A solid episode that I don't believe will ever be heralded as the best ever this season, but still no where as fail as episodes past *cough*LoveandMonsters*cough*.
So what did you think? Did you find the Flesh Clones kinda creepy looking? Was it weird how fast they all wanted to kill each other? Are you looking forward to the Doctor having to eat his tolerant words with the arrival of the Flesh!Doctor? (There is absolutely no way those two are going to be able to share the TARDIS. Hence, insanity shall ensue.)
Also, we have two new mods in psycicflower and affableevil! Congrats!
Monday, May 23, 2011
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echinodermata 118p · 733 weeks ago
HDM spoilers in the reply
Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago
psycicflower 114p · 733 weeks ago
Tauriel_ 109p · 733 weeks ago
And there was something REALLY OFF about the Doctor at the beginning. I don't think he came to the monastery/factory by accident. Remember his thinly veiled attempt to get rid of Amy and Rory? And touching the Flesh! I'm sure it was deliberate and not really a spur-of-the-moment thing.
carma_bee 74p · 733 weeks ago
ffyona · 733 weeks ago
Rory was concerned for the welfare of an almost stranger and was willing to risk Amy's wrath to protect her, even willing to run away from Amy to protect her. He was more in control and independent (albeit shit-scared) than I think we've seen him. It's like he's stopped saying 'I'm a nurse' every episode and actually decided to go and be a protector and helper on his own initiative. Also, he wants him some Ganger a little bit.
Amy was therefore on the back-foot. She was having to react to Rory's behaviour and not the other way round. The look she gives him when he hugs Jennifer is amazing. I've never seen her look like that, kind of surprised and impressed but defensive at the same time. She can't get her head round not bein Rory's only priority.
And the Doctor, being irresponsible, getting things wrong again, being a bit... off, as Tauriel said.
It's like their behaviour was mirroring the Ganger theme and not quite being themselves even though they looked like themselves.
And, THEORIES ABOUND:
For my money, duality is the big over-arching theme of this season. This might have been said here before so I do apologise if that's the case.
Amy is pregnant and not-pregnant. Rory is Auton and not Auton. The Doctor has died but he has not died yet. Someone is looking at Amy from another world. They accessed another world onboard the Black Pearl. Everything is happening in pairs, as if two worlds are colliding. And now the Doctor has a Ganger.
So I reckon... the two worlds of Amy's Choice were not just hallucinations. They may have been representations of the Doctor's dark side but they were also real. They had to choose between a world in which Amy was pregnant and Rory was dead and a world where they were all fine and not pregnant. Now, Amy's kind of pregnant and Rory keeps dying, over and over.
I think when Amy brought back the world in the Big Bang, her memories of Amy's Choice meant that that alternative world was also brought into being. They can't co-exist, so the two realities are bashing into each other.
See also: the extra Tardis.
Of course, none of this explains River or the little girl or the astronaut or the silence... but the Doctor who got shot (if he's not the Doctor!Ganger, could be the Doctor from Amy's alternate universe.
Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago
nanceoir 111p · 733 weeks ago
I think it looks intriguing, and the closing bit of the trailer did make me cackle.
Tauriel_ 109p · 733 weeks ago
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2011/05/almost-peo...
:D