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Aliens can apparently smell protagonists, will kill everybody else in a room in a second, but will only sniff at protagonists.

Synth children, move neither like synths, nor like children, but instead move like slow (in more sense than one) adults.

Soldiers doesnt know to shoot at enemies but only around them.

Characters not doing things or noticing things they were doing before, when those things could interrupt the chiché fest..

A nice change of pace. We have an apparently supernatural enemy, but the protagonists take logical steps towards dealing with it. First trying to see it, and then trying to see their capabilities and ways to hurt or contain it. The actual science makes little sense, using real words from science, but not making sense in context, much like TNG Star Trek "tech, tech, tech" dialogs.

Some cool things are super understated, and many viewers might miss them. Like the US army is in Moldova to support the Moldovan government, who turns out to be the real bad guys, and at the end of the movie everything returns to the status quo, with the US supporting the bad guys again.

So you want to tell a prequel of how some people have manipulated the narrative and setup everything thousands of years ago.. Okay, that is possible.. Want to do it with a single cast in the first 100 years of a 10000 year process, and at the same time reference everything people already know from Dune?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

Everything, and I do meany everything, is exactly the same as in the Dune books that are supposed to happen 10000 years later. So nothing has change, no new clothing or building styles, no new religions, language, or technology. This is the lazyiest and weakest world building ever written.