I am really not keen on the fact that one of the themes of this whole two-parter was admitting the personhood of the people made of Flesh, but the Doctor turned around and melted Ganger Amy. What?! I hope next episode has a very clear explanation of how the life of original!Amy or their ability to find her absolutely depended on getting rid of the Ganger, because otherwise that was really horrifying and hypocritical.
I assumed the Amy on the TARDIS wasn't a full human ganger, but rather like remote control Flesh being controlling by pregnant!Amy (in virtual reality or a dream) elsewhere, and so it was more like killing off an avatar, or destroying a remote control car, than like killing the other gangers, who were full people. Otherwise why would ganger!Amy have been seeing the things and feeling the things from the other Amy's life? The eyepatch woman and the contractions? The other gangers and their respective humans didn't share any senses or anything. So I took the doctor melting her to simply be his way of sending her back to her actual body in time for labor? He said he was doing something like "cutting off the signal", so I assume that's the signal from real-Amy to her fake-body (like the signal from the Nestene consciousness to the shop-window dummies).
He could have explained to her more where she would wake up and how fucking horrifying it would be, though. He was just sort of cryptic about it, and her situation is traumatizing enough without him being all dark and cryptic to her just before she wakes up in a tiny white coffin nine months pregnant and in labor, having been unaware the whole time of her situation. I mean, fuck. I think that might be the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on this show. And I'm not actually sure why he had to cut the signal off right away. Couldn't he have followed it to where she was really sleeping first?
The ending bothered me a lot, lol. I have issues with any series ignoring the bodily autonomy of characters, especially female ones, and knowing Moffat and his history, I don't actually trust him to handle the way that Amy's body has been used against her will and without her knowledge very well at all. Especially if it turns out that the people who are holding her are the ones to have impregnated her, against her will (I really, really hope this doesn't wind up being the case!), which is straight up a form of rape and sexual assault, and I'm sure will not be treated as such.
It could still be handled in a decent way in the next episode, but unless Amy gets her autonomy back, like, instantly, I really doubt it. And I'm worried they're going to gloss over the horror of her situation by simply going "Look! Adorable baby!" and having that make everything that happened to her better somehow.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS.
But I still fucking love this show, though, lol. And will totally admit that I was caught off guard going WHAT WHAT BUT HOW. MY MIND. OMG MY MIND.
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Date: 2011-05-29 08:51 pm (UTC)I assumed the Amy on the TARDIS wasn't a full human ganger, but rather like remote control Flesh being controlling by pregnant!Amy (in virtual reality or a dream) elsewhere, and so it was more like killing off an avatar, or destroying a remote control car, than like killing the other gangers, who were full people. Otherwise why would ganger!Amy have been seeing the things and feeling the things from the other Amy's life? The eyepatch woman and the contractions? The other gangers and their respective humans didn't share any senses or anything. So I took the doctor melting her to simply be his way of sending her back to her actual body in time for labor? He said he was doing something like "cutting off the signal", so I assume that's the signal from real-Amy to her fake-body (like the signal from the Nestene consciousness to the shop-window dummies).
He could have explained to her more where she would wake up and how fucking horrifying it would be, though. He was just sort of cryptic about it, and her situation is traumatizing enough without him being all dark and cryptic to her just before she wakes up in a tiny white coffin nine months pregnant and in labor, having been unaware the whole time of her situation. I mean, fuck. I think that might be the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on this show. And I'm not actually sure why he had to cut the signal off right away. Couldn't he have followed it to where she was really sleeping first?
The ending bothered me a lot, lol. I have issues with any series ignoring the bodily autonomy of characters, especially female ones, and knowing Moffat and his history, I don't actually trust him to handle the way that Amy's body has been used against her will and without her knowledge very well at all. Especially if it turns out that the people who are holding her are the ones to have impregnated her, against her will (I really, really hope this doesn't wind up being the case!), which is straight up a form of rape and sexual assault, and I'm sure will not be treated as such.
It could still be handled in a decent way in the next episode, but unless Amy gets her autonomy back, like, instantly, I really doubt it. And I'm worried they're going to gloss over the horror of her situation by simply going "Look! Adorable baby!" and having that make everything that happened to her better somehow.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS.
But I still fucking love this show, though, lol. And will totally admit that I was caught off guard going WHAT WHAT BUT HOW. MY MIND. OMG MY MIND.
And that's always fun.