Dune Lore: The God Emperor's Greatest Secret

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  • Опубликовано: 12 фев 2021
  • This video of course will contain spoilers for the book: God Emperor of Dune. Of the many great and powerful Dukes, Barons, and Emperors of the Dune Universe none have had more impact than the God Emperor, Leto II. His eventual powers would dwarf those of even his father, Paul Atreides. His influence outgrew the guild, all of choam, even the Bene Gesserit. The great houses of the Landsraad were rendered irrelevant. He controlled the flow of spice throughout the universe, and no one moved throughout his empire without his knowledge. His prescient eye reached to the furthest reach of time, almost nothing was hidden from him. He was the most powerful human being who ever lived by far. And the most oppressive imperial dictator of all time, never before had the whole of humanity been held in such a tight grip.
    But even he was vulnerable. The God Emperor Possessed secrets. These hidden vulnerabilities are ultimately the key to his undoing. The first of the God Emperor’s Secret’s which Duncan Idaho was supposedly put in charge of maintaining, was simply the fact that he was vulnerable. He was not truly a god as many throughout the human universe truly believed, he could be harmed, he could be killed.
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  • @jon5620
    @jon5620 3 года назад +1818

    Leto certainly allowed himself to be killed. At least, in the sense that he deliberately made a bloodline of Atreides who were invisible to prescience, and fostered their rebellious urges. If Siona didn't kill him, then her descendants eventually would. This was explicitly part of the plan!

    • @jonahhamilton7580
      @jonahhamilton7580 3 года назад +91

      "The Golden Path" there were golden sparks when the bridge was shot

    • @spwicks1980
      @spwicks1980 3 года назад +242

      Leto realised what the golden path truly was - to set mankind free from the precient minds that controlled them. His father wasnt willing to go all the way to achieve this but Leto engineers his rise and downfall to force mankind to eschew the precience that controls them much like they rebelled against the machines eons before.
      Its a series i really should go back and read again as an adult because much of what i read as a kid was over my head.

    • @edwinallison6725
      @edwinallison6725 3 года назад +4

      Well said

    • @oledahammer8393
      @oledahammer8393 3 года назад +26

      Agreed. Given he could see into the future, almost limitlessly, then he had to have seen this end. Then you get back to the age old argument, pre-determination that can't be changed or multiple timelines based on choices taken...

    • @jameshead9119
      @jameshead9119 3 года назад +15

      @@oledahammer8393 been many years since read it but I got that he foresaw a great danger that humanity would need to hide from ( I always thought it was alien in nature that would out of the dark like say the Borg )

  • @DarkArtistKaiser
    @DarkArtistKaiser 2 года назад +258

    Siona saying, secretly in her room: "Ha, I figured out your secrets to defeat you Leto!"
    Leto 2, peering into the room with most of his body obscured, listening in doing a fist pump motion with his arm, "yes!"

  • @w0mblemania
    @w0mblemania 3 года назад +660

    Agreed on Leto II essentially committing suicide.
    He created/groomed Siona to be his own assassin.
    He knew Hwi Noree was a psychological bomb.
    He allowed the contrived events of the bridge crossing to occur, despite all the obvious dangers.
    His time was up, the worm was taking over: it was time for the final stage of the Golden Path, and that could only come about with his death.

    • @DarkArtistKaiser
      @DarkArtistKaiser 2 года назад +43

      It is the dark irony. He is, arguably, one of humanities greatest saviors, and he will be hated for what he did.

    • @w0mblemania
      @w0mblemania 2 года назад +2

      @Ainapa Murolo By Chapter House, electronics are all over the place, including stuff approaching AI.
      Clairby was a cyborg, frinstance...

  • @mr.lonewolf8199
    @mr.lonewolf8199 3 года назад +1473

    I hope that Dennis Vilneuve's Dune becomes smashing hit and that he will continue to transform Herbert's work onto the movies

    • @mcnerneymike1
      @mcnerneymike1 3 года назад +36

      that would be the ultimate joy

    • @enricomarelli2022
      @enricomarelli2022 3 года назад +47

      I suspect he might cut some of the material. I wouldn't be surprised if Paul became God Emperor at the end of a trilogy.

    • @CoolHandLuke7
      @CoolHandLuke7 3 года назад +7

      @@sumdumgai19 TL;DR

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr 3 года назад +139

      I must not hype, hype is the little death that precedes complete franchise obliteration.

    • @ronniejdio9411
      @ronniejdio9411 3 года назад +31

      Really need a minimum of 3 to 4 films to even finish Paul's story

  • @rebelpeppers7390
    @rebelpeppers7390 3 года назад +593

    I feel like the God Emperor was the most human, especially with his vast multitude of inner lives and genetic memories. His humanity is also the very thing he has to sacrifice in order to push the human race into another evolutionary milestone.

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr 3 года назад +16

      But... he is blind to the fact that the voices and visions he sees are complete fabrications created by a secret sect of BIRD MEN.

    • @SonofSethoitae
      @SonofSethoitae 3 года назад +35

      @@mgntstr ...what the fuck are you talking about?

    • @Aurora2097
      @Aurora2097 3 года назад +7

      He never had any true humanism, all he had was the messianic supremacy he had been taught, that a holy man must sacrifice himself to become the philosopher-king, the benevolent tyrant.The one personality of his collective mind which ultimately was the dominant was not the child Leto... it was the ancient tyrant Harum, an evil man with no empathy.

    • @dankuchar6821
      @dankuchar6821 3 года назад +42

      @@Aurora2097
      Guess you haven't read the book. Or if you did, you totally got the wrong thing out of it. You are absolutely 180 degrees completely off concerning Leto's motives.
      And yes. Leto absolutely allowed himself to be killed. It was all part of the golden path. It had to happen and he knew it. He just put it off until it could happen at the right time and the right place, near water, so that humanity could never be destroyed by the unseen forces he knew were out there.

    • @anjulikamins6420
      @anjulikamins6420 3 года назад +12

      I agree i think he was the most human in that he was the best and worst of all of humanity combined.

  • @michaelfisher7170
    @michaelfisher7170 3 года назад +135

    The necessity of Leto's death just caps his tragic life. He separates himself from humankind, he binds us all into mellenia of enforced peace, he patiently breeds his own family until he creates the one his prescience can't see, he's presented with a woman he falls in love with, who reciprocates that love, without the ability to physically share love, and allows himself to be killed...The Golden Path was survival, but what a price had to be paid for its success. Leto II is my all time favorite fictional character. Children of Dune Ghanima.....“He runs to tire himself,” Ghanima said. “He’s Kralizec embodied. No wind ever ran as he runs. He’s a blur atop the dunes. I’ve seen him. He runs and runs. And when he has exhausted himself at last, he returns and rests his head in my lap. ‘Ask our mother within to find a way for me to die,’ he pleads.” Leto had been thinking of death for a very, very long time.

  • @joshuamoore2646
    @joshuamoore2646 3 года назад +182

    Leto definitely, on some level, desired death; and a death that came at a time when he felt love rather than sorrow was in some ways, an earned death for the misery he had endured; as was the agony of his final moments for the misery he had inflicted. There's a poetry in all of it.

    •  3 года назад +15

      But his death served a higher purpose: infuse confidence in humankind to make it thrive.

  • @VespoLiveGaming
    @VespoLiveGaming 3 года назад +66

    Leto didn't just allow himself to be assassinated... he intentionally engineered Siona's ability to be a free thinking dissident along with her innate ability to evade prescience. One could say he longed for someone to come along who could undo him. That development was the next step in the Golden Path he was leading humanity through.

    • @VespoLiveGaming
      @VespoLiveGaming 3 года назад +4

      ...add to that the fact that Leto II's consciousness did not end with his "death" - transformed his consciousness lived on in a fragmented state in the sandtrout that composed his outer shell and the generations of worms that descended from them. It was less a "death" and more of a transfiguration or apotheosis... becoming more like the God figure that so many believed he already was

    • @wilmersandstrom2826
      @wilmersandstrom2826 8 месяцев назад

      Her ability to evade prescience was irrelevant to his death. Leto goes into detail about how he chooses not to see when his own death will occur, and in effect doesn't see near death experiences, or by whose hand that knowledge could risk the golden path by altering his actions. He comments on this during some assassination attempts where he is genuinely thrilled for a moment as he is surprised by something he did not expect to happen and then later reflects on the fact that the reason that he was surprised was that he was actually in danger of being killed.

  • @Football__Junkie
    @Football__Junkie 3 года назад +272

    All the “secrets”, “spices”, etc in this story are just allegories related to the KFC Secret Recipe

    • @whit9250
      @whit9250 3 года назад +17

      Exactly. Hwi Noree = oregano.

    • @TemujinMSM
      @TemujinMSM 2 года назад +6

      @@whit9250 The Yoko Ono of Dune.

    • @absolutcabbagery3661
      @absolutcabbagery3661 2 года назад +10

      A no room is a deep fryer in this reading I assume

    • @keirfarnum6811
      @keirfarnum6811 2 года назад +9

      IKR. It was all about the plot to kill the Colonel and take over the secret recipe to dominate the universe. That’s a pretty obvious allegory. 😁

    • @jav744
      @jav744 2 года назад +3

      ahhhhhhhhh

  • @Paul-A01
    @Paul-A01 3 года назад +245

    Siona throws a bucket of water at Leto
    "Ahhh, I'm melting! Melting! What a world!

    • @brokeneyes6615
      @brokeneyes6615 3 года назад +33

      Out come the Fish Speakers: “... she killed our god, get Dorthy!”

    • @Bluehawk2008
      @Bluehawk2008 3 года назад +28

      Ding dong the worm is dead.

    • @xaviotesharris891
      @xaviotesharris891 3 года назад +17

      I knew I recognized that plot from somewhere! Damn you, Herbert!!

  • @jagondal8378
    @jagondal8378 3 года назад +52

    Leto II had another secret that apparently only the next-to-last ghola figures out: Leto's weakest point, aside from contact with water, is his remaining very human biology. The face is a facade, an affectation for the citizens, and probably makes communication easier either way. His original body, and therefore brain, are still where they started, down near the nubs that are left of his human appendages. It is here that Duncan aims with the lasgun, though he (mostly) misses.
    Also, I'm pretty sure Leto tells Hwi quite directly that she will die if she crosses the bridge with him, and she chooses to go anyway. Been a while since I read it, though.

  • @brokeneyes6615
    @brokeneyes6615 3 года назад +123

    “Leto II is not dead he just went home.” -Agent K

    • @LuDux
      @LuDux 2 года назад +4

      “I Must Go, My Planet Needs Me”
      (he died on the way back to his home planet)

  • @wangbot47
    @wangbot47 3 года назад +123

    If only we could hqve gotten the God Emperor's pot roast recipe

    • @CrazyRockwell
      @CrazyRockwell 3 года назад +19

      Word on the street is his pot roast was dry.

    • @wangbot47
      @wangbot47 3 года назад +13

      @@CrazyRockwell That person just didn't know how to use Melange properly

    • @surfmorworkless
      @surfmorworkless 2 года назад

      @@CrazyRockwell 😆

    • @PadraigTomas
      @PadraigTomas 2 года назад

      With his memories he should have the best recipes.

  • @hucklebuck411
    @hucklebuck411 3 года назад +411

    Leto II is one of the most complicated characters in the Dune saga and the book "God Emperor of Dune" is probably the most cerebral and toughest read of the original Frank Herbert novels. Leto II, not seeing exactly how or when he would die, appears to have set up his own death in several ways. He readily embraced his love for Hwi Noree, knowing she had been created as a trap to weaken him. He cultivated Siona, knowing she would never be loyal to him. He made Duncan Idaho, whose latest ghola rendition (who also desired Hwi Noree) was quickly turning against him, the leader of the Fish Speakers and then brought Siona and Duncan together. He then charged one of his most worshipful Fish Speakers, Nyla, to obey Siona in everything. Perhaps knowing that "the worm" was gaining ever more power over his human side, he knew it was time to set things in motion toward his inevitable demise and continue humans down the chaotic "Golden Path" that would in the end save them from extinction. But this is just conjecture on my part.

    • @patreekotime4578
      @patreekotime4578 3 года назад +75

      I always felt he definitely wanted to die and definitely was putting as many blocks in his own path as be could. 3000 years living with memories spanning 100s of thousands of years? 3000 years of seeing the infinite futures? That all had to have been almost unbearable. A true living horror. And the worm's life cycle definitely put him on a timeline. Had he gone full worm, would his consciousness have been suspended in that body for thousands of more years but unable to communicate or control it, unable to observe the human world but trapped with a human consciousness for a near enternity? True torture. The ultimate horror.

    • @jasonkiefer1894
      @jasonkiefer1894 3 года назад +18

      Not sure I would call it conjecture... That's how I interpreted it when I read it some 25 years ago. I would say you are spot on.

    • @jamiebeebe9606
      @jamiebeebe9606 3 года назад +22

      Your not wrong, even his death was part of the Golden Path. In Chapter House they indicate that he had planned well into the future to make sure events unfolded along the Path even after his death.

    • @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090
      @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 3 года назад +21

      That feels right to me. Just I am so pissed that Herbert decided to let the bad guys(the Petulant Kids that Siona was and Duncan became) seem to have the last laugh. When he was dying was a perfect time for him to call them on their foolish arrogance and to state that even though he refused himself advance knowledge of their backstabbing killing of him, he could read them like a cheap dime store novel. Then they could go off victorious in there dirty scheme but knowing that the only person who could have killed Leto was Leto himself. Something both would have absolutely hated the most(finding out there power play of death was something they could only pull off under his guidance)
      Which really would have made it end the way I think it should have. I've read the book several times and it's always depressing ending it with it the way it did. You always want whiny kids to realize the only way they got to have their cake and eat it, was because the adult in the room let them.

    •  3 года назад +34

      @@countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 this would have been a failure for Leto. He wanted mankind to FEEL they won against a god to not kneel to the enemy that was coming in the future.

  • @Juel92
    @Juel92 3 года назад +221

    Man I really want Dune audiobooks voiced by Quinn so bad. Such excellent work and I look forward to every future video.

    • @billhart3728
      @billhart3728 3 года назад +9

      I’ll second this idea

    • @theblankettruth
      @theblankettruth 3 года назад +3

      I discovered this channel only a few days ago. I love dune and agree that Quinn would make a great reader of dune audiobooks.

    • @kikiohearts
      @kikiohearts 3 года назад +3

      Right? I actually already use a couple of his playlists as somthing to listen to, to get me through tax season for the past 2 years and now this one.

    • @sethjewell7879
      @sethjewell7879 3 года назад +2

      I've tried to listen to the version of Dune on audible so many times. The narration always knocks me out like a baby though. So frustrating. I wish I could listen to a version narrated by Quinn or Jonathon Keeble.

  • @varicosevisage4794
    @varicosevisage4794 2 года назад +52

    I love that (at least to my interpretation) Leto II is the hero of the Dune saga and yet is still an oppressive tyrannical dictator. Nobody is truly good

    • @kimun2106
      @kimun2106 2 года назад +3

      Like lelouch in code Geass?

  • @JWH3
    @JWH3 3 года назад +68

    Leto's mind was still within the sand trout that he split into, just fragmented. I would say it seems most likely to me that he actually engineered this dissolution as the need for that manifestation of himself had come to an end and what was left of his humanity was simply too weary to care about existence in that form anymore, his golden path had already been layed down and humanity was back on the track away from stagnation. The human understanding and perception of his actions were at best the stories told that he himself engineered in order to ensure that path continued beyond his perceived direct influence.

  • @josephroszell
    @josephroszell 3 года назад +25

    He pretty explicitly says it’s his plan to die he was just pissed the girl died and his friend was sad, he literally hates his most loyal soldier for being brainlessly loyal but then he hates her cause she just doesn’t listen and kills his girlfriend despite being ordered not to do just that

  • @jasonhavalar388
    @jasonhavalar388 2 года назад +14

    Anyone with a shred of sense. Knows that this is what Denis villenvue Is working towards. Any Director or writer that loves Frank Herbert, knows how surreal and amazing The God Emperor would be to tackle and bring to the big screen.

  • @KralizecRL
    @KralizecRL 3 года назад +13

    At first I would have guessed that Leto would have a monster like voice. But reading the book, his dialogues and conversations it was impossible to imagine it that way. The book itself describes his tones even being soft at times.

  • @milvache
    @milvache 3 года назад +58

    I want that God Emperor of Dune becomes a movie

    • @brettc6132
      @brettc6132 3 года назад +17

      I dunno, not sure it would translate. The most exciting parts of GEoD consist of just a few ppl talking, or even just Leto musing to himself. For me the best part of the book (my favorite science fiction book of all time!) was the feeling that somewhere, at some point, this was a real being, and the feeling of discovery of getting to know the inner thoughts of such a being kept me absolutely enthralled the whole way. That said, while I couldn’t put it down, I have to admit that it is objectively a boring book, and I find it difficult to imagine audiences would enjoy it as a film without the producers changing it into some kind of action packed slug fest (pun intended) and that would be a total insult to the original book.
      Who knows though? I’m always hopeful that I’m wrong about this kind of thing.

    • @patreekotime4578
      @patreekotime4578 3 года назад +9

      @@brettc6132 There is plenty of action in God Emporer. How it would be approached and especially how his prescience trips would be approached would laregly be determined by how Children of Dune was handled, since each film would have to build on the previous film. So if the plan was to make a giant multipart series (highly doubtful) it seems like the filmmakers would have to be laying that groundwork the whole time and establishing how the visual storytelling works. Heck, that would really have to extend all the way back to this first Dune film since the design of the sandworms would have to be able to accomodate a God Emporer character later.

    • @IntrusiveThot420
      @IntrusiveThot420 2 года назад +1

      @@patreekotime4578 if denis villeneuve cares enough to keep making Dune movies past Messiah, i would love to see his take on God Emperor

  • @dand3953
    @dand3953 2 года назад +24

    "The most powerful human being by far ..." And yet, by way of the skin that was not his own ( the skin is our largest organ), as it caused his body to exponentially extend and his imaginative talents to quite literally encompass the entire human species, as compared to the prophetic limitations of his own father, at the very moment of mixing GE Leto existentially evolved entirely beyond any human identity. Factually, he was indeed closer to being a god.

  • @richarddeese1991
    @richarddeese1991 3 года назад +26

    Thanks. Leto II definitely allowed himself to be killed. In the two later books, we see Odrade in the desert of Dune, with Waff and Sheanna. There, she has a sort of vision, created by a confluence of genetic memories. In her mind, she sees the way Dune was; she sees the river Idaho and the bridge where Leto met his fate. She thinks to herself 'he chose the time & place of his death.' He had achieved Siona, who was naturally hidden from him (and thus, from any oracle). He wanted to be replaced by her; to have her destroy him. When he found out that Siona & Duncan had gone to the village of Tuono, he told Moneo to change the wedding plans. He said (rather emphatically), "We will wed in Tuono!" He knew he represented humankind's past. He wanted Siona to 'conquer' that past, and assume the mantle of the future. He knew when to bow out, and it seems he did it in the nick of time. tavi.

  • @IanJacobyandcompany
    @IanJacobyandcompany 2 года назад +14

    It's more than "it can be argued" he DID arrange his own death as part of the golden path. That's the whole point of the book.

  • @MackeyDeez
    @MackeyDeez 3 года назад +37

    All despotic rulers are not above the need for human companionship. Even Shaddam the 4th had count Fenring as his closet friend and confidante.

  • @erich4647
    @erich4647 3 года назад +47

    He absolutely chose the time and method of his death. It was all part of the golden path. If not, there was no way he would have been caught in such a feeble trap.

  • @powkung45
    @powkung45 2 года назад +9

    God-Emperor of Dune was the first book I read, the geo-politics and scheming struck a chord with me as a kid, and though it took me another year to go back and read the full 6-book series, I was hooked on the world, and never saw sci-fi the same ever again.

  • @flipchriceol2049
    @flipchriceol2049 3 года назад +8

    Love your channel! I have enjoyed all of your videos. The ultimate guides are such good listening. I put them on while at work and just listen. Please keep the content coming!

  • @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090
    @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 3 года назад +27

    One of the Most Interesting Characters Ever Created!!!

  • @Not_So_Slim_Shady
    @Not_So_Slim_Shady Год назад +5

    I really hope that, even for one frame, we get a glimpse at the God Emperor or Paul sees the choice he'd have to make in Dune Part 2.

  • @kragor420
    @kragor420 3 года назад +13

    Quinn. I would love to have a sit down with you to discuss DUNE. I have never had the pleasure of meeting anyone with the same love of the series. You are literally the first person I've ever come across that knows more about the saga than me. And for that, you have my absolute admiration.

  • @metawakening6233
    @metawakening6233 3 года назад +22

    God emperor is my favorite book of the series. Thanks for the videos.

  • @hannabaal150
    @hannabaal150 3 года назад +9

    Death was what Leto paid for his greatest achievement, "my Siona".

  • @denlo9009
    @denlo9009 3 года назад +4

    these videos inspired me to finally read the dune series. love the content, loved the series. keep it up

  • @willogsdon7092
    @willogsdon7092 3 года назад +3

    Killing it as always my man. Concise but informative, great video

  • @GaryBleck
    @GaryBleck 3 года назад +16

    My interpretation of Leto II definitely intentionally sought out his own death as a necessary part of the golden path.

  • @nomoontk9357
    @nomoontk9357 3 года назад

    Your Dune videos have been in my life for years now much love Quinn.

  • @seenundercygnus6870
    @seenundercygnus6870 3 года назад +10

    He looks like somewhere along the way one of his human ancestors got lucky with a graboid from Tremors.

    • @codename495
      @codename495 3 года назад +2

      He didn’t become wormlike due to genetics, he took on the worm vector

    • @DavidJackRabbit
      @DavidJackRabbit 3 года назад

      He allowed the Sand Trout to enter his body and change him in their image.

    • @Marcelo83uk
      @Marcelo83uk 2 года назад

      "There are two more and I repeat two more motherhumpers!"

  • @horizon_universe9349
    @horizon_universe9349 3 года назад +1

    This book would be awesome as a movie. Probably my favorite of the Dune series. Awesome work on this video !

  • @Herr_Wagner_
    @Herr_Wagner_ 3 года назад +5

    Thank you. I love your Dune lore videos.

  • @jimmyblevins9567
    @jimmyblevins9567 Год назад +1

    Your videos are directly responsible for me reading the dune books. Thank you, by far the best book I've ever read. Just finished the second book in like five days

  • @marmitedan1234
    @marmitedan1234 3 года назад +3

    Really good video thank you. I think Emperor of Dune is my favorite book in this series, which is saying a lot. It's beyond strange but incredibly smart and compelling. I can't think of another like it.

  • @dashfatbastard
    @dashfatbastard 2 года назад

    These have been so helpful, Quinn. I've decided to pick back up on reading the prequels, and I'm trying to refresh myself. Thank you!

  • @regla9874
    @regla9874 3 года назад +1

    Man you always do a great job with your Dune tutorials..which is really what they are, very informative and entertaining. Stay cool.😎

  • @kevinmorgan2968
    @kevinmorgan2968 Год назад +4

    Leto is a tragic figure. He only achieved what he was owed by his sacrifice when he was destroyed. He was selfish and hurt so many people, but he was human and deserved pity. Hwi and Moneo both were brought to understand how close humans are to appreciating life. It’s so sweet, but when we try to taste it….

  • @AthwalAmrit
    @AthwalAmrit 2 года назад +1

    Bang on dude, I have just started on Heretics of Dune. Appreciate the hard work 👍🏾

  • @nobodycares6633
    @nobodycares6633 3 года назад +11

    I will go to the cinema to show my support.

  • @wsmith31000
    @wsmith31000 2 года назад

    Amazing content. Excellent production value.

  • @DouwedeJong
    @DouwedeJong 2 года назад

    I upvote everytime dude, thanks for making these video.

  • @mdp2920
    @mdp2920 Год назад +2

    Oh my god this was absolutely marvelous. I would love to hear your description of the Leto's Golden Path.

  • @richardavery2894
    @richardavery2894 2 года назад

    This channel is about to BLOW UP now that the movie is out 😀 Great content, keep it up!!!

  • @itslocked1930
    @itslocked1930 3 года назад +12

    The God Emperor’s greatest secret? Love and water

  • @0321Dave
    @0321Dave 3 года назад +3

    Fantastic as always! Definitely my favorite character of the whole universe. Such a bad ass

  • @Spite_Lip
    @Spite_Lip 3 года назад +1

    You're a treasure. Always appreciate your work.

  • @tsopmocful1958
    @tsopmocful1958 3 года назад +3

    "You have many lives Mr...Atreides.
    Only one of them has a future."

  • @whitman911
    @whitman911 3 года назад

    Excellent video, Sir. Thank you!

  • @fraaggl
    @fraaggl 2 года назад

    very good, each time you seize my attention to the max !

  • @pepejocker
    @pepejocker 3 года назад +3

    Greattings from Mexico, i have followed you for some time and watched almost all of your videos because i think you are the only one that knows and undertand the enormous and beautiful Dune's wolrd is in RUclips that are you understanding and re reading all this concepts and meanings i wish i know from this beautiful and indispensable huge story!!!! When i went to Spain to live like eleven years ago i found the House Atreides book in one of my roomates rooms, and (i know you dont like so much the new stories) i was so into Duncan Idaho! Because i understand and suffer him and love him as a character so much that i was truly broken in Dune's original novel for a lot of years couse i dint Know who Frank was and what hi has accomplished !!!! so i kept reading for all those yaers understanding and suffring all finally for almost 15 books and years for getting who's the *** character and why and in all his lifes for the main theme that i really understand the all concept (maybe, i dont know, im not sure). But greatings, (en español porque puedo expresar mejor mis emociones) porque eres un hombre que no se detiene en ler, sino que ha comprendido y amado algo hasta el punto de poder hacer la comparación con copias (como star wars obviamente) reconociendo su esfuerzo espíritu y sabiendo que NUNCA ndie jamás podrá compararse con el genio que nos ha unido a todos a pesar del tiempo, la distancia y la nacionalidad, Frank Herbert! Keep going with this amazing and uniqe love and respect to this beautiful and loved mind !!!
    Pepe Ordaz!
    Keep going whotout fear... cause fear is only the... ;)

  • @hamedm9241
    @hamedm9241 3 года назад

    Nice to see you're back at your old format

  • @lamajigmeg
    @lamajigmeg 3 года назад +2

    thanks for another great video

  • @plaguebutcherdk
    @plaguebutcherdk 2 года назад

    Thank you these dune vids are great

  • @shaner67
    @shaner67 2 года назад

    Thanks Quinn, great narration man
    . Peace ✌️

  • @jenniferchase4085
    @jenniferchase4085 2 года назад

    I haven't watched this one yet but I feel compelled to express... feelings... about how clearly you crystallize the solution of knowledge that is dune and it's main characters. I very much enjoy your dune vids, keep it up up, but dang. I kinda like soaking in the solution ... im.sure this makes no sense but essentially good job and it's not a big deal whether u say AH-lia or a-LEEa

  • @xyz.ijk.
    @xyz.ijk. 3 года назад

    Excellent, so well done!

  • @yourcheapdate4564
    @yourcheapdate4564 3 года назад

    I've been enjoying your ideas

  • @carlosevans9202
    @carlosevans9202 3 года назад +1

    Excellent! Have you thought about making a video solely on the GE’s test of Siona and their time in the ‘desert’?

  • @mathieugariepy2948
    @mathieugariepy2948 2 года назад

    Great video!

  • @peterweaver3373
    @peterweaver3373 3 года назад

    I read all the books. I'm glad you made these videos

  • @gabrielalicea4803
    @gabrielalicea4803 Месяц назад

    Love your content.

  • @shanenolan8252
    @shanenolan8252 3 года назад +1

    Love the artwork

  • @michaelkopala3659
    @michaelkopala3659 3 года назад

    Well made video. Thanks.

  • @Saint_Svadhisthana_Sahasrara_1
    @Saint_Svadhisthana_Sahasrara_1 6 месяцев назад

    Great video Quinn

  • @StargazerFS128
    @StargazerFS128 3 года назад

    love all your material, Quinn.

  • @handley2645mh
    @handley2645mh 2 года назад +3

    Iay not have been able to see his own death, but he certainly would have been able to see the time of it. That time between his presence and that time without him. So he timed allowing Siona to see his weakness perfectly. Leto was such a tragic figure too but not as tragic as his Aunt.

  • @geos4766
    @geos4766 2 года назад +4

    His greatest secret was that he has not taken a shower for almost 4000 years...

  • @nahtesalinas1917
    @nahtesalinas1917 3 года назад +120

    This and Hyperion should be made into movies and TV shows. Enough of Star Wars and Star Trek.

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 3 года назад +15

      Yeah !
      Enough of what we already know , enough with batman superman , star wars and star trek ,
      Those stories have been done to death and have nothing to give ,
      The weel of time , dune , the foundation and many other stories have a lot of things that have not been done in a teatrical fashion , and could be really made in extremely cool stories

    • @blingsing5383
      @blingsing5383 3 года назад +19

      We need more 40k

    • @ismata3274
      @ismata3274 3 года назад +2

      @@davidegaruti2582 death gate too!

    • @CnCDune
      @CnCDune 3 года назад

      @@davidegaruti2582 Come now, Batman and Superman might be... tame?.. but the Joker is gold. Especially the 2019 Joker movie.

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 3 года назад +3

      @@CnCDune the joker enjoyed some good interpretations , but to be honest it has tired me : i am tired of seeing the society meme cicle between irony , post-irony , latestage irony , humor the highest stage of irony , irony with cringe caracteristics , cringe with ironic caracteristics , back to being serius ...
      we need somewhat of an iatus and we need other smarter and may i say it scarier villans ...
      someone to fear rather than someone to question ...

  • @briandaum1639
    @briandaum1639 3 года назад +2

    Sweet video! What ever happened to Chapterhouse? That video ever coming out?

  • @jahread3322
    @jahread3322 2 года назад +15

    i love how time and again, love is the ultimate cause that drives human history in dune. love overpowered the suoek conditioning to do no harm thus enabling the betrayal that resulted in paul finding himself thrust into the desert, head of his house. love overpowered the benejeserit conditioning allowing jessica to give duke leto a son, love is the reason paul mua dib existed in the first place...and love is what makes leto the second more human than hybrid worm god tyrant...love is the essence of humanity in frank herberts dune saga...the one thing that cannot be controlled or conditioned out of us, the one thing driving us foward and ensuring the fate of humanity is ultimately guided by what it is to be human...the one aspect of humanity that cannot be corrupted or controlled or conditioned away...rather than by those who seek to control humanity by mutating humans, and thus humanity, into things that ultimately are inhuman. love is humanity itself...more powerful than thinking machines, tilaxiou and ixan technology, the benegeserat, the spacing guild, the empire, more powerful than spice and even more powerful than the god emporer himself.

    • @rosiedolciamore
      @rosiedolciamore Год назад

      That was beautiful… I shed a tear reading this 💛

  • @ArtemisScribe
    @ArtemisScribe 3 года назад +12

    Ah that sweet sweet classic Quinn's Ideas content

    • @Etticos.
      @Etticos. 3 года назад

      Sweet as spice

  • @EspressoStalinist
    @EspressoStalinist 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for reminding me why I love this book. It's the most profoundly alien book I've ever read, and at the same time the most human.

  • @marjan93
    @marjan93 3 года назад

    This is so good!

  • @talimomolapo128
    @talimomolapo128 3 года назад +1

    Yes, more Dune content. Thanks Qui nn

  • @junkandcrapamen
    @junkandcrapamen 3 года назад +4

    Goddam. I need to read this masterwork again. Right after I finish binging "The Expanse".

  • @olbluetundra881
    @olbluetundra881 Год назад +2

    What I find ironic about all of this is that one of the main characters from the original story outlines even the god emperor himself. A person that died originally trying to defend and secure the future of the bloodlines. Remember. Each Gola remembers up until the time of death. So each new Gola would change slightly. After 3500 years the Gola seen the truth of it. It was the love of the Duncan that both saw the rise and the fall of the atraides bloodline. If Herbert would have finished the series it's my belief the Duncan's was the true hero of the story. It was the Duncan's that truly gave everything for the golden path

  • @AGoodJoe
    @AGoodJoe 2 года назад

    Awesome insight

  • @drgonzo305
    @drgonzo305 11 месяцев назад +1

    I can imagine the rebels going on a great Star hunt for the ultimate weapon that will lay the *_God Emperor_* low and when they finally crack open the vault that has been sealed for 38,000 years, they find a Supersoaker

  • @sullensz
    @sullensz 2 года назад +2

    "it can be argued"
    that's a fun way of saying its clearly spelled out to you

  • @mayasixtus1573
    @mayasixtus1573 3 года назад

    Comment for the algorithm. Thank you so much for your hard work, creativity, and content. Say hi to the doggos please

  • @brekerr
    @brekerr 3 года назад +1

    You should definitely review the Dune board games, the chaps at Shut up and Sit Down could help you out.
    Apologies, I'm going to post this on some of your other vids as I would love to get a Dune oriented recommendation.

  • @AirMarshalFiftyCent
    @AirMarshalFiftyCent 2 года назад +3

    Leto II's Golden Path was a three and a half millenium act of ultimate Martydom. He eradicated his own humanity and sense of self and committed countless heinous acts to ensure the ultimate salvation of mankind.

  • @arthurballs2754
    @arthurballs2754 3 года назад +8

    The God Emperor's Greatest Secret: He thought Mozart's music was tiring and pretentious.

    • @donkeykong4983
      @donkeykong4983 2 года назад

      R.I.P ✝️.

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 2 года назад

      I imagine him bopping his head to Bach, Beethoven, Haydn or Monteverdi

  • @mgntstr
    @mgntstr 3 года назад +9

    reminder future man, Dune is not a how_to manual!

    • @CnCDune
      @CnCDune 3 года назад +3

      Orwell's 1984 is being used as one though.

    • @patreekotime4578
      @patreekotime4578 3 года назад

      @@CnCDune well, it was commentary on contemporary government in the mid 20th century. 1984 in many ways is kind of inevitable because it is about power doing all of the things that power has always done, but with the grasp of technology. Brave New World completes that picture by including the influence of Capitol and corporations. Both are inevitible.

    • @iYehuk
      @iYehuk 3 года назад

      I think that the Golden Path is worth any sacrifices made.

  • @kensvideos1
    @kensvideos1 3 года назад

    Cool video..All Latos enemies where like...ohhh WATER!

  • @tadeoverri3463
    @tadeoverri3463 Год назад +2

    Even 'God Emperor of Dune' wasn't one of my favorites of the saga, i really felt compassion for him. He was a kind of christ but in the most tragic way because almost nobody liked him and was alone in an enormous time of his life, dealing with save human race.

  • @impersonal6650
    @impersonal6650 2 года назад +2

    I heard the idea that The Honored Matres in the 5th book were fleeing from the hostile Kwisatz Haderach.
    It would make sense considering how many time did Leto II spent to create a human that is invisible to prescience.

  • @Nekoyama69
    @Nekoyama69 3 года назад +2

    Hi Quinn, will Chapterhouse review will be finished this year?

    • @biginc2
      @biginc2 3 года назад

      Same question 🤔

  • @user-lp7tx1fe6t
    @user-lp7tx1fe6t 3 года назад +8

    Hey Quinn, I heard you reads Banks Culture novels. Can we expect videos on them anytime soon?

    • @ioannisfugazi6952
      @ioannisfugazi6952 3 года назад +3

      Such great books.

    • @kamarraimo4391
      @kamarraimo4391 3 года назад +1

      I second that

    • @emergenciest
      @emergenciest 3 года назад +2

      Should be right up his alley - cerebral, tragic, with metacommentary up the ass without being preachy

    • @kamarraimo4391
      @kamarraimo4391 3 года назад +2

      @@emergenciest ... and it has enough weird Aliens to give Lovecraft a run for his money :D

  • @jonnykelleyy
    @jonnykelleyy 2 года назад

    just finished god emperor. got dune over the summer thinking maybe I'd read it before the movie comes out. Thanks to your channel and some others I was already on children of dune by the time the movie came out. thanks man. (also I envisioned Siona with brown/black hair. If it says she's blond in the book I missed it)

  • @thefilmeffect6089
    @thefilmeffect6089 3 года назад +2

    Has there been word on the Ultimate Guide To Chapterhouse: Dune yet? I'm not on twitter, so does anyone have an update? I'm a little over 100 pages into the book right now.

  • @theblerdsisterhoodofarraki5496
    @theblerdsisterhoodofarraki5496 2 года назад

    Yes! We mentioned Leto in our video as we are coming to make a deep dive, soon!