Thoughts on Torchwood: Miracle Day Episode 5

[gnomi]

Warning: May be triggery. Addional trigger detail would be spoilery, see below cut for further warnings.

Warnings 2: trigger warning -- mentions of Holocaust imagery. Trying my best to stay on the correct side of Godwin's Law.

Spoilers: Through episode 5 of "Miracle Day"






Really, RTD and Jane Espenson? Did you have to go the concentration camp/furnaces route? At first, I was hoping they were going no further than the internment camp route, such as were used by America against Japanese Americans during World War II. Reprehensible indeed. Inhumane. But unlikely too graphic for the average viewer. But when they went as far as the ovens, that was when I started to get twitchy. Torchwood is not a documentary. There is no excuse for using the stark imagery of humans being burned in this context. The Nazi atrocities had to be in the thoughts of those who wrote the episode, and if not, that's an even scarier prospect. Yes, we are 60+ years from the end of World War II. But some imagery should be off-limits for television dramas as fodder to mine from for emotional impact.

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[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the Torchwood directors would use such footage, if they had to search each face and wonder "Was that my aunt Rifka?" or uncomfortably realize that but for a few mere decades, that would be their fate.

I know Sci fi fans who are also survivors. My grandpa loves BBC and I can't imagine what watching that would do to him. His older sister and brother, sister in law and brother in law, parents, four nieces and a nephew died that way.