History Headscratchers / TorchwoodMiracleDay

* What's up with Jack's sexuality in this season? He's been well-established in the past as a bisexual who'll go for AnythingThatMoves - he kissed Rose, flirted with Martha and Gwen, and Children of Earth showed that he has a daughter. Miracle Day, on the other hand, seems to have gone out of its way to play him as completely homosexual. He hasn't so much as batted an eye at Esther or Vera or Gwen (she's married, but when did that ever stop Jack before?), and the only sign of him thinking sexually about a woman is in the flashback where he's just talking dirty in order to calibrate Angelo's sonic screwdriver. Is it WriterOnBoard since Davies and Barrowman are both gay in real life, or just a sin of omission?

* I'm NotThatKindOfDoctor, but they keep talking about how no dying means that everyone will get the plague and we'll all be disease ridden forever. Wouldn't immune systems for at least some of the diseases, since they're all forced alive, eventually fight it, like it fights a cold, only taken UpToEleven?

** Gwen's father ''isn't'' a vegetable - he's in severe pain, but he's conscious and aware of his surroundings, and moreover he's being kept and taken care of by his family in his own home where he's not leeching off the state or consuming any significant resources. And yet, the government has launched a Gestapo-esque campaign to root out, arrest, and ''incinerate'' him and people like him, without the wishes of the subject or anyone who would reasonably have power of attorney over him. Essentially, the British government (and presumably every other government in the world) has declared that it holds power of attorney over every person under its jurisdiction, and that anyone deemed Category One must be executed as soon as possible in the name of healthcare rationing - basically, it's every right-wing pundit's predictions about "death panels" turned UpToEleven and slathered liberally with Hitler-sauce. It's the government that's gone crazy, not the Cooper family.

** I expect she gets back in touch with Sarah Jane? (Which we'll never see, thanks to... [[ActorExistenceFailure you know]])

*** I believe that the [[Expanded Universe Expanded Universe]] can actually help answer this. In previous Doctor Who media, such as the novel Lucifer Rising, morphic fields were explained as an inherent property of the universe itself, just as essential as fixed points in time, if not even more so. In fact, the canonical explanation of why there are so many [[HumanAliens humanoid aliens]] in the Doctor Who universe is because the Time Lords (the first beings to evolve in a humanoid form in this universe) altered the universal morphic field so that humanoid life would be much more likely to evolve. And where does Jack's immortality come from? Bad Wolf Rose, which was a consequence of her looking into the Heart of the TARDIS, which brings us back again to the Time Lords. So it only makes sense that these phenomena could interact.

*** he's traveled back in time again since joining Torchwood and again had to take TheSlowPath-- this would explain how he had the WW2 greatcoat in 1927, but if it were the case I don't think he'd be freaking out so much about avoiding crossing his own timeline in 1901.

*** I think that he's probably joking and definitely intends for his words to be taken as a joke. The writer of the episode tweeted that Jack's passed through some time periods multiple times (like when he meets the Doctor in WW2, lives through it naturally, goes there with Tosh, and is buried during it). If Jack is redoing 1927 (not necessarily forced to take the slow path but going back particularly for that parasite) then he could still freak out about crossing his timeline in 1901 but be fine here if this takes place after the 1901 incident and he knows that he never went to America that year.

D. Doctor Eleven exists in another subset of time of [[{{DCComics}} hyper time.]] Where aliens are pretty common and everybody knows about it. Somehow Jack and Co reality lacks that hence why Rex is sceptical about martians.