TW: Miracle Day
Dear all,
Sorry for the lack of anything the last few months. I'll be redoing the user info asap, to reflect what we know now, and I guess there needs to be a spoiler policy... If anyone wants to talk about TW here, that is! All hail the mighty tw_gleeclub, and huge kudos to everyone there for putting some oomph back into TW fandom, especially when the main TW comm seems utterly unbothered, but we've got some serious information on how Torchwood is moving on post CoE now, so how about some serious speculation?
Also, if anyone *is* interested in getting gwenwood moving - or has ideas on a direction to move it in! - I'd be more than happy to add mods. I am utterly lousy at publicity (you noticed? really?) but S4 looks like it's going to be the (re)start of something huge, and it would be wonderful to see the kind of excitement there was before S1 again.
Other than that...
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to feel like the top of my head is going to come off, and that's just from the first few bits of information.
I'm not concerned about Jack losing his immortality - he's not the result of any mortal or alien intervention, he's an event as much as an entity - and people *are* still dying after all. They're just not going to get there, for whatever reason.
There's been mention of corporations and governments... Hey, is it something in the water? GM crops! Irradiation as part of a medical trial gone hideously wrong? A Day of the Triffids' style eclipse-effect, its area of effect multiplied exponentially when it coincided and reacted with the firing up of the Super Hadron Collider...
Rusty has spoken about the population increasing and problems with overcrowding, but if everyone keeps dying and no one actually does, what does that mean for medical care? Hospitals? What's going to happen to the dying and good-as-but-not-quite dead? And from there - military involvement as a first step, religious groups proclaiming the end of days, people throwing themselves off tall buildings in praise of their chosen deity - Richard Dawkins getting his second cameo, trying to hold back the baying crowds at the NHM - and...
And how about the economy? However good it seems (including the survival of Oswald Danes?) there's going to be panic. People won't go to work, they'll be buying up food and supplies... Everything relies on a turnover of people. The financial markets wouldn't withstand it (after the implied commentary about (UK) school league tables in CoE, a good dig at the international financial services industry would hardly be out of place) - I'm trying (not) to imagine The Stand, but with everyone still alive. What happens if you can't get food or water, but can't die from the effects of dehydration or starvation? (Thoughts of Miranda intrude. The apathetic still-living, and the rampaging Reavers...)
It's pretty easy to see how Miracle Day (still not sure about that title) can be darker than CoE, and OMFG but it's got scope to be *huge*.
And there's going to be another six months of this before we get to see it.
Sorry for the lack of anything the last few months. I'll be redoing the user info asap, to reflect what we know now, and I guess there needs to be a spoiler policy... If anyone wants to talk about TW here, that is! All hail the mighty tw_gleeclub, and huge kudos to everyone there for putting some oomph back into TW fandom, especially when the main TW comm seems utterly unbothered, but we've got some serious information on how Torchwood is moving on post CoE now, so how about some serious speculation?
Also, if anyone *is* interested in getting gwenwood moving - or has ideas on a direction to move it in! - I'd be more than happy to add mods. I am utterly lousy at publicity (you noticed? really?) but S4 looks like it's going to be the (re)start of something huge, and it would be wonderful to see the kind of excitement there was before S1 again.
Other than that...
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to feel like the top of my head is going to come off, and that's just from the first few bits of information.
I'm not concerned about Jack losing his immortality - he's not the result of any mortal or alien intervention, he's an event as much as an entity - and people *are* still dying after all. They're just not going to get there, for whatever reason.
There's been mention of corporations and governments... Hey, is it something in the water? GM crops! Irradiation as part of a medical trial gone hideously wrong? A Day of the Triffids' style eclipse-effect, its area of effect multiplied exponentially when it coincided and reacted with the firing up of the Super Hadron Collider...
Rusty has spoken about the population increasing and problems with overcrowding, but if everyone keeps dying and no one actually does, what does that mean for medical care? Hospitals? What's going to happen to the dying and good-as-but-not-quite dead? And from there - military involvement as a first step, religious groups proclaiming the end of days, people throwing themselves off tall buildings in praise of their chosen deity - Richard Dawkins getting his second cameo, trying to hold back the baying crowds at the NHM - and...
And how about the economy? However good it seems (including the survival of Oswald Danes?) there's going to be panic. People won't go to work, they'll be buying up food and supplies... Everything relies on a turnover of people. The financial markets wouldn't withstand it (after the implied commentary about (UK) school league tables in CoE, a good dig at the international financial services industry would hardly be out of place) - I'm trying (not) to imagine The Stand, but with everyone still alive. What happens if you can't get food or water, but can't die from the effects of dehydration or starvation? (Thoughts of Miranda intrude. The apathetic still-living, and the rampaging Reavers...)
It's pretty easy to see how Miracle Day (still not sure about that title) can be darker than CoE, and OMFG but it's got scope to be *huge*.
And there's going to be another six months of this before we get to see it.