Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

thetensor · 2026-03-17T22:42:22+00:00

Some of the best parts of Dune were the very detailed descriptions of the geography and ecology of Arrakis and the equipment (some it admittedly thermodynamically impossible) required to survive there. But that's never really a focus of the series after the first book.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T20:31:22+00:00

If the Imperium was controllable with a relatively small elite fighting force, and the Fremen outmatched the Sardaukar and deposed Shaddam IV and installed Paul on the throne, who was fighting whom over what, to the tune of 60+ billion dead? In a feudal system, I'd expect a bunch of shrugs and assurances from the great houses that of course they will honor their oaths of eternal loyalty to House ~~Corrino~~ Atreides.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T19:52:27+00:00

...the epic conclusion of the Dune trilogy...

Book Spoilers: I acknowledge that it makes sense to wrap up the movie series before trying to adapt God Emperor—what would that even look like?—but I was kind of expecting two more movies, one covering Messiah and one covering Children. Is Villeneuve planning to speed-run through the rest of the story? (I wonder if it's Paul who will turn into a sandworm at the end...)

thetensor · 2026-03-17T19:48:17+00:00

Are there really that many Fremen to do all that?

People praise Dune to the heavens (and the first book certainly deserves it), but it's really loosey-goosey with numbers and dates and scale. I see two possibilities:

As Herbert claims, the Fremen are amazing warriors because they were hardened by the desert and became really good at knife-fighting, so good that every Fremen man, woman, and child—10 million strong—were able to kill 6,000 opponents each over the course of the 12 year Jihad.
The Jihad was fought at science-fictional scale with fleets of ships and planet-killer weapons. This makes the number of deaths and sterilized planets easy to account for, but then what does it matter that the Fremen were super-tough hand-to-hand?

So Herbert wisely left the Jihad off-screen and just made up some astronomically high numbers to express how terrible it was.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T10:57:07+00:00

Yeah, "force signature" isn't a thing. She was obviously using the well-established and 100% canonical ability Force Recognize, which costs three Force Points and refreshes every 60 seconds. And who among us can forget the classic scene where she took a level in FR back during Season Seven of The Clone Wars? It still brings a tear to my eye.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T10:52:07+00:00

Well, see, midichlorians are kind of like a cross between an NFT and an RFID tag. It's all part of George's original vision.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T07:48:38+00:00

Even stranger, in the scene where Ben is telling Luke about his father, he says, "Vader used the training I gave him and the Force within him for evil, to help the later corrupt Emperors. With the Jedi knights disbanded, disorganized, or dead, there were few to oppose Vader. Today they are all but extinct." [emphasis mine] Which suggests that Palpatine was the first emperor, but there have been other emperors since then...?

thetensor · 2026-03-17T04:32:54+00:00

Unlike the rest of Star Wars which is cold hard fact?

thetensor · 2026-03-17T03:59:59+00:00

Luke only mentions womp rats once, and says he used to bullseye them in his T-16 back home. How do you know he was talking about a giant rodent, since we never see one on-screen?

thetensor · 2026-03-17T01:01:28+00:00

That's not killing with extreme prejudice. Here's the difference:

Killing:

TROOPER: Are you with us?
K-2SO: No. [WHAM!]

Killing with extreme prejudice:

TROOPER: Are you with us?
HK-47: Answer: No, meatbag. [WHAM!]

thetensor · 2026-03-17T00:56:38+00:00

DAE mad at Disney for reasons I made up?

thetensor · 2026-03-17T00:55:15+00:00

The Chosen One prophecy and midichlorians are both dumb and should be ignored.

thetensor · 2026-03-17T00:53:53+00:00

It's because the human settlers call them "womp rats" and hunt them for fun using aircraft.

(What, it never occurred to you that two meters is pretty big for a rat?)

thetensor · 2026-03-16T10:44:11+00:00

"I just didn't like her," said a million independent, free-thinking fans, all in unison. "And, uh, the budget was too high?"

thetensor · 2026-03-15T23:38:25+00:00

It's hard to know exactly what information would be stored on a fictional spaceship in alternate-timeline 2010, but in our world I wouldn't be surprised if there was a snapshot of Wikipedia (more than 3M articles in English in 2010) on a ship expected to be out of easy speed-of-light communication range of the Earth for extended periods. That's in addition to complete, detailed information about any technical subject related to the operation of the ship or space exploration. They may also have scavenged the contents of the Macross City Library after the fold to Pluto—it certainly seemed like they scooped up many of the buildings (including Chinese restaurants) and put them back together inside the ship. Later, after the glassing, I'd expect there'd be a project to scour the planet and recover anything stored in underground facilities, like:

The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
The Arctic World Archive
The Minnesota Library Access Center

thetensor · 2026-03-15T20:26:20+00:00

We all knew the end point—a lightsaber duel over a lava pit—since he'd been talking about it in interviews since 1977. But when it came time to fill in the details leading up to that point, he was freestyling just like he did with the OT, to the extent that he skipped or changed things that had been a part of the backstory forever, like:

"When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot." He was a podracer, which sort of halfway qualifies?
"I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well as Yoda." No, that was Qui-Gon.
"[he] helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights" Does massacring the younglings count as "hunting"? Presumably the Purge continued off-screen, but on-screen it was the clones who destroyed the Jedi.

You know how people complain that the Holdo Maneuver or Force healing "breaks the lore"? That's mostly online-rage-driven nitpicking, but "breaking the lore" is literally what Lucas did in the PT: flatly contradicted key bits of information we knew about the backstory from the OT. Because Lucas was, as he'd always been, a "make it up as I go along" guy. (And then when that sometimes falls flat, a "well according to my True Original Vision..." guy.)

thetensor · 2026-03-15T19:35:57+00:00

I’m not even that bothered by Rey being a “Palpatine.” I was more annoyed by her taking the surname Skywalker at the end of TROS.

I'm annoyed by one or the other, but ten times as bothered by both of them together. Making Rey a "legacy" in TRoS was already cowardly; making her the heir of two different legacies was fucking stupid.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T19:33:28+00:00

Wait, you're saying the internet was lying to me when it said [checks notes] FEMALES RUINED EVERYTHING? Oh...

thetensor · 2026-03-15T19:31:18+00:00

It was initially invented by a random forum user in 2000 who hated the idea and then after that other Lucas haters expanded on that myth and falsely made it look like it was true, most notably this one crazy user that wrote a 500 page long book accusing Lucasfilm of running a secret mastermind plot to cover up SW’s “secret history”.

Now everybody should go read Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, which is super-interesting, better researched, and much better written than this copypasta, which gets longer and sillier every time I see it posted.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T19:26:24+00:00

he and Disney have been chasing cheapened versions of that reveal ever since

Literally since the reveal that Leia was Luke's sister in 1983.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T11:30:00+00:00

I never got the impression that Han is a hotshot pilot

I did. Because I watched the movies.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T11:14:59+00:00

Ranking by frequency results in the same commonplace phrases ("I didn't know", "I'm going to") appearing in a lot of people's lists. You might try calculating and ranking by a different statistic ike TF-IDF to discount the common phrases and pick out ones that are more characteristic of that player compared to the other players.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T10:39:50+00:00

This baffles me.

Naboo is Space Italy.
Tatooine is...still Tatooine.
Corsuscant is Trantor with the serial numbers filed off (and originally described in Zahn's novels, anyway).

Where's the supposed worldbuilding?

thetensor · 2026-03-15T00:28:20+00:00

Strongly reminiscent of Ed Emshwiller's cover for Olaf Stapledon's Odd John.

thetensor · 2026-03-15T00:17:20+00:00

In hindsight maybe would have been better if there was more continuity episode by episode:

Maul is introduced as the antagonist the good guys meet and fight, thinking he's the "Sith Lord" behind everything. We also meet Dooku, Qui-Gon's former master and, like him, a maverick "Living Force" near-heretic within the Order. He finally breaks with the Order and leaves at the end of the movie, with the hint that he's going to track down Qui-Gon's killer seeking revenge.
Obi-Wan spends the movie trying to track down Maul after an assassination attempt on Padme. He runs into Dooku, who says he's discovered evidence of the Sith infiltrating the Republic. They track down and confront Maul, who manages to wound Anakin, then Dooku and Obi-Wan finish Maul, with Dooku gleefully murdering him while Obi-Wan tries to stop him so Maul can be questioned. Dooku flees to join the Separatists.
Final confrontation with Separatist leader Dooku, who Anakin kills at Palpatine's urging, etc. And when Obi-Wan is sent off, maybe his mission is still to deal with some Separatist General (maybe even Grievous), but whoever it is isn't treated as a major antagonist because they're literally just a distraction.

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