What the hell is wrong with people? It’s only the first episode. They have to set up the story and introduce characters; of course it’s going to be a little slow. I honestly can’t remember a pilot/first episode of anything not being a little shitty. Even so, it felt a lot like the movies, and although the music and visuals aren’t quite as mind-warping, it’s still gorgeous. Just remember, movie budget > TV show budget. In any case, I’m looking forward to Sunday nights now.

A big part of why everything is so shitty nowadays is because they could serve up absolute perfection and yall would still bitch about it.

This is what I commented on the other show/movies community:

Well it does feel like a TV series alright. The sets look cheap and lots of enclosed spaces instead of the expansive and “everything is huge” feel of the movies. That’s understandable though, since this is obviously not a movie with a movie budget. That aside, the older cast are great, but I’m not impressed with the younger cast yet, as with most shows with new, young actors. The full blown exposition in the first 10 minutes was a bad sign for me, because they’re leaning on tell-don’t-show. I know they have a lot of info to get through as a background, but the films were able to do that without just narrating everything. All the more for a series that has more than double the runtime in total.

I read the Frank books but not the Brian ones, so I’m going in blind except for the info I already know from the original books. So let’s see, we’re just in the first episode. I’m looking forward to the next one and hopefully it picks up.

Found it good but slow, and a bit unfocused. Only 6 episodes planned for season one though? That’s kind of phoning it in

https://slate.com/culture/2024/11/dune-prophecy-hbo-max-show-review-emily-watson.html

Curious to see what everybody thinks