I found it to be a little heavy handed on the exposition. reminded me at times of the comic strip prologue added to some versions of Lynchs dune. that said, I did enjoy some aspects you mentioned and hope they rely more on subtext and less on exposition in future episodes
@@darkportents9835 I think it was unavoidable. Too many people would assume it was in the same timeline as the movies, and most viewers know nothing about Butlerian Jihad.
While I agree with you some front loaded exposition may have been needed to deal with that gap, I think that there's a wide spectrum of storytelling options that would still do the job. While some front loaded and gradual/ naturalistic exposition was needed, more could have been taken off tje front end and also more could have been put on the subtextual level. Audiences may be a certain level of dumb but not the level the narrative was explaining on. My wife isn't near as big on Dune as I am, she just plays the board game and saw the movies, and even she was noticing about five minutes into the front loaded exposition that it was a little on the extensive side.
For me it wasn't bad, but was also not great. Didn't like the acting, I could notice a lack of attention to the world (like Emperor just randomly all alone with no guards, approached by random soldier who showed up few days ago), and that club scene... So unnecessary. You can argue that clubs are a thing in Dune universe, but as I said once already elsewhere - one can have a crush on a beautiful girl, and know that as a human she goes to toiled do normal human things, but you don't need to look at it... One thing I like a lot is the scenery, architecture and set designs..
I felt it built up a few interesting conflicts that should all (hopefully) come together in an interesting way.
I found it to be a little heavy handed on the exposition. reminded me at times of the comic strip prologue added to some versions of Lynchs dune. that said, I did enjoy some aspects you mentioned and hope they rely more on subtext and less on exposition in future episodes
@@darkportents9835 I think it was unavoidable. Too many people would assume it was in the same timeline as the movies, and most viewers know nothing about Butlerian Jihad.
While I agree with you some front loaded exposition may have been needed to deal with that gap, I think that there's a wide spectrum of storytelling options that would still do the job.
While some front loaded and gradual/ naturalistic exposition was needed, more could have been taken off tje front end and also more could have been put on the subtextual level. Audiences may be a certain level of dumb but not the level the narrative was explaining on.
My wife isn't near as big on Dune as I am, she just plays the board game and saw the movies, and even she was noticing about five minutes into the front loaded exposition that it was a little on the extensive side.
For me it wasn't bad, but was also not great. Didn't like the acting, I could notice a lack of attention to the world (like Emperor just randomly all alone with no guards, approached by random soldier who showed up few days ago), and that club scene... So unnecessary. You can argue that clubs are a thing in Dune universe, but as I said once already elsewhere - one can have a crush on a beautiful girl, and know that as a human she goes to toiled do normal human things, but you don't need to look at it... One thing I like a lot is the scenery, architecture and set designs..