Talk:Children of Dune
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[edit] Sci-Fi Channel CoD Miniseries
I'd like to point out that "SciFi Channel" created a Children of Dune movie, a three part Mini Series. It's available for sale. I didn't see it mentioned on the page. --kanzure
- Done. And I added a bit about how it was 'well-received'- nobody better delete that for being NPOV- the miniseries reveived several awards and has positive reviews both critically and from the audience. See [1] for an example. -- Maru Dubshinki 03:32 PM Saturday, 12 March 2005
[edit] Synopsis
I think the synopsis is a bit too long to be an effective synopsis. Suggestions? --Zippanova 05:08, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- I feel the same way about pretty much all the synopses- they are crufty and messy. But unfortunately I'm preoccupied with re-writing Dune's synopse. If you want to volunteer, that'd be great. I'd like to see a new draft. --maru 15:06, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Another problem with the synosis: it seems to shift randomly between present tense and past tense -- even within a single sentence. Very disconcerting to read. Poor style.
[edit] Spoiler Alteration
I made a change. At the end, there were several pieces of spoiler info from God-Emperor of Dune, which is the inappropriate place for it. I also added Leto's takeover of the breeding program at the end of the novel.
--L.A.F. 18:04, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Context section
The "context" portion of the article has no citations/references and don't seem impartial (at this point, it seems like personal interpretation), IMO. It sounds like a book report.
Example: "This was fully in keeping with Herbert’s philosophy: he was deeply suspicious of the "super-hero", even as he created one of science fiction’s most memorable messiahs."
Could this use the original research/unverified claims tag?
--firefoot77 06:08, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plot summary
At about 3000 words, the plot summary section of this article [2] is enormous, unencyclopedic, unreadable and almost certainly an infringement of copyright.
The very long plot summary is a historical attribute of this article--by 2003 the article already had some 2400 words [3] on the plot--so there isn't a suitable shorter version to revert to. So I'm taking the drastic step of removing the entire thing. Let's start again, this time adhering to our now well-developed, then (in 2003) non-existent, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) (also known as WP:WAF). --Tony Sidaway 17:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- I've looked at the "Context" section. Although it contained some essayish bits and was correctly tagged as containing original research, it's quite good. I've hacked out the worst of the original research and thing it now stands quite well. --Tony Sidaway 17:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
