Torchwood: Miracle Day

[strung out]

better tonight.

 

[Santino]

I thought the bad guys might turn out to be The Silence for a while.

 

[8115]

It's a bit slow-moving, feels like the whole series would have been better as one episode.

 

[strung out]

It's a bit slow-moving, feels like the whole series would have been better as one episode.

i think it can be sustained as a series, just a much shorter one. 5 or 6 episodes, rather than 10.

 

[strung out]

as a wise man just pointed out to me, since when was captain jack gay?

 

[Bungle73]

It's a bit slow-moving, feels like the whole series would have been better as one episode.

Not really.

as a wise man just pointed out to me, since when was captain jack gay?

Um, since the character was first created. Although he's bisexual actually.

 

[strung out]

Um, since the character was first created. Although he's bisexual actually.

so bisexual = gay now?

 

[Bungle73]

so bisexual = gay now?

Jack will go with anyone, male or female. It's always been the case? If you've ever watched TW before I'm not sure why you're even questioning it?

 

[strung out]

yes, i know that. which is why i'm questioning the fact that he's being portrayed as gay in Miracle Day, when it was established thousands of years ago (in jack's past) that he'll shag anything, male, female, alien, anything with a postcode etc.

 

[Bungle73]

yes, i know that. which is why i'm questioning the fact that he's being portrayed as gay in Miracle Day, when it was established thousands of years ago (in jack's past) that he'll shag anything, male, female, alien, anything with a postcode etc.

I don't think they've not said anything about him not liking women have they?

 

[strung out]

it seems to be the way it's being played though...

Barrowman also confirmed that the omnisexual Jack only has sex with men in new ten-part series Miracle Day.

"People who watch this series will think he's completely gay," he explained. "It was completely [showrunner] Russell [T Davies]'s choice to do that, to make an impact, to stir things up a bit. That's more so for the States than [the UK]."

 

[ViolentPanda]

as a wise man just pointed out to me, since when was captain jack gay?

He's "pansexual" according to the Doctor, i.e. he'll sleep with anything.

 

[Greebo]

IIRC at least a few minutes of Miracle Day's first episode were spent with Jack on the phone to Gwen in a way which implied a bit more than just a working relationship.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I just saw that there is supposed to be 10 hour long episodes of this crap. I hope the revelation next week is a good one. This is so slow, and the tiny group of inept emotional bickering idiots hardly feels like an Impossible Mission team.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

... the tiny group of inept emotional bickering idiots hardly feels like an Impossible Mission team.

I think that's part of the revelation- that they really don't know what they're doing (as if we didn't know ). At least that was strongly suggested in the "next time" preview.

Anyway, has anybody got any idea who these "families" are and why they're rising?

 

[Termite Man]

I think that's part of the revelation- that they really don't know what they're doing (as if we didn't know ). At least that was strongly suggested in the "next time" preview.

Anyway, has anybody got any idea who these "families" are and why they're rising?

there was 'the family' in a DW episode (the one where the Doctor wiped his mind to hide and was a school teacher called John Smith (which was also the false name that Jack gave to the bloke who designed the security for the server room)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_Blood

 

[Pseudopsycho]

I remember them (those episodes make the missus cry, bless) and the Doctor didn't kill them did he, just fucked 'em royally...

 

[Greebo]

Oh yes, the Slytheen, and there was another family with a different name but of the same species too.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I am enjoying the show but it is slow. Bill Pullman is rather good though

 

[DotCommunist]

I like how they had to laboriously work out what the hidden sections of a Camp might be for. It was always ovens you dicks

 

[ginger_syn]

hey don't spoil the fun

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

that did take them a stupidly long time to work out

this series does seem to be a tad stretched out

 

[maldwyn]

Five episodes in and I've lost the plot - well, was there one? But then again I'm easily distracted by Jack's carefully tousled hair.

 

[DotCommunist]

that did take them a stupidly long time to work out

this series does seem to be a tad stretched out

I also had to laugh at gwens boyfriend last week 'yeah they're taking him to some sort of camp!' all cheerfull like.

as if alarm bells wouldn't be ringing when they start mentioning camps for the sick

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

yeah.. overflow camp... FFS nobody would name them that.

it would be emergency treatment centre or some such

oh no the place they call a camp that they take all the less abled people is doing bad things!!

no fucking shit!

this doesn't half seem like a rehash of CoE

 

[feyr]

complete with Gwen leaving a video message apologogising and saying there is no hope.

i like CoE, and i am trying to like miracle day but its just soooooo slow! i keep hoping the next episode will be better

 

[Bassism]

It's a bit slow-moving, feels like the whole series would have been better as one episode.

i agree

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

CoE was far more ... condensed. and in torchwood that is kinda a good thing

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

not sure about one episode

there is enough here for a couple of episodes but not as many as there have been so far. we havn't really got to end game yet and thats worrying. last episode was about 3/4 filler

 

[Bassism]

not sure about one episode

there is enough here for a couple of episodes but not as many as there have been so far. we havn't really got to end game yet and thats worrying. last episode was about 3/4 filler

ye maybe not one but they are fucking milking it a bit