• RogueJello@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Depends on how detailed and respectful they wanted to be of the original material. Lawerence of Arab in Space where a young lord abuses a artificial prophecy to gain control of a planet, unleashing universal jihad where billions die isn’t far off.

      It does leave out some of the interesting bits, like when one of his ancestors turns into a worm, marries his sister and gets another man to fuck her, since he’s no longer able to do so.

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        6 days ago

        And then resurrects his dad’s best friend over and over until the guy kills him.

        The books do get… weird.

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        5 days ago

        The six hours you’ve watched so far is just an abridged version of the first book.

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            5 days ago

            It… isn’t though. By watching the movies you are missing one (1) novel’s worth of context, and it is impossible to really extrapolate from there.

            • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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              It’s just a joke, y’all are really over thinking it. I’m fully aware that watching the movies and reading the books are different experiences. The joke was that a summary cuts things just like the movie. That’s it.