My only comment about the Torchwood: Miracle Day finale

[giandujakiss]

If future storylines (assuming we get them) do not include Jack being kidnapped and repeatedly drained of blood to make more immortal people, I will be very disappointed in this show.


(Someday, I have faith, this crush of work will end and I'll be able to rejoin the internet on a regular basis. Sadly, today is not that day.)

Comments

[monanotlisa]

If future storylines (assuming we get them) do not include Jack being kidnapped and repeatedly drained of blood to make more immortal people, I will be very disappointed in this show.

Well, it's not common knowledge at this point...but definitely the kind of knowledge that is impossible to keep in-common, I guess. ;)

Oh, Torchwood. You make me so angry sometimes, but you're also riveting, and I could never quit my big queer show.

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, I figure it has to get out. I mean, even Gwen witnessing that has to be thinking about making herself and her family immortal. And having Jack held prisoner and exsanguinated repeatedly is exactly the sort of thing Torchwood would do.

[monanotlisa]

even Gwen witnessing that has to be thinking about making herself and her family immortal.

Maybe...but then again, right now? She and a team that's 2/5 gone have just fought really, really hard for mortality (and isn't that a kicker; I did love that overarching twist) and don't seem too likely to look at the bright side of life.

Once the revelation sinks in, though? I can see Gwen wanting Anwen to survive all the dangers life will throw at her; it's however not something that I think Rhys would ever truly desire, nor her mother even consider. For herself? No. I think Gwen this series has proven that, flawed as she has always been -- and aware of that fact too -- she is also incorruptible in many ways, not so much regarding human laws (or even those of nature, pfft, she's Torchwood) but regarding a basic understanding of herself and the world she lives in: She's been with Jack long enough and has seen enough horros, plus is pragmatic enough to realise this is not just a blessing (heh) but a curse too, and Gwen doesn't hold with either, really...

[ide_cyan]

This.

[giandujakiss]

Oh, I don't think Gwen would really want it, either for herself or her family - but I do think it's the kind of thing that would be immediately tempting before you thought it through. And I certainly think that between Gwen and Rex and whoever was there to shoot the spy-woman, and possibly anyone who thinks to ask how Rex survived the Blessing in the first place, the secret should come out, and end up with Jack being tortured for a while. ("should" as in, the narrative and the general mood of Torchwood demands it).

[monanotlisa]

I do think it's the kind of thing that would be immediately tempting before you thought it through.

Fair enough; that kind of speculation is likely even on our heroes' side (as an aside, the Torchwood team would laugh bitterly at that term, for sure. ;)

how Rex survived the Blessing in the first place

Residual energy? Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff minus the "timey"? *g* I think the first survival would've gone unnoticed, but I agree; there were people around when Charlotte was stopped. We'll see.

("should" as in, the narrative and the general mood of Torchwood demands it).

A season that does not have Jack (a) in desperate physical pain, (b) buried under the earth for endless years, or (c) at the very least angsting about what he's done is clearly no season of Torchwood at all, 'tis true...

In any case, I don't disagree; I think this storyline is right there...so much that I hope there will be something we're missing, something Rex-related, more into the realms of fantasy via destiny, perhaps: If a transfusion of an immortal like Jack can turn you immortal too, how can it possibly be that no one tried it out in the many centuries before? Blood transfusions have, on Earth, been around since the 1700s, even blood types already discovered by 1927, with blood banks in the Soviet Union being only a few years from roll-out. Not to mention the universe out there: a hundred, a thousand civilisations Jack has visited, and at the very least the future human ones didn't go for it?

[ide_cyan]

But didn't she just lampshade the whole thing about the Blessing and the morphic field doing One Last Thing (WRT to it failing Esther) just before they found out about Rex?