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Does Hitler even register on the scale 8000 years later after events like the Butlerian Jihad?
The Jihad wasn't originally even a war, that was some bland Skynet ass shit the author's son put in. The Jihad was originally a philosophical reckoning of the dependence on machines humanity was developing and a rejection therein. Dune still has computers and technology far advanced compared to what we have but nothing that thinks like a human.
Sounds like the usual late 60's concern with bureaucracy and standardization.
"There's another Emperor I want you to note - a Vladimir Putin."
Wait I thought Vladimir Harkonnen is the Putin of Dune’s universe? Is he the descendant or something? I’m not familiar with the lore.
The origin of the name Harkonnen is Härkönen, a Finnish name. Herbert apparently saw that name in a phone book and thought it sounded Soviet. As always, libs do no research and just assume whatever the fuck they want.
he's not russian, he's just vaguely russian-coded to sound evil. he is evil, yes, but also herbert felt like painting him russian for reasons... he failed a bit because harkonnen was taken from a finnish surname afaik.
He's going to compare himself to Trump
Orange man bad. Orange planet bad.
Are they really adapting this one?
It's the next in the series, and Anya Taylor-Joy was brought in for a 30 second cameo in the latest one (as a character that presumably plays a bigger part later on), so yeah I think it's safe to assume they're going to keep going.
holy shit that's awesome. I enjoyed reading Dune Messiah quite a bit.
Oh sweet, I heard Messiah wasn’t very good so I stopped after the first one. I’ll give it a shot sometime soon.
It's worth reading Messiah to (mostly) conclude Paul's character arc.
Paul: Wow, I killed almost as many people as Mao Zedong!
Stilgar: Well, THAT just happened.
In this one instance I will unironically just shrug and continue to eat the slop
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