Dune: Part Two (2023)
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
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What do you mean by this? How does the character of the prophet address posthumous retardery?
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Denamian
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That was the stone burner, an atomic weapon that had the fun side effect of destroying eye tissue. If given enough fuel, it could burn it's way down to the core of a planet. It's what (technically) blinded Paul, but he kept on going by relying on what he saw in his visions until the end of Messiah.
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Right, right. "J-rays" that specifically target eye tissue and (apparently?) nothing else? Yeeaaaaa.
Really what this is is that Frank wanted to blind Paul in his downfall arc and had written himself into a corner in how to go about it. He's too powerful to get a disease or cancer or whatever, sees too much for assassins to get close, is too good a fighter if they DID manage to get close, sooo, wutdo? I got it! Tailored nuclear radiation!
Frank's gotten me a couple of times before in having factual bases for what seems like impossible weirdness, so I'll leave it to others to look up how this is actually totally a thing IRL. He's like the Alex Jones of weird SciFi concepts.
I liked the Body shield concept in the movies, they needed to explain them better.
weirding modules in the orig movie not so much. Personally i think the modules used basic sound as the vehicle of destruction...vibrational frequency. Since the shields let air thru, vibrating air is let thru, thus Bypassing the shield protections..ie the modules are a new weapons tech. Which is why the emperor destroys the atradies family, they had -at that time- no defense against the weapon, to protect his power, the house must go.
As to dune 2 I disliked chani's depiction in the role, too adversarial to paul, and they didn't portray their "love story" well.
weirding modules in the orig movie not so much. Personally i think the modules used basic sound as the vehicle of destruction...vibrational frequency. Since the shields let air thru, vibrating air is let thru, thus Bypassing the shield protections..ie the modules are a new weapons tech. Which is why the emperor destroys the atradies family, they had -at that time- no defense against the weapon, to protect his power, the house must go.
As to dune 2 I disliked chani's depiction in the role, too adversarial to paul, and they didn't portray their "love story" well.
Aldarion
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I never got the impression it only damaged eye tissue. Just that it also especially damaged eye tissue.
I interpreted it as some specialized kind of nuclear reaction that caused massive damage ("stone burner") but that also its radiation was especially damaging to eye tissue.
Hateyou
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I mean, we have eye drops that specifically target and repair degenerating eye cells. Why couldn’t they have the reverse of that in the far distant future? Hell I bet we could do this now if we wanted to.
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Bald Brah
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I don't care for the new one, and don't think that half breed is good looking, but the other makes you look like a pedo.
Maybe Hollywood just realized hey that's pushing it.
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Gavinmad
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Really? I have no idea who that is. Bitch looks likes she's 16 or something in the Twitter deal.
Why are you also White knighting pedo Hollywood?
Even if she is old enough, she still looks way way Young. That's pretty creepy.
Gavinmad
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Well redheads are target #1 for didn't earn it replacement but I don't recall Sean Young or Barbora Kodetova being redheads either.
Leaving aside that Vilenueve turned her father into a black woman, how the fuck would Chani have red hair in the first place with no red haired ancestors? Her father and paternal grandfather were sandy blondes, her mother had brown hair, her maternal grandfather sure wasn't a ginger, and I don't see any visual reference to her grandmothers.
Gavinmad
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More like my superior knowledge of how to look things up on the Dune wiki, I haven't even gotten around to reading the books yet.
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