[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by kalthalior:
I have to agree with whomever made the point about not including the sonic weapons in the Sci-Fi Version, they are emphasized as being really revolutionary tech in the book.

Are you talking about the weirding modules from the movie? The 'With a word I can shatter bones, burst organs, set fires' weapon? That was never in the book. It was an invention of Lynch. The actual 'weirding way' was the bene gesserit prana-bindu method of muscle and nerve training. Essentially it was hyper-advanced martial-arts/yoga. This is what is in the book and this is what is in the miniseries.

Granted, I didn't know this until I read the book many years after I saw the movie as a child. At first I was disappointed, since the weirding modules were a central aspect of the Dune mythos that I had built out of one of my favorite movies. Once I got into the books I changed my mind.

Raynor:
The Usul thing pissed me off too (and the mouse-shadow of the moon etc.). It was done quickly and well in the Lynch film so I don't understand why they didn't include it. The rest of the series was so well done, though, that I can't stay angry. The mini-sreies is faithful to the book in so many ways that it makes me wince when I watch the old movie (though I still love it).

Also, about the spice, its prime use (and therefore value) was as a tool for prescience. It allowed the trained user to see possible futures. Even the space-folding of the navigator guild was just a beneficial side effect of that. The problem was that the prescience was not perfect. There were areas that they could not see. To overcome this limitation the Bene Gesserit set out to breed one who would have perfect prescience. Enter Paul Muad'dib.

Melange in its raw form was a lot like cinnamon and could be consumed in much the same way. The processed life extension treatment was usually administered in beverage form.