Doctor Who: the Almost People

[miss_s_b]

I liked the first five minutes of that. Then the continuity errors started annoying me - how many sonic screwdrivers? - then Rory falling for Jennifer!Ganger doing the helpless female act annoyed me. Then Jennifer!Ganger/monster looking like Mark Gatiss in the Lazarus experiment really annoyed me.

Then the Doctor committed murder. He's spent the entire two-parter telling us that gangers are people too, that the flesh remembers, that it is sentient, that it feels pain... And then he murders Amy!Ganger in cold blood. I'd figured out that Amy was going to be a ganger, and was wondering how they would resolve it, but I never, never thought they would do it like that.

And yes, I know, he has killed before - notably sending the hand of omega after the daleks - but only EVER after giving people a choice. He gave Davros a choice. He gave the silents a choice. He didn't give Amy!Ganger a choice. He just aimed and fired.

My Doctor is not a murderer. This episode is going into the Definitely Not Canon box in my brain.

I feel genuinely quite ill after that.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

ok, so there is sentient goo sloshing around the bottom of the Tardis with memories of being Amy and being atomised by the people she loves and trusts and that's fine? Even if your theory is right, I'm still not ok with that. It's worse than being trapped in a paving slab to be a sex toy for Mr Teatime, having your bodily integrity taken away for no good reason.

[bagpuss]

but in the context of the story, though the good reason wasn't explained to the ganger, it was to sever the connection to the real Amy

[(Anonymous)]

If the sentient goo does hold memories of its past forms, then we can't hold the Doctor responsible for that. All we know is that he found it important to break the link between Amy and her avatar sooner rather than later, so that she could wake up and do what she needs to do in her real body. As for goo sloshing around in the bottom of the TARDIS, I'm sure that either the Doctor or TARDIS can hoover it out; I wouldn't let sticky floors bother you.

[miss_s_b]

Sticky floors are not the issue. Removing a sentient being of it's bodily integrity is; I suspect you knew that, though.