Dune fans stay FAR away!! This series is BAAAAD ( spoilers )
It continues to boggle my mind as to why so many fans of the books continue to be in denial about the Dune TV series. This series is such poorly executed mess of bad acting and horrible, HORRIBLE production that it makes Lynch's Dune look like a masterpiece. It's like a joke. It's a pure sci-fi channel cliche sweaty pile of turd. It will make you embarassed to be a Dune fan I promise. ( spoilers below )
Ok, now for the fans of this series, their main argument is that the two series are more faithful to the books. This could not be farther from the truth. At the end of the book Children of Dune, when Leto returns to confront Alia, a huge fight ensues, Leto attacks her guards with a palace door he rips off the hinges, swings Alia around by the ankle, and attempts to force her to submit until the Baron takes over her body and forces her to commit suicide by throwing herself out of the window. In the series however, leto arrives to confront Alia, the two have a bitter royal typical accusatory exchange of words until the Baron takes over alia and forces her to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a Crysknife. Ok, call this nitpicking if you want but that alone is proof that this series is not faithful to the books. I can accept that they didn't have all the fighting because it's made for TV and they couldn't afford the effects, which is why they shouldn't have done it at all. This series should not exist. I mean why would they blatently change the way she dies? It makes no sense