Mason Lindroth

Mason Lindroth

Me when… me when… the identity is horror. Who are you? Can you be replicated? Is that replication you? If someone looks just like you, acts like you and is interpreted by others as you, are they you? Do your thoughts count for anything? If everything you actually think stays in your head and never comes out then you die do people grieve you? Do you respond to your name or to any name?

interesting how no one is talking about the body horror of it all? being perceived and known so intimately but never in the right way. donna and the doctor seeing versions of themselves that are ever so slightly off but convincing enough that even the audience doesn't know which is which at times. seeing yourself morphed and changed and fragmented and destroyed against your will in ways that you can never forget. the dehumanisation of it all. the robot also being something that doesn't have control over its own body except as a means to destroy. this episode was reminiscent of john carpenter's the thing. to me

thinking about beefsteak fungus. imagine you're walking through the forest. and one of these reaches out. and (tenderly, sensually) licks you

creatures of horror

pumpkinhead (1988) / brain damage (1988) / alien (1979) / the thing (1981) / possession (1981) / eraserhead (1977) / the fly (1986) / basket case (1982) / beetlejuice (1988)