I love the 1984 version of Dune but their characters were so over the top! Look at this guy. An orange, necrotic, decaying pedophile billionaire ruler who starts wars in a desert on his own personal whims, all to control an important limited resource that's necessary for commerce and transportation. Talk about unrealistic.

@Lana
And a nepobaby by definition.

It turns out the unrealism was that Baron Harkonnen was, in his own way, intelligent and competent going about his evil business.

@ohmu @Lana the narrative holds: the plans were thought out from his mentat.
@cmdrSprocket @Lana
An excellent correction. Thank you.