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It's a huge remake of the 1984 version of Dune (that was a mess), but done in two parts. Probably a budget similar to Star Wars 9. Almost every set was built rather than green-screened. The down side is that coronavirus will probably keep it from making any real money, which means they may never do part two. Like you, I didn't care for the miniseries on the SyFy channel, although their miniseries of Dune Messiah/Children of Dune was pretty good, with James McAvoy as Leto II and Alice Krige (aka the Borg Queen) as Lady Jessica.

Replace stranger with strangler. It still looks wrong in caps. :-)

An example from the Chicago Manual of Style: "Hello, stranger." Not a title, so no caps.

Much obliged, Everyone. ;-)

I was wondering if anyone would object to capitalizing teacher and boss in direct address as I've never seen those terms (and similar ones) capitalized before. I'm wearing out the E key on my keyboard switching back and forth. :-)

Thanks, JP. I'm glad to see there is so much agreement on this subject. Caps it is.

Thanks, Vern. Since I show emphasis using italics in my book, I think I'm best off with italicized lowercase. As Dagny pointed out, it's not a title.

English grammar? What's that?

Much obliged.
Dirk

Welcome, Marcus. I think you'll find the site very useful.

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Dirk

Just finished Heretics of Dune. Pretty good overall. Three books to go, then It's off to the Foundation series. Haven't read that in decades, and I'm pretty sure I only read the original trilogy, not the whole series. When I browse suggested books on Kindle, I realize I've already read many of the classic sci-fi novels from my teens. For the most part, I only remember the titles.

Isaac Asimov was once asked what he would do if he was told he only had a year to live. His answer: write faster! :-)

Thanks, Dagny. I'll add it to my list. I like short episodes, as I'm easily bored.  You've probably heard of Thirteen Reasons Why. The first season is about thirteen reasons why a teenage girl killed herself. It's intense. I had to watch episodes be of Friends in between. Season four includes some of the best acting I've ever seen. The lead actor, Dylan Minette, plays a teenager in his final year of high school who begins to fall apart mentally because of all the s--t he's gone through in high school.

I need a name for the team that Campagna and De Rosa are leading. I threw in a dedicated forensics unit to scrape demons off the pavement. I'm considering the Alpha-Omega unit.

I decided to keep reading until the end of the Dune series timeline, including the final two books written by BH/KA. I recall not particularly liking their two books, but I'm enjoying Heretics of Dune more than I remember. I also liked Chapterhouse on past reads. 3.75 books to go. Also good progress on plotting the investigation of Connor's history by Inspector Campana. I originally thought I would spread it out over many chapters, but I'm now wondering if I should roll most of it into one focused chapter, albeit with a lot of minor scenes as Campana bounces from location to location in her search, something like a Law & Order episode.