Miracle Day Episode 9 & 10
Episodes nine and ten bring Miracle Day to a close and they were amongst the best episodes in the series. In episode 9 they finally start looking for The Blessing and they find out the names of three families who were the three people who Jack saw discussing him when he was being bled back in the 1920s and they start to look into it, but it isn’t made any easier for them as it turns out that there is a member of one of the families in the CIA itself and they have been feeding misinformation to the agency from the word go.
They work out who the mole is in the final episode but it becomes clear in the penultimate episode who the mole is and I must say that I was surprised at the identity of the mole and wouldn’t have thought that it was that person that it turned out to be at all, in fact I was rather disappointed to be honest!
Things move up a gear in this episode as we learn what the blessing is, but it isn’t really explained that well and I am still not entirely sure what it is but we also find out the location of the Blessing which is where Rex, Esther, Jack and Gwen head armed with Jack’s blood.
In the penultimate episode we find out what the blessing wants, well we sort of find out what it wants anyway as drops of Jack’s blood seem to be drawn to a specific location when spilled which means that they were right to go there.
In the final episode we learn the true meaning of the miracle and how it works and we also learn how the miracle can be reversed which is by Captain Jack dying and giving him his mortal blood which will counteract with the immortal blood of Jack that they had been feeding into the blessing for years and years. That is quandary in the final episode of Miracle Day – does Captain Jack sacrifice himself for the good of the human race, or does he let the human race suffer so that he can finally die?
By the end of the story we do know a little bit more about the miracle and about why it happened and, of course, how it was all reset to normal but we still know very little about the three families apart from their names and also that they are very persistent and are going to bide their time. Does this mean that if there is another series of Torchwood that the families will reappear and try something else?
In typically Torchwoodian fashion not all of the main characters made it out of the series alive but in my opinion it was the wrong character that made it through, and that is only because I just don’t like them, and never had since they were introduced this series.
It does beg the question with the reveal in the final episode if we really needed much of the previous nine episodes to get to this point of the story. The answer, quite frankly, is no, and this could have been told in half the time it was, but it was a good ride over the course of the ten weeks, even if at times it did feel as though they were getting nowhere fast.
I did enjoy Miracle Day and it was nice to have the story unfold over a number of weeks, but I do think that it would have worked better if they had shown it over two weeks with five episodes a week and I am going to have to try and watch it in that format to see if my suspicions are correct.
