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Re: Dune
« Reply #325 on: May 17, 2024, 07:04:14 PM »
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Re: Dune
« Reply #326 on: May 17, 2024, 07:21:33 PM »
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Re: Dune
« Reply #327 on: May 17, 2024, 08:20:21 PM »
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The Dune Christmas Special.

Link goes to the Star Wars Christmas Special
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Re: Dune
« Reply #328 on: May 17, 2024, 09:07:31 PM »
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Link goes to the Star Wars Christmas Special
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Of course it does.  Be glad it wasn't a rickroll.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #329 on: May 17, 2024, 10:48:26 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on May 17, 2024, 09:07:31 PM
Of course it does.  Be glad it wasn't a rickroll.

It was a warning to those who may click on it unaware and suffer permanent mental damage like so many did in 1978 :rofl:
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Re: Dune
« Reply #330 on: May 17, 2024, 11:27:01 PM »
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Of course it does.  Be glad it wasn't a rickroll.

A rickroll would have been preferable.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #331 on: May 17, 2024, 11:35:56 PM »
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A plan is just a list of things that doesn't happen.
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« Reply #332 on: May 17, 2024, 11:49:58 PM »
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« Reply #333 on: May 21, 2024, 11:34:20 AM »
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Re: Dune
« Reply #334 on: June 01, 2024, 06:31:42 PM »
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Re: Dune
« Reply #335 on: November 02, 2024, 09:38:19 AM »
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Re: Dune
« Reply #336 on: November 19, 2024, 09:26:17 AM »
Apparently the new Dune series won't use the J word

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Re: Dune
« Reply #337 on: November 19, 2024, 09:48:44 AM »
I'll still watch it as long as Max doesn't do to Dune Prophecy what Amazon did to The Rings of Power.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #338 on: November 19, 2024, 10:26:19 AM »
Quote from: K Frame on November 19, 2024, 09:48:44 AM
I'll still watch it as long as Max doesn't do to Dune Prophecy what Amazon did to The Rings of Power.

Same but it makes me wonder what else are they going to leave out or change because it's "inconvenient"
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Re: Dune
« Reply #339 on: November 19, 2024, 01:17:24 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on November 19, 2024, 10:26:19 AM
Same but it makes me wonder what else are they going to leave out or change because it's "inconvenient"


From what I understand, Dune Prophecy is the origin story of the Bene Geserite and happens 10,000 years before the events Paul Atredies. I'm thinking it's something that Herbert didn't write about much so it's going to be almost entirely new material into the cycle.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #340 on: November 19, 2024, 01:23:01 PM »
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From what I understand, Dune Prophecy is the origin story of the Bene Geserite and happens 10,000 years before the events Paul Atredies. I'm thinking it's something that Herbert didn't write about much so it's going to be almost entirely new material into the cycle.

Understand that but he did lay the ground work and hinted at much of that back story so there's plenty they can change or leave out. Not saying they will just that there is room for them to do so and essentially censoring the word jihad, for reasons, out of the story is not a good sign.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #341 on: November 19, 2024, 03:09:51 PM »
Bet you're still gonna hear "THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING! IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE CANON! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Of course Herbert hinted at the origins of the Bene Geserite, otherwise it literally would have meant absolutely nothing to the canon he did establish.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #342 on: November 19, 2024, 03:18:51 PM »
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Bet you're still gonna hear "THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING! IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE CANON! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Of course Herbert hinted at the origins of the Bene Geserite, otherwise it literally would have meant absolutely nothing to the canon he did establish.

Don't get me wrong.
Jackson changed and left out a bunch of stuff in the LOTR movies 90% of which was to condense it into 3 movies largely didn't bug me because they were largely necessary changes.
Changing something because it's name is currently "inconvenient" doesn't bode well for what else they may find to be "inconvenient". Hope I'm wrong.
 
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« Reply #343 on: November 19, 2024, 03:23:59 PM »
They don't want to piss off the Bomb Throwing Jihadis.

That's one thing.

It's entire another thing to say that they changed canon that simply didn't exist before they created it.

Jackson didn't do that. Very little of what was in those 3 movies wasn't part of the extensive canon with which he worked.

But that's not the case with Rings of Power series. They took canon and raped it on the altar of wokeness until it was comatose, then cried and protested about how Trumpy and MAGA the people protesting their bullshit were.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #344 on: November 19, 2024, 03:32:19 PM »
I'm having trouble telling if you're agreeing or arguing?
Anyhow
What they did, and are still doing, with ROP is basically a crime against humanity.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #345 on: November 19, 2024, 03:35:56 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on November 19, 2024, 03:23:59 PM
But that's not the case with Rings of Power series. They took canon and raped it on the altar of wokeness until it was comatose, then cried and protested about how Trumpy and MAGA the people protesting their bullshit were.

Just what is it you've got against two gay Orc parents fake breastfeeding their little Orc baby and putting "Harris/Walz" stickers on their shields?
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Re: Dune
« Reply #346 on: November 19, 2024, 04:21:20 PM »
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I'm having trouble telling if you're agreeing or arguing?
That's how we can tell that his account has not been compromised.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #347 on: November 19, 2024, 07:57:16 PM »
"I'm having trouble telling if you're agreeing or arguing?"

YES!

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Re: Dune
« Reply #348 on: November 19, 2024, 07:58:14 PM »
Quote from: Ben on November 19, 2024, 03:35:56 PM
Just what is it you've got against two gay Orc parents fake breastfeeding their little Orc baby and putting "Harris/Walz" stickers on their shields?

If they were TRUE gay liberal Orc parents they would have aborted the baby and felt good about it.
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« Reply #349 on: November 19, 2024, 08:18:13 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on November 19, 2024, 07:58:14 PM
If they were TRUE gay liberal Orc parents they would have aborted the baby and felt good about it.

Fair point.
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