etruscan boar, ceramicDune sicko on main kind of day
I’ve said this here before but I was so scared it was going to be horrible until I watched that first trailer and saw the headboard of Paul’s bed was exactly as described in the books, if someone was going to have that level of attention to detail I knew I’d love it. Also seeing the ornithopters in the trailer completely took me out, that design is so good
Dune sicko who read the book at least once a year since I was 11 or 12, watching the gom jabbar scene: 
Thinking about the portrait and the bull 😭
It is absolutely the funniest thing imaginable that Frank Herbert wrote a book about how you should never trust charismatic messianic leaders and how people like Paul are the bad guys and the hero’s journey is bullshit and he got so incensed when everyone said “wow! Paul!! What a great hero!!” that he immediately wrote a second book calling them all dumbasses
You ever think about how Paul’s life was locked into a single horrible future by choices made before he was born and every attempt he made to escape it was doomed. You ever think about his grandfather’s portrait hanging facing the head of the bull that killed him, the bull that was always going to kill him once he ran out of ways to dodge it. His father was dead the moment he left Caladan and tried everything he could think of to escape that fate but the bull was always going to be there
This is one of the things that kept drawing me back to the book as a kid and still hits for me. The movies do it so well too, the quick cuts to the bull and the portrait and the little matador statue as little sic transit reminders every time things start falling apart. The way Leto dies looking up at the bull’s head on the wall, still covered in his father’s blood
Paul was doomed and he knew he was doomed and he did every single thing he could to change his future and it only pushed him closer to it. The music does so much intense story work in this series: the theme that plays during his vision of the galactic jihad in the tent in the first movie is what’s playing during his speech to the Fremen in the second. It was always leading here
I am so crunched for time before the festival and I lost a day today to the migraine and I’m going to lose most of Saturday due to plans but also what if I did a Dune rewatch this weekend
The Abominable Dr. Vibes@checkervest I just watched these like last month but now I want to watch them again
@ItsTheManOnTheMoon they’re so good! And they encourage repeat viewing so much, especially with the way the movies constantly echo each other
carith 
@carithlee oh this is so good
jtav4@checkervest @carithlee Wait until they see Paul’s son!
Tobias 🌒🌕🌘@carithlee @checkervest Book 3: Would you still think I'm bad if I was a worm?
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🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥@checkervest Still feels like that will very much be what the general audience will take away from the movies. But fingers crossed!
@Mimesatwork people definitely had that takeaway with the second, I can’t tell you how may angry reviews I read about how awful it was that Villeneuve “ruined” the character by making him a bad guy in 2
@checkervest I also saw some reactions that amounted to "whoa, he's fully locked in now, let's just hope he doesn't turn to the dark side" and I'm just... babygirl at which point did you think either religious control or military control was a good side?
@Mimesatwork one of the reviews I read that haunted me was someone irritated that they’d taken the joke of Stilgar being convinced he was the Lisan al-Gaib too far and it wasn’t funny anymore by the end of the movie and I wanted to scream YES. YES that is the POINT babe
Malus is here now@checkervest man I never finished the first book because it was too much about how special Paul is… (didn’t get very far in) maybe I should give it another shot
@malusdraco I definitely encourage that, but I am also a long time Dune sicko haha. Paul is absolutely a special guy with super cool special abilities and that is why no one should have ever trusted him or let him lead them
@checkervest you know, if i can make it through something like 80 hours of the commonwealth saga audiobooks, i can probably make it through dune too 🤔
👻™ supreme goblin 🐊@checkervest And then everyone got mad about that book too!
@coriander he just couldn’t win!
phooky@checkervest i just remember getting to the fifth book or whenever where he trots out the space jews and was like Frank where you going with this
@phooky it runs off the rails so hard, Frank was a super weird guy. I’m not even sure I managed to get through any after 4
Taz the pika@checkervest Ok
To be fair
It would have helped his case a lot if he didn't have all of Paul's enemies *also* completely suck.
@OchotonidKnight I mean on some level that’s also intentional. His father is set up as someone who is more interested in honesty and integrity and doing things the right way than he is in accumulating power and what did it get him? The powerful people in this book are horrible because you have to do horrible things to accumulate that kind of power
@checkervest One can absolutely make a mistake intentionally, as conveniently also illustrated in the case of Lord Atreides.
wroong@checkervest what do you mean Paul was bad? He was played by agent Coop. Maybe he was good in the first book, but then the power corrupted him or something?