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I'll preface that Lynch was before my time. When I discovered it, the puppets and practical sets stood up well but the CGI was so obviously not ready yet. Then I couldn't get past the story being driven by voice over narration. It's a fine attempt, with many interesting concepts... but I'd rather re-read the books than sit through the Lynch version again.

I quite liked the miniseries, I thought it did a great job tracking the story and keeping the narrative coherent. It just lacked the budget to take the world and visuals where it needed to be. Another solid attempt.

Bringing me to why Villeneuve's version was necessary, IMO. It has it's own flaws and there are many scenes sadly missing from the final cut I wish made it in, BUT what is there is executed to a such high level of craftsmanship and skill by people clearly passionate for the material. It has the politics and the action, and juggles the pace seamlessly. Movies I can watch repeatedly and still find something exciting in the frames, with a streamlined story that tracks closely enough but keeps it moving forward. I won't call it perfection, but an accomplishment of adaptation in every way.

Wow this got long, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

I started with kbin, but as that project declined the lemmy apps were starting to mature, after I found voyager I was all in on lemmy. I still haven't found a great mobile app for mbin.

Well #1 you're wrong, #2 the Villeneuve movies are frickin' great and very necessary, and #3 gonna get one more and it'll be great too.

Lick my muad'dib, I waited so long for a proper blockbuster adaptation. 😘

Nothing says great american car like a soviet shitbox. Someone knew what they were doing.

Edit- and ugh this is real, not even parody.

The neat part is that it doesn't really matter who they put in place. Powell is likely the most qualified person to navigate through the tariff shitstorm, but anyone else with two brain cells to rub together would be taking the same actions.

They need to find someone with zero brain cells that is willing to intentionally tank the economy to appease the mad king. Self inflicted hyperinflation seems to be the goal.

There's some episodes and clips on youtube to get a feel, but all the episodes are part of PBS Passport streaming service

A show on PBS, they look at old stuff like paintings, pottery and collectables people found or inherited, and have appraisers explain the backstory of the item and estimate how much it could be worth at auction. It's great.

Edit - I think BBC has a version too

That first edition charizard though, so universally contentious. A core childhood memory was battling a neighborhood kid, he wagered his charizard and I put up machamp + gyarados holos. Winner gets the pot. We do the battle, I won, then immediately this kid snatches the charizard off the table and took off running all the way down the street back home with it.

I never got the card, and that's how I learned there is no justice in this world. Was way before they were worth anything more than sentimental value.

Makes sense, thiefs and liars.

But, they paid the cat tax! Scammers have gone too far!

Sucks, even on a network this size still people trying to take advantage. I'm glad you could spot the scam before any real trouble.

Add pardons for Keith Raniere, R Kelly and Andrew Tate and there might be enough cover to get away with Maxwell. "I don't have a favorite sex trafficker, we're taking care of all of it. I don't play favorites" - trump, likely.