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Miracle Day ep 7.
I'd rather leave this to a later time, but I realised that it's Thursday and there'll be more tonight, so I better get this down.
First of all - this episode felt as if it was beamed in from a completely different show, something like 'The Life and Times of Captain Jack Harkness'. It still wasn't Torchwood, but at least it was interesting.
Now, Jack said the word 'Rome' and there were ITALIANS and honestly, they could have done anything at all, and I would still have watched. And having an Italian as someone particularly important to Jack, tied in with EVERYTHING EVER, and I loved it. Thankfully though it was set between CoE and MD, so there's no need to go fiddle with anything in My Immortal. *wipes brow* (Am still editing. Darn DW eating my brain and stealing my time with meta...)
Why between CoE and MD? Four things.
1. The coat. (WW2 greatcoat in the 1920s!)
2. The '700 years since my last confession'. This actually gives us a time scale, which was lovely.
3. The fact that he *knows* what he is (a fact), which he doesn't find out until Utopia.
4. His whole demeanor:
- When he speaks of the Doctor, it is not with anger or incredulity or hurt, but by paralleling himself to him. Which also ties in with 'I came back for you. I never do that.' Very Doctor-y, and implies coming and going.
- His reaction to Angelo's offer of 'staying together', which makes perfect sense when keeping Ianto in mind, but not really otherwise.
- His acceptance of/comfort with his immortality, and the way he uses it (letting himself fall off the building).
- Not to mention 'Men like you - you kill me', which gives us an achingly brilliant insight into Jack and the wisdom/insight he has gained having lived for so very long. (If he's only just around 100, and stuck on Earth waiting for the Doctor, it... falls rather flat.)
Basically if this was meant to be during his wait for the Doctor, then the continuity errors are so massive no amount of fanwanking can fix them. So there.
What else? Oh yes. This was Russel T. Davies squared. Quadrupled, even. I know Jane E. wrote it, but it truly is RTD through and through. It ticks EVERY box (including the one that stipulates that the audience needs to be hit over the head with large bricks. Repeatedly) - and although I found it very interesting, I've no great urge to re-watch it (which I ought to, cause Darcy didn't see it, but...).
I'm sorry, I really don't want to come across as so negative. The show just really isn't my cup of tea, which is a shame, but it's not like they ruined everything OMG! (I read Buffy s8. Comparatively MD is a master piece.)
First of all - this episode felt as if it was beamed in from a completely different show, something like 'The Life and Times of Captain Jack Harkness'. It still wasn't Torchwood, but at least it was interesting.
Now, Jack said the word 'Rome' and there were ITALIANS and honestly, they could have done anything at all, and I would still have watched. And having an Italian as someone particularly important to Jack, tied in with EVERYTHING EVER, and I loved it. Thankfully though it was set between CoE and MD, so there's no need to go fiddle with anything in My Immortal. *wipes brow* (Am still editing. Darn DW eating my brain and stealing my time with meta...)
Why between CoE and MD? Four things.
1. The coat. (WW2 greatcoat in the 1920s!)
2. The '700 years since my last confession'. This actually gives us a time scale, which was lovely.
3. The fact that he *knows* what he is (a fact), which he doesn't find out until Utopia.
4. His whole demeanor:
- When he speaks of the Doctor, it is not with anger or incredulity or hurt, but by paralleling himself to him. Which also ties in with 'I came back for you. I never do that.' Very Doctor-y, and implies coming and going.
- His reaction to Angelo's offer of 'staying together', which makes perfect sense when keeping Ianto in mind, but not really otherwise.
- His acceptance of/comfort with his immortality, and the way he uses it (letting himself fall off the building).
- Not to mention 'Men like you - you kill me', which gives us an achingly brilliant insight into Jack and the wisdom/insight he has gained having lived for so very long. (If he's only just around 100, and stuck on Earth waiting for the Doctor, it... falls rather flat.)
Basically if this was meant to be during his wait for the Doctor, then the continuity errors are so massive no amount of fanwanking can fix them. So there.
What else? Oh yes. This was Russel T. Davies squared. Quadrupled, even. I know Jane E. wrote it, but it truly is RTD through and through. It ticks EVERY box (including the one that stipulates that the audience needs to be hit over the head with large bricks. Repeatedly) - and although I found it very interesting, I've no great urge to re-watch it (which I ought to, cause Darcy didn't see it, but...).
I'm sorry, I really don't want to come across as so negative. The show just really isn't my cup of tea, which is a shame, but it's not like they ruined everything OMG! (I read Buffy s8. Comparatively MD is a master piece.)