WARNING – VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS. DUNE AND EXPANDED DUNE ARE TAKEN AS SOURCE MATERIAL
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0:00 – Intro
0:55 – Origin and Characteristics
4:56 – Life and Spice
9:10 – Role and Religion
16:04 – Outro
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Bless the Maker and his water.
A video about the voice pls😊
If you take a wet, Earth-like world and make it a planet-wide desert, that isn't terraforming — to terraform is to make something more like Earth. The meaning is right there in the word's morphemes: terra + form
"Terraform" does not mean radically change a planet.
Good video…. but I got the impression that you got all this information from a wiki before making this video.
Good explanation of the lifecycle! But since you have got sideways with SPOILER ALERT why not citing the worms exported to other worlds from the benegesserit
honestly incredible how dune as a whole has become such a cultural phenomenon in 2024 when the original book was written even before starwars. such a rich story
Only thing wrong here is its diet. They eat sand trout like whales eat krill. Sand trout burrow deep under the sand
Loved this!
the worms are a parasite in their own way.
They make spice, another race consumes it for its benefits and that race in turn protect the worms, even revere them.
The cost of not taking spice is death as it has a deadly withdraw.
that's probably what happened to whoever introduced the worms to Arrakis, they dropped off the sand trout and died out due
to lack of spice, or they just haven't come back to tap their established resource node.
All the same, the worms create addicts and kills them when they go cold turkey.
1. The sandworm doesn't eat sand, it basically filters it.
2. The bits that it filters out and consumes aren't generally sandtrout, they burrow too deep. They eat their sandplankton among other microscopic things. It is interesting that, while they can eat other things, they are not only cannibals, but eat their own young. These are super-sentient creatures, so that's pretty intense.
3. You mention at the end that the sandworm showed up in Earth, did you mean Arrakis? Earth isn't relevant in the Dune series. I remember them returning to Arrakis. I'm not 100% sure though.
4. It would be worth mentioning that they are exported to other planets for spice production and to "desertify" said planets. In this era, even aquatic 'sand'worms are created and utilized.
5. Leto II was the first merger with Shai Hulud, but not the last. A ghola of Duncan Idaho merged with Shai Hulud as well, and is probably why Leto II kept so many Duncans. Of course Leto II could see this conclusion and potential in Duncan, there's something 'divine' (in the Bene Gessrit eugenics sort of way) about them both.
Funny we call that castings…😅
Please talk about the Bene Gesserit, The Voice, and more of Dune’s supernatural elements
Huh. Something tells me Robert Jordan was a fan of Dune. A lot of parallels 😅
Tremors
Best video on this I've seen
Glorified earthworms
I thought that the sandworms did not survive the attack by Honored Matres, but were successfully replanted onto the Bene Gesserit's home planet, which became the new Dune.
Big. They are really big.
Right from the beginning of Messiah I realized the Worms came from Ascended Masters. Even if the Guild began their biochemical cultivation of “spice technology” with more archaic practices…. It’s pretty blatant that “we are worms” kinda ties into Panspermia idea of Fungi creating all life on Earth. He even made the Spice the method of traversing space… just like Fungi travel in comets
They are Fungi. Mycelial networks are even made of tunes. It’s the Panspermia concept just adapted a bit.
Unrealistic. No other lifeforms.
They ate sand plankton.
A poorly written trope of a creature, that makes no sense and is justification an epic shot that is epically stupid. WTF why would any living creature eat a giant metal machine? They wouldn't, this was an epically filmed turd of a story with horrendous audio mixing, and genuinely the most overrated film in film history.
"Religion is pretty notsmart"
That were my thoughts as a kid about the 1980s movie.
Hasn't changed much.
Religion is something humanity has to overcome. Asap.
Looking at the atracities done by a real life desert Religion….
It is impossible physically for an animal to get that large. A worm is particularly incapable of this. Sorry to piss on your chips but… no way, not ever.
Shi halude! This was cool =]
You can’t have a civilisation capable of interstellar travel who are also vulnerable to wild animals like sand worms. They would’ve all been exterminated en masse.
There are few signs of worms in Dune 2. You see the mouths and clouds of dust, but with CGI,. I would have expected more.
Oh damn. . . After looking into the full history, it had me expecting some time travel shenanigans, with the worm's origins lol
It would explain why Villeneux made his worm stop right in front of Paul; their destinies are tied! They have waters of life as their blood vessels. They are aware of the future, more than sentient?
Not to be Confused with the Sandworms of Beetlejuice. Those are really weird by comparison on the Netherworld of Saturn…
The books were always about human evolution. How our environment causes us to adapt. The sand worms and spice are sort of a cheat. They helped speed up our evolution. Dune and the worms made our bodies adapt. Spice was for our minds. In the books the Fremen were almost physically perfect. Their blood congealed faster. They were tireless. Perfect warriors.