Is Stuck in Prequel QuicksandPhoto: HBO The problem with prequels, the mode du jour in Hollywood’s grab-all-the-IP age, is they make the mistake of thinking our appreciation of something is the same as curiosity about its provenance. In Solo: A Star Wars Story, learning how the rogui...
Thousands of years in the future thanks to interplanetary high politics and a feud the ruling Atreides family get moved from their lush planet Caladan to govern the desert planet Arrakis but which is rich in the vital drug Spice. The battle is immediately on to retain then regain their ...
Faces," both feature "chosen one" narratives, both have giant toothy worm monsters that live in the desert, and both have lots and lots of sand. Desert planets play a big role in both "Star Wars" and "Dune," and they also contain something the franchises seem to share: spice. In...
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Dune: Spice Wars is for strategy die-hards more than Dune fans NYT Connections: hints and answers for Monday, December 2 Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by fi...
Dune is, after all, an ecological allegory about the oil wars haunting the modern Middle East. Herbert draws on the geopolitical tetris between the Middle East and the West in his vision of noble houses feuding over spice, Arrakis’ treasured natural resource. To shift any sort of frame ...