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Makeveli_lives posted...

I "get it," but it loses me with its mumbo jumbo world building in the first movie. Took me and my gf 3 tries to watch the whole thing, picking up where we left off each time.

It was just very, very dense with jargon and exposition. Most of it felt hokey to me. I give the franchise credit for being an early success in the space epic genre, but boy did some of those concepts age with questionable grace in the mean time.

But you are talking about the political intrigue.

Are shields hard to understand?
Psychic powers?
Stimulant than enables psychic powers?Genetic enhanced soldiers
Giant Sandworms
Suits that turn sweat into drinking water

All the "mumbo jumbo" is political bullshit which is realistic.
Try explaining real world politics of one country to another.