I'm a big proponent of people re examining the default wisdom of popularity. If something was popular, it was great, if it got funded, it's great, if they did it 3 times, it's great, etc.
Let's look at the actual story of Dune.
Look, that millionaires kid buttoned up his vest the right way, he must be the chosen one! "Have you ever put on a stllsuit before" "no, I just thought maybe my legs went in the leg holes" response "you are the hero of a million lifetimes, our spear bearing future people will stand beside your star cruiser and die by the millions so that your unique talent is recognized".
What about pop Atraides? OMG, you saw those people about to get killed by the sandworm, and then you picked them up in your car instead of letting them die? "You are an unusually great leader, capable of amazing feats of decency and logic, and you deserve to rule the entire universe. Never in a million years would any of us have come up with this phenomenal idea of rescuing people in mortal danger with plenty of warning, you have something to teach us all about ethics"
I think my local grocery store checkout guy would have done the same thing, if he had a fleet of helicopters at his disposal. I hate this stupid plotline about how when a super wealthy person shows basic default humanity, It's something exceptional. It's really teaching the wrong lesson. It reinforces the complete BS much of our society is based on.
How about "Desert Power"? Is this really some amazing writing here? Can you imagine a world war 2 movie, and the general walks in, and says "I figured it out, when I was in the navy, we used boats, but now that we are on paved roads, we need "Wheel Power"" and all the people in the command tent stand there in awe of this lifetime of wisdom, and promote the guy to lead everyone in the combined armed forces.
How about the Baron Harkonen, Why is a cartoon character from batman the animated series in the middle of this sprawling, self serious sci fi novel? I could easily see this character in an RL stine work.
How about the assassins' robot bullet thing that almost kills Paul? It's 10 billion years in the future, and we have intergalactic travel, but the missile guidance technology is at the level of cold war Russia? Why are you swordfighting next to that spaceship? How did you build a galactic empire without figuring out how to irrigate a row of trees? Why does a universe this advanced need 6 religions?, have people not had enough time to figure out that religion is as baseless as flat earth "science" I'm just saying, belief in the supernatural has dropped by half in the last generation alone, since the internet allowed people to research things. Is it really that brilliant to fill 10,000 pages with space travelling "Star Priests"? What about the mentats? Thousands of years after quantum computing, people with terrible haircuts overdose on drugs and solve math problems for the government? Seems Unlikely. And what about riding the worm? Did Sammy Hagar write this? Is the idea of riding on top of an animal all that futuristic? I feel like Star Trek is a much more advanced sci fi concept than Dune.
Dune is stupid. Make a neo noir movie out of "Caves of Steel"
Let's look at the actual story of Dune.
Look, that millionaires kid buttoned up his vest the right way, he must be the chosen one! "Have you ever put on a stllsuit before" "no, I just thought maybe my legs went in the leg holes" response "you are the hero of a million lifetimes, our spear bearing future people will stand beside your star cruiser and die by the millions so that your unique talent is recognized".
What about pop Atraides? OMG, you saw those people about to get killed by the sandworm, and then you picked them up in your car instead of letting them die? "You are an unusually great leader, capable of amazing feats of decency and logic, and you deserve to rule the entire universe. Never in a million years would any of us have come up with this phenomenal idea of rescuing people in mortal danger with plenty of warning, you have something to teach us all about ethics"
I think my local grocery store checkout guy would have done the same thing, if he had a fleet of helicopters at his disposal. I hate this stupid plotline about how when a super wealthy person shows basic default humanity, It's something exceptional. It's really teaching the wrong lesson. It reinforces the complete BS much of our society is based on.
How about "Desert Power"? Is this really some amazing writing here? Can you imagine a world war 2 movie, and the general walks in, and says "I figured it out, when I was in the navy, we used boats, but now that we are on paved roads, we need "Wheel Power"" and all the people in the command tent stand there in awe of this lifetime of wisdom, and promote the guy to lead everyone in the combined armed forces.
How about the Baron Harkonen, Why is a cartoon character from batman the animated series in the middle of this sprawling, self serious sci fi novel? I could easily see this character in an RL stine work.
How about the assassins' robot bullet thing that almost kills Paul? It's 10 billion years in the future, and we have intergalactic travel, but the missile guidance technology is at the level of cold war Russia? Why are you swordfighting next to that spaceship? How did you build a galactic empire without figuring out how to irrigate a row of trees? Why does a universe this advanced need 6 religions?, have people not had enough time to figure out that religion is as baseless as flat earth "science" I'm just saying, belief in the supernatural has dropped by half in the last generation alone, since the internet allowed people to research things. Is it really that brilliant to fill 10,000 pages with space travelling "Star Priests"? What about the mentats? Thousands of years after quantum computing, people with terrible haircuts overdose on drugs and solve math problems for the government? Seems Unlikely. And what about riding the worm? Did Sammy Hagar write this? Is the idea of riding on top of an animal all that futuristic? I feel like Star Trek is a much more advanced sci fi concept than Dune.
Dune is stupid. Make a neo noir movie out of "Caves of Steel"
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