Editor’s Notice: The next accommodates main spoilers for Frank Herbert’s Dune books, which may spoil future Dune motion pictures.The primary season of Dune: Prophecy ended with a number of main adjustments to the stability of energy within the galactic Imperium, most of which have an effect on the Sisterhood immediately. Whereas the group’s leaders, sisters Valya (Emily Watson) and Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams) confront their extra overt enemies on the royal planet of Salusa Secundus, the deceased Dorotea (Camilla Beeput) returns to a type of life by possessing the physique of her younger granddaughter, Lila (Chloe Lea), and wins the loyalty of lots of the Sisters on Wallach IX by revealing how Valya and her followers attained and stored energy via a mixture of lies, homicide, and the usage of forbidden pondering machines. However how precisely did Dorotea handle this resurrection after a younger Valya (Jessica Barden) killed her many years in the past? The reply clarifies the character of this often-chilling storyline forward of Season 2 and foreshadows the darkish future of a future member of the Atreides household set for a significant function in Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune movie.

Dorotea Conquers Lila’s Thoughts within the ‘Dune: Prophecy’ Finale

Dorotea’s consciousness started invading Lila’s thoughts when the latter underwent a ritual often called the Agony to speak with the ancestral reminiscence of Dorotea’s mom, Sisterhood founder Raquella Berto-Aniurl (Cathy Tyson), to be taught extra concerning the harmful Reckoning Raquella prophesied that the Sisterhood would face. Initially, it appeared as if Lila was killed through the bodily draining course of, however Tula was secretly capable of revive her with the assistance of the pondering machine that initially belonged to Raquella. Nevertheless, whereas her physique is seemingly again to a principally wholesome state, Lila’s thoughts is subsumed by these of her ancestors. First, Raquella used her physique to assist Tula discover perception into the technological virus getting used as a weapon by Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel). Nevertheless, within the season finale, it shortly turns into obvious that Dorotea has taken possession of her granddaughter, presumably completely.

Possession is a recurring plot machine within the Dune novels. It’s usually skilled by characters associated to the Bene Gesserit order (a future model of the Sisterhood) who bear comparable rituals to the Agony, often involving the uncommon mineral spice. Particularly weak to possession are these characters who’re what’s known as “pre-born,” that means that they’ve entry to their ancestor’s recollections and information earlier than delivery, often on account of their moms consuming giant quantities of spice whereas pregnant. Whereas Leto II and Ghanima, the dual youngsters of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), are additionally pre-born, it’s Paul’s sister, Alia (Anya Taylor Pleasure), who most famously suffers from possession.

Alia Atreides Suffers Possession in Later ‘Dune’ Novels

Within the first novel, Alia’s mom, the Girl Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), undergoes a spice orgy as a way to grow to be Reverend Mom to the Fremen of planet Arrakis, regardless of being pregnant. This leads to Alia being pre-born and whereas she takes a place of authority when Paul conquers the recognized universe, many, together with the Bene Gesserit, are frightened by her uncommon nature, with the latter group dubbing her an Abomination. Sadly, Alia finally proves the witches’ fears about pre-borns are considerably legitimate. Within the third novel, Kids of Dune, Alia guidelines the Imperium in Paul’s place after the latter departed for a self-imposed exile. After consuming more and more giant quantities of spice within the hopes of gaining prescient powers on the identical stage as Paul’s, Alia, like Lila earlier than her, is finally corrupted and possessed by the recollections of her ancestors, particularly Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, her despicable grandfather. Utilizing Alia as his puppet, the Baron exerts more and more tyrannical rule over the Imperium till Alia is confronted by her nephew Leto II, who has begun the transformation that can ultimately make him into the titular character of the fourth novel, God Emperor of Dune.

David Lynch’s Dune movie adhered carefully to the novel, exhibiting a two-year-old Alia (Alicia Witt) taking part in Paul’s battle towards Homes Harkonnen and Corrino. Whereas this unnerving sight matches effectively within the extraordinarily surreal aesthetic of that movie, Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Two excises the two-year time soar included within the guide, with the latter movie consequently ending earlier than Alia’s delivery. Nevertheless, Jessica remains to be capable of talk along with her on account of her pre-born nature. The casting of grownup Anya Taylor-Pleasure as a model of Alia featured in a flash-forward sequence means that the character’s instability will should be depicted in several methods within the upcoming adaptation of the second novel, Dune Messiah, because the distinction between Alia’s information and age is not going to be practically as pronounced.

Consequently, Dorotea’s conquering of the adolescent Lila might stay the franchise’s most devoted trendy depiction of the horrors of possession. It additionally wouldn’t be stunning if future seasons of Dune: Prophecy reveal that the Bene Gesserit’s concern and hatred of pre-borns is at the very least partially constructed by Valya or a sect with comparable concepts to hers hoping to stop one other coup just like the one Dorotea is at present main.

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