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Atomic Snack Bar on youtube has a thing abiut Hammer scifi films. Mentioned Quater!ass 1,2,3… 3rd is best maybe) having a thing about alien infiltration of the Brit government. So is that were X Files got the idea? Or was that a thing before 1950? I doubt it was a thing before that unless it was in a written story.
1984 Dune was always dear to me... not much I ever felt weird about other than the funky shields on people, the shuttle-shaped aircraft (yuck, almost like the Star Trek Enterprise shuttles... almost as bad as real life space shuttles), and... maybe that's it? Watching as an adult, the bigger red-headed nephew of the Baron Harkonnen was not quite as smooth an actor maybe? The rest of it was just great.
So when Dune 1 came out a couple of years ago, I was hopeful but had medium expectations. It blew me away, BLEW ME AWAY! The only slight gripe was the sparseness of it, sort of similar to Blade Runner 2049... I can do that comparison b/c it's the same director, right? I like the older style in the original Blade Runner and the original Dune, when it comes to details, grittiness, and that realistic feel. However, and this is a big however, the recent Dune 1 did so much good that the sparseness didn't bother me one bit, and I felt like it worked in a dune desert world much better than in a Blade Runner world.
Now Dune 2, what did I think? It was definitely good, but when I saw it I was probably not in the right mood b/c it didn't blow me away the same way part 1 did. However, I think I'll enjoy it more on a rewatch. I did miss Jason Momoa and some of the other characters. Thew new Feyd was pretty good, hard to live up to Sting in a way, but pretty darn good and more details of course. The baldness... meh.
What's good with Dune 2? Well, the dragonfly ships were just as awesome, I just can't get enough of them. The worms are awesome and impressive.
Fremen are pretty darn cool in every movie. I will say in Dune 1/2 the weird racial mix still throws me off... I am so into evolutionary biology stuff lately, the genetics just wouldn't seem to express the way they would if people of mixed races were living together for centuries and having babies together. Unless you assume they are all super racist and only marry people that look similar to themselves... but that's not at all the way it felt. Unless there were countries that were separated by impassible mountains and deserts, but none of that is the case in the books or movies. Anyway, a nitpick of all 2020-2024 movies and shows. At least they try to explain No Country for Old Men's Javier Bardem's accent, I guess. Getting past that, a lot of/maybe all of the Fremen actors were great. Wait let me back up for one more nitpcik, not against the actors/actresses abilities whatsoever, but I do much prefer the style of personality of the young Fremen warrior women in Dune 1984 than how they act in Dune 2.
Venger's master, The Nameless One, is shown in Ep.22. He's a major, major threat.
Let's quote crossplanes, such a good writeup, based mostly on the last episode (fans made that episode in like 2020 or something):
Venger was originally a noble human but millennia ago made a pact with the Nameless One and chose to be mentored by the evil entity. This tutorship in sorcery would cost him both his humanity and human form, with the essence of his former self being locked inside a cenotaph located at the edge of the Realm. If the key to that vault is ever used to unlock it then Venger would be redeemed of evil and transformed back into his human and humane self.
Venger commands armies of monsters such as orcs, bullywugs and lizard men but relies especially on a shadow demon for spying. For locomotion Venger favours his nightmare steed; a demonic black horse that can fly.
Venger also has a sister named Karena who is evil like her brother. Sibling rivalry and a dispute over ownership of the Ring of the Heart resulted in Venger imprisoning his sister in an enchanted cave in the Hills of Never.
VENGER
"He seeks to find a way from his realm into ours. We cannot let that happen, as we lack the necessary totems to stop him here."
-Oakey Sarsaparilla, an expert on the Realm of Dungeons and Dragons.
Fun generic 1980s cartoon monster villains: https://www.horror.land/nightmarish-villains-of-80s-cartoons/
Who or more importantly what type of short monster/race is this guy from Ep.22, h e had the magic shot from helmet horns, leader of some bad guys "Underworld" aka what I'd call the Underdark. Suspect he's a goblin:
Can't get to main pg: http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/02/venger__nightmare.jpg