Torchwood Children of Earth was, in my geeky mind, five of the best hours in TV history.  Yes, I will hold it up to anything ever aired past or present.  So when word started to come out about the Miracle Day season of the show I hesitated for months.  Finally, thanks to Netflix and their soon to fade away deal with Starz, I sat down last weekend with the soon to be Mrs Hellions and marathoned all 10 episodes of the most recent season.

“Its too slow, too sexy, too American” read the complaints.

Screw all that.

Yes it is more “American” than previous all BBC produced seasons.  But that’s not a slight.  We Americans can make some great shows too — Walking Dead, Spartacus, Fringe.  There’s nothing wrong with getting a little American up in your Britty goodness.  That came out a bit more sexual than I meant it to…

Which brings me to the “too sexy” argument.  Its TORCHWOOD.  People should be fucking like rabbits.  Have you watched the previous seasons?  Everyone gets it on at some point in some way — gay straight bi — there are no labels on Torchwood.  Only love and lust.  What other show in history has given the viewer a romance scene montage of two couples — back to beast with two backs — one couple being gay and the other being interracial?  Um… never?!

Too slow?  Well that’s the one I might be able to agree with.  However, that is no reason to shot on this specific season of this specific show.  Every show has filler episodes.  Most sitcoms are nothing but filler.  Walking Dead has already had a few.  Fringe has had “villain of the week” shows that didn’t contribute anything to the larger story of the series.  If you want to get nasty, Doctor Who Christmas specials aren’t really necessary to the overall arc.

Its the villains of the week thing that I want to come back to now that I have addressed everyone’s issues with the show.  Torchwood is more than just a cast of 6 or 4 or 2.  Its about the world.  This season alone lands on four of the seven continents with a conspiracy that grows and grows every episode (even the filler ones).  Buffy and Fringe and sometimes even Doctor Who fall into the random bad guy episodes.  Also, on many of the classic scifi/fantasy shows the events only affect a specific group in a specific place and only for a short amount of time.  Miracle Day affects the world.  All of society is crumbling because of these events.  While the show only follows “our” group, the news reports in the background and seemingly throw away comments from characters build a picture of a world in collapse.

You know, kind of like the current world.  That’s the point of why I loved this season so much.  Like all geeky scifi, its saying more than you think.  Billionaires around the world — whether they run banks or companies or media — are constantly being exposed for their immersion in at least one of the 7 Deadly Sins.  Whether it be underage lust, the pride of refusing to admit wrong doing, or the greed of wanting more and more money — nothing is shocking any more.  It is no longer a mental leap to think that a company would manipulate human lives to make a profit.  Mix in centuries of indoctrinated belief that the body is sacred and the government is there to take care of us and its not an absurd science fiction thought to think that the lives and safety of us all could be gleefully manipulated in order to turn a profit.

It may even come to be that we could no longer count on those “more powerful” than us to save and protect us any longer.  IT may become the responsibility of the greater power that is basic human love and compassion.  Not necessarily a religion but a unity of human beings on that which is Mother Earth.  This Torchwood even gives us the Blessing.  Really no more than a vagina that … (stretches? spreads?) runs the entire length of the world.  It is the creator and destroyer for human life.  A  spirit of Gaia who loves Bill Cosby stand up — “I brought you into this world and I can take you out.”

Miracle Day is great SciFi.  No, its not perfect.  Very few things ever are.  But damn it is close and it will only become more loved in years passing as people move beyond dissecting an hour long show with some commercials and move into discussions within journals of what are they truly trying to say in these 10 episodes.