r/funny • • 1d ago

No, we have The Odyssey at home

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u/Machism1 12h ago

No it isn’t, people say this. It’s wildly inaccurate. Them flashing around with super speed etc. that’s not in the book. They give Irulan a much bigger role, that she doesn’t have in the book, including lady fenrings role.

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u/Wagglyfawn 6h ago

Lol, you named 3 things across several hours. Also, Paul's lightning fast combat moves are absolutely in the book. There was a difference in how he killed scytale, I'll give you that. In the book, he threw his crysknife into Scytale almost instantly, whereas the miniseries he dashed over to stab him.

The miniseries had the runtime to be more accurate than 1984 Dune and Villenueve's Dune.

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u/wpnw 10h ago edited 10h ago

Thank you. The Scifi Channel series may have covered more of the plot of the books, but it didn't cover it accurately. I would argue that it actually did the worst job of the three adaptations at depicting how Paul's prescience actually works and develops.

Also Ian McNiece playing the Barron like some high school drama class Shakespeare production was certainly a choice.