History YMMV / TorchwoodMiracleDay

** Shapiro, the head of the CIA. Mostly because he's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration John]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 de]] [[StargateSG1 Lancie]], but he is an excellent DeadpanSnarker who throws his weight around and manages to deport Gwen.

** Shapiro, the head of the CIA. Mostly because he's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration John]] [[StargateSG1 de Lancie]], but he is an excellent DeadpanSnarker who throws his weight around and manages to deport Gwen.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans don't like the fact it's become a US co-production, that they get it before the UK, and that the show itself is supposedly more "Americanized".

** Jack risks capture twice to appeal to Oswald Danes' better nature in hopes that the CompleteMonster will do the right thing on the word of Jack, a stranger, just because. While a first attempt might make sense just to leave no stone unturned, by the second time it should have been obvious that Oswald is on Phicorp's side for as long as it is supporting him.

* RuinedFOREVER: Some fans feel that the series was drawn out, pointless, filler, Americanized, stupid, and overall Ruined FOREVER.

** Shapiro, the head of the CIA. Mostly because he's [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration John]] [[StargateSG1 de Lancie]], but he is an excellent DeadpanSnarker who throws his weight around and manages to deport Gwen.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: What IS The Blessing? It can be argued, based on some statements made by the Doctor, that the fact that it is somehow tied to the humanness of humans suggests that it might be a the Time Lord technology seeded on Earth to cause the evolution of something the shape of humans (and Time Lords). This could also explain why it was able to change Jack's condition, as the Time Vortex was also accessed by Time Lord technology to empower Rose to (among other things) cause Jack's condition.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TorchwoodMiracleDay Has its own page]].

* TheScrappy: Esther, Rex.

* [[NoBisexuals No Omnisexuals]]: [[AnythingThatMoves Captain Jack]] didn't flirt with a single woman this season, but did get a gay romance arc and a gay one-night stand.
** Well, considering how much less painful (in relative comparison) the worst case scenario was/is with men and the aftermath of TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth, he probably is leaning closer to male preferred bisexuality these days.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The [[WhamEpisode Wham Ending]] of "The Categories of Life" makes everything else the show's pulled off to date look downright ''pleasant'' by comparison.
** And the above is SweetDreamsFuel compared to what happens to Jack on "Immortal Sins." [[spoiler: After trying to stab Jack, Angelo and his neighbors discover that he can't die. In a prime example of [[MoralEventHorizon crossing the line,]] they start exploitation shows in the butchery. You heard that right: Jack becomes an '''UNDERGROUND FREAKSHOW''' as he can't do anything to stop the New Yorkers from stabbing him and taking his blood in an attempt to gain immortality.]] Yeesh...
*** As if it couldn't get any worse, among [[spoiler: those attending the underground exploitation is a ''LITTLE GIRL''.]]

* CompleteMonster: Oswald Danes. At the end of the third episode, Jack confronts Danes about the girl he killed, claiming that he knows Danes doesn't really feel regret for it -- and Danes admits that Jack's right. Not only does he feel no regret for what he did, he claims it was ''the best moment of his life''. [[spoiler:Despite Jack's claims of him being a DeathSeeker, and even when doing his part to save the whole of mankind from unending agony, Oswald screams out that he'll chase Suzie Cabina into hell itself, and that she'd better [[IronicEcho run faster]].]]

* BrokenBase: Some ''Torchwood'' fans really dislike it, especially the US influence. Others feel that it finally GrewTheBeard after the derailment of ''Children of Earth'', and that the American characters are better-written than Jack, Gwen, and Rhys.

* BrokenBase: Some ''Torchwood'' fans really dislike it, especially the US influence.

** When Jack and Rex figure out how to reverse the Miracle, the bad guys want to stop them but don't actually do anything about it. They threaten, and even force a [[spoiler: [[FriendOrIdolDecision Friend Or Mission Decision]], but they never actually do anything that would have been useful, like, say, tackling them. They just wave guns around and [[TalkingIsAFreeAction let Jack and Rex end it all]]]].
*** [[spoiler: This actually has some justification, though it doesn't seem obvious at first. Jack's blood is drawn to the Blessing, and any injury inflicted on him or Rex would have a chance of drawing blood, especially given they know Rex knows he can't die under Miracle Day rules and doesn't care and Jack would off himself in a second if it meant screwing them over, so they were hoping to talk both guys out of their planned HeroicSacrifice because the risk the good guys would kamikaze was far too high, given their proximity to the Blessing.]]

** [[spoiler: Esters death, and Rex being forced to let her die in order to save the world.]]

* IdiotPlot: YourMileageMayVary on this, of course, but seriously, it is ridiculous at times.
** Jack risks capture twice to appeal to Oswald Dane's better nature in hopes that the CompleteMonster will do the right thing on the word of Jack, a stranger, just because. While a first attempt might make sense just to leave no stone unturned, by the second time it should have been obvious that Oswald is on Phicorp's side for as long as it is supporting him.

** Jack risks capture twice to appeal to Owsald Dane's better nature in hopes that the CompleteMonster will do the right thing on the word of Jack, a stranger, just because. While a first attempt might make sense just to leave no stone unturned, by the second time it should have been obvious that Oswald is on Phicorp's side for as long as it is supporting him.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Jack could not have been cured of arsenic poisoning as he was in "Rendition", certainly not with the materials they had available.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A minor example, but Buenos Aires and Shanghai aren't perfect antipodes, nor are they even the closest antipodes in the two countries. Better examples would have been Beijing for Buenos Aires or Salto, Uruguay, for Shanghai.
** In "The Blood Line", this is lampshaded, as the Family member in Shanghai says that they're antipodes "give or take a hundred miles", and blames it on the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: There's actually precedent for what happened with Oswald Danes. In New York state, a man was executed...only to have not actually died. He argued that his sentence had been carried out (he may have been actually declared dead), but the court ordered the state to zap him again. They did so, successfully this time. Under the circumstances, a commutation of the sentence to life in prison without parole would've been more likely.
** Another possibility, even if Danes won his threatened suit, would have been civil commitment. Kentucky does have such a law.
** As Danes says in episode 2, he's free only on "the most beautiful technicality" - something in the state's constitution about "acts of God" - and people are working to get him a life sentence even as we speak.
** And of course, at the end of the first episode, Rex Matheson's 'rendition' of the Torchwood team. He cites US law, not British law, and has British police taking his orders in forcibly removing a group of British citizens from Britain. That's just regular extradition.
*** He cites a law called "456". Considering that the events of "Children of Earth" were international and wound up being a total clusterfrak on the UK's part, and that there's already a professional relationship between America and the UK when it comes to paranormal and extraterrestrial incidents (via UNIT), who's to say Rex isn't citing a brand new legal agreement between the two countries that's supposed to cover situations exactly like this one?
*** Rhys also lampshades it when Gwen complains that she's a British citizen, summing it up as, basically, "He's American, they do whatever they want."

** Gwen's plan to get her father out of a Category 1 facility is as follows: Get a job as a nurse, find father, ???, drive out with Rhys. Needless to say, it fails.

** Gwen's plan to get her father out of a Category 1 facility is as follows: dress up as a nurse, ???, walk out with him. Needless to say, it fails. Granted, she was always more TheHeart of Torchwood than the brains or the brawn, but still, she was a cop before she was a secret agent; she should really have been able to come up with a plan that has some kind of provision for, say, being asked for ID.
*** IIRC, she did have a fake ID with a real job at the camp, the same name she re-entered the UK with. Of course, since she knows very little about medicine, pretending to be a nurse isn't the best idea. Her plan did conist of more "Get a job as a nurse, find father, ???, drive out with Rhys.