Ok, maybe not holes--but I think this season he's stretched all the connections out a little too tenuously :-\
Fear = chaos is also a thing in AGMGTW- Colonel Manton tries to talk up the soldiers and tell them the Doctor is just some dude they'll defeat easily, but then he appears, and they freak and start shooting into the Monks. And during River's verbal spanking later on she makes the point that it's about fear - "you make them so afraid." "all this ... in fear of you." Doubtless, if they're doing this out of fear, that's what they're going to brainwash Melody with. Yes! I'd remembered the mentions of fear in her speech, but that's a very good point too about the scene with Manton and the troops. Melody was the concentrated expression of everything Kovarian and Co were.
Also, Fringe really helped me in thinking about this (I feel like we got only the barest outline of River's story this season, so I'm having to go find it in other shows where it's better developed and apply the insights?). Because the key to Olivia's conditioning was also fear, and a lot of the stuff about her learning about Olive and her past and how adult Olivia wasn't afraid of anything anymore and the role fear played in the LSD episode seemed very reminiscent of River to me.
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Fear = chaos is also a thing in AGMGTW- Colonel Manton tries to talk up the soldiers and tell them the Doctor is just some dude they'll defeat easily, but then he appears, and they freak and start shooting into the Monks. And during River's verbal spanking later on she makes the point that it's about fear - "you make them so afraid." "all this ... in fear of you." Doubtless, if they're doing this out of fear, that's what they're going to brainwash Melody with.
Yes! I'd remembered the mentions of fear in her speech, but that's a very good point too about the scene with Manton and the troops. Melody was the concentrated expression of everything Kovarian and Co were.
Also, Fringe really helped me in thinking about this (I feel like we got only the barest outline of River's story this season, so I'm having to go find it in other shows where it's better developed and apply the insights?). Because the key to Olivia's conditioning was also fear, and a lot of the stuff about her learning about Olive and her past and how adult Olivia wasn't afraid of anything anymore and the role fear played in the LSD episode seemed very reminiscent of River to me.