My ramblings on episode five of Miracle Day
Warning: spoilers beneath the cut
I'm probably in the minority here, but I was very disappointed in episode 5 of Miracle Day. It had been built up, in trailers and interviews, into the episode where they would find out what was going on with the Miracle. I interpreted this to mean that they would find out what whoever was behind it wanted, and possibly who they were. I was expecting something like an alien conglomerate, with a compatible physiology to humans, turning the Earth into a giant harvestable organ bank or other major plot development. I then thought they would spend the rest of the episodes trying to sort it out.
And what did we get? The human governments were burning those that they considered brain dead. No information whatsoever about who created the miracle, or why, and what they wanted from it. No aliens, no motivation for the miracle, just humans. My reaction was just “Is that, it! That's the big revelation?”
If the aliens or whoever, don't want the “undead” people, what is it all for?
I might not feel like this if they hadn't given the wrong impression in the advertising. Or perhaps it was just me who misinterpreted it.
And RTD did his usual kill off the good guy thing. I suppose the fact that Arlene Tur was given a different sort of billing, to Esther or Rex, on the starting credits should have given us a clue that she would not last.
And to nitpick. The writers don't seem, to me, to be consistent in their portrayal of the undead. If a burned up corpse with a detached head can still look around, as can someone crushed to a cube in a car, why are there so many people lying around motionless? Shouldn't they all be walking and looking around regardless, like the woman at the airport with her neck twisted around. They can't all have died of brain damage.
And why have furniture in the ovens? Bunkbeds seem a little unnecessary, and they didn't look fire damaged. Rex would have noticed surely.
Anyway there are still several episodes to go where, I hope, they will give some answers to the major questions. And I hope that Jack gets more of a major part, we haven't been seeing enough of him.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I was very disappointed in episode 5 of Miracle Day. It had been built up, in trailers and interviews, into the episode where they would find out what was going on with the Miracle. I interpreted this to mean that they would find out what whoever was behind it wanted, and possibly who they were. I was expecting something like an alien conglomerate, with a compatible physiology to humans, turning the Earth into a giant harvestable organ bank or other major plot development. I then thought they would spend the rest of the episodes trying to sort it out.
And what did we get? The human governments were burning those that they considered brain dead. No information whatsoever about who created the miracle, or why, and what they wanted from it. No aliens, no motivation for the miracle, just humans. My reaction was just “Is that, it! That's the big revelation?”
If the aliens or whoever, don't want the “undead” people, what is it all for?
I might not feel like this if they hadn't given the wrong impression in the advertising. Or perhaps it was just me who misinterpreted it.
And RTD did his usual kill off the good guy thing. I suppose the fact that Arlene Tur was given a different sort of billing, to Esther or Rex, on the starting credits should have given us a clue that she would not last.
And to nitpick. The writers don't seem, to me, to be consistent in their portrayal of the undead. If a burned up corpse with a detached head can still look around, as can someone crushed to a cube in a car, why are there so many people lying around motionless? Shouldn't they all be walking and looking around regardless, like the woman at the airport with her neck twisted around. They can't all have died of brain damage.
And why have furniture in the ovens? Bunkbeds seem a little unnecessary, and they didn't look fire damaged. Rex would have noticed surely.
Anyway there are still several episodes to go where, I hope, they will give some answers to the major questions. And I hope that Jack gets more of a major part, we haven't been seeing enough of him.