WARNING: Don't read this if you don't want any potential spoilers or if you just hate listening to other people's stupid plot predictions for shows you enjoy. If this were someone else's blog, I wouldn't read it. Other people's theories usually drive me nuts.
Speaking of crazy...
I typically try to restrain from forming pet plot theories before big reveals for shows I like. For movies, it doesn't matter as much, because you'll find out within a couple of hours or less what's really going on. Usually movie plot twists are easy to see coming, unless the director is trying so hard to keep it a surprise that the clues are obscure to the point of being invisible or there are no clues and the result comes out of left field. Television shows, though, develop slowly because it takes months (or years) to get the resolution. Any theories I start out with usually change three episodes later based on new information or because I've simply had more time to think on it. I find pet theories get in the way of enjoying a series, because I invariably fall into the trap of trying to make all new information fit into my pre-existing notion of how the show should be progressing. Anything that doesn't fit might get discarded as irrelevant only to later turn out to be pivotal, and vice-versa. Then I get annoyed with myself for having put blinders on myself and also irrationally at the writers for not agreeing with me on how their show should be playing out.
But watching the latest episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day has stirred my need to theorize, and I don't feel like resisting. Who cares? My idea is most likely going to be wrong, the information spurring it will probably turn out to be coincidentally correlational, and anyway no one reads this blog. Likely I'm seeing similarities between information presented in "Escape to LA" and previous Doctor Who events because they were both created by Russell T. Davies, and typically writers repeat themselves in tiny ways, whether consciously or not.
So once the idea of the "Families" was brought up towards the end of the episode, the first thing that popped into my mind was the Family of Blood from season three of Doctor Who. What if other families of their species are also seeking immortality? We know they can take over human bodies. Of course, the problem is that they only live for a few months, but maybe they put themselves in stasis or have bred countless generations or some other plot device that allows them to be behind all this shit (see, justification for my ideas are already fermenting). Also, they used a Time Agent Vortex Manipulator when they were hunting the Tenth Doctor; was that the thing Jack supposedly "gave" them? (Whether or not this was a willing gift is obviously up in the air.) Perhaps after failing to gain immortality through the Doctor, another Family secured the Vortex Manipulator and used it to go back in time to Earth's past and begin long-term plans to ensure their eventual immortality? Maybe even one of the original Family members was freed from their eternal imprisonment and went on to lay the groundwork for the "miracle". If so, it seems Brother would be the best choice, since the Doctor just up and left him in a field to watch over England forever.
Leaks about future Miracle Day episodes refer to the organization behind it all as "The Three Families" (thus the triangle). Maybe they're three separate alien species, each a family, coming together for whatever nefarious shit aliens get up to in the Torchwood/Doctor Who universe, who knows. More than likely whoever's behind all this is someone/thing completely new and I'm just spinning my wheels. But it'd be neat to see more ties between Torchwood and its parent show, no matter how remote, because as much as I respect the show is supposed to develop into its own thing, I'd like to see evidence that it's still in the same universe, you know?
Speaking of crazy...
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| Bill Pullman is watching you and breathing heavily. |
I typically try to restrain from forming pet plot theories before big reveals for shows I like. For movies, it doesn't matter as much, because you'll find out within a couple of hours or less what's really going on. Usually movie plot twists are easy to see coming, unless the director is trying so hard to keep it a surprise that the clues are obscure to the point of being invisible or there are no clues and the result comes out of left field. Television shows, though, develop slowly because it takes months (or years) to get the resolution. Any theories I start out with usually change three episodes later based on new information or because I've simply had more time to think on it. I find pet theories get in the way of enjoying a series, because I invariably fall into the trap of trying to make all new information fit into my pre-existing notion of how the show should be progressing. Anything that doesn't fit might get discarded as irrelevant only to later turn out to be pivotal, and vice-versa. Then I get annoyed with myself for having put blinders on myself and also irrationally at the writers for not agreeing with me on how their show should be playing out.
But watching the latest episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day has stirred my need to theorize, and I don't feel like resisting. Who cares? My idea is most likely going to be wrong, the information spurring it will probably turn out to be coincidentally correlational, and anyway no one reads this blog. Likely I'm seeing similarities between information presented in "Escape to LA" and previous Doctor Who events because they were both created by Russell T. Davies, and typically writers repeat themselves in tiny ways, whether consciously or not.
So once the idea of the "Families" was brought up towards the end of the episode, the first thing that popped into my mind was the Family of Blood from season three of Doctor Who. What if other families of their species are also seeking immortality? We know they can take over human bodies. Of course, the problem is that they only live for a few months, but maybe they put themselves in stasis or have bred countless generations or some other plot device that allows them to be behind all this shit (see, justification for my ideas are already fermenting). Also, they used a Time Agent Vortex Manipulator when they were hunting the Tenth Doctor; was that the thing Jack supposedly "gave" them? (Whether or not this was a willing gift is obviously up in the air.) Perhaps after failing to gain immortality through the Doctor, another Family secured the Vortex Manipulator and used it to go back in time to Earth's past and begin long-term plans to ensure their eventual immortality? Maybe even one of the original Family members was freed from their eternal imprisonment and went on to lay the groundwork for the "miracle". If so, it seems Brother would be the best choice, since the Doctor just up and left him in a field to watch over England forever.
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| He'll be making that creepy stalker face for all eternity, otherwise. |
Leaks about future Miracle Day episodes refer to the organization behind it all as "The Three Families" (thus the triangle). Maybe they're three separate alien species, each a family, coming together for whatever nefarious shit aliens get up to in the Torchwood/Doctor Who universe, who knows. More than likely whoever's behind all this is someone/thing completely new and I'm just spinning my wheels. But it'd be neat to see more ties between Torchwood and its parent show, no matter how remote, because as much as I respect the show is supposed to develop into its own thing, I'd like to see evidence that it's still in the same universe, you know?
