Catwoman's Cradle
Aug. 7th, 2011 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo, after I laid back down I had a dream that involved Gotham City as represented in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises... I was put into the role of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, the Tom Hardy Bane with the personality and motivation of Tommy Elliot/Hush (my subconscious passing judgment on his casting, I suppose), and Christian Bale's Batman was running around.
(For once, the casting department dug up some A-listers for me... usually I only get name actors as cameos in subplots)
The plot of the dream was that Talia al Ghul (whose presence in the movie is only rumor at this point) had acquired some Ice-9 and was plotting to release it through a sewage treatment plant. We managed to stop her (Banehush was helping because he didn't want Gotham destroyed by someone else, or saved by Bruce Wayne) from doing more than dropping her Ice-9 crystal into this thing that was like a drip pan that would -eventually- put it into contact with the rest of the water supply. For some reason no one had anything to melt or destroy the resulting patch of Ice-9, so our plan was to each take a different exit out of the treatment plant and seal it off from the outside world. (Mostly using explosives and things that would have been really handy for getting rid of the tiny amount of Ice-9.)
My escape from the plant involved going up through multiple levels of sewers and then a townhouse that had been purchased and renovated by Talia in order to get access to the plant. For some reason, everything in the townhouse... all of the appliances and many other furnishings... had been retrofitted into exploding robots that responded to intruders by starting a countdown at anywhere between five and ten minutes and then slowly following them around. The lower levels of the townhouse were too fortified against intruders to break out of when being followed by an ever-growing horde of soon-to-be-exploding household robots so I went up to the top floor and got out through a skylight.
I was hampered in my escape in that I was being accompanied everywhere by my faithful but not particularly brave or useful cat Mr. Dorian, played by himself. Despite being exceptionally large and strong for a domestic feline and almost always coming when called, he's not really terribly useful as a sidekick.
We did make it out of the townhouse eventually, and found out that Banehush had pointedly sacrificed himself destroying the plant by growing to massive size (apparently my dream's version of a gritty/realistic version of the venom supersteroid is it's Pym Particles) and crushing it. Not sure how that melted the Ice-9/kept moisture from getting into contact with it/killed him, but the sight of his giant corpse atop the collapsed building was very moving and made everybody love him instead of Batman.
(Which isn't really Hush's motivation, but it's approaching Hush levels of petulance.)
(For once, the casting department dug up some A-listers for me... usually I only get name actors as cameos in subplots)
The plot of the dream was that Talia al Ghul (whose presence in the movie is only rumor at this point) had acquired some Ice-9 and was plotting to release it through a sewage treatment plant. We managed to stop her (Banehush was helping because he didn't want Gotham destroyed by someone else, or saved by Bruce Wayne) from doing more than dropping her Ice-9 crystal into this thing that was like a drip pan that would -eventually- put it into contact with the rest of the water supply. For some reason no one had anything to melt or destroy the resulting patch of Ice-9, so our plan was to each take a different exit out of the treatment plant and seal it off from the outside world. (Mostly using explosives and things that would have been really handy for getting rid of the tiny amount of Ice-9.)
My escape from the plant involved going up through multiple levels of sewers and then a townhouse that had been purchased and renovated by Talia in order to get access to the plant. For some reason, everything in the townhouse... all of the appliances and many other furnishings... had been retrofitted into exploding robots that responded to intruders by starting a countdown at anywhere between five and ten minutes and then slowly following them around. The lower levels of the townhouse were too fortified against intruders to break out of when being followed by an ever-growing horde of soon-to-be-exploding household robots so I went up to the top floor and got out through a skylight.
I was hampered in my escape in that I was being accompanied everywhere by my faithful but not particularly brave or useful cat Mr. Dorian, played by himself. Despite being exceptionally large and strong for a domestic feline and almost always coming when called, he's not really terribly useful as a sidekick.
We did make it out of the townhouse eventually, and found out that Banehush had pointedly sacrificed himself destroying the plant by growing to massive size (apparently my dream's version of a gritty/realistic version of the venom supersteroid is it's Pym Particles) and crushing it. Not sure how that melted the Ice-9/kept moisture from getting into contact with it/killed him, but the sight of his giant corpse atop the collapsed building was very moving and made everybody love him instead of Batman.
(Which isn't really Hush's motivation, but it's approaching Hush levels of petulance.)