Torchwood: Miracle Day - Episode 5 *Spoilers*

Richard Dower

lol...no wan even bothered to make a thread, anywhoo....no clue wtf is going on in this show

Auswitch?....burning the undead, or sorta dead....saw it coming miles off, when yer man was inside the bunker and said ceramic walls... :rolleyes: , blatantly obvious.

Production skyrockted in this ep. major money spent on this ep., looked great...but the story is just messy, not a clue wth is going on, how is Pullman connected to it all?....angels?

Tbh i'm not arsed enough to get to irked about the show.

I actually fell asleep watching it.

In one scene someone said "Torchwood is gone, its now more like a code word?" (or words to that effect).

How right they are!

Orion

Richard Dower wrote: »

lol...no wan even bothered to make a thread, anywhoo...

I didn't know it had been broadcast. Myepisodes has it's schedule set to BBC it seems. That could be the reason there's no thread. I'll be watching it tonight.

gazzer

That was a fantastic episode. That poor doctor. What a way to go.

I was not expecting that at all.

I love that half way into the season there is still so much to find out.

Garseys

gazzer wrote: »

That was a fantastic episode. That poor doctor. What a way to go.

I was not expecting that at all.

I love that half way into the season there is still so much to find out.

Agreed.

I felt so bad for Gwen this episode now that we know what is going to happen to her dad. Also Oswalds speech was epic...

Doctor DooM

Well, that was easily the most interesting one so far, although they killed the only non one note new character


But I guess- did they? No one can die. I assume there will be some story about whoever is behind this gathering the life force of the discorporated or something.

allanb49

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Well, that was easily the most interesting one so far, although they killed the only non one note new character


But I guess- did they? No one can die. I assume there will be some story about whoever is behind this gathering the life force of the discorporated or something.

Won't they just be dust though

anotherlostie

Eurgh that was grim. Poor Vera - I liked her too but I guess Torchwood has never had an issue killing off lead characters.

The camp administrator was played really well - I recognized the actor played the doctor on the ship in Lost and he played the baddie well from the racist comments (and appalling taste in music) through to the climax.

I thought there was a bit more spark in Esther this week at the start but once she was in the camp, she didn't do much. Jack did very little.

Oh and Jane Espensen who wrote this ep confirmed afterwards in an episode review on afterellen.com that Vera was dead.

ebbsy

Im enjoying it more every week. It was a genius move getting Bill Pullman in.

In fact I have to say Torchwood has been more consistent than the new run of Doctor Who.......

aidan_walsh

So we kill off the one new properly interesting character and replace her with mad Henry Blake? Awesome.

Also, can RTD just write this sci-fi set in a newsroom he so obviously wants to do. Getting a bit sick of that as an exposition piece.

Penn

The camp administrator guy was ridiculous I thought, as well as the most frightened, weak and pathetic Army soldier in history. The roles should have been reversed. Tough army guy shoots the Doc because she's going to draw attention to what they're doing, then he forces the admin guy (who doesn't really know what happens in the modules) to help him.

Doctor DooM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

So we kill off the one new properly interesting character and replace her with mad Henry Blake? Awesome.

Also, can RTD just write this sci-fi set in a newsroom he so obviously wants to do. Getting a bit sick of that as an exposition piece.

Barrington wrote: »

The camp administrator guy was ridiculous I thought, as well as the most frightened, weak and pathetic Army soldier in history. The roles should have been reversed. Tough army guy shoots the Doc because she's going to draw attention to what they're doing, then he forces the admin guy (who doesn't really know what happens in the modules) to help him.

I was very sorry to see the Doctor Suarez go.

RTD has this terrible habit of writing one note characters. She was the only new character in this series (outside of possibly Pullman, please suprise me RTD) who does not strictly behave as per a stereotype (ANGRY black FBI agent, ditzy blonde girl out of her depth, the bitchy career-comes-first girl, and now the cowardly bottom line administrator who is detached from the lives he ruins).

And yes, the thing with the army officer was ridiculous. Still, the most interesting episode so far, by far, despite that.

Badly Drunk Boy

The doctor will be alright. Nobody can die, so they should just apply some Flamazine Cream on her at least once every 24 hours and she'll be right as rain in a few weeks.

pixelburp

Yeah, I'm officially done with the show now, I've no interest in watching the rest of the series; I think i'll just read the plot summary on wikipedia when Torchwood finishes its run, because if nothing else the pace is simply turgid. We're half way through the run & we've barely learnt anything of note. A wink and a nod is only clever when you get little bits of the puzzle. This just feels like a slow, 10-episode satirical bludgeoning.

And then you go and kill off your only three-dimensional (new) character? That isn't ballsy, it's just stupid. Especially when those remaining 1-dimensional ciphers are supposed to be the new Torchwood team. Which it isn't really - five episodes in and in one line, the writers basically throw their hands up and say "Yeah, it's not really Torchwood, it's just a cheap hook to get the Who fans to tune in".

With the remaining half of Who on its way come the end of August, I'm not really interested in watching the rest of Torchwood.

waterglass305

I loved the episode, the second best one after the first one. It's a pity about the doctor I really liked her but it increases our sense of injustice, it's not some random person we don't care about but someone we like that's why she was killed, RTD is fracking with our heads. I liked the change as well. Doctor Who and Torchwood almost always have humans v bad aliens, its a nice change to see just humans v humans. Obviously there is some alien/time-traveling agents at work but it's more believable and more dramatic to keep them in the dark. So far I have to give this episode 8.5/10 and the series so far 8/10. The writers are building up to a big conclusion, you just have to be patient and see how the pieces fall into place. As it is I like how the season is being put together, can't wait for next week.