I have questions about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.
If the Fremen have lasers, why don’t they just shoot the sand harvesters and run away? Why don’t they use their sandworms until the last battle? Wouldn’t it make more sense to fight the other great houses on Arrakis itself, where they have sandworms, rather than board ships off-world to go off to war? If Paul (Timothée Chalamet) has to invade the galaxy at the end, why bother marrying the daughter of the emperor he just deposed? It didn’t pacify the other great houses. And why didn’t it? His threat to destroy the spice fields seems like a pretty good one. Did the emperor kill Paul’s dad, Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), because “he believed in the rule of the heart, but the heart is not meant to rule,” or just because the Reverend Mother (who seemed bummed about it) told him to? Is there any point to all the diplomatic subterfuge and maneuvering if literally everyone just does what the nearest Bene Gesserit tells them to do?
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