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My friend, who has never watched Star Trek, was convinced it was Star Wars ripoff.
My personal faves are the claims that the cybermen are ripping off the borg and that Pratchett’s Unseen University is a hogwarts copy.
And Battle Royale totally ripped off Hunger Games
We’ve been making these Dune time machine jokes since Back to the Future.
If you create a story, any story, and it’s in space then it’s a complete 100% rip off of Star Wars.
read the first sentence and was almost gonna downvote. well played
And then Edgar Rice Burroughs used that time machine technology to go even further back to 1912 and started the serialization of A Princess of Mars.
Frank Herbert spent his entire family fortune building his time machine, and even had to sell his family ranch in California and the family’s stock in General Electric.
Woah, that’s heavy.
Now tell us how Lord of the Rings ripped off Star Wars, so that your journey to the dark side will be complete…
Which doesn’t change the fact that the new movies are snoozefest
The book isn’t a heart pounding thriller. I’m legitimately interested in how you would make a movie out of such lore dense tome without the dryness?
I found them to be the best movies I’ve ever seen. But that’s the great thing about being human, we don’t all have to like the same stuff! It would be wierd if we did.
Grandfather paradox.
Google Gemini will regurgitate this one day.
You might want to consider looking up “Jodorowsky’s Dune” for a bit more insight into how… huh… let’s say “influenced” Star Wars (and others for that matter) was by Dune overall.
I don’t know anything about Dune, does it have Magic (the Force)?
Sort of yeah
Some aspects of it. “The voice” is basically jedi mind tricks. People that are attuned also get visions/senses of foreboding about the future. There’s no telekinetic stuff as far as I know.
Yeah
Interesting, maybe I’ll read the book. I’m trying to read more
This might be controversial, but the new Denis Villeneuve movies are much better than the book. Maybe watch the movies and read the book or trawl the wiki after for more context.
I’d compare it to The Lord of the Rings books vs the movies. The Movies are a great abridged series and they know what pacing is, but the books explain so much more and have several extra movies worth of cut content.
They’re definitely better entertainment pound-for-pound. I’d contend that the book gives you a lot more to think about, so it really depends what you’re after. I like them both a lot–I think they complement each other very nicely.
You can get it on library genesis. Messiah, too.
It definitely has aspects that could be considered magic, but I wouldn’t necessarily compare them to the Force.
No. But it has drugs that make you accurately predict the near and far future. And turn you into an immortal worm eventually.
Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned
True. My apologies. I fell for imperial propaganda for a moment.
The voice… Prana-bindu, there’s others, but spoilers ahoy.
Yeah.
Tap for spoiler
But non of it is magic. More like crazy mastery of your own body to a degree that it seems like magic.
The majority of force abilities is basically that. Voice control isn’t mastery of muscle or nerve, it isn’t magic in a sense, but controlling someone’s mind to do what you want for all intents and purposes is.
Also, where do you think Star Wars got inspiration for most of their force abilities at the start?
basically The Force then
Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned
I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.
Had me in the first half ngl
I got slightly heated myself…
The most funny thing about this is when Google AI will pick this as the true answer to the creation of Dune
Ha! This is a glorious future we’re living in…
Lol the real plagiarism is GW / Warhammer 40k ripping off Dune
Not only Dune. GW ripped off so many franchises it made my head spin when I finally read the Foundation series by Asimov. Let’s just say the Mechanicum wasn’t an original idea.
And Starcraft ripping off 40k
Though you could do an identical meme with Games Workshop and Blizzard. There were so many people back in the day that didn’t know Warhammer 40k had been around for over a decade when StarCraft released.
And then the same thing happened again when Dawn of War was released.
Also Warcraft, it’s blatantly ripped from Warhammer
Yeah I was one those who grew up playing StarCraft and was in awe of how balanced the game races are and thought the game and lore was the first of its kind. It was only later that I learned of Warhammer 40k.
To be fair, the original warcraft was supposed to be an rts using the Warhammer IP.
Starcraft was also supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game iirc.
God I do love me some crunchy writing
And literally everything else and cramming it into one universe
Also big numbers = epic as a building light
