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Update: Dune, The Expanse, ASOIAF (Patreon)

Published:
2021-10-15 16:55:39
Imported:
2026-06

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In one week, the Dune movie comes out on HBO – an adaptation of the first half of Frank Herbert’s classic sci fi novel. Dune is a dense, detailed, and very weird book. It’s full of unconventional storytelling, intricate worldbuilding, heady themes, and obtuse sci fi jargon. If you don’t know your Shai-hulud from your Sardaukar, you’re going to be very confused. So, as per this Patron vote, we’re making a Dune video. It’ll explore and analyse the Dune movie, adding details and context from the books. The video will have no spoilers beyond the movie and first book. But if the video goes well and you guys want more, we can make more Dune videos delving deeper into the series, and covering potential sequels to the movie…

After Dune, we’ll probably make some videos about the final season of The Expanse – Amazon is offering us early access to the episodes, which is exciting. So we’ll probably do a recap video before the season starts, then an analysis / book comparison for after the finale – similar to last season. Also, the ninth and final Expanse book comes out on November 30th – maybe it’d be possible to have another chat with the authors, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck… (Just try not to think about the fact that Abraham and Franck published their entire nine-book Expanse series within the ten year wait since George Martin published A Dance With Dragons).

A teaser for the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel TV show, House of the Dragon, came out. And we’ll make plenty of House of the Dragon videos next year, closer to the show’s release. But for now I’d like to do another ASOIAF character video, similar to the recent Tyrion video. Maybe about Jon, Daenerys, Bran, Sansa, Theon, Brienne, or some other POV character we haven’t made a video about yet. (Might commission Bella Bergolts to paint another gorgeous portrait). To choose a character to cover, we’ll hold a vote on Patreon after the Dune video’s done.

Also on the radar is a video about Asshai, which is currently in limbo due to delays from collaborators – but we’ll get back to that when possible. I’d still love to make a non-fiction video about the mythology of Venus. And a Man After Man video, to follow up the All Tomorrows video. And a Binding of Isaac video maybe…

So there’s lots of cool stuff coming!

Thanks for your support

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Comments

very cool

It will be good to have some dune content from you. I saw the dune movie a week ago it was really good and stayd true to the book. Love your work keep it up :)

Leon Ginn

So looking forward to all of this. Thank you for sharing All Tomorrows' - It was a fabulous read and so many of my friends and myself loved it. I'm wondering whether you would be interested in having a commentary on Codex Seraphinianus? Though it doesn't have any... Legible text, it has many images that I would love to hear Schwift tangents on.

Alt Shift X

Love the Codex Seraphinianus. Not sure I could make sense of it, but yeah maybe Alt Schwift X could.. that's a great idea, will pass it on.

Bram Reichbaum

An Arya character study might cut through the "awesome badass" taste the show left us, and be an opportunity to talk about more book themes. Though I'm always up for Brienne! Preston's recent series on her impressed me but he might have hypnotized me into some weird Preston shit without my noticing

Roland Kloka

Thanks for the update. Dune is incredible, saw it multiple times and started the book. Looking forward to the expanse videos. Are you planning to cover foundation?

Roland Kloka

Yes, Preston's Brienne videos are good and not as crazy as some of his other stuff. Would like to see a take from ASX

Rikke Holmberg

Ah, great news all around. Very much looking forward to all of this!

Michael Lui

Oh dang, a binding of issac vid would make me so hype.

Glen Thrasher

I read the first Dune book about 40 years ago, I think, but I did not appreciate it. I did not read much genre fiction. I did like some Science Fiction but Dune did not work for me. Recently I have returned to the book series, and I am liking it much more. I have not seen the new movie yet, but I intend to watch it. I think Villeneuve is an excellent directed. I look forward to your Dune analysis.

Archmaester Renny

Yes please--I'll take all The Expanse coverage you can make. As for Dune--I'm hoping you plan to make note of the problematic aspect all commentators seem to miss, which is that Dune is a book about eugenics.

Paul Barry

Happy about all of this, but also hope you can do a definitive ASX take on The Dance of the Dragons before the show starts. It’s an intricate and confusing story that’s hard to get clear in your head, but your video style would be brilliant for it.

Sydni Cockerham

I hope you do videos on either Jon, Daenerys and/or Bran. I'd like to hear your take on where Daenerys character is going in the books because unlike most people I don't believe that's what they were building towards since the beginning with Daenerys, because in season 7 they had her listen to all of Tyrion's stupid advice, she made a truce with her enemy to go fight the white walkers and then in the last 3 episodes she was unrecognizable. Also the pregnancy foreshadowing was there in season 7 but D&D kinda forgot.

Alt Shift X

I would like to cover Foundation, but Dune and The Expanse and ASOIAF will keep me plenty busy for now. Hopefully later on!

Alt Shift X

Yup, planning to highlight all the weird shit that the movie glosses over.

Alt Shift X

Yup. Maybe a series of videos summarising and analysing Fire and Blood chapter-by-chapter.. Or just a single video summarising the Dance... not sure yet. But something like that!

Alt Shift X

Yeah I think "The real Daenerys Targaryen" would make for a fascinating video, comparing show-Daenerys to the trajectory of book-Daenerys

Sydni Cockerham

Yes that would be lovely 😍, I was highly disappointed with the final season. Who is your favorite character in ASOIAF?

Msaad

Great , approximately how long asshai video gonna be ? And how much time will take to release?

Ragnar

I've recently started watching Foundation (its on Apple TV) and it's surprisingly good. It's based on Isaac Asimov's books. I'd love an AltShiftX rundown of the Asimovverse or whatever it's called. It's apparently 3 book series (Robot, Empire and Foundation series), compromised of like 20+ books spanning many millennia of galactic history... I think the Will Smith movie, I Robot is supposed to exist in the same universe for instance. That being in a not too distant future, similar to the game Detroit: Become Human, while Foundation is tens of thousands of years into the future, similar to... Uhm... Star Wars, except that's in the past... Whatever... Cool sciency/technobabbily space stuff. Grandios scale. Seemingly massive amounts of worldbuilding. And a ridiculous budget from what I can tell. Aaaaanyway. Bring on The Expanse BELTALAWDA!

Alt Shift X

The Asshai video is still months away. I imagine it'll be a medium-ish size video, because there's so little information available.. but there'll be plenty of speculation in there too. We'll see how it goes!

Alt Shift X

Yeah the Foundation books are super cool. Would like to cover them and the new show at some point.

Andrey Ilkanych

I'd love to see one on Arya. Arya in the show is nothing like the character in the books. She lacks all kinds of complexity in the show. In the books there is so much more going on, with tons of foreshadowing and other theories about who she actually is.