Who else prefers Leto to Paul Atreides?
Leto is a mediocre, basically good person struggling & failing w/ forces beyond him. He wants to rule consensually, feels a sense of duty to his liege, loves his family, & dies for these values. This makes him relatable and sympathetic.
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Leto is a mediocre, basically good person struggling & failing w/ forces beyond him. He wants to rule consensually, feels a sense of duty to his liege, loves his family, & dies for these values. This makes him relatable and sympathetic.
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Paul starts as a brat (like Luke) and just gets worse. He is surrounded by religious fanatics and becomes one himself in fairly short order. He drinks the kool-aid that he is some kind of messianic semi-divine being, a mash-up of Jesus and Plato's philosopher-king, and then
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gets carried along to lead an interplanetary religious holocaust killing tens of billions
I've never understood how Paul & Fremen are supposed to be sympathetic. The ancien regime may have been corrupt & decrepit, but Harkonnens & Emperor weren't murdering ppl in the billions
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I've never understood how Paul & Fremen are supposed to be sympathetic. The ancien regime may have been corrupt & decrepit, but Harkonnens & Emperor weren't murdering ppl in the billions
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Also, Leto is normal. He basically just wants to put his feet up and spend some quality time with the fam.
Meanwhile, everyone around him is a weirdo: witches, superhumans, religious zealots, plotting royals, a Star Wars cantina full of assorted other sociopaths.
This is the
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Meanwhile, everyone around him is a weirdo: witches, superhumans, religious zealots, plotting royals, a Star Wars cantina full of assorted other sociopaths.
This is the
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I’ve never liked the Dune series much. It’s an awful world, worse than our own, and Herbert seems to revel in making worse and worse with each book. Like Game of Thrones, there’s a gleeful brutality masquerading as realism or human nature. No thanks
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