This is a really great point.

It’s a little surprising that this far into the show’s run that Zeke of all characters elicits more sympathy than Jimmy, Jr.

I recall reading that article. It’s still one person’s interpretation of the work and of Heinlein’s intention, not the objective nature of the work.

Excellent point!

Which is ironic considering Heinlein himself served in the Navy. He also spends some of the novel disparaging the space fleet in a way that seems to suggest said military branch is comparable to the problematic nature of the Air Force and droning technology.

Heinlein wrote dozens of novels with many different messages. Most of those books also featured incest or inbreeding. Are we meant to assume that Heinlein was condoning the taboo or that he was telegraphing a secret lifestyle kink?

Verhoeven only read two chapters of the original book before quitting, dismissing it as bad fiction. Why should we trust his ability to adapt a novel? He clearly misconstrued the entire thesis of the narrative if he felt it in any way condoned fascism.

Why would Heinlein hate the film when the book itself was also a satire of fascism?

I will never understand people that read the original book by Heinlein and didn’t realize that the book itself was a deconstructive satire of fascism.

Have you seen Fargo? Why would anyone trust hiring a stranger to beat the shit out of you and not kill you?

Can you cite a single instance of psionic or psychic abilities in any of the original six novels?

How, exactly, are modern humans from the year 1965 to the year 2019 in any way comparable to humans specifically bred and genetically engineered for 20,000 years?

Unless you yourself are black, it’s racist for you to say that.

Black women are not a monolith. It’s racist to assume others.

How is anything I said wrong when I specifically mentioned the Bene Gesserit have bred humans for 20,000 years for the purposes of sexual conditioning?

The plot point makes complete sense if you’ve read the entire series from the beginning and have at least a passing familiarity with Jungian archetypes.

This is very much not true, unless you’re referencing the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson novels.

A lot of people bring this up as a confusing or unrealistic, but Herbert was by no means suggesting modern humans can be brainwashed through sex.

It wasn’t until Children of Dune, the third in the series, that I noted a marked improvement in Herbert’s prose. The storytelling definitely gets better.

This is incredible! I’m actually currently developing a musical adaptation of the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros.: The Movie!