Oh, one of those guys. So what is the "animal test"? Why do they care? Does it ever come up again? "Thank goodness Paul isn't an animal." And if the old lady had killed the Duke's heir? What then?

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The Gom Jabbar. A nun comes to your house and without your permission puts your only child to a test that could leave him dead. When you ask why, she says she had to find out if he was "an animal". That's what's wrong with it.

If they control more than one planet and Arrakis is just a business venture - why did the Atriedes move there? The Duke, his concubine, his heir and all of his courtiers, and soldiers and everyone. They knew the whole thing was a damn trap and they knew it. So instead of sending experts to run the place they all…

Well, other than insult me, what have you said? I mentioned the feudal lord because you're reading a book where the "good guys" are like that and you don't have a problem with it. As for what "alternate universe" I'm in, even other people have conceded that many of Dune's ideas are overused. So I don't understand…

Acknowledging that something is "overused" does make it a problem. It's lazy writing. Come up with something new. Have you read "The Mote in God's Eye"? Aliens have come up with something called "Industrial Feudalism", kind of a meritocracy with the most skilled people running different aspects of their society. …

Exactly! Thank you!

I think you should, since we've seen this over and over again and it's just a storm of clichés. What you like and dislike is your business. If you would like to be the subject of a feudal lord who just gave your village away another more brutal lord, fine.

A contradiction isn't an argument! http://www.montypython.net/…

The more things change. Also by the 19th century I don't think that had that much power anymore. By then the countries were more constitutional monarchies.

That's an opinion but not a counterpoint. You didn't counter one point.

The Emperor, the Great Houses, political marriages, palace intrigue, the fact that they barely mention the fact that they have subjects and no one gives a shit about them. Sounds medieval to me.

Not only a sentence - the book starts with a family tree with the founding member as the coward of some battle.

I'm sorry, but I'm about to raise another storm of downvotes.

1) Because I had already recorded it and could fast forward past his bullshit - as I mostly do
2) I see very little evidence of that.
3) Thanks, let's hope.
4) I mostly enjoy it. I'm also a creature of habit (and I don't live alone) so I watch many things I don't like anymore. Also I haven't completely come to hate…

I thought his "thing" was tall Latinas with big breasts.

Talbot was all over the place. I mean how can you trust a man who puts his family above the mission and fellow fighters?

Really.. Don't they have fake faces?

I had a couple of wisdom teeth extracted by a dentist who obviously hired all his assistants for their looks. They were all supermodel looking. Most terrifying moment - "Hand me the Benson retractor …. that's the one with the straight point on one end and the curl on the other. No. No. That's the one." Thank God…

The Middle:
1) I bailed for several hours when Brick started talking. I came back but fast forwarded.
2) When did Frankie ever give a shit about parenting?
3) What's the official word for killing your brother? Something-cide? Look it up because, with luck, it will come up on the show.
4) This episode was obviously…