>>24658289 (OP)
To understand the normie, you have to think like one. Imagine that up until now your only exposure to sci-fi was Star Wars, where everything is black and white and spelled out in a way even children can understand. Now imagine you read Dune. The parallels to Lawrence of Arabia and Islamic history fly over your head because the only thing you read is Sandersonslop. The struggle between master morality and slave morality flies over your head because you've never read Nietzsche, and to you morality only makes sense in black and white. The mysticism flies over your head because the only thing you understand are autistically defined magic "systems." The cerebral aspect of the characters flies over your head because you only like characters that "likeable" and "unproblematic." The central thesis against charismatic leaders flies over your head because you're looking for a Luke Skywalker to cosplay. The worldbuilding escapes you because you have no grasp on even the basics of Middle Eastern history. Now, this would all be fine and good if all these layers were just secondary to some sort of plot, but the issue is that they're not. They are more important than the plot, and for you as a normie plotfag this is the final straw. This is why you prefer the movies to the books, as they completely strip away all the ideas that you don't understand and leave the hollow core of just the plot. I fucking hate Villeneuve so much, the most autistic director alive picked to adapt a novel of deep nuance was bound to end in failure. As shitty as Lynch's Dune was, it kept some element of the complexity of the novels, and ofc normies hate it for doing that.
