Postby Lisan Al-Gaib » 12 Jun 2008 20:45
I find one more mistake in House Atreides, this time is about the ghola's thread.
BH & KJA seems to did not understand the differences between the ghola formation in Dune Messiah and GoD. In the Preludes they only used the explanation of ghola from GoD and HoD (replication of cells from a dead person), forgetting about what the DM said (reanimated cadavers).
For me, it's accept that the DM explanation for the gholas are valid only for the period before the first trilogy (Dune, DM, CoD). For this reason, using the explanation from GoD it's a mistake.
This mistake create a hole in their plot, because if the gholas are reaminated cadavers, they can't be "duplicated", so they are unique, not worthless!
Look at these passages:
"More likely, the Tleilaxu blew up their own ship simply to incriminate you. We know the small value they place on life. The passengers and crew on the destroyed craft may have only been gholas, and thus expendable. They can always grow more duplicates in their axlotl tanks."
"The Bene Tleilax were, however, true genetic wizards, willing to use unorthodox and socially heinous methods, dealing in live or dead flesh, in biological waste. With their mysterious yet powerful axlotl tanks they could grow clones from live cells and gholas from dead ones. The Tleilaxu had a slippery, shifty aura about them. How can anyone take them seriously?"
And they still saying that the OHs looks only for unimportant details....
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty.
-- The Stolen Journals