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After three duff episodes, Torchwood finally turned it around last week with a rollercoaster ride of an episode that rekindled my interest in what I had written off as a dying show. So the question this week is: can it sustain that interest?
The big story this week is that people are now being placed into three categories. Category 3 features alive/normal people. Category 2 features people who have sustained non-life threatening injury. And Category 1 features those who have no brain functions. But, what’s that Vera? “People don’t fit into categories.” Would you like to tell us that ‘Beauty lies on the inside’ as well, or can we look forward to another dose of moral preaching later on? (Well, no, as it turns out…) She does have a point, though, I mean, do the cast of The Only Way is Essex fit into Category 1? Well, I suppose I need a question with a less obvious answer…
Anyway, Categories 1 and 2 are shipped to Overflow Camps. But the Torchwood team knows these camps are bad because PhiCorp’s running them. For some reason, though, it takes them the whole episode to figure out that these evil camps are actually concentration camps. I mean, what else could they have been?
Hey ho. So, the team decides to split up (because it always worked so well for Mystery Inc.). Gwen heads back to Wales to rescue her father from an overflow camp (because they’re evil!). Meanwhile, Esther and Vera false-ID their way into a camp in California, Esther getting Rex Category 1 status so he can snoop around an ominous part of the camp known as The Module, while Vera takes her own tour of the premises…
But tragedy was to strike, as Vera caused just a little bit too much trouble with the camp’s commandant, who shot her twice in those ghastly pins that she calls legs. (I’ve seen thicker Biros, to be honest, but it was definitely blood, and not ink, spilling out of her.) Just when you think things can’t get any worse, she gets chucked in The Module and burnt alive. Et voila: You can hear the pennies clanking as the team finally realises that they’re concentration camps.
The only person left a bit short-changed (well, those pennies were needed elsewhere) was Jack; writer Jane Espenson made it quite clear early on that she didn’t have anything for him to do, leaving him to go see Oswald Danes at his latest yawn-fest of a speech. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy that anyone, let alone a stadium full of people, would treat a paedophile, rapist and a murderer as some kind of saviour. If Torchwood was still a British programme, I would have said that it was a rather one-sided representation of Americans…
Despite its preposterousness, Torchwood: Miracle Day is at least a more enjoyable excursion than it was at the start. But the question I would really like answering next is: what is Miracle Day? Or, perhaps a more pressing question would be: by the time we’ve found out, will anybody still care?
Read last week's blog entry here.
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