thoughts on Inception

Saw it a second time tonight (with my brother and sister-in-law, who hadn't been yet), and have a much clearer sense of the film this time around. Most of the things that were bugging me as inconsistencies turn out not to be; I just hadn't caught the explanations that cleared them up. (Things like the distinction between the dreamer and the subject of the process -- I had assumed they were the same person.)

(Which isn't a spoiler, if you just flinched, thinking I'd given something away. I'm...