Another day, one other episode that hasn’t featured a single movie before. After killing his youngest character on screen in the pilot, the latest episode shows that the strongest force in each movies was thwarted greater than 10,000 years earlier.

As for i, all those poison-filled false teeth, laser beams and nuclear missiles are deadly, but the Voice is sort of divine. Used by the Bene Gesserit, the Voice is an almost distorted inflection of the natural voice that could cause almost anyone to do anything they’re told. Lady Jessica Atreides (Rebecca Ferguson) forced a soldier to slit her partner’s throat, and Chani (Zendaya) fed Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) a mixture of her tears and the Water of Life to revive him. In , young Valya Harkonnen (Jessica Barden) is revealed to be the creator of a powerful ability, first using it to force Reverend Mother Dorotea (Camilla Beeput) to stab herself in the neck in order to guard the Order’s genetic index established by Reverend Mother Raquella (Cathy Tyson) ).

Until the latest episode, we have never seen anyone proof against The Voice’s influence. On the other hand, we also hadn’t seen someone burn one other person from the inside by blowing into their mouths until Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel) got here into our lives. In the climactic moments of the second episode, Valya seeks to reassert the influence of the Bene Gesserit on the ruling Corrino family after the death of Reverend Mother Kasha (Jihae), a truthteller and confidant of Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Strong).

Her initial try to achieve this during a private conversation with the Emperor was thwarted when Hart appeared in his place. It was then that she tried to make use of her contingency plan in case people began doing silly things, akin to exercising their free will: making anyone who got in her way kill themselves. Plus, she would avenge Kasha’s death – two birds with one vote. After her powers appeared to work on Hart, forcing him to take out the blade and place it to his neck, her final order for him to plunge it into his throat fell on ears she never thought she would ever hear rise. Not only did Hart not kill himself, but he uttered on camera the coldest words ever uttered by a Bene Gesserit:

“I all the time wondered what you were most afraid of. Now I saw it. It’s not like nobody will hear you. The point is, they’ll hear you they usually just won’t care.

Shai-Hulud vs. Bene Gesserit

While Hart’s defense of Valya could seem surprising, it reinforces the proven fact that Shai-Hulud has been around longer than The Voice. The Fremen worship sandworms as divine beings, and Dr. Liet-Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) famously said in the first a part of Denis Villeneuve’s saga that Shai-Hulud is the only master she serves. Bene Gesserit cannot develop into Reverend Mothers unless they ingest poisonous bile or a dying sandworm called the Water of Life. It would make sense that the only technique to defeat the Bene Gesserit’s strongest trait is to make use of the one being chargeable for their rise to the highest position.

Remember that Hart was swallowed by Shai-Hulud and supposedly imbued together with his deadly powers. Although Hart clearly tells Valya that his mission is to erase all traces of the Bene Gesserit, we all know from the movies that they’re still just as influential 10,000 years later. What was just introduced was the introduction of the concept that there are individuals who might be imbued with Shai-Hulud powers that pose a threat to the Bene Gesserit. You also wonder how the Bene Gesserit have adapted to this existential threat to survive so long as possible.

One thing is definite, we’re here to shake up all the things you’ve learned about the world from movies. Have fun!