Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
by CRConrad on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:57AM
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> my point is not that people can't infer how shields work (they actually don't need to infer it, because it's told to them explicitly in the first 10 minutes), but that they can't infer why swords are used instead of guns.
Isn't that utterly obvious from how the shields are supposed to work?
> That requires an inferential leap that the movie doesn't spoonfeed you.
What, "...and bullets move fast, so of course guns won't work" is a "leap"? Come on!
And here I thought I was pessimistic and cynical about the average IQ of the populace at large...
Isn't that utterly obvious from how the shields are supposed to work?
> That requires an inferential leap that the movie doesn't spoonfeed you.
What, "...and bullets move fast, so of course guns won't work" is a "leap"? Come on!
And here I thought I was pessimistic and cynical about the average IQ of the populace at large...