Starz Torchwood- A Miracle Day

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KAB said:
Because, the body is dead. However, you're still alive. IMO, "living" is being controlled/manipulated. But the body is ca-put.
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Derwin0 said:
It looks like they heal, but at the normal rate (not Jack's previous accelerated rate).
It takes a while for a body to heal from castitrophic damage, and since it's only been a few days/weeks, even a simple broken bone won't be healed yet.
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Rex appears to be healing...at least from the amount of the chest wound he showed to his dad, and the fact that he ran up the stairs rather than limped, like he was doing in the first episode. So, I would have to agree that people are healing at a normal rate, rather than their body being dead/non-healing.

Now, the suicide bomber who blew himself up (and then they detached his head), well...I don't think he'll be healing-up anytime soon...
 
Dead is dead begs the question what if you take the body and burn it completely to ashes. can this guaranteed that dead is dead?

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Sean Mota said:
Dead is dead begs the question what if you take the body and burn it completely to ashes. can this guaranteed that dead is dead?
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Well, that harkens back to my question about the guys in the chopper crash in the first episode. If the body is completely burned up (to ashes), then I would think that person would be quite dead. At some point, life would have to stop, and I think burned to ashes would do it...otherwise, you have what, a pile of ashes crawling around?? I don't think any viewers would buy that (I sure wouldn't)...
 
I think that if you poured acid on their bodies or lye you would eventually dissolve their skeleton and flesh and their would be nothing left to be animated or alive. So there is away to get rid of the people they considered "dead". Of course they would feel the pain and it would be really inhumane but , you could get rid of them. Imagine the death sentence being carried out on inmates using acid or lye. Talk about a slow painful death.
 
Does the miracle only apply to humans?

A cat could quite literally have 9 lives ... other than the cat may have a severe limp after the 3 one gets used up ;)

Imagine butchering a cow ... only to have its head still looking at you and its eyes moving!
 
Ok, I have a "from the beginning" question. If it was Jack that hacked out all reference to Torchwood, who (do you think) was flooding the CIA with it? Or do I have it backwards??
 
KAB said:
Ok, I have a "from the beginning" question. If it was Jack that hacked out all reference to Torchwood, who (do you think) was flooding the CIA with it? Or do I have it backwards??
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Good question, and I've wondered about this also. It's my understanding that Jack released a worm to erase all traces of Torchwood from the Internet. I think the bad-guys (whoever they are) flooded the web with Torchwood references in order to get "Torchwood" noticed so that the CIA/MI5/6 would get them out of the way. It didn't work out that way though, as we've seen...

So, they "torch" the cat 1's now (which also proves handy for getting rid of anyone in-general, evidently), the cat 2's are warehoused and treated to one degree or another, while the cat 3's enjoy the good life. Pretty sad...
 
Makes sense the governments would start deciding what they would consider really live and what was really dead , or should be dead. If the resources of the planet are going to be used up by no death rate , then you have to manufacture a new death rate. Concentration camps for those who really should be dead, helps fix that. Now the next step that the goverments would take after the "crisis" created by the health care system was under control , would be how long will people be allowed to LIVE. I am sure just like " Logan's Run ", they would then declare that everyone that lived say 75 years would then report to the "End of LIFE " centers and be eliminated . A little knock out anesthesia and then a good Burn and you are all gone. Reminds me of the scene in that Charleton Heston movie "Soylent Green ", where the old man goes to the end of life center and watches a good movie of how the earth looked before all the over crowding and pollution and takes a little poison pill and dies. Then they drop him down the trash chute and he goes to the recycling center to be made into FOOD. Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
 
While I was reading your post and got to "Logan's Run", the first thing I thought of was "Soylent Green" as well, and then you went there. :D Obviously, Torchwood isn't going the "Soylent Green" route, but they've definitely got the "who should live and who shouldn't" part organized now...
 
long_time_DNC said:
While I was reading your post and got to "Logan's Run", the first thing I thought of was "Soylent Green" as well, and then you went there. :D Obviously, Torchwood isn't going the "Soylent Green" route, but they've definitely got the "who should live and who shouldn't" part organized now...
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Like minds think a like. Must of had similar love for sci-fi movies. "Logan's Run" was my favorite movie when I was about 14. Loved the premise of the show and the naked shots of Jenny Agutter gave me a lot to think about at night for many of my teen years. I still love girls with a similar sounding British Accent to this day. As for the premise of the "who lives and who shouldn't part ", I think if this had really happened in our world , that the governments of the world would of done the same thing. The one thing I thought was odd in the show was that most of the world came up with similar rating system except for China. Now why wouldn't China want to get rid of their "should be dead" people? I mean they don't have a problem in the real world with the ONE child policy. They even will kill a second child at birth , if the couple has one. Read many stories about this barbaric practice. I would think that having concentration camps that throw a big barbeque to rid their country of their "problem" citizens, would be right up their alley.
 
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MikeD-C05 said:
Like minds think a like. Must of had similar love for sci-fi movies. "Logan's Run" was my favorite movie when I was about 14. Loved the premise of the show and the naked shots of Jenny Agutter gave me a lot to think about at night for many of my teen years. I still love girls with a similar sounding British Accent to this day. As for the premise of the "who lives and who shouldn't part ", I think if this had really happened in our world , that the governments of the world would of done the same thing. The one thing I thought was odd in the show was that most of the world came up with similar rating system except for China. Now why wouldn't China want to get rid of their "should be dead" people? I mean they don't have a problem in the real world with the ONE child policy. They even will kill a second child at birth , if the couple has one. Read many stories about this barbaric practice. I would think that having concentration camps that throw a big barbeque to rid their country of their "problem" citizens, would be right up their alley.
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Love classic scifi movies also. Grew up watching Logan's Run, Soylent Green, Forbidden Planet (Anne Francis was just gorgeous ;)) and many others. I agree, if that happened in our reality, death camps would likely be a reality as well. I think China has a different policy in Torchwood because the writers didn't want to get political about the issue. I think the answer is that simple. Same reason certain things weren't shown in the movie "2012"...
 

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