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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jmarso" data-source="post: 8435028" data-attributes="member: 7032066">Agree with this.What's below is not technically spoilers, but I'll spoiler it anyway because some viewers want to go in with zero foreknowledge.[spoiler]Although relatively coherent, it is a little odd which story points get attention in this version and which are all but ignored. Dr. Yueh's Imperial Conditioning is not mentioned once, making one wonder why he was so trusted to start with. No mention of the abilities of Mentats (human computers), and the roles of Thufir Howatt and Piter DeVries are cut back to almost cameos. The Bene Gesserit and their abilities are addressed, but they have to be as they are essential to the narrative. What is missed, however, is their need for Spice along with that of the Guild Navigators, and the whole politicking between the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, the Emperor, and the Landsraad.The trip from Caladan to Arrakis is handled as a jump-cut- you never see a space-fold or hear it mentioned; for the uninitiated, Heighliners might as well travel by warp or hyperspace. There is no real mention of Guild Navigators or the way they are mutated over centuries by the Spice. One thing the movie does well is impart a sense of scale with respect to the various ships and vehicles- they are frakkin' huge. You could fit half of starfleet in that Heighliner!The scene of Paul's Testing by the Reverend Mother, and the way this version handled The Voice, is superlative.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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