Miracle Day ep. 10

[elisi]

Bullet points because I'm too tired to write proper thoughts.

- *headdesk repeatedly*

- Gwen was awesome and Jack was pretty (and even had a good Jack-moment)

- (No headdesking over those points)

- So SLOW

- *headdesk repeatedly*

- So RIDICULOUS (and not in a good way)

- *headdesk repeatedly*

- HOW - considering that he INVENTED IT - can RTD NOT UNDERSTAND how Jack's immortality works???

- *headdesk so many times there's a dent in my head. And in my desk*

- At the end, Darcy and I agreed that it'd be more interesting if everyone had turned into doughnuts (apart from Jack - he'd be a cream puff).

- Miracle Day: The Whoniverse equivalent of the Star Wars prequels. And for the same reasons. (And yes, I know some people love them. I am sure there are good points, they - and MD - just didn't work for me.)

ETA: Personal canon: The crack ate Miracle Day.

Comments

[elisi]

*blink, blink* . . . that's pretty much the Pandorica. Although mercifully that did not actually look like a giant vagina.
'Splainy? The Pandorica was a prison, not a big magic thing that reached into people's SOULS.

Naturally Rex spending most of ten episodes telling Jack to stop being so gay would be set-up for that. And lol at the pregnancy comment.
Well the first time we ever hear about The Face of Boe, it's on the news (in... that episode with Adam The Bad Companion - The Long Game, that's it) that he/it is pregnant...

[promethia_tenk]

Is "box" slang for vagina in places other than America? Even if not, it still works: underground, feminine symbol, a holder of an imprint that is used to give life to the whole world, keeps people alive, controlled by a mysterious shadow alliance, hero is sacrificed to/in it. The looking into the soul thing Moff manages metaphorically through the legends of the Pandorica ("Hello, you--have we met?"), but then, who's to say the Blessing really looked into people's souls and it wasn't just that people were told it did that and they looked into themselves?

Well the first time we ever hear about The Face of Boe, it's on the news (in... that episode with Adam The Bad Companion - The Long Game, that's it) that he/it is pregnant...
Always amused me. And doesn't Jack complain at the beginning of TW that he hates being pregnant?

[elisi]

Is "box" slang for vagina in places other than America?
Yes. Yes it is. (I have a VERY amusing story re. this involving my sister-in-law...)

The looking into the soul thing Moff manages metaphorically through the legends of the Pandorica ("Hello, you--have we met?")
Yes but metaphors are FINE! My kids see the Pandorica as a Big (scary) Box that the Doctor got locked into. (And the older one probably gets the Pandora's Box reference.) The little one wants a River figure w. the Pandorica chair for her birthday. It's a THING. The Blessing was a McGuffin that worked 'because it did' (and people who didn't know what it was, sometimes went off and killed themselves after seeing it, so it wasn't just hype). Although, considering the sheer amount of 'These things happen when you're on a Hellmouth' stuff I've managed to fanwank over the years, it's interesting to hit a solid wall. The Blessing is just stupid.

And doesn't Jack complain at the beginning of TW that he hates being pregnant?</i? Yes he does! :D

[promethia_tenk]

It's funny because, reading this and a number of your other complaints in this post, I find myself quite automatically coming up with reasons I'm fine with the Blessing being a McGuffin and why I think it's actually better set up than you're making it out and and and . . . But it doesn't actually matter. The wall is the wall, and I know this through intimate acquaintance. Please say 'hi' to the slightly gray-ish brick on the upper left for me.

[elisi]

It's funny because, reading this and a number of your other complaints in this post, I find myself quite automatically coming up with reasons I'm fine with the Blessing being a McGuffin and why I think it's actually better set up than you're making it out and and and . . .
Oh I'm sure. But it's hitting my s8 buttons and I am *thisclose* to breaking out my dancing Jacks gif. But I shall WALK AWAY.

*waves to brick*