"I need not remind you that this was David Lynch's version of Dune in which all of the characters were sexy and deformed at the same time. There was a character called the Third Stage Guild Navigator which was a kind of giant floating fetus creature that lived in a giant tank with this orange mist of psychedelic spice swirling around him, allowing him to bend space and time. He could never leave the tank or interact with the outside world. He had become in his isolation so deformed, and so sexy, that he had to talk through a kind of old-timey radio to the outside world and could never touch them. I mean, I liked him a lot better than the sandworms. The sandworms were fine - but your favorite character? Please." --John Hodgman, at TED.