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The Weight No One Should Carry: Dune, Prescience, and the Golden Path
Herbert built prescience as a trap, and every character who carries it breaks. The reason they break is that seeing the futures branch is a load only something outside of time can carry. Scripture hands the same knowledge to David at Keilah and it frees him.
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Every Strength, Every Weakness, Nobody in the Room
Grading it nine to ten, not one to ten. Christopher Nolan shot the Odyssey on IMAX film and called it an event, so it's fair to ask whether he reached the epic he promised. He didn't, and the gap is worth understanding.
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The King in Yellow (1 of 4)
Pizzolatto didn't invent Carcosa or the Yellow King. He borrowed them from Robert Chambers, 1895. Reading the source changed what I saw in the show, and what I think the horror actually is.