My armchair fix for the problem would have been to just have Kovarian do it on realising the Doctor knows and so Flesh Amy has outlived her usefulness.. Completely in character after all.
"This works really well, so long as you don’t think too much about the fact it concludes, “Hey, guys, these are people too” immediately before the Doctor splats Flesh Amy."
I've always interpreted it as there being two types of flesh - entirely new organisms (ganger duplicates) and avatars of someone else. Flesh Amy is the latter - she is driven remotely by real Amy without her realising that "she" isn't physcially present in the situation.
It's been so long since I saw the episode, so this might just be head-canon on my part. Because I agree, if Flesh Amy is as "real" as Flesh Doctor is repeatedly stated to be then The Doctor just commits cold-blooded murder right in front of us.
This /could/ work except in the previous episode there's a lot of emphasis on how the Gangers always look betrayed as they die even before the personality split and the Gangers after that remember how they felt dying.
My armchair fix for the problem would have been to just have Kovarian do it on realising the Doctor knows and so Flesh Amy has outlived her usefulness.. Completely in character after all.
"This works really well, so long as you don’t think too much about the fact it concludes, “Hey, guys, these are people too” immediately before the Doctor splats Flesh Amy."
I've always interpreted it as there being two types of flesh - entirely new organisms (ganger duplicates) and avatars of someone else. Flesh Amy is the latter - she is driven remotely by real Amy without her realising that "she" isn't physcially present in the situation.
It's been so long since I saw the episode, so this might just be head-canon on my part. Because I agree, if Flesh Amy is as "real" as Flesh Doctor is repeatedly stated to be then The Doctor just commits cold-blooded murder right in front of us.
This /could/ work except in the previous episode there's a lot of emphasis on how the Gangers always look betrayed as they die even before the personality split and the Gangers after that remember how they felt dying.