The Rebel Flesh
May. 21st, 2011 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshI don't have a ton of thoughts about this episode, yet. That will probably have to wait until next week. But a few things do stick out.
-- I like that it's Rory who is the most sympathetic to the Gangers, after the Doctor. They haven't made a direct mention of it in the episode, but we know he remembers his 2000 years as a Nestene duplicate, being Rory and not Rory at the same time. He understands how the Gangers feel, even if he isn't entirely comfortable with them.
-- The make-up on the unstable Gangers reminded me strongly of Odo from Deep Space Nine. It also reminded me of Avatar, only done with real actors in solid bodies, making it seem much more real than Avatar, which always felt like the humans were entering a virtual reality when they went into their pods. And, while I'm at it, it put me in mind of the two John Crichtons from season three of Farscape. It's just never going to end well when you have two bodies vying for one life.
-- So, the Doctor said something about it being the very early stages of the technology, which made me wonder if this is the beginning of the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons. Am I totally off base?
-- Hello, Eye Patch Lady.
-- "I've got to get to that Cockerel before all hell breaks loose. I never thought I'd have to say that again." Oh, Doctor. I love that he cracks himself up.
-- The Doctor being all shifty and furtive, trying to ditch Amy and Rory somewhere so he can go off and investigate Amy's mysteriously on and off pregnancy. Like she'll ever let him get away with ditching her.
-- I started this episode feeling a little less than engaged in the story, but it caught me up pretty quickly and I was totally unprepared for time to be up when it stopped. I like the idea of the Gangers being so much more than their operators realize, and the humans being forced to face the reality of what they've been messing about with. Not to say it's been done perfectly well - the aggression of the Gangers felt forced to me. They were meant to be confused and disoriented, I understand, but they seemed a little too organized and cold in their readiness to go to war against their human counterparts. Either they're not as perfect a copy as the Doctor would like to think, or the writers have a pretty low expectation for how the average person would handle something like this. Or maybe I'm just a pie-eyed optimist who likes to think people are better than they are.
-- I like that it's Rory who is the most sympathetic to the Gangers, after the Doctor. They haven't made a direct mention of it in the episode, but we know he remembers his 2000 years as a Nestene duplicate, being Rory and not Rory at the same time. He understands how the Gangers feel, even if he isn't entirely comfortable with them.
-- The make-up on the unstable Gangers reminded me strongly of Odo from Deep Space Nine. It also reminded me of Avatar, only done with real actors in solid bodies, making it seem much more real than Avatar, which always felt like the humans were entering a virtual reality when they went into their pods. And, while I'm at it, it put me in mind of the two John Crichtons from season three of Farscape. It's just never going to end well when you have two bodies vying for one life.
-- So, the Doctor said something about it being the very early stages of the technology, which made me wonder if this is the beginning of the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons. Am I totally off base?
-- Hello, Eye Patch Lady.
-- "I've got to get to that Cockerel before all hell breaks loose. I never thought I'd have to say that again." Oh, Doctor. I love that he cracks himself up.
-- The Doctor being all shifty and furtive, trying to ditch Amy and Rory somewhere so he can go off and investigate Amy's mysteriously on and off pregnancy. Like she'll ever let him get away with ditching her.
-- I started this episode feeling a little less than engaged in the story, but it caught me up pretty quickly and I was totally unprepared for time to be up when it stopped. I like the idea of the Gangers being so much more than their operators realize, and the humans being forced to face the reality of what they've been messing about with. Not to say it's been done perfectly well - the aggression of the Gangers felt forced to me. They were meant to be confused and disoriented, I understand, but they seemed a little too organized and cold in their readiness to go to war against their human counterparts. Either they're not as perfect a copy as the Doctor would like to think, or the writers have a pretty low expectation for how the average person would handle something like this. Or maybe I'm just a pie-eyed optimist who likes to think people are better than they are.
