The Blogging Goth

I’ve now seen Dune: Part Two, the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation of the legendary scifi doorstopper novel by Frank Herbert, written in 1965. Such a weighty tome combined within it disparate strands of resource monopolies and their impact on transgalactic affairs, feudal power structures and indigenous rebellion, and shadowy manipulations of human destiny through breeding control and supernatural psychic control. It’s daunting, introspective, bleak and forbidding. Prime fodder for an emerging goth such as I, who waded through the first three books as an overawed juvenile.