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From: dragon@uw-june (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Dune movie error SPOILER
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Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 17:20:20 EST
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In fact, there seem to be multiple "stages" of guild navigators.  The
ugly beastie at the start of the movie was the third stage type.  These
navigators are so addicted to spice that they must float in a tank of
it.  They are described in one of the later books by Herbert, and the ones
in the movie seem to match the description pretty well.  In the books, the
third stage navigators never saw fit to show themselves to mere humans,
until their spice supply began to get cut off, when they had to take
drastic measures.  In the movie, there are also two of the more human
looking navigators at the end.

Brian Matthews
dragon@uw-june