Yes, so do I. Perhaps we haven't really seen him come into his speciality yet. I like your idea that he is an arranger. He does seem to be quite an ideas-man.
I can imagine there being quite a lot of administrative stuff to be done
So it would seem, but I would be skeptical of this. Each member of the team presumably has to file reports on their cases and keep records of their work and research, which, I would imagine, Ianto keeps track of as archivist.
As for the rest: my belief is that Torchwood Three, being above the law and beyond the government is also outside all the normal rules, because it is primarily a con game of Jack's, and he doesn't need to do paperwork for anyone but himself. (I could be persuaded that he also has to do paperwork for the fund or trust or whatever it is that finances Torchwood; canonically their funding is unclear. What commodirified calls "handwavium". Which is fine by me.)
My point is: If Torchwood is answerable to no one, has no taxes, doesn't even officially exist, there must be only internal paperwork, and only as much of that as Jack would deem necessary.
I don't think Jack is much of a paperwork kind of guy.
Of course, they'd have a century of back records for Ianto to deal with.
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Date: 2008-01-20 03:35 am (UTC)mmm, I find this hard.
Yes, so do I. Perhaps we haven't really seen him come into his speciality yet. I like your idea that he is an arranger. He does seem to be quite an ideas-man.
I can imagine there being quite a lot of administrative stuff to be done
So it would seem, but I would be skeptical of this. Each member of the team presumably has to file reports on their cases and keep records of their work and research, which, I would imagine, Ianto keeps track of as archivist.
As for the rest: my belief is that Torchwood Three, being above the law and beyond the government is also outside all the normal rules, because it is primarily a con game of Jack's, and he doesn't need to do paperwork for anyone but himself. (I could be persuaded that he also has to do paperwork for the fund or trust or whatever it is that finances Torchwood; canonically their funding is unclear. What
My point is: If Torchwood is answerable to no one, has no taxes, doesn't even officially exist, there must be only internal paperwork, and only as much of that as Jack would deem necessary.
I don't think Jack is much of a paperwork kind of guy.
Of course, they'd have a century of back records for Ianto to deal with.
Thanks for more Doctor background info!