All Comments on 'Dream Weaver Ch. 01'

I'm curious to see where you go with this story line. I wonder if he might be in a dream right now. I guess I kinda hope he is as I loved the IC persona and the Commander Troy persona more than his current "existence". Wow I love parallel universe stories, with the Flash being one of my fave heros, I look forward to reading your version. Thank you for this!

Unless a hole is going to open up in the space time continuum and people from Don's dream are going to step through and infiltrate the current reality, the constant comparisons of characters to their dream counterparts are going to start getting old real fast.

This alternate universe story line is really freaky, especially after having read multiple years worth of stories in the "Earth-1" version. Laura & the Vision missing? Todd, Cindy, IC's mom and Chief Griswold dead? Angela Harlan, Harold Malone, and Pete Feeley being alive? All I can say is WOW!!!

Like the previous commentators, please make this a dream which is more than a study of what if Don & Melina did not take Todd and Ned with them up to the cabin with them.

1. Dream/Alternate universe not at the cost of the main story

2. You left us high and dry with no closure on the other activities needed to close - pursuit of Katherine Woodburn, White Bloodlines, Apple County etc

3. You could have commenced a fresh thread with fresh characters and onward.

4. After following all that you wrote for so many years, there is now a feeling of massive letdown and a feeling more of detachment from attachment and a very irritated feeling

5. I am sure there are people who will enjoy your new spin off/so called alternate universe, but for me, this is a deal breaker

6. All the best to you and your stories, you just lost a loyal reader

Sorry but not liking this at all, for all the reasons the others have listed.

Don't know where this is headed, but finding this hard to understand. Not liking it

Forgot to mention that I am pretty sure this is a dream. Maybe while having surgery on his back. Still do not like it.

Really?

Way iff the tails here.

When Newhart did it for a laugh at the end of the series it was a wink. This is bizare and not very interesting. Do it as a new stiry with new characters.

I am old enough to remember Bobby coming back from the dead. I don't remember watching any more after that.........I have really enjoyed your story through the many twists and turns so I may continue reading, but at this moment I am not sure. Thanks for taking the time to write for our enjoyment.

Next chapter is submitted.

I both like and dislike it.

I think my biggest complaint thus far is, prescient dreams don't work this way. You dream of something specific and detailed, and later you see exactly that transpire before you. You don't see a twisted version of it instead.

Now, however, you're setting the bar so high for Don to have any chance at all, even of a normal life much less the IC's life, that I'm wondering if you're not just about to kill him off.

For the most part WWM has done a good job of leaving answers until the conclusion of a series. This is worth the wait. Whether it be in surgery, or he was captured by Bloodlines and they're messing with him (activate belt buckle anyone?) or something else, I doubt the IC is gone. All the complaints are meaningless at this point.

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I was tired. It was very good to be able to get into bed and go to sleep. Restful, deep sleep...

.......

From "Dream weaver" by Gary Wright

"I've just closed my eyes again

Climbed aboard the dream weaver train

Driver take away my worries of today

And leave tomorrow behind....

....Fly me high through the starry skies

Maybe to an astral plane

Cross the highways of fantasy....."

The last three paragraphs of "A tiny slip" are ALREADY the dream......

I'm sure that WWM has a plan, it may be that the IC is in a hospital under anaesthetic and is just having a very vivid dream. It may be that some of the drugs that he's had injected into him over the stories have finally got to his brain and made him hallucinate, we don't know, so keep the faith!

Wifewatchman, this was not what I expected, but I can see the thread that would make this a dream (end of a tiny slip, cold feeling in the current story) so I think that it is much more likely that this is a dream, rather than the past 216 stories! Will keep the faith and read every submission looking forward to the reveal and the celebration to end all celebrations. Bravo!

Jeremy

Noted that most of those he met had died in previous stories, except for his mother, Cindy, Todd and Griswald who had been central figures in those stories and have just died. I feel that IC having come so close to death that he went into shock and is under the doc in hospital, where he will get more clues in stages for clues to the next set of stories so. WW a great twist whatever, but do hope he comes back to his wife and family and friends of the Consultant of Crime period and this is just a dream world he is in. but I will still read every post you put out as you are that good. Well Done

the best !

new turn, new stories

amaizing

5 starrs as always

For the first time, I can honestly say I really, really don't like one of your stories, WW. Really don't like.

Holding on to hope that this is really the dream. Hoping Don is having a George Bailey moment right now (am I dating myself here?).

Not going to bail on you yet - with 216 good stories under your belt, I'm holding on to the hope that this is some sort of jedi mind fuck you're pulling and soon all will be right with the world! Please, say it's a jedi mind fuck. Please.

The Review

Personally, while I can understand the hate that everyone's going through, I on the other hand am enjoying this arc. First, it's nice to see the Iron Crowbar bring bought back down to earth and seeing the personal challenges he's going through now with Cindy and Griswold gone, his troubling business, his marriage problems and most importantly seeing his arc-nemesis returning; Jack Burke.

While I did enjoyed the series, I've always though the Iron Crowbar was a huge Gary Stu. He always find ways to solve problems that no one could have thought off, sometimes seeing things no one can see and while he has his personal challenges, he just solves them in the simple whim of an eye. So it's nice to see this for a change, where he's an ordinary human, not a superhuman psychic Sherlock.

Then we have the personal challenges he's going through. I think this shows what would happen if Don has continued his marriage with Melina -despite not being an open marriage in this one- they would have drifted apart and have resented each other an probably would have ended the marriage on a bad note. Then we see that he doesn't have the support of his closest friends and allies such as Cindy and Chief Griswold, this would bode badly for Don since we know without any kind of support from them, the Iron Crowbar wouldn't be who he is now not to mention if he's attempting to take down his enemies in this version, well even I'm afraid to say what would happen to him.

But most importantly of all, we have Jack Burke returning. If Don's marriage with Melina is bad enough with the problems they're facing, having Jack Burke is definitely going to make it worse. Personally, I've always thought that Jack Burke is the arc nemesis of Don, The Joker to his Batman, so when WW killed him, I've always thought what a waste of a perfectly good enemy. Think about it, Jack has actually got a lot of influence that could rival the Crowbar heck possibly even Pastor Westboro himself, he managed to get in bed with a lot of ladies especially of those in power and in fact manage to make even those who has power cower in his wake. And that's just by using his sex tapes, what if he could do more?

While some would say it could be due to him having very good blackmail material with it and since Don's home is a place where everyone is pretty much fucking each other, Jack Burke is just a guy who's charming and dangerous but not a full blown villain that is capable of taking the Iron Crowbar. I disagree, in fact I will explain it in my theory below.

Then we have the personal challenges he's going through. I think this shows what would happen if Don has continued his marriage with Melina -despite not being an open marriage in this one- they would have drifted apart and have resented each other an probably would have ended the marriage on a bad note. Then we see that he doesn't have the support of his closest friends and allies such as Cindy and Chief Griswold, this would bode badly for Don since we know without any kind of support from them, the Iron Crowbar wouldn't be who he is now not to mention if he's attempting to take down his enemies in this version, well even I'm afraid to say what would happen to him.

Conclusively, I think this is a good start or a new beginning for the Iron Crowbar and I can't wait what Wifewatchman has in stores for this arc.

My Theory

Ok so onto my theories. First, this arc is called Dream Weaver, if that doesn't give you any Inception vibes, I don't know what will. I think Don is having a parallel universe dream or a what if dream I believe where he experiences a different past or so. This plot device has in fact been used by several mediums, where the protagonist experiences what would happen if he didn't or did do in the past along with minor changes to it. Couple with the fact, there are psychics such as the Vision in the story and he just reached the Nexus or what have you from his near death experience from the Tiny Slip arc, I think that's what going on.

And unto my next theory, one I've been holding on for a long time, I think with the return of Jack Burke in the Dream Weaver, I have a feeling it's a foreshadowing where he's going to return in the next story and I don't mean just posthumously or his sex tapes but as a full fledged villain. As I said before, I think Jack Burke is much more dangerous than any other villain that has been shown by WifeWatchman and by far he has the most potential. He actually has more personal history with Don compared to Pastor Westboro an is in fact the only one who I think can actually defeat the Great Iron Crowbar.

Now we haven't seen much what he can do as of yet but he actually caused a whole lot of damage with just his sex tapes where everyone wants a piece of it. While its easier to say that's because he slept with the right people and the wrong women(Melina and Peabody) which shows proof to Consultant of Crime but if you reread he actually not just charmed powerful women in the County but also women who are loyal to the Iron Crowbar such as Teresa Croyle.

You see when we saw the part from the Tiny Slip where Don says he doesn't know how Pastor Westboro managed to corrupt Angela Harlan and make Julie Newton so loyal to him, I had a eureka moment, what if Jack Burke had the same ability? He not just charmed them but also bent them to their will, if Wifewatchman has shown how much his death affected her and countless other women, he actually has them by the wall. What if he could do the same thing Pastor Westboro did?

Now onto the elephant in the room, yes Jack Burke is dead, caught with his lover in bed and killed by her husband. But as we know from A case of Revenge Jack Burke is capable of beating up someone up and defending himself so to just get killed like that? No way, even the Crowbar was capable of surviving harsh odds.

I think he's faking his death, waiting for the right time to get back out in the open as himself or someone else, what's to say he hasn't done that already?

But hey I could be wrong and Wifewatchman may be throwing us in a loop and throw my theory out of the water. So we just have to wait and see.

Tl;dr: I think the story's good in showing a much more grounded Donald Troy who's not a gary stu and I think Jack Burke is faking the dead is coming back as the New Consultant of Crime

As another comment here goes......my fingers are crossed too. I'm not too crazy about this change up with the story line and characters. But, let's see where you go with this since I've really enjoyed your writing - to date.

to the new stories about Troy

but I bet at the end we're gonna find out that Troy was in a coma after helicopter crash

keep up your writing

So Don is in a drug induced interrogation, probably being held by black hats or one kind or another. His constant state of "freezing cold", despite changing external conditions suggest that or something very like that. So does his knowledge of things he had prior to "waking up". Those characters that are "helpful" to him are mental defenses inside the drug/dream. Parts of himself that are subconsciously trying alert him to what is going on, or warn him off of areas of thought/memory that could put him in danger or help the folks that placed in in this drug state.

Not a bad piece. By its nature it is jarring for the readership because it places the false assumption that everything that went before was false and since we "like" what went before (the Iron Crow Bar and such) you are going to get a pretty negative response.

I expect all will be forgiven when Don manages to "wake up" from the forced dream and things are explained. Five stars for effort and originality, regardless of how well the execution was.

WW does it again and creates a kind of alternative universe, that is interesting in it's scope and how things evolve in light of the reality in the earlier stories.

Await how the story evolves.

and with his training he still got shafted, TK U MLJ LV NV

With five points pointed against the WW and IC and then to post it as Anonymous who has been an avid reader for years. I for one and I hope WW would have respected your comments more with some ID, so he could answer you. With leaving it as Anon you can as far as I am concerned go find another hole to hide in. The WW with Troy etc will continue quite well without your future input thank you. I know WW would not lower himself to reply to you but then, I can stoop even lower than anyone out there for a good writer.

Yes, I was disconcerted at first, but I finally got it.

It's an interesting literary exercise, a side trip in

an alternate universe, a "what if?". Listening to

the title tune by Gary Wright helped.

It's different but well done, as usual.

I'm still a huge fan and have faith...

Took me a while to get into it. I really love your stuff.

What on earth is going on? Is this a dream?

Ok if this ends with, and then I woke up bullshit, I am going to have a Wiccan cast a spell on your computer. lol OK, couple things he is having problems with the CIA, and he just glosses over the CIA badge in his wives secret compartment?

Makes no sense in the context of the rest.

I liked the. new storyline. Don is having this dream while undergoing surgery on his back. Bringing back dead people to make Troy learn about what if they harden died. Malone, Angela and Jack. I’ll have see if I’m right. WW you had this planned when you knew the CofCwas going to die.

*****Good read but where did this story start. Thanks for sharing.