tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post8201468189090904132..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: DOCTOR WHO: ‘THE REBEL FLESH’/’THE ALMOST PEOPLE’Gavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-63432168711401188112011-05-31T18:17:15.514+01:002011-05-31T18:17:15.514+01:00I make you right (as I believe the young people sa...I make you right (as I believe the young people say). I also read somewhere (can't recall where!) that we were supposed to imagine she was a Ganger since the season started. But as all that happens in the haunted orphanage (Amy finding the photo of her as a mother and all), I'm still hoping the Silence are involved somehow. The idea that it's a whole other plotline seems a little over egged.<br /><br />...I suppose another idea for the Flesh would be that it was a bit like the planet in 'Solaris', sentient but strange and inscrutable in its workings. It could choose to give the Gangers life, invent a whole Doctor copy and give Jennifer shapeshifting powers but for reasons all it's own. (Others saw some of 'Solaris' in the DNA of this episode, which seemed to me fanciful but maybe it could be worked in...)<br /><br />...incidentally who remembers the Nineties band <a href="www.ganger.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Ganger?</a> They were Scottish Krautrock, if that makes any sense as a label. I used to like them...Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-89734101397679877262011-05-30T22:34:13.310+01:002011-05-30T22:34:13.310+01:00We must assume she's been a ganger every time ...We must assume she's been a ganger every time she's seen eye-patch-lady, and that happened for the first time in deserted childrens' home of The Impossible Astronaut, <i>before</i> the Silents abducted her. So, yes, she's been a ganger since at least very very early in this series.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-36217636433378240212011-05-30T22:14:22.741+01:002011-05-30T22:14:22.741+01:00I think I was less disgusted because I was more un...I think I was less disgusted because I was more uncomprehending! I assumed, when all that was revealed, that the ganger had somehow replaced Amy when the Silence capture her. (The only time she's conveniently offstage.) But apparently you're not supposed to think that, she's been a ganger the whole series long. Like - what? where? how?<br /><br />So I'm hoping subsequent events will still make sense of this somehow. However, I'm more and more getting the feeling that the whole thing's just becoming lost inside Lostisis.<br /><br />Yes to your whole second para!Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-57703493116462370502011-05-30T21:41:35.079+01:002011-05-30T21:41:35.079+01:00Another of those previously rare cases where we mo...Another of those previously rare cases where we more or less agree, only this time not so happily. I was more disgusted with the climax of <i>The Almost People</i> than you are.<br /><br />Part of me feels that this was the beginning of a good script and that it just never got the editing and reworking that it needed to make it coherent and explicit; but then I find myself thinking that Graham (and by extension Moffat) never really bothered to think through what the flesh <i>is</i>. Very lazy, which is not something I have often said about <i>Who</i> in the last year or two.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com