Today's dream left me waking up feeling kind of flat

I dreamed there was a bunch of scam artists who bought a compound half way up a mountain, left it on the market so people would come up to see it regular, so they've filtered for rich enough people already, and then when they got there they would be greeted by 'formerly dead loved ones' and conned into staying and pouring all their money in etc etc etc. The people running the scam were trying to pitch this as some kind of past lives thing where you can wake people up to who they shared a soul with and then you can see your loved ones again. But once Torchwood got involved it became clear it was all just shimmers.

Not even mind control, just illusions, internet searches, and basic cold reading bastards.

So I dreamed Ianto Jones but in the most unwelcome context so far.

Also dreamed I knocked them all out and zip tied them and called Jack to call the police. Shimmers were Torchwood business but everything else could just get arrested.

I dreamed their entire plan fell apart because they'd been relying on people caring too much to fight back when their 'loved ones' were threatened. Someone just being done enough to stun them all and let the powers sort it out really ruined their day.

See this is almost a Torchwood shaped plot but it's too close to three others I can think of, it'd need new ground to cover. New bits of people to explore. Otherwise holo!Ianto and House of the Dead and the cult stuff in Believe all hit the high points already.

Still. Bunny.

Unfridging

I have for a while been thinking about Pathfinder and how the easyish presence of ressurection can make any imported character's life super complicated.
And I keep starting with Torchwood.

The thing with Torchwood is
the writers looked at the characters and went
"you know what this one needs? more pain!"

So like, some shows, you've got that one fridged woman in the backstory, so one man can have angsty manpain, and only mention her when mentioning she's dead. Right?

But on Torchwood:
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The thing is you get people saying that bringing back the dead is sort of cheap and loses all the stakes. But there are so many *different* stories right here in a list of people who they once couldn't save but now get a chance to, only they've moved on different amounts since then and don't quite know each other. I mean Owen has arguably done Some Murder, and even Toshiko doesn't know all of it. Ianto has done... so many things that people he'd bring back wouldn't imagine. So many different stakes in there, that aren't just The End.

Not to mention that Torchwood and Pathfinder have different ideas about The End, and making them fit together does not come up pretty.

So I want to get the characters out of their box and make the story continue.




Obviously the point of stories about grief and loss is you never ever ever again get to do that
but I feel after fifteen years we have that story told.

New ones time.