Howling:Miracle Day - alternate timeline?

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I've read on a lot of the discontinuity pages people's ideas about the whole fact that the events of Miracle Day coincide with the sections of Series 6 taking place on modern day Earth. Now, from a meta perspective, it's kind of obvious as to why there's no impact on the events of Series 6 from the Miracle; Rusty's no longer controlling the parent show and Torchwood, so he can't implement the same level of interconnection between the shows, and Stephen and he aren't really communicating on the topic, so we can kind of chalk up those inconsistencies to separate creatorial vision etc. and move on. From an in-universe perspective, though, we still get the clashes regarding the Miracle not affecting Amy, Rory, River, The Doctor (although the fact that it was the Teselecta getting shot might be a little bit of a cover for the 'death takes a holiday' not affecting the Doctor. I had a little idea while watching Wedding; what if the events of the miracle are actually happening slightly out of joint with the events at Lake Silencio - we know they're around april or that rough time, so it can't be that, but what if the Miracle is actually part of a separate timeline; a Torchwood timeline which effectively branches off from the Main Whoniverse? 'Cos with the 456 invasion, it wasn't mentioned at all in Series 5, but that can be chalked up to the cracks erasing the invasions of the 21st century; Canary Wharf, Medusa Cascade, etc. It might be that the Torchwood timeline is an extension of the Pre-reboot universe, where all those events did occur, but the cracks haven't affected anything yet; how it might have continued to occur without the cracks, and Doctor Who, after the start of Series 5, is the post-reboot, Big Bang 2 universe. Just a theory.

59.101.75.133 04:10, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

Just going to correct something here: The Miracle only affected humans, the Doctor isn't a human, the Doctor could easily die on Miracle Day. The Light6 ^{talk to me} 10:33, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

Quite right. The only real question is why none of the contemporary human characters in Doctor Who seem to know anything about the Miracle (or, for that matter, about Children of Earth). Alternate timelines is one possible explanation. There will be others. If/when Jack reappears in the parent show, we might get at least a hint towards an explanation. Also, once Steven Moffat has had time to think about it, we might get some kind of mention of what's been going on, even without Jack's reappearance. --2.96.24.60 13:09, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

Children of Earth isn't really important here, because as far as most of the public were concerned all of the children were acting funny for 5 days, there was a fire over London, and the government started kidnapping children. The general public probably wouldn't see this as another alien invasion, and there hasn't really been any time in season 5 or 6 when that would come up in conversation. We also can't be seeing the pre Big Bang universe, because that universe no longer exists. Now we are stuck with a completely identical universe. Miracle Day pretty much had to take place in the same universe as the rest of the show. I don't know how the dates work out, but is it possible that The Impossible Astronaut was before Miracle Day, and Let's Kill Hitler was after the miracle ended? It's still a bit weird that nobody mentioned it, but Amy and Rory were more concerned with there missing daughter at the time and probably wouldn't have really cared if they didn't know any category ones or twos.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 17:54, October 2, 2011 (UTC)