I’ve always thought that was pretty obvious - the first battle of Arakeen. The Duke’s death. Jessica and Paul co-opt the Ornithopter sending them to die in the desert and fly off into the sandstorm being pursued by the enemy - reciting the litany, the way they do in the book - of course. Ambiguous “do they make it?…

#RacismMakesYouLoseWars

What the fuck? That’s what you’re coming at me with?

I’m down. That makes a lot of sense.

We need serious over the top ideas for, like, Pyter, Fenring (if they’re even in the movie) or the reverend mother, but I think you could pull The Emperor out of the same pool as Leto. In the book he’s described as pretty plain and lame. Military uniform. Looks about younger than he is. Red hair. Kinda perpetually…

Christopher Eccleston would also be spectacular as well. He’s got an unbelievable presence, can grow a sick beard, already looks a bit like Chalamet, and (kinda) already has clout with sci-fi fans after being in Doctor Who and Thor 2.

I think the big problem with both onscreen adaptations is that he fucking flies. It’s a giant what the fuck. The baron doesn’t hover. He’s not a goddamn balloon. He wears a gravity belt that *lets him stand* because otherwise he can’t walk. It makes no damn sense.

Rabban and Feyd were pretty lean - or at least - not obese. That was just the Baron. Even then he was around 44o lbs: “200 kilos when his feet would only carry half of that.”

Your heart’s in the right place, but that sounds terrible. I don’t see how a more generic, less accessible, less influential, *less clever* story laid out by the crack failures Brian Herbert and KJA would be preferable to just adapting the first friggin’ book. Especially if it’s their bastardized terminator-take on…

Vigo Mortenson? Joaquin Phoenix? Garret Dillahunt if it's intended to be a smaller role?

No fucking intelligence quotient test has found any division along the basis of race despite a hundred and fifty fucking years of psychologists looking for that exact shit. Get your head out of the fucking 1940's.

I don't think the writing has been good since, like, 2011.

It’s past its heyday prematurely without question. It could easily survive, even thrive, as a quaint little niche thing harkening back to the days when FPS games played “like this.”

The only way it’s ever made sense to me is to tell an original story as an adjacent property - a sort of shared universe thing. No Hollywood exec NOR AAA magnate has nearly that much faith in their target audience though.

The Halo community is weird. There’s a faction of people that hate 343 and love Bungie - and they are orders of magnitude easier to validate than the people who are the reverse, yes - but they aren’t entirely correct either. Bungie could be downright awful about the “quality” of their games the way that metric is…

Here here. Halo’s had maybe two good traditional narratives in its lineup: 2 and ODST. Reach is monotonous and one-note. 4 is melodramatic and nonsensical. Even 2 stretches believability and ODST was already a Firelfly reunion so lol.

It does if your expectations were borked to begin with. This was conceived, developed, and marketed as a rerelease of Dark Souls 1 in the same vein as all those other games I mentioned above. It is entirely normal and hurts nobody. It is not worth being angry about. It’s barely worth being disappointed in.

I am well aware of the community reaction. My point is that the community is, as is to be expected of all reactionary movements in the world after 2014, being absolutely ridiculous.

You only spent $20 for it if you’re comparing it to PTDE lel. Is that still unreasonable?

What do we call people born around the cusp of 9/11 or Columbine? Zillennials?