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[ivyfic]

So I am rewatching Inception. In most of the fanon I've seen, there's a pre-movie timeframe where Mal was one of the team of thieves, with Cobb and Arthur. But in the movie, in the scene between Cobb and Mal's father (?), he says, "I didn't teach you to be a thief." Cobb replies, "After what happened, there weren't a lot of legitimate options for my skillset." (paraphrased)

But that means that he only became a thief after Mal died. Whatever he was doing with the dream technology before hand was not extraction. So that fanon doesn't fit.

Granted most fanon for Inception is very hand wavy, because the movie calls into question the entire fabric of the movie, and if you don't assume some of it's real, there's no room to build anything in. It seems like most stuff is either vaguely pre-movie, with the above mentioned continuity error, or is vaguely after movie, without addressing the end of the movie at all. Hand wave! Hand wave! On to Arthur and Eames getting it on.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I just don't find the movie compelling if none of it is real. I am one of those who thought the top layer was, in fact, the real world (mostly because I never felt the alternative that Mal spoke of was as viable). So hand waving away the reality in a fiction would be equally uninteresting.