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

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

I'm also baffled by the poor handling of Jack, and indeed the Oswald Danes plotline in general. It really doesn't make sense unless you know Jack's history, so why don't they reveal some of it? There has to be more to Jack than standing around looking moody in his Big Coat Sillhouette.

[elisi]

The Immortal Man becomes mortal... It's a gift of a story and there's zilch. I don't understand it.

Oswald Danes is an intriguing character, but as you say he only really makes sense if you know Jack's story. I'm wondering if they're going to for *big reveal* of what Jack did, which will inevitably be underwhelming for the 90% of the audience who knows his story already. Meh.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

'm wondering if they're going to for *big reveal* of what Jack did, which will inevitably be underwhelming for the 90% of the audience who knows his story already. Meh.

Not so sure about that. I know exactly two people in RL who watched CoE, and they didn't watch TW though they're big DW fans.

[elisi]

Fair enough, but he's still a cipher. It's a bit like TW S1 again where he's there, but what goes on in his head is a mystery.

ETA: What I mean it... For those unfamiliar with Jack's TW history, they need more than impenetrable mystery in order to care what he did.