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The Windhovers: The Fledgling (2 of 4), Jack/Ianto

Oct 20, 2008 22:51

Title: The Fledgling
Series 'Verse: The Windhovers
Chapter: 2 of 4
Author: sarcasticchick
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: R
Spoilers: TW S1, S2
Fluffers/Betas: lilithilienSummary: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei ( Read more... )

torchwood, fic, janto, windhovers: the fledgling

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crabby_lioness October 21 2008, 05:44:22 UTC

Ooo!

sarcasticchick October 22 2008, 17:53:54 UTC

:)

Thanks for reading!

crabby_lioness October 22 2008, 22:19:47 UTC

I'm starting to get a Judge Dread vibe....

sarcasticchick October 22 2008, 22:37:17 UTC

Heh - I hope you're talking comic books and not Sly Stone's movie ... cause that was rather awful.

I'm not so familiar with the comic book 'verse tho to give you a 'yes' or a 'no' to the thoughts - there *may* be some notions of instant, one-man judiciary system ;) But I don't think the Windhovers will truly mimic that 'verse - I've built their world/their systems in my head, but some future story stuff will have an impact on how their actual system functions now.

Cause if a world is destroyed, how can there be a true judiciary system? ;)

crabby_lioness October 22 2008, 22:45:15 UTC

Don't watch Stallone movies and only vaguely familiar with the comic, but I get the same feel, i.e. something that seemed like a wonderful innovation in law enforcement at the time but in practice didn't work.

It's obvious Ianto's tapping into some intergalactic law enforcement database. But where's the intergalactic law enforcement agency? Did somebody have a grand idea of creating an agency with enhanced members of each species on each planet? Did the thing then implode? Did the rest of the universe object strenously enough to break the back of the agency? Or did the database interface itself drive the agents insane? Or some combination of the above? Hmmm....

sarcasticchick October 22 2008, 22:54:35 UTC

I'm just ashamed to admit that I actually paid to rent that movie eons ago ...

All very good questions - course, don't forget, Ianto's not exactly human in this ... ;) Hmmm...hint *thinks* the "database" word is definitely applicable, but not entirely complete in the definition as applied to Ianto and the Windhovers.

:)

And somebody(ies) objected very strongly to the idea of intergalactic law enforcement - well, many did, but some in particular wanted them ... broken ... in order to proceed.

crabby_lioness October 22 2008, 23:20:13 UTC

We all have such tales. The only Rocky movie I've ever seen came from walking into it at a cinema after the movie I paid good money for turned out to be too awful to watch through the opening credits: Transylvania 6-5000. Oh, the shame....

since it appears to be tapping into the code of the Universe itself, it's not likely to be a "database" confined within a computer, but something which functions in a similar way.

Somebody(ies) always will object to such ideas. It's the Servalan Solution: anything powerful enough to thwart me must be controlled by me or broken.

sarcasticchick October 22 2008, 23:44:29 UTC

Okay - I've never heard of Transylvania 6-5000 (and I consider myself to be a bit of a movie buff) so I had to look it up - the 1985 one? With Goldblum? I can't imagine a movie with Goldblum - who I adore - being in a terrible movie ...

Mmhmm...quite possibly. It's alien ... so I'm doing my best to make it alien. ;) Which hurts my brain in figuring out how to explain to everyone else - it makes sense in my head. *G*

Never heard that phrase before - but yes, that is quite appropriate

crabby_lioness October 23 2008, 00:14:59 UTC

Servalan was the Head Bad Girl in Blake's 7. Lovely character, she had a strong opinion of how she wanted the universe to run and anyone/thing that differed with her had to be destroyed. She thought of herself as a nice person who just needed to clean house a bit -- by getting rid of her enemies. B7 was really the first TV SF to explore politics, dark protagonists, and moral ambiguity in an ongoing series, and was a tremendous influence on every space series that followed, including ST:TNG, the named-in-its-honor B5, and Farscape.

sarcasticchick October 23 2008, 17:55:06 UTC

I've heard many good things about B7 - some time I'll have to see if I can't get ahold of the series as I enjoyed ST:TNG, B5 and Farscape.

Wasn't B7 a really slash-happy show too? Or am I imagining things?

crabby_lioness October 23 2008, 18:16:19 UTC

It was incredibly slash-rich. The protagonist Blake and his second-in-command/rival/heir Avon shared an intense love/hate relationship that provided wonderful fodder for slashers. Paul Darrow (Avon) vehemtly denied it, even going so far as to write a bad novel about Avon's origin to emphasize that he wasn't gay, but there was no denying that the two had the most intense relationship on the screen, far more so than any male/female pairing.

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