This article is based on the four-and-a-half-hour DVD version of "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune" (Frank Herbert's Children of Dune). The first episode is adapted from the novel "Savior of Dune", and the second and third episodes are adapted from the novel "Son of Dune". The main differences between the TV series and the original novel are:
Compared with the novel, Leto Atreides II and Ghanima Atreides in the TV series are obviously older. At the beginning of the novel "Son of Dune", the twins were only 9 years old. When the TV series was filmed, Leto II's actor James McAvoy (James McAvoy) was 23 years old, and Ganima's actor Jessica Brooks (Jessica Brooks) was 21 years old.
In the TV series, Fremen's eyes are blue for a while and not blue for a while. But in the novel, their eyes are always blue.
The TV series did not mention Paul Atreides' private name in the cave: Usul. In the novel, Paul's concubine, Chani, generally refers to Paul by this name instead of "Muad'Dib."
In the TV series, the Empire’s aircraft in Arrakis looks like an insect with its tail wing slightly swinging up and down. In the novel, the empire’s aircraft are all flapping wing aircraft, more like birds.
In the first episode of the TV series, the person who conspired to use Duncan Idaho's Ghola to overthrow Paul’s rule is: Bene Gesserit, the Virgin Gaius Helen Mohi Gaius Helen Mohiam, Tleilaxu Face Dancer (Tleilaxu Face Dancer), Settle (Scytale) and former princess Wensicia (Wensicia), of which Wensicia is the dominant player. Their secret meeting point is on Salusa Secundus. In the novel "Savior of Dune", the planners of this conspiracy are: Gaius Helen Mohiam, Settle, Spacing Guild navigator Edric and former princess Iller Long (Irulan), of which Irulan was even called last, she didn't really want to rebel. Their secret meeting point is Wallach IX.
In the first episode of the TV series, Illeran told Chani that she could commit adultery with others, and Chani retorted, saying that as long as she doesn't have children, she can commit adultery with anyone. In the novel "Savior of the Dunes", this dialogue actually takes place between Illeran and Paul.
In the first episode of the TV series, Paul's sister Alia Atreides (Alia Atreides) sends out sexual desire by fighting against eleven rotating floating blades. In the novel "Savior of Dune", her opponent is actually a "Target Dummy" that can increase the difficulty. She adjusts the difficulty to eleven.
In the first episode of the TV series, the Prime Minister of the Empire Stilgar (Stilgar) brought Settle, disguised as Lichna, to meet Paul. In the novel "Savior of Dune", it was not Steela who was present at the time, but the security officer Bannerjee.
In the first episode of the TV series, Otheym, Paul's old subordinate, did not seem to be injured. In the novel "Savior of Dune", half of his face has been severely disfigured.
In the first episode of the TV series, when the stone burner exploded, Paul was the only one beside him who had just given him Bijaz. In the novel "Savior of Dune", the imperial army had already arrived at that time and began to hunt for the rebels. Therefore, when the lava bomb exploded, many Imperial soldiers were blinded.
In the TV series, Paul's eyes only turn black after going blind. But in the novel, his eyeballs were removed shortly after his blindness, leaving only two empty eye sockets.
In the TV series, the necromancer of Duncan Idaho has normal eyes, but no other name. He is only trained by Mentat, and he doesn't know why the Terelax people gave him to Paul. In the novel, his eyes are artificial metal compound eyes. Before Duncan Idaho's memory was fully restored, his name was Hayt. In addition to Mentat, he is also a Zensunni philosopher. As soon as he saw Paul, he bluntly stated that he was here to destroy him.
In the middle and later part of the first episode of the TV series, the former emperor Shaddam IV died. However, Appendix IV of the first "Dune" novel pointed out that Shadam IV died in 10202 after the guild, a few years before the story of "The Savior of Sand Dunes".
In the first episode of the TV series, Vencia asked the Astronautical Society to help her catch a sandworm in Arrakis to Salusa II, thereby breaking Paul's monopoly on spices. Although the novel "Savior of Dune" also mentioned that the Astronautical Association was poaching sandworms, this matter had nothing to do with Wincia, but the rebellion of the Fremanians, because at that time no one knew about Sand The relationship between insects and spices.
In the first episode of the TV series, Bijaz broke into Alija's room and told the dead soul of Duncan Aidaho his true purpose. In the novel "Savior of the Dunes", this scene takes place in the room where Bijaz is imprisoned, when Duncan's necromancer is visiting the prison.
In the first episode of the TV series, after Paul took Chani who was waiting to give birth to a desert cave, Alija stayed in Arrakeen. She arrested the Fremann traitor Korba and allowed the executions of Gaius Helen Mohiam and Edric at the same time. In the novel "Savior of the Dunes", Coba was arrested after Paul went blind. Alia went to the desert cave with Paul and Charlie, and after Charlie died, she brought Settle to Paul. After Paul abdicated and Alia became the regent, she executed Gaius Helen Mohiam and Edric.
In the first episode of the TV series, when Chani died, Paul was by her side, telling her that something was inevitable and that she lost the ability to predict. In the novel "Savior of the Dunes", Paul was outside the delivery room when Charney died. What he said to Charney in the TV series was to the undead of Duncan Idaho in the novel. It took some time after Charney's death that Paul lost his ability to predict.
In the first episode of the TV series, Duncan Idaho’s necromancer changed back to Duncan Idaho and killed Bijaz with a knife. Then, Paul quickly jumped behind Settle and killed him with the help of his son’s vision. . In the novel "Savior of Dune", first Paul uses his son's vision to throw a knife to kill Settle, then Paul named a pair of children, and finally Bijaz once again proposed that the Terelax people "resurrect" Charney and Duncan. Adahoe killed him.
In the second episode of the TV series, when Leto II and Ganima first talked about the concepts of "phantom", "Golden Path" (Golden Path), and "Jacurutu" (Jacurutu), they all used their own Personality. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", when they first discussed these concepts, they used the personalities of their parents, namely Paul and Charnie.
In the TV series, Iller’s eyes are always black. But the novel "Son of the Dunes" points out that after twenty years of living in Alakis, Iller's eyes have turned blue like the Fremanians.
In the second episode of the TV series, the Fremanian Palimbasha (Palimbasha) controls Laza tiger on the Saloza II planet. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", Razahu was a Sardaukar soldier with the rank of "Levenbrech" (Levenbrech) who initially controlled Razahu on the Saloosa II planet. He was quickly silenced by Wincia. After Razahu was served to Arakis, he was transferred to Palim Basha.
In the second episode of the TV series, when Mrs. Jessica arrived in Arakis, the twins were in the crowd to greet her, and then the Preacher appeared, accusing everyone of corrupting Muadib’s religion. Then the assassin appeared, blew himself up after the attempted assassination, and finally Jessica walked into her room accompanied by Stillga, Gurney Halleck and Ziarenko Javid. Learned about the missionaries. The twins were later taken to Sietch Tabr by Ilerang at the request of Jessica. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", Mrs. Jessica gave Alia a disarm as soon as she got off the spaceship: Gurney Hallek led the people to subdue all the dangerous elements in the crowd with lightning speed. The twins were not in the crowd at the time, they were already in Tabor. The missionaries are not there either. He didn't even meet Jessica face to face to death. The self-destructed assassin does not exist either. After the welcoming ceremony, Jessica was reluctantly taken by Javid to participate in the formalistic cleansing ceremony (Lustration ceremony). Later, Jessica had a preliminary understanding of missionaries through Javid and Ganima.
In the second episode of the TV series, Duncan Idaho witnessed Alija's affair with Javid. The novel "Son of the Dune" actually doesn't mention this, but only points out that Duncan knows about Alija and Javid's adultery.
In the second episode of the TV series, Illeran expressed doubts about the robes that Wincia gave the Atredis twins. Alia was therefore angry with Illeran, believing that her actions would lead to the Atredis family and Corey. Tensions between the House Corrino family (House Corrino) escalated. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", the two people have opposite attitudes towards this gift. Ileran thinks that it's okay to receive it, and Alia thinks it's fraudulent.
In the second episode of the TV series, when Aliya and Jessica had a court meeting, Ghadhean al-Fali rushed in and asked Jessica for help before the first petitioner had spoken. Then Jessica had a dispute with Alija, then Alija's people attempted to assassinate Jessica, and finally Alphali escorted Jessica to escape into the desert. In the novel "Son of the Dune", the original sequence of the plot is this: After the first petitioner has finished speaking, Alphali speaks as the second petitioner. He is very orderly. As a result, the attempted assassination of Jessica happened as soon as he spoke. Alphali also killed the assassin because he mistakenly thought that the assassin's target was him. Then the meeting continued before Alija and Jessica had a dispute. Jessica thus confirmed that Alija had been controlled by the personality of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Baron Vladimir Harkonnen), and asked Alphali and five death-defying team members to escort him into the desert.
In the second episode of the TV series, Alia asks Duncan to get rid of Jessica. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", she just wants Duncan to kidnap Jessica, so that she can blame the Corino family for the incident, thereby damaging the reputation of political opponents.
In the TV series, after the twins are chased by two tigers, Ganima falls into a coma, and Leto II destroys the two tigers alone. After Ganima woke up, she mistakenly thought that Leto was dead. In the novel "Son of the Dune", the two tigers were actually killed by the brothers and sisters. Then Ganima self-hypnotized and implanted the idea of "Letto's death" into her consciousness, thereby protecting Leto from continuing to explore the golden channel.
In episode 3 of the TV series, Janima stabbed Palim Basa with a crystal knife (Crysknife) simply and roughly. But in the novel "Son of the Dune", her methods are more concealed: taking local materials, making a poisonous dart, and forging the scene where Palim Basa was stung to death by poisonous insects.
In the third episode of the TV series, Duncan successfully brought Jessica to the Salosa II planet. In the castle of the Corino family, Tyekanik, an officer of Sadka, told Jessica that Leto II was dead and that Ganima's whereabouts were unknown. Wincia asked Jessica to declare publicly that she had voluntarily visited the Corino family as Beni Jessrit’s special envoy, and she also asked her to train her son Faradden Corino with Beni Jessrit’s courses. Reno (Farad'n Corrino). Afterwards, Wincia has been concerned about Faraden's study, and finally offered to marry Jessica-Ganima escaped and could marry Faraden. Jessica asked Duncan to return to Arakis and report the marriage proposal to Alia. Faradden didn't exile her mother until he arrived in Arakis. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", the original appearance of the plot is this: when Duncan took Jessica to the Saloosa II planet, she was tied to the flapper chair. After arriving on Saloza II, Duncan and Jessica were also tied up by the Corino family at first. Faradon told Jessica that Leto was dead, but Ganima survived. He knew that this conspiracy was planned by his mother, Wincia, so he proposed to exile his mother in front of Duncan and Jessica. On the one hand, Jessica knew that Faradon was an honest and innocent person, on the other hand, she also wanted to further split the Corino family, so she offered to publicly declare that she would visit Corrie voluntarily as the special envoy of Beni Jessrit. The Nou family will also train Faradon with Beni Jessrit’s courses. Suddenly, Duncan chose to commit suicide because of Alija's betrayal. The Corino family untied them and quickly healed Duncan. It was Alija's idea to let Ganima and Faraden combine, and it had nothing to do with Wincia. After Wincia was exiled by her son, she lost power.
In the third episode of the TV series, Stirgar sent Ilerang and Ganima back to Alia, who had fled to Tabor's den. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes," Illeran and Ganima are almost always added to Steele.
In the third episode of the TV series, Giacrutu cavernously fed Leto II into a lunatic like Alija in large doses of spices. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", it was Alija who used the name of Jessica to let Gurney Hallek, who didn't know the truth, feed Leto a large amount of spices.
In the third episode of the TV series, Duncan confessed to Alia that he would no longer be loyal to the Atredis family. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", he said this to Jessica before returning to Arakis.
In the third episode of the TV series, Leto II's hand merged with a small group of sandtrouts in the cave of Gacrutu, and then the new skin formed by the sands slowly grew on Leto's body and gradually covered it. More and more places. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", Leto flees from Gacrutu and begins to merge with the sand salmon in a place called Shuloch. And at the beginning, a large group of sand salmon covered his whole body-except for his face.
In the third episode of the TV series, Jessica taught Faraden the fighting skill "Weirding Way" from the beginning. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", Jessica's first lesson taught Faladen is to see how her hands look like young and old.
In the third episode of the TV series, Javid was stabbed to death by Duncan when he persuaded Stillgar to abandon his neutral position. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", when Duncan and Steela were talking, Javid broke into the room and was stabbed to death by Duncan.
In the third episode of the TV series, Stirga, who fell to the insurgents, led an army of sandworms into Araken. But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", Alia Piper Agarves (Buer Agarves) goes to Stirga to pick up Illeran and Ganima. Although Agavis was killed by Stillgar, the tracker on his body exposed Stillgar's location, leading to the arrest of Stillgar's team.
In the third episode of the TV series, when the missionary (Paul) entered Alakan for the last time, Gurney became his guide. In the novel "Son of the Dunes", his last guide is Leto II.
In the third episode of the TV series, Leto II is secretly reunited with Ganima. But in the novel "Son of Dune", the two of them reunited among relatives. Leto said the code word "Golden Passage", which relieved Ganima's memory and reminded her that Leto was not dead.
In the third episode of the TV series, Alija took part in the missionary’s last sermon, but was recognized by the missionary, and the missionary whispered her "sister". At this time, Muriz from the Giacortu cave stabbed the missionary to death. In the novel "Son of Dune", Alia actually took part in the missionary's sermon very early on in Weifu, and confirmed that the missionary is Paul. When the missionary preached for the last time, it was an unnamed priest under Ali Ya who killed him.
At the end of episode 3 of the TV series, Alia stabbed herself to death with a knife. In the novel "Son of Dune", she jumped to death.
At the end of the third episode of the TV series, Jessica returned to Karadane and Steele returned to the desert. Ganima said to Faradden: "Just like my mother is not a legal wife, you will not be a legal husband. "But in the novel "Son of the Dunes", Leto II finally sat on the Golden Lion Throne under the witness of relatives and friends such as Jessica and Stillga, and became the only god emperor in the history of the empire. (God-Emperor). He ended the Freman Civil War and made all Freman dens loyal to him; he completely controlled the spice production; he took over the breeding program of Beni Jessrit. What Ganima said to Faradden at the end of the TV series was actually what Leto said to Faradden.
Finally, let’s talk about an interesting easter egg from the TV series "Children of the Dunes":
The telescopes used by Alia and her sentinels seem to come from another universe-the text in the telescopes is actually the Aurebesh in "Star Wars", transcribed into Latin letters from top to bottom as follows:
Chris Zanara AREA 51 BiteMe! Youre Stil Watching? I Cant Believe it These Lights do not sing
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