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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,107 posts) Tue Aug 31, 2021, 01:39 AM Aug 2021

#DuneMovie-Extended look at the Gom Jabbar scene

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#DuneMovie-Extended look at the Gom Jabbar scene (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 OP

I read it so very long ago. Never saw a movie of it -- Hekate Aug 2021 #1

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1. I read it so very long ago. Never saw a movie of it --

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Tue Aug 31, 2021, 02:26 AM

Aug 2021

Should I be seeking it out?

Yes, Paul Atreides was tested with the Gom Jabbar, and his mother Lady Jessica accused the Reverend Mother of holding him to it far longer that she had Jessica. He thought his hand had been charred to the bone.

The Reverend Mother was angry that Jessica had chosen to give her lord a son instead of the Bene Gesserit a daughter; and she was angry at the presumptiousness of Jessica thinking this son could turn out to be the Kwisatz Haderach…

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