Dune Sequels Explained

wtf is this book series

I heard that people compared Dune to Tolkien's work and I expected to be surprised. What is this shit??? Was he drunk when he wrote it?

I thought about reading Dune, and then I read the plot summary of Dune sequels and I'm so glad I did. This series sounds like a pile of hot garbage. Anything with so many sequels should be highly suspect.

It’s crazy how the religion of dune was basically false flagged into existence, the puppeteers lost control, were destroyed, leaving no one behind the curtain to shape myth, legend, or to guide the course of history, and yet the religion carried on to wreak havoc on the universe.

Actually pretty realistic.

Hmm, I was intent on reading all 6 books, but after watching this, I'm not so sure. Definitely 1 and 2, maybe 3 just to conclude the Atreides familly saga, but the last 3 sound like weird fever dreams that go off the rails a tad too much for my taste.

The whole series now extends to 18-20 books. The books by his son and Phillip K Dick, (I believe) are a must-read if you liked the first 6 books.

Think Duncan mightve been Bevs favorite character and why Frank brought him back and made him so much more integral throughout the whole story in the subsequent books.

Leto II swings Alia around his head like a sling and releases her out the window to her death. She did not kill herself.

I enjoyed the first book, but don’t feel like reading the others, I wonder what Paul and the crew get up to in the sequels
watches video
So… like… uh… fucking what now???

Bro those last 4 books its a big WTF!!!!

I stopped reading the series after Children of Dune, it starts getting quite bizarre towards the end of that.

Can you do it?
I dont know, but Dun can

Duncan Idaho is a giga chad, gets revived multiple times, frees humanity, and gets sex powers.

He wrote more than six books!!

That image of The God Emperor is nothing like what it’s described in the book.

Chained instead of Chani?

duncan gets all the girls and always falling in love!!!!

i wish i knew who was the grandmother of paul

To be honest, the later books kind of go way off the reservation, even for an already unique setting.

Imagine Momoa's face when he realizes what he is up to

"DYUNE" lol

Dune was never meant to have an end per se. Atleast by a human author. It's more than a story, a series. It's humanity at it's finest and lowest. How could someone put an end to that??? To end it, humanity needs to die out. And believe it or not, I've always had Leto II's mentality as a child. I've always done what needs to be done regardless of what/how it affects me. More often than not I've had regrets about doing it but regardless I would still do the same. And that belief had only gained solidarity once I read Book 4. It's for that reason I couldn't stand Paul who for his own selfish reasons decided to be a coward.

P.S. I do whole heartedly believe that humanity needs an overly powerful oppressor to bring us together. Humanity has such hope but we are our own worst enemies and the only thing that can dimish that difference is an oppressor.

So it’s code geass with a touch of lsd? I can support that

oh, so it's basically insane

The absolute greatest six books ever penned.

having only just watched the latest Dune movie and seen nor read anything else about the series I'm 4 minutes into the video and this is absolutely batshit crazy. Frank must have been on Meth to come up with this sort of stuff

Honored matres arent am off shoot of the bene geserritt. They are on off shoot of the fish speakers.

Dune is great, but this synopsis is such a dumbed down, brain dead simplification. Liking Paul's "seeing" to Neo was such a small brain mention. I wish I could dislike more than once.

sounds like after book one it’s this stupid out there for the sake of being out there story

Say Duune one more time Alt

First book is great. Everything else is like wtf man.

Messiah was complicated, but then heretics happend. they brought back the Jews and it got near impossible to grasp

Dune is actually about our very real past.

I expect an entire video discussing Duncan Idaho's philosophical conflict with Leto the 2nd all female lesbian special forces.

Thank you for making this video about dune. Not many have read it all, especially by Frank’s original books. You are absolutely right about the ending, a beautiful way to sum it up. Again thank you for this, I appreciate it much

I loved LOVED the first book but reading the other books was frustrating i hated the sequals. Paul was too great to be defeated like that. A mentat and a seed far greater than the Kwisatz Haderach the Bene Gesserit dreamed of. And his sister could not have been haunted by the baron that didn't make sense. She was a born reverend mother. She had no male aspect memories. And the Baron died after she was born, she killed him in fact. The baron even though an ancestor had no connection education or training in that regard. It also didn't make sense for the Jihad to spread killing billions because those on Arrakas where addicted to the spice and would die without it. And guild transport was too expensive and with Paul as emperor on Arrakas he would have had to finance it. My opinion is that as a writer the first book was so amazing he never was able to follow up as well. He may have spent far greater a time and been far more inspired writing it. Things in the sequals seem to contradict the first book. Like it seems as though it wasn't even the same author. I don't know why he changed directions.

So…basically HellRaiser + Tremors…got it

I've watched a couple of these! Videos so far and apparently they were reading a different book than I read because the entire book Paul is faced with an impossible decision. He knows that stuff is going to happen there's no way out of it so he picks the lesser of all the evils he never once got caught up in his own jihad never never once in there did he fall in love with it he always knew that he was trying to take the lesser of two evil paths. An impossible decision a good person faced with impossible odds

Read all the books. Great story!
fucking terrible philosophy. This idea that religion always leads to destruction flies in the face of all human history.
I truly don't think religion is a cause of war, simply was an excuse with people at a certain time (medieval civilization) to purge others that stood in the way of resources. Religion gives hope and guidance to a vast majority of people and allows them to carry on.
I only say this because people in the past have used dune as an example of what the potential of religious zealotry is but it's just a book f on a single author who has his own experiences and life opinions

I hope the films do well enough to do the six books but I do wonder how they would do things without it being cheesy or weird like Leto becoming a work hybrid

No wonder Tolkien did not like this series.

Now that I know the whole story it's no wonder that the first book is the only book that gets adapted by Hollywood. They take the popular book in skimp out on the diversity of ideas. Hopefully they change that with this next iteration of adaptations.

There aren’t 6 books.

I really love your recaps

I'm honestly baffled why people consider this to be a masterclass in story. It's messy, convoluted strangeness..

It’s hilarious to hear how Duncan’s character is used throughout thousands of years 😂. Coming and going to fulfill “plot holes”. Not much of a plot after awhile though 😅

The sand dunes of coastal Oregon around Florence inspired Dune. It's still a good place to spend the weekend.

25 seconds in and you spoiled the whole thing

Ya. I can see why no one has read beyond the original Dune.

All of that, just because they couldn’t kill Paul halfway into the book.