Dune: Part Two

My best friend in high school was the biggest, and first, Dune fan I had ever met. I knew nothing about the series, but I knew that the Eraserhead guy made a version of it in the 80s and the Blade Runner 2049 guy had recently been announced as the director of a new adaptation of the series. It didn’t mean a lot to me, but it always made me super happy to see how giddy it made my friend. Car rides of him explaining the symbols and lore of the series on the way home from theater rehearsals, watching the YouTube livestream during COVID classes while he waited for the first trailer to drop, driving an hour away to catch a 10 minute teaser at the nearest IMAX AMC, months before it was ever released. We’ve both gone in fairly different directions and we’ve both found places that seem to give us more life than we had in our small town high school. It’s always emotional getting to catch up with him, though being on other sides of the country doesn’t allow for that to happen too frequently outside of holiday trips to our small town. All of that to say, I think I finally got to experience a glimpse at the worth this universe has for my friend and I hope that whenever I return to this world, I’ll also be able to return to the backseat of my mom’s falling-apart-van as we drive down the pitch black country roads to our houses after theater practice, where he’s trying to explain how eventually this story jumps 3000 years into the future and Timotheé Chalamet’s son is a worm or something. Love you Caleb :)