Love it. I'd never have thought to look for it, but I'm glad I stumbled across this post!
Nothing against anyone, you just don't want homosexual people to be portrayed on TV shows?
Here's some news, that's something against someone.
There is (was?) a great website called cooptimus
Have a good day :)
The spice is the source of the prescience, I don't think you can draw a line between them (the Tleilaxu could, but even then I think they used what they called synthetic spice, I don't really recall that very well though).
Aside for that point, yep, I agree with pretty much everything you said!
Unless I'm missing something?
Spice is more LSD than meth.
Paul Erdos has entered the chat.
The 2022 movie covers the first half of the first book and that theme only really comes into its own in books 2 and 3.
Not as a quote, but as a line in the context of the book, "They tried to kill my son" repeated over and over was a great illustration of a rational, quite staid man fighting a building rage and becoming something different.
It also served to humanise the Duke right before the tooth scene, building an empathetic connection to make us care about that scene more.
A deceptively simple line used incredibly well.
For pure quotage "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion".
I don't really agree that the spice wasn't put forward as a way to salvation. I think it clearly was key to finding the golden path.
The spice enabled the Bene Gesserit to see what was needed in their breeding program, and they were trying to breed Kwisatz Haderach who would lead humanity through a dangerous time, avoiding the destruction of the race. (Also the scene in the sietch that I won't go into detail about, becuase spoilers)
Leto II uses the spice to see the golden path and forge humanity into what it needs to be to survive. (Also the other thing which I haven't mentioned due to major spoilers of a cool moment).
The spice is pretty clearly necessary for the path taken to salvation.
While the spice may not have been necessary to avoid the destruction of the human race had another path been found, in the story as it was told it was absolutely central.
You troll Lemmy app posts? That's your life?
Neato.
You are literally the only active user. This is the only post.
The sidebar is one rule with frequent random capitalisation, and a "2:" then nothing.
All that's missing are the tumble weeds.