- The GoT comparisons/throughlines continue
- It’s the Harkonnen planet, which is icy and cold —it honestly looks like they’re reusing costumes if not also locations (not in a good way). This also isn’t helped by Mark Addy popping up as the Harkonnen patriarch, looking like nothing so much as an exhausted Robert Baratheon if he lived with Ned Stark
- The acting is overall good (Olivia Williams in particular has been doing some heavier lifting in this episode and the last to good effect) but the writing just isn’t quite there
- …okay I can’t tell how much of this is just me reading into it, but there’s entire swaths of this episode that could fit into an episode of GoT with almost no edits
- Still parsing how I feel about this show
- I’m fine with re-using costumes and locations, etc.
- It’s just that this feels derivative and overly economical, if that makes sense
- …oh no this just keeps going with the GoT recycling. They just did a Red Wedding type thing
- I am willing to cut the show’s writers a bit of slack when I remember that they’re adapting a trilogy co-written by Kevin J. Anderson
- Not much slack, but a bit
- Shoutout to Mark Addy growling “Sorceress!” for all he’s worth