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22 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The official Jacksonian Dune 2021 review.

(the only black Fremen was Jamis. What did Villeneuve mean by this?)
For real, I was watching and think "okay, so the judge (Liet Kynes) and herald of the change are both played by blaqs. Maybe that ethnicity is one that's used in-universe as the Emperor's direct servants?" and then Jamis is black for no reason lol
Glorantha really has ruined speculative fiction for me.
Ultimately, the whole thing is pointless. It's as faithful to the book as the Lynch version, (e.g. the aristocrats still wear military uniforms at all times when that's supposed to be a quirk specific to the emperor because he's a tryhard REEEE) so it has no reason to exist.
If you just want dumb action sequences, then sure, go. I knew they'd be the focus bc of the trailers, but I was still disappointed with how the fight choreography ignored the way shields are supposed to work. Looks exactly like any other Hollywood swordfights.

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One of the most insidious faults encouraged by modern education is the tendency to immediately dismiss the points of authors whose train of logic isn't apparent to the reader.
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