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ericadawn16) wrote2011-09-17 01:27 pm
ericadawn16) wrote2011-09-17 01:27 pm
Miracle Day: The Final Episode!!!
As part of why I feel Miracle Day is unrealistic with its portrayal of Torchwood being the "only" one to try and stop the camps, I'd like to point out that over 22,216 people helped the Jews during the Holocaust and that's not even including those who helped the other "undesirables" under the Nazis.
Must be a finale, Gwen's opening with a monologue
I did like her little speech this time though. It was more personal and meaningful than, Sometimes, I think we're too fucked up and horrible even for the Doctor...
So, Rex insults Torchwood again as though they're incapable of properly preparing so that they get the job done AND no one dies...except I guess based on the last two seasons, he's totally right.
Someone get Rex the dvds of the first two seasons when they were actually competent and their kit included gas masks!
I think the idea was more that Rex is still disassociating himself from being part of the team even though he basically is a member of the team like Gwen did in the first season when she'd refer to Torchwood as "you" instead of we. However, I was annoyed when she did it then and I'm annoyed when he does it now.
I think I'm going to really miss Agent Shapiro. He grew on me so I was beginning to like him and then...that meant he had to die.
Seriously, how can they NOT know Charlotte is the mole? It's like they're all on drugs or something.
I liked how Jack didn't bare his soul to Oswald but considering the little hints here and there to Steven and Jack being a child-murderer himself...wouldn't the brand new audience be completely confused by that? Shouldn't Steven have been actually addressed at some point? Like Jack talking to Gwen at some point or right before retconning Esther since she wouldn't remember?
Rhys and Andy are just ULTRA ADORABLE! I want the buddy cop comedy right now. Anyway, there was one thing that bugged me...
Nurse/soldier/attendant person: (surprised) No one's claimed her.
Gee, wonder why...could it be the fact that you're harassing house to house for Category 1s or that you only let one person visit anyway and that's because he happens to know a police officer that's possibly still smitten with his wife and thus, will do anything for her?
Or the fact that you're just going to burn her to a crisp anyway so that's how they dealt with their loss?
DUH
I guess it was worth it though to see Andy being all cute and honorable. Please, please, please find someone other than Gwen, Andy! Get yourself a nice girl or man or alien, just anyone who's going to treat you right. You deserve it.
Really? Whole body blood transfusion? Did you learn it off the web?
Actually...if everyone's afraid of going to the doctor, that might be plausible but it would be nice to be told how they knew exactly what to do especially since you like to have them so incompetent in every other way.
Up until Esther's death, I'd have pegged this as the best episode of the season and on par with some of the episodes from the first two seasons, definitely CoE. Even all the holes were about as many as you'd find in a regular episode. I was really enjoying it with less politics and stupid stuff but lots of action and funny lines.
Then, they killed Esther which really pissed me off for several reasons.
1. It basically confirmed the spoiler that Rex was going to get to be immortal and while I loved the POTENTIAL of Rex before the series in theory, what actually happened was that Rex pissed me off most of the time. Now if they do it like Owen and we get some rhyme and reason to it, maybe I'll change my mind but I don't know because apparently, the scene with his dad was supposed to explain everything?
However, that made it seem like he became an asshole because he made sure at all costs to not be like his dad and not have anything to do with his ghetto upbringing.
It's not really the same as having your fiance ripped away from you by aliens so you don't want to love or become close with anyone ever again...
Also, it takes away from Jack being special on a permanent basis...
2. Esther was nice and the audience liked her...so she HAD to die? Because what other point was there to her death? Unless...
3. Esther was the eyes for the new audience. She fulfilled Gwen's role in season one. I know, I know we can't have two Gwens so I guess she was seen as superfluous except Gwen has her own stuff going on now with being a wife and mother and Torchwood veteran. She's not really new anymore which was the whole point of why Esther had to be used. Esther not only represents the audience but most of the audience would relate to her mad GoogleFu and shyness and family issues. So, by killing her off, it's kind of like he's killing the genre part of the audience, those that he feels upsets him the most. It felt like a giant FU for all the Ianto stuff...
Oh...
4. It was also Esther's death combined with my still unresolved anger and sadness at the deaths of Owen, Tosh, Ianto and Steven...
However, if I'm to be honest, shows can have death and still be good, like MI5/Spooks. I know I'm taking a chance with characters and the fact that Esther alone gets an onscreen funeral was sweet so the episode could have been redeemed right there if it hadn't been for the twist with Rex...
Of course, if there's some big payoff with that twist in a future series, then I will change my judgement on it...I'm not holding my breath though...
5. What about her sister and nieces?
Tosh was already estranged from her family. Owen hated his family. Ianto left behind a sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew but we saw how resilient they are and how much Rhi was like her brother. We knew the grief was going to suck but they'd get through it. Vera was apparently estranged or something.
Esther had responsibility. She said herself that she'd taken care of her sister all her life and we saw from the scenes that her sister was not going to better. It's sad. We don't have all the details. We don't know whether it's a matter of repeatedly going off her meds or something else. We don't even know the circumstances around her pregnancies. Was she married? Did he take off? Do they even have the same father? They are put into foster care so he's out of the picture somehow.
They did all of this to establish how Esther's sister is unfit and it's sad, but we were left with no indication that she could get better...
Now, the sister and the daughters were at the funeral but...
Are we honestly supposed to think everything is going to be fine now? After all of that set-up? Am I supposed to be happy that instead of being put into Esther's custody, those girls are going to be put into the system where older children are less and less likely to be adopted and it's almost a given that they'll be split up?
Well, I'm not and if we're supposed to believe that the Miracle "fixed" her sister, I'm not buying that either and to make matters worse...I know we'll never hear from them again. They'll just cease to exist like Tosh' family, Owen's family, Ianto's family, Alice, Lois, Bridget and everyone else introduced for convenience/story sake and dropped by the next series.
I really wanted Jack to jump into the giant vagina. Instead, we got this giant bloodspurt Matrix-style.
Mom: Eww...
Then shit goes down, more shit, running, more shit...
Mom: Is the redhead dead yet?
Me: No
(A couple of minutes go by)
Me: Well now, Gwen appears to be beating the crap out of her.
Mom: Why?
Me: No idea, but she'll probably be dead soon. (big explosions) Yep, she's dead.
So, Esther's funeral...I did love Esther's funeral and it is worth noting how Esther and Katie are the only characters to get on-screen funerals. Jack was even singing a hymn and sad and seemed to have sung that hymn before which begs the question...is it really because all the funerals have the same song OR did one of his previous lovers drag him to church? I do like how they tried to make Jack more of a contradiction this season. He claims there is no afterlife and complains about the Pope and God's rules but loves weddings and hymns and appears very comfortable in church.
If they had ended it with the funeral, I might have forgiven them a little. It would have been a fitting end to the series all about how people were unable to die and then they could.
I do have another nitpick, Jack mentioned that all the funeral homes were booked solid...really?
Did people hide that many Category 1s after all? Because I really doubt the governments are going to sort which ashes belong to which body or even keep track of everyone they incinerated.
Yay, Jilly's not dead!!!
Oh...the Families want to continue to be the Big Bad for seasons to come...
DAMMIT, I'm already sick of them.
You know I did love the whole person coming back to life to everyone's consternation...you know when I loved it? When Rusty did IT THE FIRST TIME IN UTOPIA!
It just pissed me off here.
Mom: Well, that was dumb.
She has also told me how she'll pass by and forgot what I'm watching because she doesn't recognize the people and the music doesn't sound like Torchwood either.
However, I loved when I was watching Merlin yesterday and Eve Myles had put everyone to sleep.
Mom: She's a glorified Jigglypuff.
Now I can delete season four off the dvr.
Must be a finale, Gwen's opening with a monologue
I did like her little speech this time though. It was more personal and meaningful than, Sometimes, I think we're too fucked up and horrible even for the Doctor...
So, Rex insults Torchwood again as though they're incapable of properly preparing so that they get the job done AND no one dies...except I guess based on the last two seasons, he's totally right.
Someone get Rex the dvds of the first two seasons when they were actually competent and their kit included gas masks!
I think the idea was more that Rex is still disassociating himself from being part of the team even though he basically is a member of the team like Gwen did in the first season when she'd refer to Torchwood as "you" instead of we. However, I was annoyed when she did it then and I'm annoyed when he does it now.
I think I'm going to really miss Agent Shapiro. He grew on me so I was beginning to like him and then...that meant he had to die.
Seriously, how can they NOT know Charlotte is the mole? It's like they're all on drugs or something.
I liked how Jack didn't bare his soul to Oswald but considering the little hints here and there to Steven and Jack being a child-murderer himself...wouldn't the brand new audience be completely confused by that? Shouldn't Steven have been actually addressed at some point? Like Jack talking to Gwen at some point or right before retconning Esther since she wouldn't remember?
Rhys and Andy are just ULTRA ADORABLE! I want the buddy cop comedy right now. Anyway, there was one thing that bugged me...
Nurse/soldier/attendant person: (surprised) No one's claimed her.
Gee, wonder why...could it be the fact that you're harassing house to house for Category 1s or that you only let one person visit anyway and that's because he happens to know a police officer that's possibly still smitten with his wife and thus, will do anything for her?
Or the fact that you're just going to burn her to a crisp anyway so that's how they dealt with their loss?
DUH
I guess it was worth it though to see Andy being all cute and honorable. Please, please, please find someone other than Gwen, Andy! Get yourself a nice girl or man or alien, just anyone who's going to treat you right. You deserve it.
Really? Whole body blood transfusion? Did you learn it off the web?
Actually...if everyone's afraid of going to the doctor, that might be plausible but it would be nice to be told how they knew exactly what to do especially since you like to have them so incompetent in every other way.
Up until Esther's death, I'd have pegged this as the best episode of the season and on par with some of the episodes from the first two seasons, definitely CoE. Even all the holes were about as many as you'd find in a regular episode. I was really enjoying it with less politics and stupid stuff but lots of action and funny lines.
Then, they killed Esther which really pissed me off for several reasons.
1. It basically confirmed the spoiler that Rex was going to get to be immortal and while I loved the POTENTIAL of Rex before the series in theory, what actually happened was that Rex pissed me off most of the time. Now if they do it like Owen and we get some rhyme and reason to it, maybe I'll change my mind but I don't know because apparently, the scene with his dad was supposed to explain everything?
However, that made it seem like he became an asshole because he made sure at all costs to not be like his dad and not have anything to do with his ghetto upbringing.
It's not really the same as having your fiance ripped away from you by aliens so you don't want to love or become close with anyone ever again...
Also, it takes away from Jack being special on a permanent basis...
2. Esther was nice and the audience liked her...so she HAD to die? Because what other point was there to her death? Unless...
3. Esther was the eyes for the new audience. She fulfilled Gwen's role in season one. I know, I know we can't have two Gwens so I guess she was seen as superfluous except Gwen has her own stuff going on now with being a wife and mother and Torchwood veteran. She's not really new anymore which was the whole point of why Esther had to be used. Esther not only represents the audience but most of the audience would relate to her mad GoogleFu and shyness and family issues. So, by killing her off, it's kind of like he's killing the genre part of the audience, those that he feels upsets him the most. It felt like a giant FU for all the Ianto stuff...
Oh...
4. It was also Esther's death combined with my still unresolved anger and sadness at the deaths of Owen, Tosh, Ianto and Steven...
However, if I'm to be honest, shows can have death and still be good, like MI5/Spooks. I know I'm taking a chance with characters and the fact that Esther alone gets an onscreen funeral was sweet so the episode could have been redeemed right there if it hadn't been for the twist with Rex...
Of course, if there's some big payoff with that twist in a future series, then I will change my judgement on it...I'm not holding my breath though...
5. What about her sister and nieces?
Tosh was already estranged from her family. Owen hated his family. Ianto left behind a sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew but we saw how resilient they are and how much Rhi was like her brother. We knew the grief was going to suck but they'd get through it. Vera was apparently estranged or something.
Esther had responsibility. She said herself that she'd taken care of her sister all her life and we saw from the scenes that her sister was not going to better. It's sad. We don't have all the details. We don't know whether it's a matter of repeatedly going off her meds or something else. We don't even know the circumstances around her pregnancies. Was she married? Did he take off? Do they even have the same father? They are put into foster care so he's out of the picture somehow.
They did all of this to establish how Esther's sister is unfit and it's sad, but we were left with no indication that she could get better...
Now, the sister and the daughters were at the funeral but...
Are we honestly supposed to think everything is going to be fine now? After all of that set-up? Am I supposed to be happy that instead of being put into Esther's custody, those girls are going to be put into the system where older children are less and less likely to be adopted and it's almost a given that they'll be split up?
Well, I'm not and if we're supposed to believe that the Miracle "fixed" her sister, I'm not buying that either and to make matters worse...I know we'll never hear from them again. They'll just cease to exist like Tosh' family, Owen's family, Ianto's family, Alice, Lois, Bridget and everyone else introduced for convenience/story sake and dropped by the next series.
I really wanted Jack to jump into the giant vagina. Instead, we got this giant bloodspurt Matrix-style.
Mom: Eww...
Then shit goes down, more shit, running, more shit...
Mom: Is the redhead dead yet?
Me: No
(A couple of minutes go by)
Me: Well now, Gwen appears to be beating the crap out of her.
Mom: Why?
Me: No idea, but she'll probably be dead soon. (big explosions) Yep, she's dead.
So, Esther's funeral...I did love Esther's funeral and it is worth noting how Esther and Katie are the only characters to get on-screen funerals. Jack was even singing a hymn and sad and seemed to have sung that hymn before which begs the question...is it really because all the funerals have the same song OR did one of his previous lovers drag him to church? I do like how they tried to make Jack more of a contradiction this season. He claims there is no afterlife and complains about the Pope and God's rules but loves weddings and hymns and appears very comfortable in church.
If they had ended it with the funeral, I might have forgiven them a little. It would have been a fitting end to the series all about how people were unable to die and then they could.
I do have another nitpick, Jack mentioned that all the funeral homes were booked solid...really?
Did people hide that many Category 1s after all? Because I really doubt the governments are going to sort which ashes belong to which body or even keep track of everyone they incinerated.
Yay, Jilly's not dead!!!
Oh...the Families want to continue to be the Big Bad for seasons to come...
DAMMIT, I'm already sick of them.
You know I did love the whole person coming back to life to everyone's consternation...you know when I loved it? When Rusty did IT THE FIRST TIME IN UTOPIA!
It just pissed me off here.
Mom: Well, that was dumb.
She has also told me how she'll pass by and forgot what I'm watching because she doesn't recognize the people and the music doesn't sound like Torchwood either.
However, I loved when I was watching Merlin yesterday and Eve Myles had put everyone to sleep.
Mom: She's a glorified Jigglypuff.
Now I can delete season four off the dvr.