Doctor Who, "The Rebel Flesh"

[major_clanger]

Having been Otherwise Occupied over the weekend, I've finally watched "The Rebel Flesh".

Comments

[rmc28]

You're the only other person I know who made the Kiln People connection ;-)

[parrot_knight]

Of my friends list, alitalf did too. I'd not heard of it, but will try to make time to look it up, and Who Goes There? too.

[major_clanger]

Kiln People (or indeed Kil'n People as it was published in the UK) has stuck in my head partly because of the main plot idea but mainly because bugshaw re-enacted key scenes with Jelly Babies...

[steer]

Oh that is genius!

[ffutures]

I spotted the Kiln People similarities, but I think it may turn out that this is the origin story for the Autons so the similarity may be coincidental.

[steer]

Um... didn't we already see the origin story for the autons in 1970? (Which clearly puts their origin as a consciousness far before this story in time).

[daveon]

The same thought occurred to me that it was the Autons, and hadn't the Nestene been explained in the 70s?

That said, this looked, sounded and felt like a Pertwee episode.

[steer]

Actually the opening shot and setting reminded me more of a different Pertwee story... I forget the name but a Silurian episode which begins in one of the sea forts in the channel.

[steer]

I loved Kil'n people. Great book. It did vaguely chime with the Dr Who for me too.

[ivory_goddess]

We were thinking that this - specifically the end-of-ep cliffhanger - potentially explains the events at the start of episode 1 of ths series...

[steer]

I thought that but someone (River Song perhaps?) said that the body was not a clone or a copy? I guess they could kill "original" and continue the series with copy. However you still have 200 years of "running" in the timeline of the one that dies to explain.