Lady Jessica Origin - Concubine Of King, Mother Of A Messiah, A Witch, A Flawed But Human Character

Lady Jessica Origin - Concubine Of King, Mother Of A Messiah, A Witch, A Flawed But Human Character
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[lordhawke]

And totally forgot to mention she is a Harkonnen by birth.

[andyunsworth]

Both actresses to play lady Jessica were flawlessly beautiful and very talented

[astrobot]

Francesca and Rebecca were exquisite choices.

[cananary]

the actress for lady jessica is amazing she played her so amazingly and i love the tattoos over her face and how shes always covered once she becomes a reverend mother

[mary-kittybonkers]

Alice Krige played an older, more mature Lady Jessica in the TV miniseries ‘Children of Dune’. I think she gave a nuanced performance. She also was excellent as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

[kidpeligro]

Only started in the Dune lore, but I read somewhere that the Bene Gesserit can manipulate their own bodies to the point that they can control the gender of their children. If that is the case, did Jessica intentionally birthed Paul instead of a girl in defiance of her order?

[keithegan]

You skipped Alice Krige's performance as Jessica in Scy Fy sequel miniseries, Children of Dune.

[Kneedragon]

Frank Herbert's son extended and embellished the Dune universe. Whether one takes his works as part of the cannon ~
Personally, I take the bits & pieces I like. That's not all of them.
One story I did like, the Reverend Mother Gias Helen Mohiem, was sent as a rev mother and a fertile woman, to seduce Vladimir Harkonan and bare a daughter. But the Barron was angry with the Sisterhood, so he raped her. She was planning to bed him anyway, but he incapacitated her and took her roughly and made a performance of it. He removed her ability to give or with-hold consent. As revenge, she accepted his sperm and conceived a daughter, but she also infected the vain young Barron with an artificial ailment that would make him fat and ugly.
She bore the child and had it removed from her at birth, but brought back at about 10 or 11, and the child was told this was her teacher and guide in the Sisterhood.
One of the shocking things Jessica learned in the Spice Agony, was that her teacher / mentor, was actually her mother.
Jessica was the daughter of the Barron and the Emperor's truth-sayer, one of the most senior and ruthless of the Bene Gesserit. Much is made of her relationship with her memories of the Barron, but her connection to her mother is hardly mentioned at all, and when it is, it's very subtle.
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I would say this was never part of Frank Herbert's original story, because near the end of Dune, Alia and Gias Helen Moheim have a fight of sorts, around teh edges of Paul v Faed Ruarter. If both of them are reverend mothers, and Alia is Helen's grand daughter, then she could not help but know that. Yet nothing in that scene refers to such a relationship.

[JaguarCats]

One thing that's been bothering me as of late is....why didn't Lady Jessica just take a megaphone or a loud speaker and use the voice to order all of the invading forces to kill one another?

[apocalypsator]

Paul is not the messiah, he's the worst thing that ever happened. How do people miss that, its the whole point of the story?

[tscarb]

This is the best study I’ve ever heard on this character

[martinpiekarski]

Never read the book series but and I'm not sure her origins are accurately explained even by the author himself but I have grounds to assume she must have been conceived as a result of some Bene Gesserit prestess seducing Vladimir Harkonnen and conceinved a child without him knowing. That would explain why neither she knew she was Harkonnen and nor the Harkonnens knew she was their kin. And given how Bene Gesserit were semen-thieves and that they had rule of conceiving only daughters, it would make perfect sense.

[piapress]

I always felt like Lady Jessica didn't love her daughter.

[commiehunter]

We forget the harrkonenns were gingers, despite them having bald heads😂😂

[stormyskyz]

Their is always the one that breaks girl code just to be a baby mama

[ShaiShai]

so her father killed her husband and her mom wanted to kill her son. Family drama

[andrelockridge]

Lady Jessica fighting against "injustice" & "oppression!!" Obvious who ever wrote this never read the Dune series!!😆😆😆😆 Paul Atreides was never the hero, neither was the Lady Jessica!!

[nekomatic]

Maybe it's just me but comparing to my impression from the books the Jessica in the recent film seems very week... In th ebooks I never had impression like she had lost control over herself, in the film we see coctail of badly hidden emotions - nothing agaist Rebecca Fergusson, the version of Jessica she potrayed was very interesting but I can bet she had never read any of the Dune books.

[larryleehensel]

This IS an AI voice? Correct? The rhythms and intonation patterns are the same throughput— the pronunciation of the word “political “ is highly suspect, which first made me question the origin of this narration. Could I be right?

[samanthab]

Ralph Fiennes left his wife Alex Kingston for Francesca Annis. Beautiful couple ❤