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Hey guys, do you know anything about some of the Dune fanfics that try to imagine a possible Book 7 like "Dune Revenant", "Dune 7 Advent", "I Scytale" or other more obscure ones? What is your opinion on this?

There feels like so much was cut out of this show that might have improved on the Brian Herbert stuff, like the relationship between the Acolytes sort of comes out of nowhere but is really good, meanwhile the backstory episodes are rank and there is enough marvel comedy in this to make me make a face at this show

The idea of sisterhood being just Desi Aunties trying matchmake everyone they see and making breeding records just like how Aunties collect Biodatas from everyone is so funny to me. I just can't look at them the same again...😂😂😂

That last episode was a catastrophic mess in every aspect. I had to force myself to get to the end in the hope it would improve. I don't even know which part was the most offensive. Honestly, I don't even care about season two, unless they plan on doing a full reboot.

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I treat the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson books as elsewhere stories. Frank died, the books end where they end, it's done. Trying to convince me that Frank Herbert had 17 books worth of notes is ridiculous.

Besides the costume and the set designs I think this show is significantly inferior to a lot of things that’s already out there. As far as story telling, intrigue, character development, immersion in the lore, writing, acting and action it does it on an ok to subpar level. There’s definitely room for improvement. I would watch a second season but I can’t say I loved this one.

I lit Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune on fire. They are absolute trash.

Absolutely here for the CK3 reference and yes it 100% needs a good Dune mod

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The six episode runtime on the series is the biggest problem, IMO. They needed at least 2-4 more episodes to flesh out the story and characters. It picked up pace as the season wore on and I think a lot of the criticisms you have about the rushed actions would have been set up better. Character growth was the best part of this series (not you Keiran) and they kneecapped it with the myriad of plotlines that didn't have enough runtime to thread together in a seamless way. Not saying the fear mantra in full but rather using a rudimentary version was great. Fan service without going overboard. I am looking forward to season two, even if there were some flaws. I didn't read these books as I tried to read one of Brian's Dune books (can't remember which one) and it was so bad I had to give it to Goodwill when I finished to cleanse my brain.

I think Avila told Dorothea what happened to the rest of her followers . Thank you for the podcast , love it!

I have not read the books but I have a question about the ancestor's memories ... so if I am a reverend mother, and I have 2 twin girls, and they become reverend mothers... they hear the same voices saying the same things at the same time, how would that work?

I feel like I could use some wall-bounce back massage tbh....

You lot have been watching too much TikTok and Instagram Shorts

I think this show is made for audiences that don’t include many of the Dune readers making reviews about it (exceptions exist in this statement). Looking for a dissertation in 6 episodes for an audience with a literacy level of 6th-9th grade is its own literacy issue. This pilot season raised each of those themes you mentioned but to accomplish flushing out those themes with time constraints and the visual media limitations is daunting. Frank just had to swipe a pen. That’s the huge blind spot in most reviewers literacy. Am I saying there is no criticisms to be had? No. I’m saying skepticism is not a criticism in and of itself. The balance in showing versus telling, themes woven in all the aspects of storytelling. Many made mention of the emperor’s home world looking vastly different than the movies, raising questions of the ecological impact of humans for the visually literate. Hopefully we find our way around the hate for Frank’s son, weird to begin with, so we can have astute conversations about where improvements should be made. With that said, I agree, the last two episodes were lore dumps which means there’s pacing issues but if I’m correct, this show faced many cuts and changes.

Does Apu dye his beard or is that natural?

i thought it was already greenlight... wait lemme check: "Yes, Dune: Prophecy will return for a second season on HBO and Max. The network renewed the series just days before the Season 1 finale"

Possible name suggestions for the Fortune Cookie of Fear: The Screed of Scariness The Epic of Intimidation The Ballad of Bad Times The Sonnet of Pure Horror

It was really nice that Constantine got to have a big nap during the events of this episode

I can't imagine what kind of problems creators had that can be an excuse for this show to be that stupid

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Can someone tell me why a Reverend Mother of the Sisterhood is not able to change the poison in the Gom Jabar? Is Meta-Cyanide the one poison they can't change? I found it a little too convenient that Francessca is killed off.

Natalya knows that Ynez is too much in the camp with the Sisterhood, which she hates.

They couldn't left Keiran Atreides behind. He's so wooden he is not able to move on his own.

Constantine will be Emperor in the end. It's the only thing that makes sense.

i really want to like this show and i want it to do well, but i am struggling. watching this show after episode 3 was a chore and there are so many things that didn't work for me or make sense in the great scheme of things. i think this is largely due to the source material, so i want to give the show space to do its thing. But season 1 was largely a failure for me but i am glad to hear we are getting second season.

Don’t ducks have cloacas?

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Shows like this feel like first drafts, logic from scene to scene just falls apart, even a couple of passes of making sure character motivations are clear would help drastically. But I guess a fish rots from the head was if the source work is shallow spectacle then it follows...

I learned about Dune through the original movie as a kid. To be fair I’ve been a casual fan until the new movies came in. I listened to your podcast and learned SO MUCH about the Dune world and have enjoyed your episodes immensely. I absolutely loved this series, and I’m really struggling to understand why you guys are shitting all over this. This was excellent TV and preaching about the inside baseball of plot devices and technical explanations is not a good look from my point of view. Dune is a fantasy, fiction is a fantasy. Take a step back and enjoy the show. I feel like you guys are climbing the ivory tower and I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth it to look up. Hopefully you continue to explore the world outside of the movies and TV shows, because at this point I’m just gonna skip anything that is not an exploration of existing literary material.

And I want to point that Atreydes guy being caught wasn't explained as Francesca framed him. So that guy just left all evidences in a locker

I am not a huge book fan. I came to Dune (like most) through the films and internet. So this series was very entertaining for me and thrilling. I get the criticism tho. Brian was no Frank.

look guys watching selfi camera tilting all the time is really annoying. Who told you this is watchable...

Man, why are the fans so toxic for a novel that is considered to be impossible to make a movie or a series. Pls do criticise but stop with this shitting on brian and later books, gawd frank's dead. The novel wouldn't be same anymore. The series/movie would be the same anymore.

HBO confirmed Dune Prophecy season 2 in an announcement during a virtual press conference reported on in the media yesterday, 12/21/2025. It seemed in this video maybe y'all hadn't read the news. You two were the first folks I thought of when I read the reporting.

I would rate the season 6.5 at best, not bad but could have been way better. Seeing Arrakis at end gave me goosebumps tbh. Hopefully they will explore that part of Dune further.

I really dont understand what TV studios are doing. What are they really trying to accomplish? The raw materials are there and the ideas are good but the execution and the story are completely lost. This episode was empty, it was like watching the void. I found myself fast forwarding because I wanted to know what was going happen but the road was slow and lacked maturity, surprise, or even purpose. I did not watch at all the whole Dorothea Sisterhood, because I knew were it was going and did not care for its conclusion. I skipped the only action sequence in the show because it did not have any stakes or meaning. Even the fear thing for Valya was revealing but not transformative. I truly dont know what the show is trying to do. Is not smart enough to have so many deaths, but is not literate enough to be a tragedy full of bad people. The answers were not satisfying and I felt like I have watched the promo of a future show, 6 episodes of tease. Come on tv people, it is not hard to create part ones. Look at Wicked, Dead Reckoning, Spiderman into the Spiderverse, the Force Awakens, these are all part ones that leave you satisfied and wanting for more. And believe me, I do not want more of this show.

For a franchise that's all about schemers, valia is pretty aggressively bad at it. Her plan at the palace was get arrested, free Ines, give up her secret weapon to try to stab Desmond (why was she even there???), have Fransesca kill Havico, flee without either of them, and hope Ines has a shortcut because otherwise they're trapped? Also, surely the person who scanned the palace should be the person who mentions the shortcut, right? That entire sequence was some of the worst TV I've watched. But man they nailed the sisterhood scenes. Honestly the only reason I kept watching.

I think the scene of ynez going from that to a random guard shows how bad production and the story board was and how they had to do stuff like this to resurrect the show, whether or not it was a good decision.

The Brian shit is really holding back the show. Hopefully they move away from that nonsense in season 2

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Also how would doratera have the memory of herself being killed. Because from what I understand you inherit the memory’s and persona of your ancestors in your DNA ie Lilia . But Doratera’s daughter would have be born before doratera got killed, so how would her daughter and granddaughter inherit that specific memory. Like Paul inheriting Jessica memory as a baby makes sense because that happened before she gave birth to him so he inherited those specific memories. Unless they are trying to say all memories go into some special ancestral realm that you can access like that Avatar lol but that sounds mystical than Si-fi .Idk

The blue eyes were always going to be a machine

Okay one question maybe a plot hole ? When valya shows the other acolytes the voice, after she has that talk with raquella, shouldn’t they not already have known? So why now when we saw their perspective of dorotheas murder, they(Kasha and Francesca ) were surprised by the voice ? Plot hole or am I missing something?

Do the other memories communicate w each other? Maybe Dorothea knew that way

I really hope we'll see Desmond in the second season. This character has been a mistery for almost an entire season. I mean, only at the very end of episode 5 they revealed he is not just Tula's son but basically a version of Paul Atreides. I think a character that is similar to Paul deserves a deeper exploration that can't be resolved in episode 6 given that there will be other stories to tell.

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