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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[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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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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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

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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.)