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Miracle Day. Part 1.
It was... nice? I don't mean that in a bad way. It was well written, nicely filmed, the new characters smoothly introduced, Bechdel Test passed, Gwen was kick-ass (and there was stuff I can use for My Immortal), Jack was... Jack (oh Jack), and yeah. Good stuff.
It wasn't my show, but I'll certainly watch it. Although I must admit that it is WEIRD watching a continuation on the same day I finally found closure and managed to come to peace with everything.
To explain a bit better what I mean, let me pull this out of my user info:
Torchwood was somewhere I lived. CoE killed it, by turning it into 'event TV' or whatever it's called. The title isn't important. The point is that the story - the specific story - is what matters, and the characters are subservient to it. S1 - 2 of Torchwood gave people a base, a tapestry, a palette: Something for fans to play with, endlessly. CoE broke that template, and instead served up a single story. Miracle Day, similarly, is a single story. You can write around it, but it doesn't generate new stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. CoE was a brilliant story. Miracle Day looks good so far. But they're holidays. Destinations. Not somewhere to live.
But I'm OK with that. My tea boy did good. My tea boy did better than good. And I can let him go. Shiny new stuff? Nice. But not mine.
It wasn't my show, but I'll certainly watch it. Although I must admit that it is WEIRD watching a continuation on the same day I finally found closure and managed to come to peace with everything.
To explain a bit better what I mean, let me pull this out of my user info:
"A great film is something you can take a brief holiday in; a [funny] television series, with proper character development, is something you can live in."
Tom Cox, The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, 15th Apr. 2007
Torchwood was somewhere I lived. CoE killed it, by turning it into 'event TV' or whatever it's called. The title isn't important. The point is that the story - the specific story - is what matters, and the characters are subservient to it. S1 - 2 of Torchwood gave people a base, a tapestry, a palette: Something for fans to play with, endlessly. CoE broke that template, and instead served up a single story. Miracle Day, similarly, is a single story. You can write around it, but it doesn't generate new stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. CoE was a brilliant story. Miracle Day looks good so far. But they're holidays. Destinations. Not somewhere to live.
But I'm OK with that. My tea boy did good. My tea boy did better than good. And I can let him go. Shiny new stuff? Nice. But not mine.