Redstar wrote:I find myself not recalling some of the events/people mentioned in there. I'm assuming they're mostly House and PoD fabrications?
Um ... no, every character mentioned in that bit I posted is from the originals. (I started a discussion thread over on Amazon about this, but to recap....)
1. Paul walked into the desert per Fremen custom regarding the blind at the end of
DM and they all assume him dead (until the Preacher shows up in
CoD). Checks out OK.
2. Jessica and Gurney
should be on Caladan, but Kevin has said that Jessica returns to Arrakis at the beginning of
Winds; there's nothing in the originals that hints that she came back that I can remember. (Possible inconsistencies here.)
3. Alia & Duncan trying to hold gov't together: makes sense, she's the Regent. (OK as is.)
4. Stilgar admits to killing Mohiam against Paul's orders at end of
DM.
5. Irulan imprisoned: why? At the end of
DM Alia tells Duncan & Stilgar that Paul charged her to preserve Irulan's life. Irulan rejects the BG and says she'll devote herself to raising the Twins. When asked if she finds Irulan trustworthy, Alia says she does. (Alia is an RM, so she has truthsense. Why would they imprison Irulan? The contraceptive she was giving Chani?) Irulan is free later, so this doesn't make much sense: probable fuck up here.
6. There's nothing in the originals that I can find that indicates Bronso of Ix was a friend of Muad'Dib, or that he was anything other than a writer/historian. The two excerpts at the beginning of
DM, from his "Death Cell Interview" and his
Analysis of History: Muad'Dib, appear to give an inconsistent timeline: in the death cell interview, Bronso speaks of Muad'Dib as though he is still alive and Emperor; in his history, he mentions events from the end of
DM (e.g., Korba's plot) and the analysis of other historians of those events ... implying he is writing at a date at least several years later. This could be one of FH inconsistencies that Kevin has decided to "correct".
7. A growing battle between Jessica and Alia? If Jessica is on Caladan and Alia on Arrakis, how can they be fighting other than long-distance through mail?
No mention of following Paul through the desert, but I wouldn't be surprised by anything at this point. Feh.