When death itself comes to a halt, the whole world faces its greatest danger yet. CIA agent Rex Matheson has only one clue - Torchwood.
NB: The episodes are aired in America six days before they are in the UK. Ep. 1 was shown on Starz on July 8th, and it will be shown on BBC One on July 14th.
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Although Starz has this billed as S01E01, I'm going to list it as part of Series Four.
It's also worth noting that the US episodes contain content not seen in the UK episodes, and vice versa. Obviously, the UK episodes are longer, to fill the full hour (episodes on Starz are ~51 minutes long), so five or six minutes are cut for the American showing, but there are also scenes in the American episodes that are censored, or just don't appear, in the UK episodes. I'm planing on watching both sets of episodes, so if there's anything missing that adds to the story, or is of interest, I'll mention it.
From here, expect spoilers in this thread (and every other Miracle Day thread).
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Torchwood is back! My first thoughts were how much improvement we see between series. Series Two was stronger than the first, Children of Earth was pretty incredible and now, with it's increased budget (explosions, car chases, helicopters packing heat! Also, American actors I recognise, which is no easy feat) and larger team of writers, the Miracle Day series is better still, and that's after only one episode!
The basic premise is that human death has been halted. Now we're not talking simply death from old age or disease - as the episode progresses, you may start thinking to yourself, "Well what about death by fire, or explosions? Heck, what if the body is in pieces?", and you won't be, er, disappointed (there's a particularly interesting scene where a Doctor is showing off the [living] charred corpse of a suicide bomber and removes the head).
As it's the first of ten, there's not much to be said other than one fantastically interesting plot point, which is bound to be integral to the story: everyone on the Earth is immortal... except Captain Jack.
We've got what appears to be an alien intervention, but we're not sure why. My [very early] guess is that everything has been reversed, simply so that whoever is doing this can get at Captain Jack. Why? We'll have to wait to find out (and I imagine, as it was with CoE, we won't see or hear from the aliens for a good number of episodes).
In conclusion: one episode down, and we're on to a winner! I look forward to watching the UK version on the 14th, and then episode two on the 15th.
