's a Face Dancer or a Tleilaxu master is still up in the air at the moment. I'm betting on Tleilaxu master as a reveal! *Gasp!*

    • @End420Prohibition
      @End420Prohibition หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it will be revealed that the Tleilaxlu originated from an escaped titan cymek that is still secretly still a threat

  • @marcusg2703
    @marcusg2703 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I like many mistook your voice for AI but having read the comments and discovering that not only are you Human, You are knowledgeable about your subject and passionate too. I have Liked and subscribed and look forward to hearing more from you.

    • @Emma88178
      @Emma88178 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should definitely see her other videos reacting to house of the dragon episodes and her other videos on A Song of Ice and Fire content. It's a lot of fun.

  • @playbookshowme484
    @playbookshowme484 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    6:06 I don't know sh!t about this time stamp but where ever it comes from you now regain thought in my 1's and 0's... I'll have to look it up maybe

  • @carolbriscoe9337
    @carolbriscoe9337 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only thing I didn't expect yet was the discovery and importance of spice. Would've thought it would be a few centuries after the Butlerian Jihad, giving civilization time to adjust to no machines and having to make and produce everything themselves.

  • @teovu5557
    @teovu5557 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He becomes the boy in white and his spirt goes back in time 100,000 years to torment humans on earth in his little pocket dimesion called FROMville.

  • @QuelSalius
    @QuelSalius หลายเดือนก่อน

    BTW Do we have any info about the Empress--who she is and where she is from? Just curious. Thank you!

  • @mikeCavalle
    @mikeCavalle หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent

  • @rickywestcoast7546
    @rickywestcoast7546 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m okay with this becoming a dune channel until you have more song of ice and fire things to talk about

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LOL bless, I still have a lot of ASOIAF topics I want to cover, it just hasn't been the vibe lately, you know? And I've been geeking out over Dune for a while, so what better time to start expanding into Imperial territory.

  • @mordakie3805
    @mordakie3805 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They did a good job casting the kid he looks just like the duke

  • @ericmatteson8888
    @ericmatteson8888 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    We should ban AI on this site

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      LOL I mean, I agree? I don't know what that has to do with this video though.

    • @vanzilar
      @vanzilar หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The video repeated some things 2-4 times. Yes it seems to be written by AI with slight modifications. I was expected some deeper insight and background, perhaps talking more about Pruwet's abilities, Ix, the thinking machines, or more connections to Brian Herbert's books.

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@vanzilar LOL bro I don't write anything with AI, you probably haven't seen my videos before but I've been doing TH-cam video essays since before AI was even public. You don't have to like it or think it's good, but I do everything for my videos myself.

    • @louyou6614
      @louyou6614 หลายเดือนก่อน

      tbr i think its a honest mistake , your diction is very well enounced and with quite the even tempo of words , sounding like a very good ai voiceover , the used ear can catch differences , like the way you say djihad is quite good , where an ai would have butchered it more
      its just a testament to the quality of your voiceover​@HillsAliveYT

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh no worries, honestly I just want to be very clear that I do all my work myself LOL and if it were an AI voice over I'm pretty sure it would have pronounced "Richese" the same way every time, which I definitely did not manage to do.

  • @tuomasholo
    @tuomasholo หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How did Ragnar kill the witch on an entirely different planet? Plot hole

    • @robertmack5425
      @robertmack5425 หลายเดือนก่อน

      possibly, but could be explained by time-acting poison or tech like nanobots

  • @doomereugene
    @doomereugene หลายเดือนก่อน

    He just wanted to pet his bakugan 🥺

  • @frankmontez6853
    @frankmontez6853 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First off, they’re not anti “ tech “ . They have FTL TRAVEL AND Holtzman theory .

  • @Unknownnameplease
    @Unknownnameplease หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Didn’t Valya admit that the sisterhood was weakening the Corrinos hold on arrakis

  • @darkstar223
    @darkstar223 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice

  • @raiconlan1
    @raiconlan1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Omnius was not destroyed in the Butlerian Jihad. They left the arm of the galaxy that held the imperium and founded the synchronized worlds.

    • @perseusveil9376
      @perseusveil9376 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OG Omnius was but a tiny bit of a copy survived.

    • @TheresaReichley
      @TheresaReichley หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kralizec…

  • @frankmontez6853
    @frankmontez6853 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is this guy a harkonnen ??!! Seems pretty dang evil 👿

  • @WilliamJames48
    @WilliamJames48 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    HBO's quota for child homicide lol. What have we become?

  • @thekage100
    @thekage100 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Maaan!
    I am in such an internal conflict! The death of a child is NEVER ok...
    But like when your family is like part of an Empire! And they are extracting recources from a place where (lets be honest) many children died..
    - For those said "$picy" resources...arhh 😅
    Already so Grey in morality and its ep one!! 😂
    Amazin' Take ...i think! I will watch after work! 😅

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      LOL I'd definitely say it's dark gray morality for sure! And he was a little jerk, but what his murder represents politically could have huge implications for the Imperium. Also I didn't notice the first time, but this kid absolutely slayed his death scene, I was impressed.

    • @aguspuig6615
      @aguspuig6615 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@HillsAliveYT I think he slayed the whole role, the little fkin ''you dont actually have to speak'' during the wedding scene was so confident and so shy at the same time it made me laugh

  • @asa90064
    @asa90064 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it means nothing

  • @Knee-JerkReactor
    @Knee-JerkReactor หลายเดือนก่อน

    Prewet?! He's not even wet behind the ears yet?

  • @AloisWeimar
    @AloisWeimar หลายเดือนก่อน

    Richese Pieces

  • @cotillion
    @cotillion หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Richese is a temu Ix

  • @playbookshowme484
    @playbookshowme484 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wow its like you read my explanation at the other top Dune YT channel and came to your conclusion, I swear i might have to make a real Channel just to fix all the tard sh!t band wagoners are Fn'up

    • @Emma88178
      @Emma88178 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow are you okay? Do you need a nap?

  • @LolitaDavidovich934
    @LolitaDavidovich934 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pruitt

  • @michalgenesove1646
    @michalgenesove1646 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Am i the only one who's getting a little tired of Travis Fimmel just being Ragnar in every show he's in? Like could they not tell him to do a different accent? Not related to the video at all i know i just need somewhere ro vent 😂

    • @kashk42
      @kashk42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That first scene he was in was SO DISTRACTING. The dress, the mannerisms, the accent, it was all Ragnar. His later scenes were better but he is going to have to do a lot in this show to kill that first impression of that character just being "Space-Ragnar".

    • @felixhaggblom7562
      @felixhaggblom7562 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kashk42 Lucky I never watched more than one episode of Vikings, so to me the character feels all its own :D

    • @jamesemmitt6456
      @jamesemmitt6456 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He’s a shit actor

  • @djenntt
    @djenntt หลายเดือนก่อน

    This looks so bad, I’m going to pretend this doesn’t exist

  • @Veopoz
    @Veopoz หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nobody cares show is 2 episodes in and it sucks
    Woke game of thrones in space

  • @Ron-u6s
    @Ron-u6s หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    u-tube is going down fast with all this AI crap on it.

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LOL lord, clearly YT is pushing my content out to a new audience, but this is 100% human made crap.

    • @Emma88178
      @Emma88178 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hills alive is a real person. 😆

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I know I'm new to the Dune fandom but there are literally videos of my face with my voice coming out of it 😭

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also JFC if I were using AI to write I wouldn't go weeks or even months at a time without posting anything.

    • @mordakie3805
      @mordakie3805 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@HillsAliveYTI love your voice

  • @HappyHighwayman
    @HappyHighwayman หลายเดือนก่อน

    He would have grown up to be a sociopathic narcissist anyway

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean, probably, but you could probably make that argument for every rich kid in the Imperium.

    • @alexandrosmironis6093
      @alexandrosmironis6093 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This description fit more about the princess than the kid
      He was comfortable enough even to express his feelings and he didn’t gave any sign that he would have been asshole

  • @rusty159753
    @rusty159753 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This feels like a future failed game of thrones

    • @HillsAliveYT
      @HillsAliveYT  หลายเดือนก่อน

      😭 Please god no I cannot go through that again.

  • @darkstar223
    @darkstar223 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dune prophecy …looks like it’s going to be a big big fail …..hope not ….but the writers so far just look overwhelmed by magnitude of the task in hand

  • @christianbavle
    @christianbavle หลายเดือนก่อน

    sine we already have the history of the next 100,000 years OF Dune history, this hasnt changed anything and everything happened as it should