The Rebel Flesh
May. 21st, 2011 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcWoah, that was pretty spooky.
First off, the bits that didn't work for me; well, the whole business with the solar tower. I know where the "do we have the right to create life, and can we predict what it'll do if we do?" storyline comes from; I don't need a scene that practically has Igor in it. And the Gangers seemed to work out what was going on surprisingly quickly -- if I was a Ganger, I think I'd probably spend most of the hour in which my original was unconscious under the impression that I was still me, controlling it.
One scene that decidedly did work was Rory and Jennifer. And it's interesting that it's Ganger-Jennifer, not Cleaves who becomes the gung-ho, warlike leader of the Gangers; she's apparently decided that she is the tougher Jennifer she imagined on the moors. (Ganger-Cleaves, meanwhile, seems to be highly uncertain, and to view her "real" self's tough attitude with despair[1]; maybe not being base commander has thrown her off completely.)
I didn't see the cliffhanger coming, despite it being foreshadowed right at the start (it occured to me then, but when it didn't happen immediately, I forgot about it). That's certainly going to complicate things next week.
(Oh, and what's the betting that a Ganger-Rory gets created and killed before we're done?)
[1]"Oh, that is so typical of me!" was one of those moments that gives you a brief laugh and release of tension, before you remember the tense situation is still happening. Doctor Who is good at those moments.
First off, the bits that didn't work for me; well, the whole business with the solar tower. I know where the "do we have the right to create life, and can we predict what it'll do if we do?" storyline comes from; I don't need a scene that practically has Igor in it. And the Gangers seemed to work out what was going on surprisingly quickly -- if I was a Ganger, I think I'd probably spend most of the hour in which my original was unconscious under the impression that I was still me, controlling it.
One scene that decidedly did work was Rory and Jennifer. And it's interesting that it's Ganger-Jennifer, not Cleaves who becomes the gung-ho, warlike leader of the Gangers; she's apparently decided that she is the tougher Jennifer she imagined on the moors. (Ganger-Cleaves, meanwhile, seems to be highly uncertain, and to view her "real" self's tough attitude with despair[1]; maybe not being base commander has thrown her off completely.)
I didn't see the cliffhanger coming, despite it being foreshadowed right at the start (it occured to me then, but when it didn't happen immediately, I forgot about it). That's certainly going to complicate things next week.
(Oh, and what's the betting that a Ganger-Rory gets created and killed before we're done?)
[1]"Oh, that is so typical of me!" was one of those moments that gives you a brief laugh and release of tension, before you remember the tense situation is still happening. Doctor Who is good at those moments.
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Date: 2011-05-22 07:17 am (UTC)Apparently I do though, as even with the solar tower thing this never occurred to me. Just call me Mrs Oblivious :-)
I've never been that keen on Rory (not that I hated him or anything, just in a "Meh" sort of way) but I warmed to him rather in this episode - he might not always be clever about things, but his heart's definitely in the right place.
"What are you doing down there?" tickled me, especially now we know it's definitely a person he's talking to...