Finishing my wander down Torchwood memory lane I suppose I
should also review Miracle Day.
An
Amercian/ BBC Wales co-production it exits in a strange place between Hollywood
and Cardiff with Torchwood’s remnants forging an uneasy alliance with Rex
Matheson and Esther Drummond of the CIA.
As with Children of Earth there’s one Earth changing back story.
Everyone has ceased to be able to die.
People are still living after having been blown
up, squashed in a car crusher and several of the characters have failed to die
after being killed yet stay alive.
Chief
among these is the child murderer Oswald Danes who is executed on death row
after everyone stops being able to die and becomes a weird kind of cult
celebrity.
His career is propelled by
the sinister and cynical PR lady Jilly Kitzinger who works for a shadowy Mafia
like organisation called “the families” about which we learn very little.
So Torchwood takes another wander into its
favourite subject matters – death its self and political corruption.
As with Children of Earth soon the government
are making cold decisions and splitting people up … this time into Categories
1, 2 and 3…? Sound a bit like Tiers 1, 2 and 3…?
As usual we see the human tragedy through the
effect it has on Gwen Cooper’s family.
The 10 episode run seems a little over-long
and it sags in places.
And I wonder
about the final confrontation …is that crack …actually supposed to look like …
a crack?
One wonders what became of many
of the US actors in this… not that it’s any of my business.
This is the end.
Torchwood never came back to TV but one has to wonder where you can go
from here after a series based entirely around the issue of immortality. What bigger crisis can humanity face than no
one dying? And it’s a cliché but "no one
seeming to remember the last times the entire world was held to ransom" is
getting a bit silly now. Russell T
Davies kind of acknowledged this in a running joke in Doctor Who that humans
are somehow wired to not remember and Moffat insinuated that the fabric of
reality its self is changed by the Doctor which may explain no one remembering
but … then again when the Daleks don’t invade earth in 2160 I guess we’ll have
to admit it is all nonsense anyway which …after all it all is. But having stories that affect the entire
world takes one away from the feeling of “well that could happen” that you get
from stories like Horror of Fang Rock. I
dunno. But where do you go from
here?
Backwards to Children of Earth
Further Back to Series 1 and 2
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