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It <b>is</b> still a problem. As I said, above, there actually is a genuine difference but it needed to be made far, far more obvious than it was. And I'm not really sure it could ever have been made obvious enough to avoid the trap into which they fell. [[Special:Contributions/78.146.176.60|78.146.176.60]] 23:08, May 31, 2011 (UTC) | It <b>is</b> still a problem. As I said, above, there actually is a genuine difference but it needed to be made far, far more obvious than it was. And I'm not really sure it could ever have been made obvious enough to avoid the trap into which they fell. [[Special:Contributions/78.146.176.60|78.146.176.60]] 23:08, May 31, 2011 (UTC) | ||
The mind controlling Ganger-Amy was real-Amy's mind. It looked to me as if, towards the end of the episode, Amy had begun to suspect that she was wandering around in a ganger body. She's intelligent and, by that stage, had learned about gangers. She was also experiencing the contractions that indicate the onset of labour but knew that the body she <b>seemed</b> to be inhabiting was not pregnant. The Doctor had also dropped several hints, like telling her that they could understand the gangers properly only "through your eyes". The writers could, therefore, have had Amy and the Doctor make it <b>explicit</b> that Amy had realised she was inhabiting a ganger body, that she could be returned to her real body only by destroying the ganger and that she trusted the Doctor to do that. That would have meant that Amy was knowingly consenting to the destruction of her second (Flesh) body <b>and actually said so on screen</b>. | |||
That would have lost some of the "dramatic" surprise of seeing the ganger dissolve and real Amy wake up but would have gained by avoiding the appearance of the Doctor unilaterally "murdering" Ganger-Amy. I'm not sure if that would have been enough to prevent the problem that gave rise to this page being created but it would have been better than what was shown. | |||
The Doctor <b>did</b> have to do what he did. He was <b>not</b> killing an autonomous entity. But the writers, I think, put the "dramatic" surprise ahead of protecting the Doctor's character by making that clear enough. The plot logic was OK, the presentation was not. [[Special:Contributions/89.241.77.204|89.241.77.204]] 08:02, June 1, 2011 (UTC) | |||
