Thread 24870099

>Harkonnens have been on Arrakis for 80 years
>The best part of the desert they can think of to drop Paul and Jessica is exactly where Yueh tells them to, right next to the Shield Wall
>they don't gag Paul even though they knew Jessica had been training him
what the fuck?

>>24870099 (OP)
dune is pure rule of cool
i don't know what you were expecting

>>24870299
>canonically has a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying thousands of planets
>declines to use it because.... b-because...

>>24870313
because sword fights are cooler

>>24870313
Once people realized nukes poison the land, they stopped using them.

It's literally a book about giant worms on a desert planet called Iraq-is. It's not deep.

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>>24870099 (OP)

>Oh yeah lemme burn an extra 2 hours worth of fuel and miss out on the loot and rape party waiting for us back in civilization when they're gonna die anyway
Said no goon ever

Lady Jessica is also a low-level Bene Gesserit, and the exact capabilities of bene Gesserit are not widely known, because they suicide with their body control shit before anyone can fully pry their secrets out. The Baron complains of this in one of his chapters. They also have no good way of knowing what Pauls abilities are at that point, because Bene Gesserit don't share this knowledge with males in normal circumstances.

>>24870099 (OP)
>exactly where Yueh tells them to
They thought Yueh was working for them, dumbass.
>even though they knew Jessica had been training him
Obviously they didn't, dumbass.

>>24870313
... because the other houses will unite and destroy them. Nukes are forbidden; worse, ungentlemanly.
Seriously, have any of you faggots actually read the novel?

>>24870313
You mean just like real life?

>>24870795
>a desert planet called Iraq-is
Holy fuck I didn't realize this before

>>24870313
>>24870910
it's just like IRL Nukes are fake, but the "using of nukes" turns the whole geopolitik against you, which turns a closed game capitalist structure into oooo lookie here an open nation/country/planet for the raping.
Japan got firebombed twice and the Soviet upper class and American upper class both used this to fear monger a fake cold war while furthering other interests (wealth accumulation, tech control, formation of soft colonies)
The Bene Gesserits are just the Jesuits (who control other factions like Freemasonry, which founded America)

>>24870795
MIND BLOWN

There hasn't been as much mentat interest from the public. I remember there was multiple sources on how they would train.

>>24872642
Look at this tinfoil-hatted loser.

>>24872614
Dune's influences are made of thick obvious chunks. And I will shut down anyone who claims Lucas plagiarized him. All art is a borrow.

>>24870904
Yueh was told to lower their house shields and deliver Leto. They shouldn't have trusted him in anything else.

>Obviously they didn't, dumbass.
The Baron turned with that dancing lightness the suspensors gave him. "Joke?
I? Remember--I am giving up the boy. You heard what the traitor said about the
lad's training. They are alike, this mother and son--deadly."

lol

>>24872642
>The Bene Gesserits are just the Jesuits (who control other factions like Freemasonry, which founded America)

But the Jesuits suck these days and are full of literal faggots.

>such a lovely body. Really a lovely boy
What did the Baron mean by this?

>>24873585
It's weird how nobody on reddit or youtube talks about Dune's influences when they're so obvious. You get the impression they think Herbert was the first to do a story about a prince avenging the death of his father. It's weird to me that someone would read Dune without at least vaguely knowing what Foundation and Barsoom are.

>>24873585
>Dune's influences are made of thick obvious chunks
Some of them are, but a great many of them aren't
There is a shocking lack of secondary literature on the Bible and Biblical commentary in Dune, and outside of the places where Dune directly quotes the Bible I'm sure you couldn't expound on the matter
Same with Shakespeare in Dune

>>24873659
>You heard what the traitor said about the
>lad's training. They are alike, this mother and son--deadly.
Both deadly. Not, both can use "the voice".

>>24874056
>What did the Baron mean by this?
he's gay as fuck.