I watched Dune today!

It was a super rare date with Spouse :)

I've never read Dune before, and I didn't read spoilers, so this was also a rare event where I didn't know where the movie was going! :D

- They did a really good job on laying out the various competing factions and not info-dumping. A lot of great showing of the world instead!
- It was good to have visuals of an expansive sci-fi world that *isn't* Star Wars. :chefkiss:

- Definitely enjoyed the framing of "lol these guys might be the nicer oppressors but they're still oppressors." Good job. (Oscar Isaacs being like "I'm the nice one who's willing to work with you, but also your planet was given to me by the emperor, and actually I want to work with you mostly to integrate you into our hyper-militaristic society as a force that fights for me")
- ::gestures:: look at all that over-militarization. Where are the women in this society? (Besides the BeneGs, ofc)
- oh man, not a fan of the White Savior trope. Paul Atreides, I see you, being better at fighting and being oh so magically knowledgeable. I'm so glad that it's not all in Paul's PoV because that would have been *insufferable* (I came out of this with strong Lawrence of Arabia vibes, and then learned on wikipedia that in fact this story was heavily inspired by that, lol)


( a few more character notes, which are vague, but also spoilery )