Caeden
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I guess my biggest complaints were the underplaying Mentats, making Jessica seem less a concubine which made her influence in the books more enviable by others and, in my mind, added to the Atreides moral high ground, and Chani’s girl bossing. If I remember correctly, the great houses don’t initially challenge Paul as they do in the movie, but I also think much of the politics with CHOAM are left out. It’s been a while for me too. The change to not having a kid kill the Barron was probably ok given how they decided to smush down the timeline of the first book. There was already a good deal of time jump between books 1 and 2.
I could attack Liet Kynes, but that was just bullshit Hollywood sex swap. I’m pretty sure the Fremen were not necessarily monolithiclly brown people in the books either, but that’s Hollywood being its dipshit self.