On second viewing I must confess that I thoroughly dislike gender-swapped Liet Kynes. Sharon Duncan-Brewster delivered her lines as if she was just reading them out loud, thus giving a very wooden performance. I also hate how Kynes is often condescending towards outsiders which greatly contrasts with book Kynes who is very deferential to avoid suspicion. And for those insisting the gender swap doesn’t matter, well since she’s the Imperial ecologist and is thus under the Imperium’s supervision, wouldn’t conceiving a Fremen child raise a lot of suspicion from someone who is pretending to not be a Fremen? Male Kynes would have no such problem concealing the fact that he’s fathered Fremen children from the Imperium.