I still speak RTD
Mar. 9th, 2013 04:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stAmazingly, I understood what happened in the final episode of Miracle Day.
Also, I didn't hate it.
I hate the Torchwood team. That hasn't changed. What a bunch of losers! I can't imagine any world where these people would be in charge of any successful operations to save us all. So, I'm not surprised that they didn't come close to stopping the "Families." And I am not happy we have to keep the God Awful Rex around. Why couldn't he just die heroically saving Esther? And well, I am sorry to see Esther go, as she was the only one of the new characters I liked. Couldn't they shoot Gwen, instead? Please.
But, okay, all of that said, it wasn't as bad as Children of Earth for me. Looking at why others hated it, I found there seemed to be some confusion about how the whole transfer of immortal life happened and I speak enough RTD to explain that one...so...here goes:
If we accept the Earth is a living being of sorts, we are half way there. The time vortex went into Rose and Rose gave Jack eternal life, as a fixed point. There is nothing special about his blood...as he keeps telling us. However, there is something special about this crack in the Earth. It is the center of a morphic field that basically transmits the life span of people in China and Buenos Aries to us all. This whole idea, I would bet you, came out of blowing Jack up in Children of Earth. RTD's concept springs full blown from: What if all that was left of Jack were a vial of his blood...would the Bad Wolf reset him? And, of course, it would. So, here we find a way to have it reset an entire planet. You will note that we have some of the Untempered Schism effect at work for people...which tells you what we are experiencing is a little Time Vortex-y.
This concept, however, does get a little dicey for RTD...because he wants to keep ordinary humans in limbo for the rest of his ideas to play out around nobody dying. If everyone reset ala Jack, then there would be no drama about zombie people and ovens. So, the Rose Mojo Miracle can't be permanent for planet earth.
I would say that RTD rationalized this by keeping Jack around as a mortal. So, Jack is like a stopper for the complete miracle. Which is why the families want him dead, not just because he can stop it all with his mortal blood...but because he is holding back the complete miracle of a planetary reset. The Rose Mojo is calling him home. So, the families are making lemonade by toasting as many people as they can before immortality becomes permanent. I would say the flaw in this plan is that the dead might all reset once Jack is killed. But, anyway, Rex takes a full dose of Jack blood, which truly should have been leaking out of him as it leaked out of Jack...but...never mind that. He can take the transfusion because it won't kill him, because he can't die. Though, neither can Esther and it would have made more sense to split the blood supply...but then we wouldn't have had the ridiculous funeral shoot out. Let's just say that ALL of Rex's blood had to be removed and replaced with Jack blood so that there was no trace of Rex at all...setting aside that Rex would start to make antibodies immediately.
When Rex and Jack bleed into the Morphic Generator at the Earth's core, it resets to mortal Jack lifespan. Jack dies. Only, now the power of the Bad Wolf can go back into Jack. Why does it go into Rex, too? Because...the morphic field creates a polarized event...so both Rex and Jack get a dose of Rose Mojo. It can't tell them apart for a few seconds there.
Since this entire miracle was clearly linked to Jack's mortality from the beginning, I felt this plot and the resolution was more coherent than the one from Children of Earth. I do think we could have used less moralizing and fewer episodes.
Also, I didn't hate it.
I hate the Torchwood team. That hasn't changed. What a bunch of losers! I can't imagine any world where these people would be in charge of any successful operations to save us all. So, I'm not surprised that they didn't come close to stopping the "Families." And I am not happy we have to keep the God Awful Rex around. Why couldn't he just die heroically saving Esther? And well, I am sorry to see Esther go, as she was the only one of the new characters I liked. Couldn't they shoot Gwen, instead? Please.
But, okay, all of that said, it wasn't as bad as Children of Earth for me. Looking at why others hated it, I found there seemed to be some confusion about how the whole transfer of immortal life happened and I speak enough RTD to explain that one...so...here goes:
If we accept the Earth is a living being of sorts, we are half way there. The time vortex went into Rose and Rose gave Jack eternal life, as a fixed point. There is nothing special about his blood...as he keeps telling us. However, there is something special about this crack in the Earth. It is the center of a morphic field that basically transmits the life span of people in China and Buenos Aries to us all. This whole idea, I would bet you, came out of blowing Jack up in Children of Earth. RTD's concept springs full blown from: What if all that was left of Jack were a vial of his blood...would the Bad Wolf reset him? And, of course, it would. So, here we find a way to have it reset an entire planet. You will note that we have some of the Untempered Schism effect at work for people...which tells you what we are experiencing is a little Time Vortex-y.
This concept, however, does get a little dicey for RTD...because he wants to keep ordinary humans in limbo for the rest of his ideas to play out around nobody dying. If everyone reset ala Jack, then there would be no drama about zombie people and ovens. So, the Rose Mojo Miracle can't be permanent for planet earth.
I would say that RTD rationalized this by keeping Jack around as a mortal. So, Jack is like a stopper for the complete miracle. Which is why the families want him dead, not just because he can stop it all with his mortal blood...but because he is holding back the complete miracle of a planetary reset. The Rose Mojo is calling him home. So, the families are making lemonade by toasting as many people as they can before immortality becomes permanent. I would say the flaw in this plan is that the dead might all reset once Jack is killed. But, anyway, Rex takes a full dose of Jack blood, which truly should have been leaking out of him as it leaked out of Jack...but...never mind that. He can take the transfusion because it won't kill him, because he can't die. Though, neither can Esther and it would have made more sense to split the blood supply...but then we wouldn't have had the ridiculous funeral shoot out. Let's just say that ALL of Rex's blood had to be removed and replaced with Jack blood so that there was no trace of Rex at all...setting aside that Rex would start to make antibodies immediately.
When Rex and Jack bleed into the Morphic Generator at the Earth's core, it resets to mortal Jack lifespan. Jack dies. Only, now the power of the Bad Wolf can go back into Jack. Why does it go into Rex, too? Because...the morphic field creates a polarized event...so both Rex and Jack get a dose of Rose Mojo. It can't tell them apart for a few seconds there.
Since this entire miracle was clearly linked to Jack's mortality from the beginning, I felt this plot and the resolution was more coherent than the one from Children of Earth. I do think we could have used less moralizing and fewer episodes.
