Judging by the end of the fantastic ‘Immortal Sins‘ I thought that the eighth episode of Miracle Day ‘End Of The Road’ would have at least answered a few questions, but what we got was an episode that merely speculated, and while contained a few moments of greatness, just generally fell flat on it’s face by it’s mediocrity.
Remember Angelo from the last Episode? I was hoping that his character was given a bit more than just a passing epilogue of an old man in a coma who eventually died. Could he at least have been conscious for a while? Maybe a line of dialogue? Nope, straight to the morgue for ye. His granddaughter did no better either, never has a woman said so much that meant so little. This was basically ’Exposition: The Episode!’ for the first half. Then the jolly fat guy came in (why did they hire THIS famous actor for THIS part, I look at him and just cannot buy his character!) pointed a few guns and then blew himself up for no reason. What was the point of reintroducing his character anyway? I had forgotten all about him! Then even MORE exposition! Captain Jack might as well be sprouting phoney lines from the script right in front of us. I don’t mind exposition, but it just seemed a bit bland what they was explaining. Doctor Who could have solved these questions with one line of dialogue and get on to but Torchwood? Let’s just waste an entire Episode for this crap!!
*TAKES A DEEP BREATH, CALMING HIMSELF*
Okay, so after my frustration about how mediocre and boring Torchwood has gotten, what did I like about this Episode? Well it had some good character moments, Oswald Danes was brought back, John De Lancie’s Chapiro was really entertaining and it had a good cliffhanger ending (Jack is soooo not dead by the way). So I suppose 50% of this Episode was good. But the other half felt tedious and dull. Well seen as the next Episode IS the penultimate one I hope we can finally pick up the pace and end this on a high note, right guys?
Well…not really. While I admit that I did like this Episode a lot, I think it’s hardly penultimate episode material. It starts a few months later and the Torchwood team are each tackling their own missions. Gwen has to hide her father from the authorities (being finally caught by the stereotypically evil ‘new-app!‘ guy), Rex is tracking down ‘family’ members and Jack and Esther are somehow now in Scotland with Esther nursing Jack back to health. Why Jack and Esther are in Scotland and how Rex has escaped from smuggling Jack into the car (last Episode) is beyond me though. Surely the CIA aren’t that dum? Meanwhile, Jilly Kitzinger is being transported to Shangai to see the great ‘Blessing’ everyone is talking about. Anyway due to some magical script editing all the major characters (including Oswald, who still crosses the line between unlikeability and likeability so perfectly) are reunited in Gwens home to finally crack down and find the location of the so called ’Blessing’. What they find out in ONE evening is more than what they’ve solved in every single episode put together! God damn, did it have to take them soooo long? FINALLY WE GET SOMEWHERE!
Okay, now I can believe in this Torchwood team. Rex is the charmingly cool asswipe, I’m FINALLY warming to Esther, Captain Jack and Gwen are as good as they’ve ever been and Oswald is intriguingly fascinating. If ONLY they had come to this conclusion five episodes ago! Although the stuff with the ’Blessing’ was still a bit meh, I finally have confidence in these characters and I can’t wait to see what the finale to Miracle Day holds in store. And judging by the trailers, it’s going to be one eck’ of an Episode! Can one Episode redeem an entire Series worth of (let’s face it) mediocrity? We’ll have to wait another Week to find out…
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