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Bunny of the day: You know those PTerry heroes that just got older and better at not dying yet?
Imagine a version of Torchwood that were kind of like that - just getting older and smarter and better at what they're doing.
Could be TW2 or TW4, but could also be just some people meant to reflect our Torchwood without actually being a Torchwood themselves. Or maybe former staff, from when retcon wasn't part of the retirement package. Relatively new invention. They probably didn't execute everyone before then. At the very least there would have been some sneaky enough to get away.
The older they get, the less they like it. And they're all, for their seperate reasons, quite sure there is an alternative.
Immortality questers. Tad bit dangerous.
So I'm thinking, when the Doctor fixed the nanogenes thing, there was a whole crowd of remarkably healthy people left standing around, some of them inelegantly trying to cover things up.
If they'd all been optimised, it's plausible some of them could live quite a long time.
It is of course plausible that some of them would still be alive and well by regular means.
Could be there's someone who knew Jack.
We the audience have seen how Jack handles a former lover who got old. By lying to them.
But what about if they knew the truth?
And Ianto hasn't seen at all.
So: Former lover of Jack's who was involved in that gas mask incident? Oh look, we have a one of those, how handy! :-)
The actual plot part of this as yet remains a bit skinny. I've just got some conversations in my head, mostly while everyone's in cells so they can hear them. And by 'everyone' I was meaning 'everyone except Tosh' because I noticed I hadn't thought of anything for her to say and it would be kind of cool if she was the one charging to the rescue.
It's most frugal if people get locked up within Torchwood, but the cells there happen in pairs, yesno? So Ianto could be in the cell next to Jack but the other two wouldn't.
Putting them in pairs in cells has no logical justification. However obvious the porn setup would be.
And it would be kind of fun to have a secret base full of very elderly experts in their fields. It could have a secret entrance made to look like a care home. I don't know if it would be underground or more of a tower, sort of thing, but locking Jack up in an old people's home would be quite amusing.
And then there would be Jack being at his charming best with now-elderly-lover, and him thinking he was taking the piss, and Jack kind of surprised. Because the weirdest thing he shagged was about a thousand years old and mostly made of frills and slime so really a few wrinkles are not that offputting.
... I could maybe have him phrase it a bit different with the other guy around. Very few people like being compared to slimey frills.
So to invent the rest of the group you take the existing Torchwood people and fast forward them 40-60 years. Only that would make them all of another era, so there would be attitude clash and possibly bitterness about opportunities or possibly demonstrating that there were opportunities even then, depends. Probably a bit of both because we've got a whole team to play with.
I kind of like the idea of the Ianto equivalent being a 50 year old woman. Because she's the youngest. And she makes tea.
... Gwen the compassionate could be the nearly retired lady who runs the care home. Cares very much about all her people. Tried to do what was best for them. This involved orderly schedules and seperate rooms. So now she's mind controlled and the residents run her like clockwork instead.
... okay, that may amuse only me.
So anyways, fun with character stuff, haven't actually invented a plot yet.
Bunny of the day: You know those PTerry heroes that just got older and better at not dying yet?
Imagine a version of Torchwood that were kind of like that - just getting older and smarter and better at what they're doing.
Could be TW2 or TW4, but could also be just some people meant to reflect our Torchwood without actually being a Torchwood themselves. Or maybe former staff, from when retcon wasn't part of the retirement package. Relatively new invention. They probably didn't execute everyone before then. At the very least there would have been some sneaky enough to get away.
The older they get, the less they like it. And they're all, for their seperate reasons, quite sure there is an alternative.
Immortality questers. Tad bit dangerous.
So I'm thinking, when the Doctor fixed the nanogenes thing, there was a whole crowd of remarkably healthy people left standing around, some of them inelegantly trying to cover things up.
If they'd all been optimised, it's plausible some of them could live quite a long time.
It is of course plausible that some of them would still be alive and well by regular means.
Could be there's someone who knew Jack.
We the audience have seen how Jack handles a former lover who got old. By lying to them.
But what about if they knew the truth?
And Ianto hasn't seen at all.
So: Former lover of Jack's who was involved in that gas mask incident? Oh look, we have a one of those, how handy! :-)
The actual plot part of this as yet remains a bit skinny. I've just got some conversations in my head, mostly while everyone's in cells so they can hear them. And by 'everyone' I was meaning 'everyone except Tosh' because I noticed I hadn't thought of anything for her to say and it would be kind of cool if she was the one charging to the rescue.
It's most frugal if people get locked up within Torchwood, but the cells there happen in pairs, yesno? So Ianto could be in the cell next to Jack but the other two wouldn't.
Putting them in pairs in cells has no logical justification. However obvious the porn setup would be.
And it would be kind of fun to have a secret base full of very elderly experts in their fields. It could have a secret entrance made to look like a care home. I don't know if it would be underground or more of a tower, sort of thing, but locking Jack up in an old people's home would be quite amusing.
And then there would be Jack being at his charming best with now-elderly-lover, and him thinking he was taking the piss, and Jack kind of surprised. Because the weirdest thing he shagged was about a thousand years old and mostly made of frills and slime so really a few wrinkles are not that offputting.
... I could maybe have him phrase it a bit different with the other guy around. Very few people like being compared to slimey frills.
So to invent the rest of the group you take the existing Torchwood people and fast forward them 40-60 years. Only that would make them all of another era, so there would be attitude clash and possibly bitterness about opportunities or possibly demonstrating that there were opportunities even then, depends. Probably a bit of both because we've got a whole team to play with.
I kind of like the idea of the Ianto equivalent being a 50 year old woman. Because she's the youngest. And she makes tea.
... Gwen the compassionate could be the nearly retired lady who runs the care home. Cares very much about all her people. Tried to do what was best for them. This involved orderly schedules and seperate rooms. So now she's mind controlled and the residents run her like clockwork instead.
... okay, that may amuse only me.
So anyways, fun with character stuff, haven't actually invented a plot yet.