That's one of those nuggets for the fans that movie only viewers don't pick up.

I don't think the first book should take more than 10 eps, that would be drawing it out.

However, I disagree that the SF mini that was done left out too much. Yes, stuff was left out, but was it important? Depends on your POV. If you go from the "what do you need to know to understand the story" POV, then no. Unlike the film which took some large liberties with the source material to work around problems, the mini did it without deviating so much, mostly by omitting. The Irulan part was altered, but I think that was to give the chance to have more scenes with the Emperor to get info from that side. Lynch's solution was "have the Navigator make Jose Ferrer give a plot summary monologue", which in retrospect is a bit too on the nose as "mandatory exposition scene".

Lots of the details in the book are unnecessary when the story is told in a visual medium. CHOAM is almost an afterthought in the books, it really isn't needed at all.



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