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The emperors weakness is that he’s got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!

To quote Bane: "Victory has defeated you."

One of the weaknesses is his army of Sardaukar never faced a defeat, which Paul realized in the books.

The emperor's weakness is also his greatest strength. No one dares to challenge him to a dance off!

Another thing worth mentioning is that this man, this Duke who is popular among the Great Houses and with an army to challenge the might of the Sardukar, is the Emperor's cousin. If there were a rebellion, and it succeeded, the Landsraad might not settle for merely restraining the Emperor's power. An Atreides raised to the throne could be presented as a cadet branch of House Corino, thus not ruffling any aristocratic feathers. This is doubly true if the new Emperor's heir were to wed one of Shadam's own daughters, and the Emperor had no sons.

Potential spoilers: per the first point, the Bene Gesserit were not just the Emperor's weakness, they were potentially his greatest enemy and had possibly already defeated him. They did not just have his ear in a Grima Wormtongue way, and control of his oldest daughter Irulan, but had in fact infiltrated his entire harem and were actively denying him sons. Their end goal wasn't to just control the Emperor, their goal was to place the Bene Gesserit Irulan on the Golden Lion throne and to directly control the entire Empire. This would also allow them majority share control over CHOAM and through it to manipulate the distribution of the Spice Melange, which would in turn give them control over The Guild, who they viewed as having too much power and too stupid to yield it. They could also potentially neuter both the Tlielaxu and the Ixians who the Padishah Emperors had empowered, potentially even setting the stage for war with those cultures. They were plotting this parallel to their plot to create a Kwisatz Haderach: had Jessica borne a daughter that could be wed to Feyd Ruatha, perhaps the Atreides/Harkonnen feud could be ended, but more importantly the child would be the Kwisatz Haderach. The Reverend Mother would then insist this child be raised by Bene Gesserit and once fully under BG control, the Kwisatz Haderach could himself be primed for the Throne, potentially wed to Irulan as the royal puppets. This illustrates why Jessica's act of betrayal weighs so heavily on the Bene Gesserit, but also why the Reverend Mother sees potential in the marriage of Irulan and Paul... it wasnt exactly how they had framed their plot, but she thought it could perhaps be made to work in their favor.

Cant wait to see Christopher Walken as the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

CHOAM is basically an allegory for the East India Company under the British Empire.

The Emperor's greatest weakness is his lack of a male heir. The Bene Gesserit can control their own biochemistry to change the gender of the fetus. His Bene Gesserit wife Anirul ensured there would be no son to oppose their Kwisatz Haderach or carry on the Corrino name. She even went so far as to sterilize him in the Brian Herbert prequels, after the birth of their last daughter.

Walk without rhythm It won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm And it won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm And it won't attract the worm If you walk without rhythm Ah, you never learn, yeah

@QuinnsIdeas I'm glad Dennis emphasizes the weakness of the Emperor, by putting the Baron as *main* Antagonist, after all, he who control's the Spice controls the universe. Not the most influence in politics, not the most powerful armies.

I never cease to be amazed at what a very complex and well thought out story Dune is!

I have been a sci-fi fan for 47 years, starting with a large box of my father's paperbacks with Asimov, Blish, Poel, etc. I am back to reading every day now as I recuperate from a long episode of severe depression. I enjoy this channel and am grateful for the comment section which has led me to discover modern (post 1970) novels that are wonderfully entertaining. I'm into book 4 of Iain Banks Culture series. It's hard to believe it is as old as it is. I'm plowing through them one after another. Bless Amazon and Kindle. Kindle knows what I read and how long my attention is captivated and also provides good suggestions. It'salso nice to receive a novel within 5 seconds of placing the order.

*I rewatched Dune the other day* and all I gotta say is : How low are people’s attention span if that movie is considered “boring” ?

His historian/Bene Gesserit daughter Irulan, being a voice in the novel itself, quoted in epigraphs, made her a powerful presence if not a central character. I remembered her and had a better picture of her than that of her Emperor father.

You truly make some of the best videos on KZfaq. I am deeply grateful every time you make videos on the literary series I love so much.

Another crucial weakness is the Emperor has no male heir. This may be because the BG have blocked it through their arts or because he is too selfish to want one. Maybe the BG were opening the throne for their KH? That also explains Leto's reason for not marrying Jessica, as he hoped politically he might marry Irulan and ascend the throne.

Awesome work. I could listen to this framework of analysis and story telling for hours

Thank you for posting all of these videos, really making me excited for Dune 2. As always, your content is excellent!

Thank you for your dedication to Sci-Fi. Quinn. Everytime I watch one of your videos, it's like I am being told a captivating story by my grandson.

You make great content man. You help support the very idea and awesomeness that is sci-fi. We need more people in the world like you.

I am absolutely loving this new upload schedule.

Thank you for putting out all this content Quinn! Effort and presentation spot on as always.

“We’ll all be wearin’ spice Melange diapers.”

That thumbnail 😂 “you’re talking to my landsraad all wrong.. it’s the wrong tone “

Great video Quinn! Cannot wait for Walkens performance

how am i only just discovering your channel?? everything on here is so good especially the cosmic horror stuff, you are thought fuel and educational in the coolest ways possible, please keep going for a very long time

Epic video yet again. Great breakdown and your breakdowns of The Three Body Problem was why I read the series. I’ve already read the Dune six but makes me want to re-read

Great video. I'm loving all your stuff. Normally, I'm not one to binge, but your channel is so much fun I've made an exception. Thanks for spending so much effort making stuff like this.

Ouffff, nicely edited, quality narration, outstanding Sci Fi images, superb quotes from the book, Sir, total five star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you, Quinn, for the brilliant video. I love hearing your voice. 🙏🙏🙏

At the time of this video you have 666 thousand subscribers. Congratulations, Quinn! Your work is excellent and I love your content! Liked and shared.

I never would have found your channel if it wasn't for the New Dune movies, thank you. You very clearly break down what is precious from the Dune novels

Quinn I love your videos and can’t wait to see dune 2 and hear your review on it. Keep up the good work!!!

I think I'd add this very big weakness: he did not understand the nature of the Atreides before the betrayal whatsoever. It simply didn't include imperial ambition. They aspired to be The Best Damn Dukes, but that was all. Anything else wouldn't even have occurred to Leto, and Paul had to be goaded by circumstances the emperor created and prescience informed race consciousness to do it...and even then that wasn't a matter of ambition. Sure, Leto II ended up being like "Well, in for a penny in for a pre-worm," but he inherited a mess that wouldn't even have existed if Shaddam had just trusted Atreides loyalty.

excellent writing and presentation. more please

Your videos rock! I would not have finished Children of Dune yesterday if it wasn’t for you. I’m going to buy the next trilogy (with those new beautiful book covers) today! Thank you so much !

Thanks a lot for the lore content. I work 60 hour weeks and don’t have enough time to read or look up. But I get my best work done when I have long vids to listen too. Thanks again and please keep up the content!!!

hey, I just want to say thank you for making these videos. Scifi isnt my genre of choice, but I love hearing passionate people talk about what they love. You've introduced me to series and really concepts I never would have run into otherwise, and I appreciate it!

Excellent video thank you

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6 videos in the span of a week holy!. i really appreciate your content and the time you spent to create these videos for us, there is something so cozy about watching your videos late at night getting introduced to genres and stories i wouldve never come across if it wasnt for your videos. Stay awesome brother

Videos are too short. Luv hearing Your voice on DUNE. Glad you're coming back with the movie, can't wait to hear Your Review of it. Take Care, brother.

Quinn, thank you for your hard work, I really appreciate it. you're an incredible, wonderful, amazing, awesome, and beautiful person.

I've loved Dune stuff since the 80's. I love Quinn's Ideas for Dune stuff. Thank you very much for your videos!

Quinn! Your videos are awesome!!

Awesome video Quinn. I always thought the Emperor was given a raw deal in Lynch's version, being bossed around by microphone head.

Hey Quinn. I must say, you sir, are my go-to guy for all things DUNE. Your level of understanding for the core material is impressive to say the least.

Thank you for your work.

Great video!

Great vid as ever sir.

Very interesting thanks for posting Quinn

I just found you and love your stuff. Are you still going to do a video on all the wallfacer plans from the three bodies series?

I remember years ago falling in love with the dune series all over again thanks to Quinn’s dune explained videos. I’m glad to see this creator expanded beyond dune and became a more general science fiction channel, but anytime Quinn releases a dune video I’m all over it

Your work is top notch 👌

So well done!

That was so good, thank you.

The Emperor's weakness is more cowbell.

Very entertaining mate.

Sweet video!

Great FX in the intro to the video,

hey,really love your channel and was just wondering if you could someday make a video on Stanislaw Lem's work?

Great video.

This is one of the BEST science fiction channels. I don't care for Herbert or Octavia Butler, but I still look forward to watching your videos on them.

This video is excellent. It gets to the heart of the story because, in a way, the Emperor is at the center of the story in the book Dune. He is a catalyst for the phenomenon that is Paul Atreidis.

Great content

Thank you for simplifying this vast awesome world!

Love these. Just finishing up all of frank Herbert's original dune books. Can't wait for the next movie.

Honestly, a shame Charles Dance wasn’t cast as Shaddam IV. Though I suppose it would just have been Tywin Lannister all over again.

So glad this came up in my recommended list. Great insight into horror. I will be picking up the trilogy.

The Emperor’s weakness is cake and lots of it. 🤣

honestly missed opportunity to have Charlece Dance play the emperor. he wouldve been SUCH a good pick

That thumbnail really makes the letters pop out of the screen, kind of 3D like. Very trippy but also very cool

Nice summary. Very interesting and explains things the movie doesn't bring out.

Quinn, just discovered your channel and am straight bingeing. Have you ever done a series on The Eschaton Sequence series by John C Wright. It's my favorite sf series. If you haven't, could you please please please!

Audio working just fine on my end. Listening and watching on my phone.

Dune will always be my favourite sci fi. I may like others but I’ll always have an Arrakis shaped hole in my heart. I love it when you talk about dune. Thanks quinn

That opening music is awesome

Thank you Quinn.

Emperor Shaddam was the ultimate example of lacking self-awareness.

Not sure about the walken casting!!! I love him but in order for it to work for me I would have to see a side of him I never seen before. He’s been dark and cold before but there was always a underlying cool swag. Pretty much the only ? mark I have for dune 2

You go boy! You go Quinn’s Ideas. My family plays Monopoly while we listen to your videos on Dune.

I love Dune. I appreciate your passion for the story

I don't know if you've mentioned this before, but I always had a doubt. On a certain occasion in the first book, Irulan reports a recent rebuke of her father for not having male children, and for the daughter not being old enough to have married Duke Leto. In that case, why didn't the Emperor want to marry Paul to Irulan before deciding on war?

Love all your videos but would love to see you do more on the Common Wealth books by Peter F. Hamilton

I've been watching your shit forever idk if you read comments but if you do I want you to know that I appreciate you immensely. Just love your content!

Seriously he was doing all sorts of shady shit which alienated many in the lansrad. He also worked with the least reputable house making them rich over much better houses. The emperor was making secret enemies the entire time he was in that position. The big weakness is the shady things as Paul removed him for it.

Another does of ASMR.....need some longer ones though!!

I was about to leave for my grandkids birthday and saw your new vid, so of course I didn't leave until I watched it...take care.

Love your guides. Maybe you have adressed it but why don't you do guides for more dune books? Is it because Frank did not write them?

Great video. I would add the Navigators as another weakness. Nothing moves without them. they could show up and dictate to the emperor when they had a concern - which is different from how the reverend mother did things, but still, it's clear who was superior in that relationship. They could cut him (whatever planet he was on) off from the rest of the galaxy at any time - effectively deleting him, his army and his planets from the galactic civilization without firing a shot. It's an interesting question whether they or the Bene Gesseret were in a stronger position. But the emperor wasn't the real power compared to either of them. One thing I never understood (of many) about these books is why the navigators preferred their soft touch approach to ruling the galaxy. Why didn't they just take over and issue orders? Was it because they didn't care about 99% of what the emperor or houses did? Or they felt safer not being directly in the line of fire? Or they were occupied with their spice driven super-human evolution?

Love this kind of extrapolation, thanks Quinn. Continue doin the work of Shai Hulud.😅

I'd love it if you covered the alternate plot of the dune RTS games. How close and far they are from Canon, and what you think of them, at least in context of the cutscenes, which there are a lot of.

Miss your videos....

Wait until y'all see Part II. Walken only has 3-4 scenes in the film (two of which were partially seen in the last trailer) but he is the Emperor in a way no one else ever could be & it ties into your point about his family's opulence & immeasurable wealth.

The life-extending aspect of spice is also worth emphasizing.

I know this is completely unrelated and that the series may never be renewed, but could you please make a video on Raised by Wolves? Please?

I want to present a counter argument here. I don't view the betrayal of house Atreides as an example of the Emperor's weakness but an example of his still considerable strength. All actions carry risk, doing nothing about House Atreides would have been a sign of weakness because the gap between the Saddukar and house troops was closing. That was a real issue, and waiting until the Atreides acted in a couple of generations would have sealed the doom of House Corrino. Couple this with the popularity of Duke Leto and by all reports his son instilled that same Charisma and you are a asking to be dethroned. Acting while the House was still weak is a sign of strength and intelligence not weakness and foolishness because inaction would have been worse, better take the risk of action then let inaction seal your fate. And the risk was really low. The plan was brilliant, it was a plan that insured mutual assured destruction, so House Harkonnen couldn't betray the Emperor without destroying themselves. It shifts the lion's share of the risk to troops and expense to be carried by House Harkonnen, the Saddukar were in House Harkonnen uniforms so they appeared to be from witnesses as Harkonnen troops. There was established hatred between House Harkonnen and House Atreides so the idea that the Baron would drain his treasury to destroy House Atredies doesn't appear odd at all. And House Harkonnen held the fiefdom of Arrakis long enough for them to have accumulated enough wealth to pay for the attack. It wasn't just possible that House Harkonnen would act this way given a chance it was plausible especially after the Duke insulted the Baron before the Landsraad, when the Baron made a gesture of peace. The only difference was SCALE but the Baron doesn't have a reputation of being reasonable so that he would spend everything/go into debt for this isn't out of character. This is vital for the plan to work because it makes it appear to be house on House vendetta vs Imperial interference. Having all these factors align perfectly allowed the Emperor to strike and to strike with 99.999% effectiveness, it is only because Paul was trained as a mentant, as a Bene Gesserit, also trained in the Atreides combat style and just so happened to be the Kwisatz Haderach does the plan fail to kill Paul. Take any of these things away and he either dies in the attack, by the drone assassination attempt or in the desert. And Paul surviving still isn't a "failure" of the plan. The only way Paul wins is if Arrakis hides a great secret that the Fremen are hidden in vast numbers. In hindsight we can look back and say, "well YEAH! OBVIOUSLY!" but for millennia every census, patrol and report says the Fremen in the desert are in tiny numbers not enough to raise a modern army with and not enough to worry about or have Galactic scale intrigues hinge on them. Even House Atredies doesn't suspect their number until Duncan goes there and being the man he is, is able to befriend the Freman and gleam the secret, and that happens only AFTER the plan is set in motion. I doubt Gurney Halleck could have befriended the Freman and gleamed their secret. It was the particular characteristics of Duncan that win out here so this secret not only is well hidden it isn't inevitable that House Atreides would find this out let alone the Emperor. I think people think oh it failed ergo it was a stupid plan but it wasn't at all. It was rather Brilliant in my opinion.

christopher walken, also 666 subscribers congrats!