#fixit fic but we're fixing allll teh shitty writing

[walks-the-ages]

Torchwood Writing Prompt:

Miracle Day, but it's condensed from a 10-part mini-series down to a 4-part mini-series OR even better, a two-parter special in theoretical length.

Aka, rewrite Miracle Day, condense it, trim off all those loose threads, pick a main plot and a b plot and stick to them without piling on 6 other plots the audience doesn't care about.

Pull out all the fluff that's padding the runtime.

If you're adding new members to Torchwood then actually make them likeable or at least competent and skilled-- (neither Esther nor Rex fit both of those descriptors lol.

Stop making our characters go to America of they're not staying there for the duration of the plot!

You cannot have them traisping back and forth from Wales to America over and over, and still expect it to be dramatic and noteworthy. Either they go to America at the beginning of the mission and return home to solve or after they've solved it, or they stay in Wales the whole time.

So:

Suddenly, no one in the world is dying. Everyone is immortal, just like Jack. (They die, but then they heal and come back)

Jack is also still immortal, because he should have been dead about 20 times over in the original Miracle Day even with the villains "wanting him alive".

( Sorry Jack, I don't know how to tell you that jumping out of a multistory building into a 3-inch deep concrete pond is a very bad idea, and you're going to have more than a few bruises from that landing.)

Either use the original nonsensical thing and give it actual rules about how it behaves,or make your own monster of the week to explain the on-going Miracle.

Get creative! Would Miracle Day effect only the humans that are on earth, or is it specifically targeting the human race simultaneously across a certain distance? Is it just Earth?

What about things in orbit, like space stations? Are astronauts in space immortal like everyone else, or are they still normal?

If the target is the human race no matter the distance from the earth..... How are the Doctor's companions finding out (painfully) and how are they dealing with it (badly)?

Is the Doctor not "here" to deal with Miracle Day because they're off investigating the planet they and their Companion are on, convinced the strange world is responsible for their companion's sudden recovery from death? (Does the Companion become a fixed point in time, or do they still feel normal to the Doctor's time sense?)

How would the Miracle Effect Owen? He's either disinteregrated or dissolved or whatever the FUCK happens to living organisms inside a nuclear power plant going critical-- would the Miracle sense his consciousness and give him a new, living body by slowly drawing his atoms back together to heal and repair him? Like, I can't believe they didn't make any references to Owen in all of Miracle Day

Only requirement for each fic to follow?

Either feed Oswald Danes to the monster of the week before he ever gets near a child, or get rid of his character entirely.

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