Miracle Day - Episode 8
Sep. 5th, 2011 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcWow, it's all happening now!
Okay, so Angelo had no real connection with the Triangle People (or as we now know them, the Families), he just had an entirely seperate international organisation of people with guns. But he knew what they did, and how to block it.
Friedkin's Engineered Public Confession, was brilliant. This puts Rex and Esther back in the CIA, which has an interesting effect on the team dynamic. It's no surprise where Rex's loyalties lie, and the fact he aids Jack's escape at all shows how much of an effect being with Torchwood has had on him.
Alan Shapiro? Seriously? I kept waiting for Gwen to call him "Helen"!
Not at all sure about a "Null field" that can block anything if it's set up right. I did like the idea that of course a guy whose been keeping an eye on Jack knows where to find alien tech. (And how to use it? Hmm...)
Now that she's not hiding, Esther can have a conversation with her sister, which proves to be suitably unsettling. Volunteering to be Category One? Sarah also refers to the world being a "body without a soul", which may or may not foreshadow the Soulless reappearing. (Seriously, you don't create a creepy image like that in episode 3 and then never use it again.)
The Oswald Danes plot goes sideways -- after all that, Danes is about to be "executed" after all. And Jilly Kitzinger, who's been getting more sympathetic as her distaste for Danes becomes more obvious, throws her lot in completely with the main bad guys.
(Jilly has changed a lot over the course of the series, mostly by becoming more stressed -- can you imagine the Jilly of the first episode reacting to someone recognising her with "I don't have time for this"? In fact, her CIA mole seems to be patterning her own persona on episode 1 Jilly, which is amusing.)
So Jack and Esther are on the run, Danes is on the run, Gwen's on a plane[1], and Jilly's on the rise.
And there is still a mole for the Families in the CIA!
[1]You know what would have been an interesting twist here? If they'd found some reason to ship Jack back to the UK. Then you've got the Welshwoman in America and the American in Wales, and Jack has to work with Rhys without Gwen to act as go-between and peacemaker.
Okay, so Angelo had no real connection with the Triangle People (or as we now know them, the Families), he just had an entirely seperate international organisation of people with guns. But he knew what they did, and how to block it.
Friedkin's Engineered Public Confession, was brilliant. This puts Rex and Esther back in the CIA, which has an interesting effect on the team dynamic. It's no surprise where Rex's loyalties lie, and the fact he aids Jack's escape at all shows how much of an effect being with Torchwood has had on him.
Alan Shapiro? Seriously? I kept waiting for Gwen to call him "Helen"!
Not at all sure about a "Null field" that can block anything if it's set up right. I did like the idea that of course a guy whose been keeping an eye on Jack knows where to find alien tech. (And how to use it? Hmm...)
Now that she's not hiding, Esther can have a conversation with her sister, which proves to be suitably unsettling. Volunteering to be Category One? Sarah also refers to the world being a "body without a soul", which may or may not foreshadow the Soulless reappearing. (Seriously, you don't create a creepy image like that in episode 3 and then never use it again.)
The Oswald Danes plot goes sideways -- after all that, Danes is about to be "executed" after all. And Jilly Kitzinger, who's been getting more sympathetic as her distaste for Danes becomes more obvious, throws her lot in completely with the main bad guys.
(Jilly has changed a lot over the course of the series, mostly by becoming more stressed -- can you imagine the Jilly of the first episode reacting to someone recognising her with "I don't have time for this"? In fact, her CIA mole seems to be patterning her own persona on episode 1 Jilly, which is amusing.)
So Jack and Esther are on the run, Danes is on the run, Gwen's on a plane[1], and Jilly's on the rise.
And there is still a mole for the Families in the CIA!
[1]You know what would have been an interesting twist here? If they'd found some reason to ship Jack back to the UK. Then you've got the Welshwoman in America and the American in Wales, and Jack has to work with Rhys without Gwen to act as go-between and peacemaker.
