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Welcome to [Torchwood]: Miracle (abandon all hope ye who enter) Day (Beware Spoilers)
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Look. Someone has to do it. At least to the halfway mark.
For the good of humanity, we cannot let this monstrosity go undocumented.
Why I fear the ocean.
Yeah, because losing your entire immune system to AIDS is absolutely awesome and has no consequences whatsoever other than death. Also, we can safely assume that Miracle Day is permanent, and that you won't find yourself mortal again at any point in time in the future.
Probably should have had level 1 & 2 patients in there though, just to make it more chilling. As it stands it sucks but its a realistic approach.
Also, china standing up for human rights over the rest of the world...
Gwen and Rhys take her dad back to the Camp of Evil, because that's a good fucking idea.
Rex wanders around a high security pen with a video camera, and the guards obviously all face outward. Not to mention this is the area where the Vera or whatever her name was is dumped by public housing guy and incompetent newbie officer (who lets himself get disarmed by public housing guy???), so muck only knows how Rex a) misses Vera getting dumped into the tiny square the ovens are kept in and b) eludes detection.
The Jack Pose is used like five times (hint: it wasn't all that great in the original series), and Dane's weird decision to follow him continues to be weird.
And we learn absolutely nothing new. Like, at least the last episode dropped hints with things like "what you gave them a long time ago Jack", but not only do we see almost nothing of what was on that server besides the overflow camps, but the grand reveal is incineration.
So far, the plot and character development - much like Children of Earth - could've been fitted into half the episodes. Actually, no, a third in this case.
Also, I kinda missed the China comment because I was multi-tasking at the time, what did China do?
I feel bad for telling my dad he should watch it when he asked me about it (before it started).
Honestly though, the motivation for whatever is behind this is so weird.
You turn the whole world immortal, and you plan for what's going to happen. You know diseases will spread and population will boom. So you segregate the ill, and effectively kill the "dead" via fire. So what do you gain?
Immortality for yourself? Maybe, but you have to be damned careful about accidents and illnesses, and since you still age (which is interesting since Jack aged very slowly if at all; the transition from Jack to the Face of Boe was always vague and occurred over the period of a few million years iirc), what do you gain out of it anyway?
Money? Woohoo, you're pharmaceutical companies and governments; you already had that.
Power? Well, given the governments are already in on it, I'd say they probably had power enough.
Control over who lives and who dies? For what purpose? Were they worried about the inevitable population boom? There are plenty of solutions that don't involve moronic crap like this.
I was hoping it'd be some sort of alien that thrives on 'the essence of life' or something, keeping everyone alive to feast more on the energy, but who knows? The writing seems intent on keeping any sort of relevant information regarding the reason as far away as possible while distracting us with some of the least interesting character 'development' of Torchwood thus far.
And the only even remote hint of the paranormal being involved was that warehouse. I wasn't even sure if Rex actually meant something like the TARDIS when he said it was "bigger on the inside" or if they just didn't have any idea of the warehouse's scale when they went in.
Its not that shocking to a society that has had debates about doctor assisted suicide and "dignity of death". Imortality without eternal youth, means that eventualy everyone of us will turn into cancer ridden, stroke induced vegetables in the end anyways. We would still be dead, we would just still be breathing and taking up space. Giving us a nice dose of morphine and firing up the old crematorium would be a blessing.
The only radical societal change I can see is there would be more treatment for cases like Rex and voluntary end of life suicide would be legal. That and we we would get rid of Morticans. If we got Jack style Imortality on the other hand... That would fuck things up.
What should be scary about miracle day is that there are people behind it and Miracle day is only one step in their master plan. Not the Miracle day itself. Like the scary part of Children of Earth wasn't the Aliens, but the goverments eagerness to bargain with them.
I mean, I suppose that it's possible that he would lose oxygen to the brain and suffer brain damage or something, but I doubt that's what the writer was thinking.
Raise your hand if you saw what was going to happen to Doctor dumbshit 15 seconds before it happened.
Also, I got the impression at the end that Oswald might be illiterate. Thing is, they already said he was a schoolteacher, and I have no damn clue what such a revelation would have to do with the plot.
would that be too complex for the average viewer so they just reduce it down to "jack is gay?"
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You know I'm kind of pissed off about how good this could have been. The crematoriums make perfect fucking sense for people who are actually gone, like that woman who was the victim of domestic abuse and braindead.
But come the fuck on you're telling me that they're only doing barely cursory checks on people before throwing them in the frier? Really? Oh right nobody knows they get cremated, it's a big worldwide conspiracy even though there are thousands of these facilities employing millions of people in an age where everyone is carrying a camera.
I mean, you can't even say "People wouldn't believe the statements unless it came from Oswald directly." Oswald is a child killer. Yeah, maybe some people take him to be a prophet, but what about the rest of the world?
Something I don't think we have talked about is how this show has a really strange episodic format. Each episode is self-contained, but in a very messy way. There is always a clear time jump between episodes but the episodes end on near-cliffhangers. Very off-putting. It wouldn't surprise me next week to see the first scene and go "Wait, didn't we leave off with Rex and Esther in the camp watching the doctor being burned alive? Why are they back at their house planning the next move?"
And Oswald's storyline has not made any real sense at all.
Not entirely. There was that whole "I only get a kiss?" bit this episode. But it's definitely less nuanced than in previous seasons.
I'm pretty sure RTD thinks that would be too complex for the average American.
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I would be interested in seeing Miracle Day in its entirety, with all the useless crap cut out and proper timeline structuring. As it's already been said, what a mess this is.
They're part of an enlightened group of aliens that go around and grant various species the gift of immortality, but initially as a test to find out whether or not they're suited for it.
Phicorp is just one alien faction that wants humanity to fail.
Episode 1: Burn victim, 90% of his body has been incinerated. Jack, in a very Jack move (the only one, perhaps), looks on callously and suggests severing what little remains of the spinal column: The victim's head keeps moving. "Fuck yeah," I exclaim.
Episode 5: People are in comas all over the place.
Fuck, even last episode: that lady gets mashed up in a car crusher and 'survives'. They really pulled the category 1 out of their ass here. This is such a frustrating waste of a good concept.
Why have the writers decided that Rhys is the one who's good in a pinch and Gwen is the bumbling idiot? "Help, we were breaking my father out of your facility and he had a heart attack, please help us or he'll..."
Or he'll what? Keep on yelling? It's been 5 days, how long does it take the average person to accept that death has stopped being a thing?
I'll never look down on Season 1-2 of Torchwood again, because they were the best television ever compared to Miracle Day.
I really don't know if I can make it to the end of the season.
Unless of course, you are just all insane and Miracle Day is actually amazing. Yeah, ok, I will go with that until this lands on Netflix and reality sets back in.
This one.
The problem is that some plot points won't make sense without horrible acting.