Torchwood Miracle Day

As usual I am not setting out to spoiler anyone, these are just my thoughts about the first episode of Miracle Day.

I have to confess that when I heard Torchwood was going big budget and to the USA I was sceptical, mainly because I thought although many Americans get and like what Torchwood is about they are going to bring a completely different tone to the show. Even when I heard that one of my favourite writers Jane Epsenson was involved I still had my reservations.

So last night I sat down to watch I was hoping for something better but realistically expecting something at about the level of what happened.

First off I really didn't like Rex, I didn't like him in the first scene and then I certainly despised him afterwards.  There was nothing likable about the character at all.He was arogant, he was a pretty piss poor CIA agent even if I do say so myself even after going through what his character went through.

Also shoes people! The American girl in the insane heels, you cannot run in those seriously, its not going to happen. IT threw me out of the story a little but because no one can run in those shoes. They might look nice but in that context....

Scenes that worked for me, the scenes that took place in Wales. Scenes between Jack and Gwen and any time PC Andy turned up, although make that Sergeant Andy now. Rhys was a little bit annoying. Though Gwen still has the ability to give me rage, there was so much different with the show I kind of forgave the overacting because at least it was familiar. Also Bill Pullman's character Oswald was wonderfully evil and I almost couldn't bare to watch him on screen because he made my skin crawl.

What went wrong, Rex is completely horrible, it felt too American. Too much focus on ACTION! at the expense of what are the more normal Torchwood tropes. I liked Torchwood when it was a bit silly, when there were sex aliens and ressurection gloves and hot gay 1940s servicemen. I know the game changed when we had children of Earth which was a brilliant piece of grown up sci fi. It worked I even felt that Ianto's death was a perfect piece of drama, but so far Miracle day hasn't hit my squee spot and it despite the money that's obviously been thrown at it, this feels like a game change too far.

I'll tune in next week, and probably the week after that but I hope that this episode was just a blip.

And I'll leave you with one final image which did make me laugh rather a lot.

Well that and the line, "Yes mam, I'm feeding her lard."