Paul’s Fight with Jamis

Sure seemed anti-climatic but then again in the other films it never was “all of that” but still for drama purposes they could’ve upped the ante a little bit. It says a lot about the Fremen & their mentality that Stilgar actually thought that Paul was toying with Jamis. Guess it’s just not in their mindset that one wouldn’t actually “want” to kill an opponent. Not Paul’s fault that he didn’t know their rule/law regarding combat. When Jessica let Stilgar know that Paul had never killed a man before it was hard to gauge exactly what he thought about learning this.

One would think that overall they’d be surprised that this little “nothing/weakling” would or could best Jamis but they all just seemed to be “Eh, whatever” seeing how it turned out the way it did. Chani for her part was the most confusing, because it actually seemed like she was miffed/upset that Paul was the victor, but maybe I’m wrong about that.

But wasn’t that Jamis in Paul’s vision of the Fremen that was actually his friend, that was nice to him? I’m really confused about that unless it was somebody else.