Miracle Day - ep 5
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daibhidc(In case anyone's been wondering, I know there are episode titles, but they don't appear on screen or get mentioned in any UK publicity, so I'm ignoring them rather than look them up every time.)
"The scheme has already been implimented in the United Kingdom, with the Prime Minister declaring a new age of care and compassion". Yep, that sounds like Coalition compassion to me.
With Gwen's dad in an overflow camp she heads back to Wales. Fake passport, Rhys disguised as a chauffeur ... and then they have a PDA in the middle of the airport? Way to maintain cover.
I love the new Torchwood Cardiff, comprising Gwen, Rhys, Sergeant Andy ... and Gwen's mum. Base of operations: Gwen's parents' house.
Interestingly, the return to Cardiff is actually evidence of just how much the series is set in America: Britain's overflow camps policy is further advanced, making it the horrible example of what the US team is trying to stop. On the other hand, Gwen's horrified "Healthcare run by a private company!" struck me as very British. Given the current controversy on the other side of the pond, I wonder how it went down over there?
Meanwhile, back in the US, Dr Vera has finally joined the team, and they're also breaking into an overflow camp. Nicely understated was the pegs for Category Ones: Category Twos get a blue peg "Blue, rhymes with two"; Category Ones get red, to rhyme with..? Meanwhile Vera meets Colin Maloney, a man who probably isn't actually evil, but whose incompetence and arrogance have produced a pretty good facsimile.
The Oswald Dane subplot continues to be both fleshcrawling and intriguing. Maybe Jack's right and he wants to die, but it's pretty clear he has his own ideas of how to go about it, and Torchwood doesn't feature in them. It remains to be seen how long PhiCorp will. Meanwhile Jilli Kitzinger, another character in whom self-absorption stands in for evil, has been noticed by the "right people". Whoever they are. (▲)
The confused Geraint Cooper, who thinks his daughter and son-in-law have just popped in for a visit, and hasn't realised he's in a SinisterGovernment Private Enterprise Facility, was heartbreaking. Especially when Gwen's own actions make him Category One.
And at the end we learn what the Modules are for (but still not why), and we lose Vera. That came as a real shock, on the level of losing Ianto, even though we've only known her for half a season.
"The scheme has already been implimented in the United Kingdom, with the Prime Minister declaring a new age of care and compassion". Yep, that sounds like Coalition compassion to me.
With Gwen's dad in an overflow camp she heads back to Wales. Fake passport, Rhys disguised as a chauffeur ... and then they have a PDA in the middle of the airport? Way to maintain cover.
I love the new Torchwood Cardiff, comprising Gwen, Rhys, Sergeant Andy ... and Gwen's mum. Base of operations: Gwen's parents' house.
Interestingly, the return to Cardiff is actually evidence of just how much the series is set in America: Britain's overflow camps policy is further advanced, making it the horrible example of what the US team is trying to stop. On the other hand, Gwen's horrified "Healthcare run by a private company!" struck me as very British. Given the current controversy on the other side of the pond, I wonder how it went down over there?
Meanwhile, back in the US, Dr Vera has finally joined the team, and they're also breaking into an overflow camp. Nicely understated was the pegs for Category Ones: Category Twos get a blue peg "Blue, rhymes with two"; Category Ones get red, to rhyme with..? Meanwhile Vera meets Colin Maloney, a man who probably isn't actually evil, but whose incompetence and arrogance have produced a pretty good facsimile.
The Oswald Dane subplot continues to be both fleshcrawling and intriguing. Maybe Jack's right and he wants to die, but it's pretty clear he has his own ideas of how to go about it, and Torchwood doesn't feature in them. It remains to be seen how long PhiCorp will. Meanwhile Jilli Kitzinger, another character in whom self-absorption stands in for evil, has been noticed by the "right people". Whoever they are. (▲)
The confused Geraint Cooper, who thinks his daughter and son-in-law have just popped in for a visit, and hasn't realised he's in a Sinister
And at the end we learn what the Modules are for (but still not why), and we lose Vera. That came as a real shock, on the level of losing Ianto, even though we've only known her for half a season.
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Date: 2011-08-17 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-18 02:15 pm (UTC)Hah, that completely slipped by me. Nice catch!