elisi: Edwin holding a tiny snowman (RTD kills the things you love)
elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2011-08-12 08:35 am
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Miracle Day ep 5.

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.)

[identity profile] vampirefever.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
I found the whole episode deeply offensive. Genocide/severe torture (if the dust is still alive) is not light entertainment (for all it's ambitions, Torchwood has never really been much more than extra strength Dr Who and so is definitely light entertainment not serious drama), especially when you evolke Nazism. I don't know where RTD is going with this but I can't use the word interesting to describe it.