The voice coming from some made teen not something trained.
Half the sisters being religious zealots when their whole thing is twisting religion for their own goals.
Their need for a computer to organize their breeding program.
Most of that is from the books. The Frank Herbert novels are only a small part of the Canon. I think the series captures the feel of the nonFrank books well.
Frank canon books and the encyclopedia are the canon. Idk if I would call Brian’s leeching canon…
Legally, the Brian Herbert material is canon, since he is responsible for his father’s estate. Psychologically, eh… I largely know what you mean.
However, I don’t have much of a problem with the specific things you mentioned.
The origins of Voice… It had to come from somewhere, and it being discussed by a teenager with freak abilities doesn’t seem that odd to me (given the wider nature of all the crazy stuff that happens within the canon Dune universe). I wish they had fleshed that our in season 1 a bit more though.
The religious aspect seems very believable to me. Any time you get a group of people who believe they have some sort of master plan or divine right together for a common cause you will see a) scisms, and b) fanaticism/zealotry.
On the use of secret and forbidden technology for teaching and planning the blood lines, that makes sense to me within the context. Frank only ever mentioned the back history of the Butlerian Jihad briefly (because it had happened such a long time ago in the context of t his novels). Given that the Prophecy show starts only a few generations after the Jihad, and that mentats still seem to be finding their feet as an order, I can see why they would still be falling back on technology. Plus (SPOILER ALERT!)… It seems like at the end of season 1 that technology gets destroyed, so I’d expect them to be using mentats more in season 2+.
Thanks for the response!
I don’t think one needs to follow canon by who owns the rights. Look at the bible lol! I can’t see Brian’s “work” or for instance Disney’s star wars as canon beyond they own the rights.
The origins of Voice… It had to come from somewhere, and it being discussed by a teenager with freak abilities doesn’t seem that odd to me (given the wider nature of all the crazy stuff that happens within the canon Dune universe). I wish they had fleshed that our in season 1 a bit more though.
Fair point. They never explained much of it at all. Where in the books, not referring to Brian’s trash, it seemed to be a skill learned.
The religious aspect seems very believable to me. Any time you get a group of people who believe they have some sort of master plan or divine right together for a common cause you will see a) scisms, and b) fanaticism/zealotry.
I agree it can be believable but their whole thing is control. They make up religions for control. Why would they believe in them?
For the most part, the biggest problem I had with Brian’s (and Kevin’s) work is the writing style. A lot of the concepts behind the Legends of Dune prequels (which TBF are the only three novels of theirs I’ve read) seemed okay. I liked the weird origins of the Fremen, and the way House Harkonnen were kind of screwed out of being the heroes. And while the idea of the Titans was pretty tropey, it was very plausible (corrupt immortal humans abusing their power). But their writing style was horrible (I think it was mostly Brian’s), and all the tedious repetition of plot points got very old very quickly. Also, I guess many of their characters were quite one-dimensional.
I’m hoping that Brian and company won’t sully his father’s estate as badly as what has happened to Star Wars. Although that started way before Disney got their grubby hands on that franchise (Droids cartoon series, the Ewok movie, the holiday special). I know quite a few fans are unhappy with the Prophecy show. But I thought it was okay. And God knows it could have been so, soooo much worse.
That seems to be a common description of them by the community. Thanks for adding your thoughts!
Yeah I had forgotten about those.
I agree it could have been worse. I think it deserves around a 6/10 for watchable but not good.
