Spoilers Dune: Prophecy - Spoilers!

[Set Harth]

If the TV series was consistent with the novels (all of them), that Face Dancer was really a Tleilaxu male.

Scytale claimed that Face Dancers are hermaphrodites.

 

[Timewalker]

Scytale claimed that Face Dancers are hermaphrodites.

Source? I'd like to read the context for that.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I was hopeful for Dune: Prophesy, but the imprint of KJA is all over it as demonstrated by the numerous anachronistic or just plain silly things that were included. Perhaps it's not completely his fault, but it feels very off. I read Butlerian Jihad stuff, but not Sisterhood of Dune as I grew sick of the same tired old schtick. I got the impression that Brian Herbert was merely along for the ride to add marketing credibility. Perhaps he really did contribute - if so, he must have had precious little comprehension of his father's philosophical oeuvre.

Dune: Prophesy is not as excruciatingly bad as The Rings of Power, but it's something that feels like it belongs in an adjacent universe to Frank Herbert's Dune - perhaps one that is a melange of Millennial sensibilities and Star Wars tropes.

 

[Set Harth]

Source? I'd like to read the context for that.

"We are Jadacha hermaphrodites," Scytale said, "either sex at will. For the present, I am a man."

 

[Timewalker]

"We are Jadacha hermaphrodites," Scytale said, "either sex at will. For the present, I am a man."

Which book? A page number would help, too, if you have it.

 

[vandevere]

Which book? A page number would help, too, if you have it.

It's in "Dune Messiah"...

 

[Reverend]

The thing about spice addiction is that once you're addicted, you can't wean yourself off of it. You either keep taking it or you die. That's enough to motivate the nobility to rebel. It's got nothing to do with the common people. They never got addicted because unless they lived on Arrakis or served in a noble household that was generous enough to share with the servants, they never had a chance to become addicted. You can't become addicted to something you never become exposed to.

I don't remember much since this was a while ago and I never bothered finishing the show, but I'm pretty sure I was responding to the depiction of common people indeed being addicted; hence my incredulity for the very reasons you've reiterated. If I'm mis-remembering; oh well! I can say that I care overmuch at this point.

 

[Timewalker]

The writing is a mess, the characters even more so

Look no further than the list of Executive Producers. KJA/BH made a mess of everything.

I was hopeful for Dune: Prophesy, but the imprint of KJA is all over it as demonstrated by the numerous anachronistic or just plain silly things that were included. Perhaps it's not completely his fault, but it feels very off. I read Butlerian Jihad stuff, but not Sisterhood of Dune as I grew sick of the same tired old schtick. I got the impression that Brian Herbert was merely along for the ride to add marketing credibility. Perhaps he really did contribute - if so, he must have had precious little comprehension of his father's philosophical oeuvre.

Exactly. KJA kept blathering away that he and BH spent sooooo much time "brainstorming" yet we never heard from BH. KJA's story of finding the Holy Notes That Frank Left kept changing every time he told it.

I will say that I enjoyed Brian Herbert's biography of Frank Herbert. It was interesting, and most of it was probably true. Of course he would have a different spin on some things, since like many kids of professional writers, they tend to be a bit resentful of their writer-parent working from home, yet telling the family that they are not to be disturbed, and they don't necessarily keep 9-5 hours, 5 days a week.