Keepin' up with the medias

[petronia]

Finally I have watched Inception! Now I have two questions:

1) ...Um, isn't this on the same order as writing sexytiems fic for, like, Perfect Blue? Which Inception reminds me of more than Paprika; one doesn't much mistake the dreamscapes in Paprika for reality.

2) You have a choice: I can now recount a couple of mildly TMI personal anecdotes on the topic of lucid dreaming, or I can write some sort of crossover fic about the exact same anecdotes but make it out that Sherlock Holmes conducted these experiments or whatever. Which is the more fruitful approach? XD; I mean, I think I've never blogged about this stuff, or if I have it was so long ago I don't remember it, let alone expect anyone else to remember.

I also watched Merlin S03E01... I swear I've only seen scraps and minutes of this series here and there, but between osmotic fan production and mountain ranges of historical interpretation (nearly all the "new" fandoms are like that nowadays, aren't they), I just don't feel like I've missed any continuity. I've got a very short decision flow chart in my head: IS MORGAUSE STILL HOT -> YES -> KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON THEN

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[kuroraka.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, i just watched Perfect Blue last weekend! It's the only Satoshi Kon movie i was still missing, i think.

Well, that's all i've got to say, really...^^; I can see the parallels between Inception and Perfect Blue, but to be perfectly honest, i wouldn't want to read sexitiems fic for either...

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nobody's answering my question of why would this occur to you. (Not how you would do it; obviously in dreams you can do anything you like. XD)

[takadainmate.livejournal.com]

I'm repressing season 2 of Merlin, so no, not missing out anything there. That poor show has no continuity or character development at all. I still love it. *is easy*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I had my sister over and several glasses of good Italian red in me. I laughed pretty hard at Sadako!Ygraine, let me tell ya. XD

[troisroyaumes]

Either? I'm fascinated by lucid dreaming (it's only happened to me once or twice).

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Per usual dilettantism I only did it enough to know I can do it. XD;

[troisroyaumes]

Does that mean you deliberately induced lucid dreaming? (I know that's possible but am fuzzy on how it's actually done.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah - you program yourself, in the same way as you can program yourself to wake up at the same time every morning. Which is to say, it's not failproof, but. XD

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

what

Sabina, every new fact I learn about you convinces me that you are NOT REAL

or a robot

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Bing can vouch for me being real! XD

(Actually I'm thinking of making a Chicago run sometime next year... :3)

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

PLEASE

OMG PLEASE

IF I KEEP CLAIMING THAT I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR HUMANITY, WILL THAT BE MORE OR LESS PERSUASIVE

[credoimprobus]

MORGAUSE = NEVER NOT HOT XD

(Haven't watched 3x01 yet myself, mainly due to the fact that I only yesterday evening remembered it was supposed to have started, haha.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW XD

I just have this massive thing for lady knights, I guess? Since always.

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Of COURSE you should write Sherlock Holmes fanfiction!

I'm only interested in fic where the author literal-mindedly equates the life-is-dream-we-can-only-escape-by-offing-ourselves theme of Inception with suicidal depression. Because I'm literal-minded like that. (Actually that scene reminded me of the Pombal reveal in the Alexandia Quartet.)

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

...the Pursewarden reveal, I meant.

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

I've been vaguely griping here and there that it wasn't as good as I thought it might be, but actually I found it really scary! And I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be that scary (suspenseful, yeah...) XD But it seems it's the fact of normal physical rules being suspended that frightens me, rather than the supernatural per se. I mean, Mal isn't a ghost, but she's constructed out of the same emotional forces that birth ghosts in Japanese horror movies, so what's the difference?

I think I would be more interested in fic that touched on the script's odd portmanteau of heist and psychotherapy. XD Like, setting Cobb's storyline aside, the emotional climax was actually when Junior regressed subconsciously to the point where he was able to understand that his father cared about him - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ALL A LIE, rolling. I mean, it was really well done; the whole thing felt exactly like the sort of dream one has that springs from RL stress and ends with some sort of huge embarrassing subconscious revelation. If nothing else the movie never made me doubt the professional qualifications of dream extractor dudes. XDD

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I cried when Junior opened the box. ^^; Even though he is more of a plot device than a character - he never deviates from the dream-exactor script, not once, except for having mental security, and that doesn't count because it is reflexive - his emotional resolution is still really moving. Even though it is a lie!

(But like Cobb said, better a good lie than a bad lie. AND HE WOULD KNOW.)

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

I did think it was hilarious how Nolan stacked the deck ridiculously to keep you from having to worry about moral implications (because that's not the part he wants you to pay attention to). XD We're not brainwashing the dude, we're giving him free therapy and helping him resolve his issues! Oh and if we don't, he will end up monopolizing the entire energy supply of the planet or something and the economy will be destroyed.

Actually, there's more than a little whiff of Alfred Bester about the whole thing. That and the dead wife plot is a pure rehash of Momento. >_>

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure I really believed Saito about the energy threat, but since is proven to be an honorable dude at the end, I guess I was supposed to. XD

http://sub-divided.dreamwidth.org/7271.html

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

The heist-con-therapy-parable part was great! Except that it made Cobb's baggage that much more tiresome by comparison. XD

It certainly seems ficcable? Or at least, they spend the entire first half of the movie reading you the Dungeon Master's Guide--with a brief detour into the DMG Errata in the second half--and by the end you're all raring to get a crew together and plan your own escapades. On the other hand, the movie sets a pretty high bar; it feels like a lot of work to assemble a heist that wouldn't seem embarassingly threadbare by comparison.

(I'd attribute the amount of porn written to the fact that it's a familiar and relatively less daunting writing task. And of course that the cast--with the exception of Leo himself, who hasn't aged well--is good looking.)

[ampersandals.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of issues with Merlin and the direction it's been heading, but I am still pretty obsessed with it anyway. AND IS MORGAUSE EVER NOT HOT? Your flowchart is virtually unnecessary at this point. (But no, seriously, between the chainmail and sword-/axe-wielding and the way she uses her ~magic~, I'm reduced to being all *________*)

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

Sherlock fic!

Merlin's plot has been....lacking.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

re: 1: clearly because it's attractive white men! of course. both of whom have played gay/queer characters, so there's already that following for them, too.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Apparently?? When asked to produce previous roles for Joseph Gordon-Levitt my mind skips back to when he had the terrible hair on Third Rock From The Sun, rolling. (Why did I watch so much of that sitcom?)

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

hahah, he was in mysterious skin! (tom hardy was in rock'n'rolla, of course.) but also inception, unlike perfect blue (which admittedly i only vaguely remember) maintains an air of WE BE HEISTING throughout, with occasional bursts of WOAH A TRAIN, so the intense creepiness of the idea is downplayed--even, to a certain degree, in the mal storyline, where inception is what caused her to kill herself, because she and dom still got to have those years together.