elisi: Edwin and Charles (All for love (Rory) by rx_generation)
elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote 2011-05-25 11:39 am (UTC)

Though one thing that I didn't quite like about the episode is that the gangers are clearly Other - they have all the memories of the originals, but they are still not Them.
Ah but that's what I find interesting, and where Rory comes in:

Doctor: Why do you have to be so... human?
Auton!Rory: Because right now I'm not.

To what extent do our memories make us who we are? (I'm reminded of that throwaway line about humanity existing as download for about a million years, amongst other things.) Plus, the Doctor said that the Flesh was alive and *conscious*, reaching out to him (and he's clearly not telling everything he knows) - what does that mean? There's an endless pit of nature vs. nurture and so forth to delve into...

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