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Date Posted: 02:10:44 04/22/04 Thu
Author: anonymous
Subject: maybe, but not all of them
In reply to: IDAHO 's message, "Some of your statements are fallacious" on 14:54:53 04/21/04 Wed

Yeah, it's mean to want to hurt their feelings, but I hate that they've disappointed me so much.

The problem with the "instant" inventions is that they're instant, not that so-and-so was credited with them. Look at the timescale in the prequels: all the really major inventing seemed to have happened in two brief spurts. Does that honestly sound plausible to you? Doesn't to me...I'm surprised the authors didn't try to throw in development of maula pistols, or Tleiaxu metal eyes, or ridulian crystals while they were at it. What F. Herbert did was create a universe with an implied history in which he focused in some certain critical periods (while leaving the rest implied). What B. Herbert did was try to pack everything into a few episodes, which gives the impression that the periods he and his father focused on weren't just the critical ones, but the only ones of any importance. Science and technology, in particular, don't advance in the kind of sporadic fashion B. Herbert thinks it does...that only happens in movies and the old "space opera" sci-fi.

In other words, F. Herbert created a plausible universe, which B. Herbert subverted into a bunch of implausible vignettes. People might find the individual pieces appealing, but they detract from the whole.

Plus it was really irritating to see how B. Herbert ruined Count Fenring. I thought the humming was a cover (and means) for secret communication with his wife, not some fairy thing he affected all the time.

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Actually it IS plausible -- IDAHO, 16:12:09 04/23/04 Fri
- No, it's not -- anonymous, 11:06:43 04/27/04 Tue
  - Lost Technology -- Freakzilla, 11:02:59 05/26/04 Wed
    - Crap -- erin, 13:23:20 05/27/04 Thu
      - Can we agree on this? -- erin, 13:48:54 05/27/04 Thu
        Agree?...maybe a little -- Crysknife, 14:26:02 05/27/04 Thu
        But, who else who has the rights? -- erin, 19:36:09 05/27/04 Thu
        What are you talking about? -- Crysknife, 12:36:24 05/28/04 Fri
        My point was you are being too critical. -- erin, 13:22:48 05/28/04 Fri
        That's funny.. -- Crysknife, 14:05:52 05/28/04 Fri
        touche' -- erin, 15:08:50 05/28/04 Fri