Villeneuve in article said:
"If I succeed in making a trilogy, that would be the dream... 'Dune Messiah' was written in reaction to the fact that people perceived Paul Atreides as a hero...
As usual, Villeneuve is full of baloney. Parts of
Dune Messiah and
Children of Dune were written at the same time as
Dune, so FH could not possibly have written more than part of "Messiah" in response to readers' opinions.
I'm just glad that he changed his mind about Irulan. The original version of Dune Messiah had her being killed at the same time as Mohiam, since the Fremen wanted Mohiam dead and Irulan was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only warning she had was when she was asked if she had a religion. She was confused - what an odd question. She never lived long enough to get an answer.
And as someone who struggles greatly with the arts I am mildly amused that coloring is not an art debate. Like, that's my last line of hope for any sort of artistic expression and now that's taken away?
Of course coloring is an art. Saying coloring isn't art is like saying nothing you do with a pattern is art. No two people ever approach art in exactly the same way, unless they're either a master forger or are working for a company that demands a "house style".
An example would be Thomas Kinkade. He did wonderful paintings, but he died 11 years ago. Anything coming out under his name since then will have been done by people trained to mimic his style so closely that the average Kinkade fan couldn't tell the difference.
I have a huge stack of Creative Haven coloring books. They range from abstract stuff like mandalas to nature scenes, and there's one that lets you create a stained glass window effect. For this book you have to use wax crayons; nothing else will work properly.
I took a coloring class at a rubber stamping store about 25 years ago. It was very interesting, all the techniques there are to make a 2-dimensional picture on a piece of paper look 3-dimensional.
