Yeah, the fandom has jumped the Cobb boat over collective Arthur-squee. I mean, Arthur was awesome-- possibly my favorite character (though I like Saito a great deal), and that was one heck of a nice waistcoat he was kicking ass in-- but I do think that Arthur and Ariadne make a cute pairing, and Cobb certainly had his cool moments there.
I think that people don't really look past Cobb's dead-wife angst, since it's so essential to the plot of the movie, to pairing him up with anyone. Plus he's obsessive over his kids, and fandom seems to prefer their slashables kiddie-free. But single dads need love too! And you're right that both he and Saito are the only ones who have survived being trapped in limbo-- so they've both experienced what it is to live to old age, only to be abruptly rewound to do it again. They're both truly "old souls" by the end of the movie, living a second human lifetime.
Plus a huge part of the movie was Cobb working through his dead-wife-angst. Presumably he's also worked his way through his lived-a-human-lifetime-already angst, too, years past. And now Saito has to work through that . . . so I feel like there's lots of material there.
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Date: 2010-09-17 06:37 pm (UTC)I think that people don't really look past Cobb's dead-wife angst, since it's so essential to the plot of the movie, to pairing him up with anyone. Plus he's obsessive over his kids, and fandom seems to prefer their slashables kiddie-free. But single dads need love too! And you're right that both he and Saito are the only ones who have survived being trapped in limbo-- so they've both experienced what it is to live to old age, only to be abruptly rewound to do it again. They're both truly "old souls" by the end of the movie, living a second human lifetime.
Plus a huge part of the movie was Cobb working through his dead-wife-angst. Presumably he's also worked his way through his lived-a-human-lifetime-already angst, too, years past. And now Saito has to work through that . . . so I feel like there's lots of material there.