Miracle Day ep 5.

[elisi]

So, that. Some expected reactions, some unexpected. To begin with the latter:

1. I am grateful that Ianto's dead and is not around for this story. No really. Grateful.

2. The story might be going somewhere interesting (well I hope so, otherwise it's just downright offensive), but I'd forgotten how regular (not-CoE) RTD stuff can feel like being hit over the head with a large brick. Repeatedly.

3. WHEN WILL THEY DO SOMETHING WITH JACK??? His story is by far the most interesting, and so far he's been nothing more than a muted shadow on the edges. I know ZERO about what he feels. (Except that he wants to die, but that one's a no brainer.)

4. Mostly, I kinda feel like I need a bath? I don't particularly want to keep watching (except to find out who dunnit, of course), since RTD's worldview is so completely different to my own that I feel like I'm being forcefed cod liver oil. Very, very slowly.

ETA: All that said, there's a good article here trying to look at what MD is doing and why.

5. Actually, I think my main problem is that I don't need a TV show to tell me that humans can be monsters. All I have to do is turn on the news.

(6. Unless something drastically changes, in my personal head-canon the crack is going to eat Miracle Day! *g* So all the effects will still be there, but no one will remember except for Jack.)

Comments

[elisi]

M-hm. I generally try to suppress my memories, but now and again I remember something (like... The Blessing) and then feel like scrubbing out my brain with a metal wire brush.

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

So many characters and plot elements got introduced and then dropped, you almost can't keep track of them all. And there were too many times when the plot moved from point A to point B to point C because characters who should have been competent or at least paying more attention were either stupid or lazy or sloppy. It really does beggar the imagination when every single character blurts their Secret Plans to everyone else (including their adversaries!) and every supposedly impregnable facility is hacked into within five minutes. Add into that the ridiculous religous imagery and the ham-handed social commentary... and yeah, you get something that all the brain bleach in the universe can't cleanse away.

Definitely MD was eaten by the Crack (which then had an inexplicable bellyache for the next millenium). : )

[elisi]

and yeah, you get something that all the brain bleach in the universe can't cleanse away.
Shame. It was a massive wasted opportunity, because there was so much stuff there that could have been delved into.

Definitely MD was eaten by the Crack (which then had an inexplicable bellyache for the next millenium). : )
It's set the same summer Amy & Rory were waiting for the Doctor to find baby Melody. Which. Well... I am forever grateful that Moffat just plain ignored MD.

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

With luck, if Jack returns to DW at some point, Moff (or whoever else is in charge) will just pretend MD never happened.

Definitely there was a lot of wasted potential! (I just did a whole blog post about wasted potential, so I've been thinking about it a lot lately). The concept was terrific--nobody can die, but people are still getting ill, injured, aging, and their bodies can't heal. What a nightmare scenario! But did we really need TEN HOURS to get to a denouement where this process is reversed by two guys ripping open their chests and letting their blood spray out through a physically impossible hole through the center of the earth? (Never mind that this should have killed both of them).

Everyone's motives were so weird. Stuff would get introduced, tossed onto the table, and then... forgotten. Everything happened by contrivance. And then there were the endless hours of filler. Normally I like when stories take a breather from the plot and give us some character moments, but a couple of episodes of MD were hour-long navel-gazing sessions that didn't move the plot forward one iota. It was such a mess! And again, great concept! So frustrating. In fact, MD might be the greatest ever example of "great concept, horrid execution" in TV history. I've seen some decent shows slide into crap after a few seasons, but even those can't match the sheer toxic waste dump that was MD. It was really, really horrid, on just about every level, and I will be surprised if TW ever comes back from it (which is pretty sad, because it was a decent show up through COE).