As of today I have taken more than four million steps on the treadmill since starting this ridiculous project. How wild is that? On the downside, I had to watch another episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day to hit that milestone. Ugh.

Miracle Day: End of the Road

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

I predicted yesterday that today's episode would be treading water, and I was not wrong. The entire episode involved hanging around the lovely mansion of the now-old-and-invalid ItalianTwink from the previous episode. It turns out he is not, in fact, behind the whole conspiracy. He apparently spent his entire life keeping himself as healthy as possible and watching Jack from a distance, but never made contact. Jack arrives just in time to have a lovely one-sided conversation with his ex-lover, who then promptly dies as soon as Jack kisses him. Turns out ItalianTwink had some WhateverTechnology built into the floor beneath his bed that protected him from the effects of the Miracle, and so he becomes the first human to die since the Miracle began. Oooh, aaahhh.

There is also a whole CIA subplot in which Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation shows up posing as the CIA director, who promptly busts Newman from Seinfeld as a traitor collaborating with the mysterious Families behind the Miracle.

And that's about it. At one point Rex uses the super-special Torchwood contact lenses in order to reveal Newman's evil plot, but clearly the writer of the episode couldn't be arsed to look up how said magical contact lenses work. In this episode, and this episode only, they broadcast the voice of the person wearing them along with the Newman's voice -- whereas in all previous uses it has been a strict plot point that they do not pick up any audio at all. The only way for the wearer to communicate with viewers is to look in a mirror and let the software read their lips. But in this episode? Not so much. It's bad writing, and clearly nobody cared enough to correct the script. 

So the whole episode is padding, does absolutely nothing to forward the overall story arc, and contradicts significant plot points from this very season. Like I said, ugh. This stupid show can't die soon enough.

STATS:

Featuring: Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Rex Matheson, Esther Drummond
Episode(s): Miracle Day: End of the Road
Steps Walked: 7,643 today, 4,006,070 total
Distance Walked: 4.21 miles today, 2,097.51 miles total
Push-ups Completed: 0 today, 8,226 total
Sit-ups Completed: 57 today, 1,218 total
Weight: 258.98 lbs (five day moving average), net change -48.32 lbs