#miracle day
In fact, per The Torchwood Archive, the mysterious alien Committee controlling the Families later created a force capable of possession – a force which defeated its creators and waged a war against humanity, who forgot its name and called it only “The Enemy”.So in Torchwood: Miracle Day, we see that a group called “the Family”, including members called “the Cousin” and “the Mother”, cause all of humanity to become immortal by pouring Jack’s biodata into a mysterious crack running through the center of the Earth. I’m not saying it’s Faction Paradox messing around with Earth’s caldera - how could I? We see that the Family are just regular old humans! Though, come to think of it, Big Finish’s Torchwood audios do say that the Family was being controlled by a mysterious groups of aliens …
Am I being pranked by James Goss?
I’m finishing off my Torchwood rewatch, listening to the commentary on Miracle Day ep.10. And they are talking about how Rex’s immortality is Blessing based whereas Jack is a fixed point in time and space. Plus how we don’t know if Jack was mortal during the events of MD.
And I’m sat here realising how on brand that would be for Jack. Him going about being overdramatic, claiming he’s mortal when nothing has changed.
This is back up by the injury Jack got in Ep.1, a cut on his arm. It didn’t heal instantly. Which was what Jack was claiming as evidence of him being mortal. But if you remember back in Cyberwoman Ianto punched Jack. At the end of the episode, at least a few days after the main events of the episode, we see Jack again still with bruising from the punch. Proving the theory that non-threatening injuries take longer to heal. Now by the time Miracle Day happens Jack has almost definitely forgotten about this fact given the amount he has died daily.
@this-is-quite-homoerotic i’m not sure about the ‘breaking the Miracle’ thing because that just feels a bit too OP…? [and i say that as the self-appointed biggest fan of Jack’s OP-ness]
but yeah i def agree if nothing else, had he died during the Miracle, at the worst he would’ve revived after it ending, or heck - after being shot into space (assuming someone would do that with his corpse), because the Miracle is Earth-based, right??
