Just wanting to add a correction to the waking dream and the prophecy. I watched the scene it seems that the Mother Ramal was to fade in and replace the image of the hand And the flag or inter-twine fading back and fourth as she narrates the fremen prophecy.
A few other things to note.
In EE TV version the guild navigator in the tank goes off on a tangent but his voice is sped up. I was wondering if slowing his speech down and editing some of what he says out would be the way to solve this. Some of it is redundant. However it was obviously made prior to Irulan narration was inserted although some of what he says is relevant I feel.
After the Box of pain scene it seems that when considering the extended scene here it could be better to swap around order. EE first talking of water of life. Then going on to talk about Pauls dreams.
Regarding Leto’s “Jessica I should have married you” monologue this I think would go while Jessica is on the Ornithopter like telepathy leading up to where he bites the tooth. And as previously stated the monologue where he misses her over the note Jessica reads. He should definitely come down the stairs with no monologue.
Finally when Paul and Bene Gesderit Guyas Mohim confront one another in the palace. He talks of the place where you dare not look. Here was meant to appear with a visual and Paul’s line from the EE TV version “And I can destroy the Spice forever!” Before the whole “Silence!” Exchange. This reaffirms the rain on Arrakis ending. However just because it rained there does not mean it was raining everywhere on the planet. I really can not understand how people who dislike the rain ending think it’s raining on the whole surface of the planet. Some people have an inability to understand that when it rains it’s not raining everywhere I guess. There is a shot in the Costume documentary that has the Navigators looking uneasy in relation to the verbal exchange about the threat of destroying the spice forever.
Having looked over this on about my 5th or 6th pass over the years… I don’t think Jessica being the traitor was in. I think it may have been written out and scrapped. Meaning Gurney believing and Attacking Jessica may never have been shot or put to film.
This also Leads me to conclude that a directors cut of David Lynch’s Dune would NOT run 4 hours but anywhete from 3hrs 20 minutes to 3hrs 40mins.