Sam [none/use name]

Remmick is a metaphor for assimilation, like the protagonists he is part of a diaspora from an culture obliterated by colonial rule. Unlike the protagonists the Irish and other white settlers were afforded the opportunity to assimilate into white America at the cost of their individual ethnic cultures. This emptiness is what leads to the fetishization and desire to appropriate other cultures which remain distinct due to not being afforded the same opportunity to assimilate. The movie explicitly mentions the Filí, a type of Irish bard that played an equivalent role to Sammie in using music to connect people to their shared cultural history. The reason Remmick is so focused on getting Sammie to join his literal hive mind is that he is so desperate to feel that shared culture and ancestral connection that he doesnt care that it isnt his culture or his ancestors.

Ironically, as an Irish person, the scene that I resonated with the most was Sammie’s song. I thought it was the perfect visualisation of how folk music can allow a culture to survive and connect with their ancestral pasts even when they have been long forgotten. Irish trad music and contemporary music that evolves from it is one of the very few unbroken threads to our shared past remaining.

They will most likely be made to turn around like the last two ships before the one that was bombed.

I think this might be a miscalculation here. Dr Yueh is an extremely sympathetic character whose wife was being held hostage and helped Jessica and Paul escape while also providing Leto with the poison to potentially kill the Baron. If it was some yellow peril bullshit then why would they show Paul speaking mandarin too? Why use it to establish the protagonists close relationship with Dr Yueh. Dune has so many brainworms (I stopped halfway through God Emperor of Dune because of all the fucking Homosexual Suicidal Urges stuff that was clearly Herbert lashing out at his own gay son) but I do not think this is one of them.

Theres a set of (sadly unfinished) videos on youtube by a former SC Whale and community helper who actually went as far as providing like 40 grand of seed money at the very beginning that details Chris Roberts career, including the stuff he was doing for the years between wing commander and the SC Kickstarter and abunch of behind-the-scenes stuff that paints a pretty clear picture. Roberts was a guy who lucked out with wing commander at the right time and place but essentially bungled its further success by wanting to produce movies and trying to force that through wing commander 3. After that failed because he was actually quite bad at management and any sort of directing he failed at actually getting into directing and ending up also failing to run a car rental service in LA in the hopes that he would rent a car to a celebrity that would give him an in to direct again.

Then the SC kickstarter happened and blew up beyond his wildest dreams, and so CR very quickly went from flogging his last bit of goodwill and nostalgia for peanuts to suddenly being a multi-millionaire and, like most people suddenly incredibly wealthy, promptly realised he would much rather go off and spend his unearned money in a blissful rich man retirement and only occasionally pop in to fuck with developers and prevent the project from actually getting anywhere.

Just go and watch the SQ42 trailer they released last year with the first mission in it, it has the shitty hallmarks of Chris Roberts terrible directing all over it. Resulting in the most boring generic Sci-Fi slop you’ve ever seen.

Yes and the Grenade throwers were always pretty rare. In a big pack of 50 you’d get like 3.

people always focus on the mormon thing, but really its Space Americans pretending to be Greek running away from mega-9/11 while West Wing LARPing who just happen to be space mormons.