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Hey readers!

I recently made a post on my Facebook account about how I believe I have been incepted with an idea. That reminded me of the movie in question.

Recently I just got my ass off to watch Inception. I must admit it’s a great movie and I agree with everyone why they think everyone else should watch it. It reminds me of Paprika a lot actually, where the world of dreams can be made corporeal, in a sense, and can be tapped on to steal information. What I really loved about Inception though is the awesome soundtrack. Hans Zimmer’s score is remarkable and the low Cellos of the theme track is definitely the star-stealer of the show!

Of course, and then there is Cillian Murphy. Oh God I tell you if I were a girl, I’d know what kind of guys I’d go for. Cillian Murphy is just drop dead gorgeous in this movie. I mean, his high cheekbones? Chiselled features? Bright blue eyes? Aww… I mean, he’s so hot even guys can fall for him. Have you even seen him in Breakfast on Pluto? Have a look: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kslkqe404K1qzlyyao1_400.jpg

And here’s a normal one to compare. http://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/actores/cillian_murphy/fotos/1688/cillian_murphy.jpg

That said, the only things I nitpick about with the movie are some glaring plotholes, and the fact that I didn’t think Nolan carried things far enough or were adventurous enough in his script.

=Spoiler Alert!=

First, the plotholes. Recall that in the middle of the first dream Yusuf was driving the van over the bridge? He had 10 seconds to drive to the edge, and when the van starts falling, I figured that’s about 4 seconds tops. But in those 4 seconds, multiplied by 20 that’s 80 seconds, so its 1 minute 20 seconds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt must go to the 5th story of the hotel, tie the rest of the guys up, go to the 4th storey, collect all the planted explosives, and move everyone to the elevator shaft!? 1 min ain’t even enough for me to get from from my home to the first storey! This I think is really implausible and glaring.

Second, how mad do you figure Limbo would be? In Nolan’s version it is almost a paradise, enough for people to want to remain in there and become Gods. But they built and built and building requires consciousness. Limbo is pure subconsciousness. It should be a sea of pure madness. Look to the game Dante’s Inferno for a close reference. :D

Also, there’s the problem of, what comes next? So what if the idea is planted into Fisher’s mind? If he does not act on it, what kind of difference does it make?

So here I came up with a few ideas for an Inception sequel.

Suppose Fisher wants to act on his ideas. Now a company that big has got to have a board of directors running the management ie Fisher cannot just suddenly tear up his father’s empire without everyone else also agreeing to it. And within the board of directors, who would agree to tearing up a ready empire? For Mr Saito (Ken Watanabe) to succeed, he don’t just have to influence Fisher, he has to influence every manager in his company.

Suppose among Fisher’s board of directors there is one guy who is ambitious enough to want to usurp the empire for his own, that is NOT his uncle. This guy views Fisher as a weak leader and his rise will eventually cause the empire to crumble, which is something he does not want. Now let’s call this director Adelheide, for convenience sake.

One week after the events of Inception 1, Fisher made his announcement that he decides to seperate his father’s empire into different, smaller holdings. This got Adelheide’s attention. He knew that doing this will give the edge to Saito’s company. Now, being an experienced dream thief himself, he knew what it could possibly mean. Fisher’s relationship with his father is strained at best. It is not likely that he would be “inspired” by his father to beat a path on his own. His idea therefore cannot be original, even if he didn’t realize it.

Adelheide knew he had a chance. One way he could take over his company is to prove that he had a solid plan to run the empire better than Fisher, and that Fisher is driven insane from grief of his father’s death. To that end, he has set up an elaborate plan.

Forming a group of like-minded dream thieves, he called the group Incubi, and set out to do a few things at once. First, he will drive Fisher insane, and know that in so doing he will also identify the team who are responsible for the Inception in the first place. To do this, Adelheide decides to plant a paradox into Fisher. Adelheide will drug Fisher (Poor Cillian!) and dive deep into him in order to plan a new idea beside his current idea: This idea is an inception, it is not original. This paradox causes Fisher to suspect his idea to tear up his empire, and this very idea to suspect his idea to tear up his empire, causing a paranoic paradox within him. As it consumes his sanity, he will be declared insane and unfit to run his own empire. But the work is not yet done.

During the dive, Adelheide would have identified the members of the team behind the original Inception. As he steps up as the new leader of the empire with the plan to buy over Saito’s company instead, Saito realizes the original Inception failed. Stricken with grief and remembering his dream in limbo of dying cold and alone, Saito quit his own company. He will be found 3 days later in his own home, assassinated, a bullet through his head.

Ariadne is back in school, but a series of events will see her kidnapped and trapped in the Incubi’s dreams, where they could use it to track down Cobb and Arthur. A few days later Arthur will be found dead in his dreams, a new method devised to kill people from within their dream by shutting off their subconciousness and in so doing, all the subconscious brain activity governing the movement of the heart, the flow of blood, etc.

It is now only up to Cobb to save everyone, and he cannot do so in his dream world, for it will be badly sabotaged with structural paradoxes and mysteries. But is he willing to, now that he is back with his family? Can he save Ariadne without ever falling asleep once?

Inception 2.

You heard it here first.

And so it occurred to me that Dearie’s latest obsession is this little (actually quite big. It’s already spanning 40+ eps) anime series called Jewel Pets Tinkle. Don’t ask. It’s Satelite. And the creature design is done by Sanrio. But nevertheless, she’s addicted to it, and that means she’s also crooning for a guy in there somewhere. Needless to say, I’m right. Just look at her tweets.

This got me thinking, you know, most fairy tales end with “Happily Ever After” and many shoujo animes also end with the lead female getting married with the lead male right? So I thought, what really happens AFTER that marriage. And with that single idea, whilst travelling from Dakota MRT to Dhoby Gaut MRT with dearie, I came up with a new season of Shugo Chara called Shugo Chara Doki: The Later Years. Warning: Amu x Ikuto “pairing” inside. Non-fans may stay away. No, flaming of my tumbles are not allowed. 

Amu’s gave birth to two sons. Assholes, both. Noisy as hell and couldn’t shut up. Amu’s house is a little run down and she’s smoking cos she’s all stressed up. Just then, Ikuto came home.

“I’m home wench…”

“Ah, you’re coming home now finally. You know the kids are so hungry!?” Amu screamed while puffing out more smoke. “Why can’t you earn more money and support the family!? Oei…Hikaru, go do your homework!”

“Hey! You know I don’t earn much as a pimp!”

On the other end of the spectrum is Tadase-kun. Rejected by, well, pretty much every other girl in the series and more or less pairing-less, he’s ditched his young-boy antics and relished the fact that he WAS the most popular guy in sch. Now at 34, he runs the Playboy mansion.

“Hello ladies!” Tadase called as he stepped out of his limousine, into the waiting arms of two perfectly proportioned blonde beauties.

“Hello, Tadase-kun~” The ladies couldn’t keep their eyes off him!

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Alright enough crap. Just the thought of the English dub is sending shivers down my spines.

That’s one fo the things I intend to do for the year of 2011. I intend to use tumblr more often, and get myself exposed to web2.0 technologies like this because quite honestly, I think I am out of touch. Tumblr is great for image sharing, and that makes me want to explore it more. It looks really interesting.

2011 has started quite unpleasantly for me. First of all thanks to being screwed by MPE I have secured next to 0 modules I need to graduate by this sem. The good news is that I have a strong weapon to appeal with: that I am unable to even fulfill the minimum 16MC workload requirement for each semester, so I’ll need to be forced into some class one way or another. Which means I will need to go down to NUS itself to do some paperwork. Yay me… Maybe I’ll make the trip tomorrow.

This year has also seen two unfortunate incidents right before the year began. My mom is diagnosed with HBP, and my grandma is more or less paralyzed from the waist down. Thanks to these series of unfortunate events I need to be at home on standby and I know petz ain’t gonna be happy about it, but what can I do? Honor and duty before personal desires…

Speaking of duty, I think 2011 will be a very busy year for myself, mainly because I am involved in a large ACG event project, which if handled well, could be a key highlight for Singapore every year. Keep a lookout for it. I will blog more when I have more information, and the permission to release those information.

Oh well, have a great 2011 ahead.