>>35986811>I didnt even know a lot of it was borrowed from biographies of real people shenanigans in the middle east but when I found out was not surprised at allThat's got nothing to do with it. It's been ages since I saw the movie but I'm pretty sure it did a shit job of explaining things like the Bene Gesserit etc., so someone who's never read the book would have just seen some weird magic-but-not-really with no sense of purpose. (Again, this might be wrong since I haven't seen it in a while.)
The allegory is fine. But Dune is a sci-fi novel with an entirely new setting and a lot of worldbuilding details, that's what I'm talking about.
>>35986811>Okay, tell me what would have changed in the plot by knowing what it was or what it didWell for one I would be able to actually know what happened, and have suspension of disbelief when watching it. When watching e.g. Winter Wrap Up, you imagine ponies living in Equestria doing all those things. When watching MMC, all I can do is imagine animated ponies in a flash show being animated to do these things, because if I try to suspend disbelief and imagine it as something that's actually going on in Equestria (as you're supposed to, to enjoy a story), I literally cannot parse what the fuck is meant to be going on, as explained in
>>35986812. So I'm left with just looking at what's on-screen.
>>35986822Are you retarded? All of that is self-consistent. You can come up with a logical explanation for all of those. Some of them aren't even loose ends, they're just details that were glossed over.
What I described are straight up logical inconsistencies in the core plot of the episode. I don't even care what the spell was meant to do, I just want to understand what happened during the moments we were shown in the episode. But the episode is not self-consistent, and there does not exist a coherent explanation as a result.
