Howling:Problems with the Miracle
Okay, there's a few things about Miracle Day that I don't understand.
1. So Jack's immortal blood caused the Miracle. Jack's blood, that we can assume has some of the healing properties of his body. And that magical healing property that gives Jack his immortality, is spread throygh morphic field. Why then, is the miracle immortality completely different? Miracle immortality means people who have been fatally or terminally injured are able to live without the necessary body functions to do so. But Jack doesn't do that. The point with Jack is that he can die, but then his body reheals until his body has the basic neccessities to sustain life, before he is ressurected. Take the exploded man in Miracle Day and the exploded Jack in Children of Earth. The guy in MD had been fried to a crisp, and hus body could not have been able to sustain even the slightest bit if life. Jack in COE was also blown to bits with a bomb in his stomach, and rehealed. But he only managed to resurrect the second his body had healed enough to keep him alive. He still was horifically burnt, and did resemble something from a fat fryer, but it's certainly possible to live through that, and some people have. Jack said the miracle made people feel they have to go on, but Jack MUST go on. His immortality is more defined by his healing ability, not his power to live through major injuries to the body.
2. Rex shoots the Gentleman in the throat and that stops him talking. Why should it? We saw earlier on that dismembered limbs can still be moved because they retain connection to the body. Why can't a few fragments of throat perfom their function? Could it be that the parts were so small that the connection was broken, like a cat 1 in a module? I'm at least surprised that Gwen assumed he wouldn't be able to talk after all she had seen.
3. Why should it mortalise Jack? It shouldn't. He's a fixed point in time and space. A nuclear bomb in his stomach and a life-devouring demon couldn't kill him, so why can the Earth's vagina manage to stop his healing? Perhaps the Blessing was finding a way to make his wounds last, perhaps by creating the wound over and over again at a faster speed than his body could sew it beack together. That wound on his arm culd potentially have stayed there for the whole of the Miracle, we never saw it heal, so perhaps the blessing was acting like throwing Jack in acid, creating injuries faster than the body could heal them, and the whole Miracle was just a side effect?
4. Critics complained that at first cat 1s were able to walk around like normal human beings, but all of a sudden they were all injured in camps. Can I just point out that not all cat 1s were sent to the camps, and not all were lying in befs unable to move. It was only later that the government forced people to go to camps, because theyw anted to treat the more grotesquely injured first, and then see to less injured people later in a different way. As it was, the secret was out, so the government had to force people to the incinerators.
94.72.209.209talk to me 14:03, December 28, 2011 (UTC)
