• sylphrin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t think it’s a rip-off either, but the Dune franchise does actually involve some princesses and robots

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      9 months ago

      Yes, but not a damsel in distress. A trope that has a name from the other stories.

      Star wars uses old tropes. Dune uses old tropes. The key is they both did it on ways that tell a story that lots of people found interesting or entertaining.

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      9 months ago

      Which Dune book had robots? I thought that robots had been banned in the Dune universe.

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        9 months ago

        Well, the Butlerian Jihad was a big influence obviously, and later in the series they end up fighting some leftover AIs from that era. But yeah, a very different take on robots between the two