That show had such a weird situation with Marvel tying their hands. Sure, you can run half a season and introduce everyone to your characters, just don't actually start the story until our latest movie is out. By all rights it should have crippled the show, and a lot of people did write it off based on those campy first episodes.

But damn did they have a plan and a means to kick things off with a bang as soon as they had the opportunity. As soon as Bill Paxton appears, things go uphill fast. The fact that Ward went from everyone's most hated/boring character to one of the most popular in the series just shows how well they had things planned out

I loved going from dune to wheel of time. The bene gesserit and aes sedai are practically the same organization, although the aes sedai are all far more incompetent and generally more terrible people.

Gotta love magical witches thinking they know better than everyone else.

It was entertaining atleast for me since i watched all of season 8 at a bar with a bunch of other people as we got drunk and laughed about it all. And trying to figure out what details may have come from martin and how things would actually play out if he decided to continue the series.

But damn did the show nosedive in quality. I understand that after a few years the showrunners got tired of it and wanted to do different things, but you'd think they would have wanted to atleast put some effort into finishing it well so they could keep the popularity they had built up for themselves. The fact they dropped it so forcefully is kinda insane to me

I think a prequel series could be really good. All the court scheming and politicing of game of thrones mixed with the bizzare low tech future of dune, showing different worlds and the workings of the empire.

The fact that it's based on Brian's books and has his involvement makes me think this will be utter shit that has nothing to do with Dune, but a prequel is cool in theory

Not to mention retconning parts of frank's works that don't line up with the story brian wants to tell and making the whole story a shitty battlestar galactica rip off when the original series had nothing to do with that in the slightest