Doctor Who 6x05 and 6x06 Thoughts
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iaria6x05 'The Rebel Flesh' and 6x06 'The Almost People':
This was an okay two-parter but only okay. I had a number of issues with it and it just didn't grab me though I did like the second part more.
* “It’s just so inspiring to hear me say it.” The two Doctors were the best part of the episode. They were a lot of fun... and were clearly having a lot of fun together.
* I loved that the Doctors switched places.
* I really liked Miranda Cleaves especially ganger Miranda and how wry and collected she was.
* There were two Doctor/Amy scenes I really liked. 1) The scene where the Doctor lost control and pushed Amy up against the wall while ranting was very intense and well acted. I didn't blame her for being scared. 2)The goodbye hug between Amy and ganger Doctor was very sweet.
* Amy being a ganger was a complete surprise to me. I wonder when she was replaced and when the Doctor figured it out?
* These two episodes were spent establishing the ganger's as sentient beings, as people if not human, and so for the episode to end with the Doctor dissolving ganger Amy was shocking. What was that? I just don’t understand why he did that or why the writers had him do it because it looks remarkably like the Doctor murdered ganger Amy which is... disturbing. When the Doctor dissolved ganger Amy human Amy woke, where ever it is she's being kept, implying that Amy has been in control of her ganger self this whole time. However the factory gangers who were ‘just’ controlled by a link were shown to be sentient. They showed that several times in the episodes – with the whole ‘why’ question, with the aware discarded flesh, with the vat of flesh that scanned the Doctor back – the flesh were always sentient. It’s only after the storm that they started to become more human – able to think and act more on their own. So even if Amy had been in control the whole time there was another sentience there when the Doctor dissolved the link. Perhaps it was a different kind of living flesh?
* I think there is a chance that ganger Amy wasn't killed when the Doctor dissolved her. The Doctor tells ganger Doctor that his 'molecular memory can survive and so it may not be the end' and then just before ganger Doctor and ganger Miranda dissolve he tells her that there may be a way back from it. Perhaps we'll be seeing all of them again.
* Why was it even necessary to dissolve ganger Amy? Did the Doctor need to do it in order to find human Amy?
* I was sure that the ganger Doctor was going to play into the Doctor's death in 6x01. Now that the idea of living flesh has been established I suppose it's still possible.
* River was very clear about keeping the information about his death from the Doctor but now he knows. How is that going to affect things? Besides giving him time to figure out a way to survive it that is.
* Jennifer completely losing it did not work for me. The way she turned on all the humans, even Rory with whom she'd had a very nice bonding scene with and who had been very protective of her, felt abrupt and the way she immediately went into 'kill them all' mode didn't feel supported enough at first.
* The episode ending with only one version of each of them felt very easy and convenient for everyone.
* The end where Miranda and ganger Dicken entered their company headquarters would have worked much better if it had been Miranda and ganger Miranda entering instead. There just would have been far more of a visual kick and the implications – two people the exact same, having the same memories, both looking the same – would be a lot more interesting.
This was an okay two-parter but only okay. I had a number of issues with it and it just didn't grab me though I did like the second part more.
* “It’s just so inspiring to hear me say it.” The two Doctors were the best part of the episode. They were a lot of fun... and were clearly having a lot of fun together.
* I loved that the Doctors switched places.
* I really liked Miranda Cleaves especially ganger Miranda and how wry and collected she was.
* There were two Doctor/Amy scenes I really liked. 1) The scene where the Doctor lost control and pushed Amy up against the wall while ranting was very intense and well acted. I didn't blame her for being scared. 2)The goodbye hug between Amy and ganger Doctor was very sweet.
* Amy being a ganger was a complete surprise to me. I wonder when she was replaced and when the Doctor figured it out?
* These two episodes were spent establishing the ganger's as sentient beings, as people if not human, and so for the episode to end with the Doctor dissolving ganger Amy was shocking. What was that? I just don’t understand why he did that or why the writers had him do it because it looks remarkably like the Doctor murdered ganger Amy which is... disturbing. When the Doctor dissolved ganger Amy human Amy woke, where ever it is she's being kept, implying that Amy has been in control of her ganger self this whole time. However the factory gangers who were ‘just’ controlled by a link were shown to be sentient. They showed that several times in the episodes – with the whole ‘why’ question, with the aware discarded flesh, with the vat of flesh that scanned the Doctor back – the flesh were always sentient. It’s only after the storm that they started to become more human – able to think and act more on their own. So even if Amy had been in control the whole time there was another sentience there when the Doctor dissolved the link. Perhaps it was a different kind of living flesh?
* I think there is a chance that ganger Amy wasn't killed when the Doctor dissolved her. The Doctor tells ganger Doctor that his 'molecular memory can survive and so it may not be the end' and then just before ganger Doctor and ganger Miranda dissolve he tells her that there may be a way back from it. Perhaps we'll be seeing all of them again.
* Why was it even necessary to dissolve ganger Amy? Did the Doctor need to do it in order to find human Amy?
* I was sure that the ganger Doctor was going to play into the Doctor's death in 6x01. Now that the idea of living flesh has been established I suppose it's still possible.
* River was very clear about keeping the information about his death from the Doctor but now he knows. How is that going to affect things? Besides giving him time to figure out a way to survive it that is.
* Jennifer completely losing it did not work for me. The way she turned on all the humans, even Rory with whom she'd had a very nice bonding scene with and who had been very protective of her, felt abrupt and the way she immediately went into 'kill them all' mode didn't feel supported enough at first.
* The episode ending with only one version of each of them felt very easy and convenient for everyone.
* The end where Miranda and ganger Dicken entered their company headquarters would have worked much better if it had been Miranda and ganger Miranda entering instead. There just would have been far more of a visual kick and the implications – two people the exact same, having the same memories, both looking the same – would be a lot more interesting.
