Tursiops
Sunday 29th May 2011 10:48am [Edited]
Welwyn Garden City
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Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 29 2011, 11:23 AM BST
Yeah you're right, there was a bit of a double standard there, but he was pissed off; it's not the first thing he's killed.
I think the flesh has some form of independent sentience, but the gangers only take on the conscious identity of the human when the human is unconscious, so the Doctor had to dispose of the ganger to free Amy.
The gangers on the island were different in that their conscious human identity had become fixed, in some, of course, unexplained way, by the electric storm.
The real double standard was ganger Jen creating another ganger just so she could dissolve it in an acid bath, though this could perhaps be explained by her general sociopathic behaviour.
But really we as the viewers should not have to join up the dots.
Other criticisms:
Jen turning into a physical monster would have been much more effective if we had not already had the unnecessary extended neck scene right at the start.
And the sentiment laid on with a trowel to Murray Gold's soupy music is really starting to get on my tits. It disrupts the pacing of the episode and kills the tension. Likewise the long series of extended farewells while they were supposed to be escaping the rampaging monster. If they had not pissed around so much there would have been time for all of them to get in the Tardis!
Sometimes I rush in with rash early comments and MS stomps all over my opinions like an elephant in a watermelon patch.
