4. The Inconsistency Of The Miracle
Maybe its a lack of cohesion on the part of the writers but the way the Miracle works just seems really inconsistent. The broad idea of it is this: humanity is in a state of undeath. People can grow old, suffer fatal injuries, and contract diseases with all the effects of them but they just wont die. Throughout the series, people find a way around this by coming up with ways to become brain-dead like jumping off of high roofs. Granted, its an interesting part of the story but it makes no sense when, in the first episode, we see a suicide bomber still fully conscious hours after he sets off the explosives that are strapped to him and is subsequently decapitated, and a few episodes later a woman is murdered by being put through a car crusher and we see one of her eyeballs darting about in the wreckage. I dont profess to be an expert in human anatomy or neuroscience (In fact, I failed AS Level biology twice) but Im pretty sure that setting off a huge bomb thats strapped to you and then being decapitated or being put through a car crusher is enough to make you brain-dead even if physical death is impossible. And as for Oswald Danes, even though the lethal injection he is given couldnt kill him, surely it would seriously screw up his body and mind. Yet he never suffers any ill effects despite having harmful chemicals designed to kill pumped into his body. It just feels like the writers were plodding along and didnt bother to work out the finer details of the miracle until the characters had to know. And finally, two things relating to how the Miracle works: 1. There is nothing special about Jacks blood. His immortality is a result of Rose botching his resurrection after absorbing the Time Vortex, making him a fixed point in time and space. 2. Ignoring the first point and accepting that Jacks blood caused a new biological template for the human race, then surely everyone should have his healing powers instead of just being in a state of permanent undeath. After all, Rex gained immortality after replacing his blood with Jacks.