Butting in (here from who_daily) to note that ganger!Doctor is quite different from flesh!Amy and flesh!Melody, because he is one of the earlier models who managed to gain a separate consciousness in the lightning storm. His whole existence is a freak accident, not a new shiny MacGuffin that can be used to cheat death whenever the writers want to, so I would tentatively be okay with him cropping up as a plot point later (contingent, of course, on what they do with him).
And I'm going to bet he will turn up later and have something to do with the Doctor's death, for three reasons: 1. Moffat's directions to the writer of Rebel Flesh/Almost People were basically "I want a two-parter involving duplicates or flesh avatars who take on lives of their own," which suggests he's got something up his sleeve. 2. They specifically wrote in a scene where the Flesh struggles with the Doctor's past regenerations but does end up evolving to cope with them, which would make it super-easy to write in a "ganger!Doctor can regenerate but normal Flesh, the kind that's not in the early stages of the technology and is essentially a remote-control body, can't" clause. 3. They could've finished off the two-parter with a poignant scene where the ganger sacrifices himself with no hope of survival whatsoever. Instead they dangled us the "maybe I'll be back" carrot. They're certainly setting themselves up to be able to bring him back.
Also, I don't think Kovarian & Co could have nicked a Flesh copy, since the only gangers who can function independently of their originals are the ones in the Rebel Flesh two-parter. The real baby would still have had to be plugged into a ganger remote-control rig somewhere.
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And I'm going to bet he will turn up later and have something to do with the Doctor's death, for three reasons:
1. Moffat's directions to the writer of Rebel Flesh/Almost People were basically "I want a two-parter involving duplicates or flesh avatars who take on lives of their own," which suggests he's got something up his sleeve.
2. They specifically wrote in a scene where the Flesh struggles with the Doctor's past regenerations but does end up evolving to cope with them, which would make it super-easy to write in a "ganger!Doctor can regenerate but normal Flesh, the kind that's not in the early stages of the technology and is essentially a remote-control body, can't" clause.
3. They could've finished off the two-parter with a poignant scene where the ganger sacrifices himself with no hope of survival whatsoever. Instead they dangled us the "maybe I'll be back" carrot. They're certainly setting themselves up to be able to bring him back.
Also, I don't think Kovarian & Co could have nicked a Flesh copy, since the only gangers who can function independently of their originals are the ones in the Rebel Flesh two-parter. The real baby would still have had to be plugged into a ganger remote-control rig somewhere.