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[ChairmanPoo]

I heard that Kit Harrington showed more emotion reading the script than acting it

[Max™]

i figured it out

tyrion didn't grow his beard until after season 4 and he didn't become really stupid until after season 4

coincidence? i think not

Hey me no dumb after beard now! All small chin babymen dumb!

[ChairmanPoo]

Maybe this was said before, but...

Back when I read the first book, I noticed how similar it was, in many ways, to Dune.

But I just realized that the ending of the series it's practically  "Children of Dune", with Cersei in the role of Alya,  Bran in place of Leto II, and Jon in the place of Paul

[TD1]

Hey, no spoilers!

Actually being mildly serious. I've only just started reading Dune.

[zombat]

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Paul kills Sting, that makes it rain for... reasons, and all the hydrophobic worms drown

[ChairmanPoo]

Hey, no spoilers!

Actually being mildly serious. I've only just started reading Dune.

I'm kind of interested in your opinion on what I said after you're done

[nenjin]

For me, I wish I'd just stopped at Dune. I'd read Dune several times before I was like "You know, there's like 4 more books after this....."

Dune is by far the most readable, coherent and grounded of all the books. Beyond Dune shit just gets weirder, and harder to follow. Not impossible, but maybe not super enjoyable the way Dune was.

Put another way.....they're not the kind of books someone would try to make a movie about.

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Radiation that targets just your eyeballs. WHAT.

[Loud Whispers]

Where we've gone we don't need eyes

[Il Palazzo]

Oh, this is now a Dune thread? Probably for the best.

I thought Dune Messiah and Children of Dune to be fine, if a step down from the original. The problem with them is that they change the perception of the original. Dune alone is a great experience, Dune+DM is just good. Dune+DM+CoD is fair-to-middling. Each one past that gets only further into the oddly creepy, eye-rolly garbage.
It's that effect* where initially grand and sweeping world building falls apart once the author starts to explain the previously vague notions.
*I'd call it the Star Wars effect, but Dune was doing it before it was cool.

Put another way.....they're not the kind of books someone would try to make a movie about.

And yet they did make that miniseries.

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Radiation that targets just your eyeballs. WHAT.

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I don't think that's an issue. I took it to mean going blind in a similar way one can go blind by looking at the Sun. A high-intensity UV flash should do it without otherwise harming the person, so one can assume that's the dominant component in the spectrum of a stoneburner flash.

[nenjin]

I didn't watch the miniseries. I remember it had very mixed reviews. Dune Messiah felt on the rails still. But by Chapterhouse it's like "WTF is this even anymore."

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IIRC, it doesn't just make him blind. It melts his eyeballs.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was going to say that I liked GEOD. But tbh it was well into kooky territory. I mean Leto II is a charismatic and interesting character but the rest of the book has large sections that make me suspect FH was dropping acid, if probably not quite as much as at the time of writing heretics and chapterhouse

[zombat]

There's a new dune movie that just started filming (and no, it's not that terrible Jabawocky one)

[Il Palazzo]

The man at the helm gives it a good chance of being actually good, for a change.

[TD1]

It's not a D from D&D, is it?

[nenjin]

Cast looks fairly promising.