Oof. I’m sorry.

Huh. My grandmom died at 95 a couple of months ago. The year just keeps on taking...

Nilfgaard is an empire, not city. 

I think I’m also in the minority in that I liked Netflix Faye better than the original.

That’s unfortunate. While the show definitely had a whole slew of problems, you could see the love that the creators poured into it, and I think that if they had the chance, the second season would have improved on most of the issues it had. 

That’s on the writer, not the director.

Modern reactors re-purpose the waste as fuel in other reactors.

It was also designed by a person with no experience of designing nuclear power plants, who was under orders to cut every corner imaginable.

The Baron is obviously a human being, physically speaking, just the imagery with him invokes a gruesome beast. I don’t see why this interpretation of the character would contradict the plot point you mention in any way. 

I think that Bautista’s interpretation of Rabban came off as meek and intimidated in the presence of his uncle, but still clearly a monstrous brute when left to his own devices. He explodes once, but once glance from the Baron and he’s looking at the floor, subdued.

Dr. Yueh never expected to see his wife again. What broke his Imperial conditioning was the desire for revenge. He was willing to sacrifice House Atreides in order to kill Baron Harkonnen, and he almost succeeded. Helping Paul and Jessica was just an attempt to ease his conscience, and maybe a workaround to his…

She’s been confirmed to be a girl, just young and androgynous enough for it to not really matter fo the story. 

Too soon, man.

His character is supposed to be 15.

The script needs to be tweaked to fit the circumstances; if an actor is only available for x number of days but the preliminary script requires them to be present in y number of scenes, the script needs to be reworked to accommodate that. And then there’s the inevitable studio requirements, audience feedback etc. that…

If I remember correctly, Lynch didn’t have the lightning either until the climactic scenes of his film. And the worms seen in Part One were still relatively small ones; we’ll probably see a giant among sandworms in Part Two.

Feyd will almost certainly appear. The Harkonnens would come off as too much of a blunt instrument if Rabban was the Baron’s only confidant. Maybe Rabban gets to have a film original end though; I think he died off screen in the book?

I’m not surprised after the box office profits thus far, but I’m glad that there were no other complications. Here’s for hoping that the filming will go without a hitch, as well.

That’s a premature argument to make before the sequel comes out. Villeneuve elected to focus the film on Paul’s perspective, and only departs it when it is absolutely necessary for the plot. Baron Harkonnen’s plans within plans aren’t featured because they’re not something that Paul could know or deduce from the facts…

There are several historical religions featuring a triple goddess, but the Maiden, Mother and Crone dichotomy was only invented in the 20th century.