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I for one really liked the Liet Kynes from the new movie, since her character was so much more active than either the Lynch version or the book version. Her death brilliantly used the threat and majesty of the desert power established with her first scene of the spice harvest and gave the sense of a person truly in thrall to and calling upon the religion of Shai Hulud.
I had the opposite reaction to her death, which is I didn’t like it at all. Kynes’s death in the book is one of my favourite moments because it illustrated that he’s a scientist to the core, left to die in the desert without his stillsuit and he spent his last moments reflecting on the planetary ecosystem and having an imaginary conversation with his father, very fitting for a scientist. The movie on the other hand felt like they were shoving down my throat how much of a badass she is by how they portrayed her death.