Sci-Fi Dune

[OutOfBoose]

People couldn't handle Game of Thrones' final season

They could handle all but those who wrote final seasons.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Even considering the time it was written, the Baron in books really came off as a villain who happened to be gay, rather than a gay villain. if it was the latter, Herbert would have leaned into his homosexuality a bit more than he did.

 

[Sithborg]

Even considering the time it was written, the Baron in books really came off as a villain who happened to be gay, rather than a gay villain. if it was the latter, Herbert would have leaned into his homosexuality a bit more than he did.

Just going by the first book, sure. But the later books tends to reveal some concerning views about sex and gender.

 

[TheVileOne]

Even considering the time it was written, the Baron in books really came off as a villain who happened to be gay, rather than a gay villain. if it was the latter, Herbert would have leaned into his homosexuality a bit more than he did.

Well, his sexual appetites weren't restricted to just male.

 

[TheVileOne]

Even considering the time it was written, the Baron in books really came off as a villain who happened to be gay, rather than a gay villain. if it was the latter, Herbert would have leaned into his homosexuality a bit more than he did.

Reading the Baron, I never got the sense that he was a stereotypical gay panic villain. It was really just one minor aspect of the character. Also, I didn't see him as "gay" so much as a gluttonous, sexual deviant who needed to have his any and every whim sated. Because he didn't only have male sex slaves. He had female sex slaves as well.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Because he didn't only have male sex slaves. He had female sex slaves as well.

Lol, that's what bugged me about the prequel books, that they turned the Baron from gay to bisexual. I was like, "Come on, don't take away another openly gay character!".

 

[TheVileOne]

Lol, that's what bugged me about the prequel books, that they turned the Baron from gay to bisexual. I was like, "Come on, don't take away another openly gay character!".

I could be mis-remembering, but I remember in the original book Baron Harkonen being into males and females. Like it was an offhand mention, but I recall a passage that read to the effect of, "Sometimes he had a girl or sometimes he had a boy." Basically meaning he'd have a male or female sex slave serve him depending on his mood.

 

[DarkKnight88]

In the end, it came down to him wanting to destroy what is innocent. That’s what I got out of him, be it male or female. It wasn’t so much that he’s gay or bi-sexual, he got off on humiliation and pain of the innocent like many rulers in our own history.

 

[TheVileOne]

In the end, it came down to him wanting to destroy what is innocent. That’s what I got out of him, be it male or female. It wasn’t so much that he’s gay or bi-sexual, he got off on humiliation and pain of the innocent like many rulers in our own history.

He was a vile dude.

 

[James.B]

Dune: Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides Is ‘Mesmerised By The Desert’ In Exclusive Image

 

[OutOfBoose]

yoooooo

Looks like the harvester + wormsight scene.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Could be but in that scene Gurney and Paul don't leave the orni.

 

[Schlosser85]

They could tweak that in the movie though.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Are we getting more images from them on May 14?

 

[green]

yoooooo

Looks like the harvester + wormsight scene.

Dune: Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides Is ‘Mesmerised By The Desert’ In Exclusive Image

That’s Timothée Chalamet playing protagonist Paul Atreides, balancing on an airborne ornithopter, flying over the expanse of the planet Arrakis with Josh Brolin’s weapons teacher Gurney Halleck – and it’s a pivotal moment for the young warrior. “It’s Paul’s first contact with the deep desert, where he’s mesmerised by it,” Villeneuve tells Empire. “He has a strange feeling of being home. There’s a lot of action at this specific moment, and [it’s] one of the scenes in the movie that I’m starting to get pretty proud of.”

Sounds like it too.

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, I can see the easy tweak to that scene to allow that image. That makes a lot of sense.

 

[TheVileOne]

The still suits look good there. Are they boarding an ornithopter there?

 

[The Guard]

That may be the least Timothy Chalomet that Timothy Chalomet has ever looked.

 

[Schlosser85]

But does he look like Timothee Chalamet?

 

[antsman41]

Started reading two weeks ago, just hit 550 pages... in the first book.

 

[OutOfBoose]

 

[green]

Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay!
Training with Gurney?

 

[OutOfBoose]

He seems to wear the same clothes as Momoa's Idaho.

 

[green]

Yeah, seems to be Atreides uniform.
If it is training...where's his shield?

 

[OutOfBoose]

Maybe it will be added in post, or it's just diactivated. Who knows how it will work in the movie.