OMG, Doctor Who, what are you DOING to me?!

[apple_pathways]

There was no way I was going to wait another week to see The Almost People. If you are (or have to!) then do avoid this post, as it contains SPOILERS.



HOLY CRAP AMY WAS A GANGER ALL ALONG! But when was the moment, exactly, when it happened? Was it when she was taken by the Silence? OMG, those creepy dudes just have a hand in everything, don't they?

Let me collect some random thoughts before I attempt coherence again:

• CGI Jennifer was F'ING COOL, until we got a good look at her. But when she was a strange, lope-y creature ambling through the shadows, she was super-creepy.
  
• I am not satisfied with Jennifer's fall into evil. It just...doesn't sit right.
  
• Why was Sneezing Dude the one to make it through the episode? The one with the least characterization gets to survive?
  
• I for real started crying the second Adam (the little boy) appeared on the screen. Genuine SOBS. My mother actually came upstairs to ask me what was wrong. "I'm...*sniff*...watching Doctor Who! *sniff*sniff*" I continued to cry through Amy's realization that she'd been alienating the real Doctor the entire episode. Nice touch, that: I didn't see it coming!
  
• How cute was that kid? I'm normally pretty annoyed by the Adorable Moppet gambit, but damn, he was adorable!
  
• Rory, Rory, Rory! I can't believe you fell for that... (And yet, I do love you for falling for it: too big of a soft-hearted hero to properly doubt anyone.)
  
• Poor Rory and Ganger!Amy when the Doctor had to melt her! The looks on their faces...
  
• You know, when Rory and the Doctor were trying to convince the other Gangers to save the humans, I really expected someone to bring up the fact that Ganger!Jennifer created another Flesh version of herself, only to sacrifice that version in order to trick Rory. Umm, isn't that you want to kill the humans for? Creating life only to dispose of it like a used tissue?
  
• LOVED the Double Dose of Doctor! It was so much fun watching the Doctors interact.
  
• I always find it slightly weird when people go all Snap!Evil, decide to kill everyone, and then miraculously Get Over It and become all noble and shit. I mean, yes: I did cry my eyes out at all the self-sacrifice at the end (MAJOR sucker for self-sacrifice), but still: weird.
  
• Who else TOTALLY EXPECTED an alien to shoot out of Amy's vagina at the end? Show of hands?
  
• ETA, because jacknjill270 reminded me: So, Not!Amy has Spilled the Beans and let it slip to the Doctor that she was invited to witness his death. This was supposed to be a Very Big Secret, for reasons I don't quite comprehend. What's going to be the aftermath for this? I'm guessing it's her accidental admission that's going to end up being the the beginning of the Doctor's plan to save himself in some weird, Ouroboros-y, wheel-within-a-wheel, Timey-Wimey Doctor Who plot point of delightfulness, doom, and head-scratchery. Yep.
  

An Open Letter to Stephen Moffet: That baby better be Amy and Rory's and at least 85% human, or I will find you and I will hurt you my heart is going to break in half!

(Also: I can never remember how to spell Moffat. I know I've spelled it about 5 different ways on this journal. I apologize.)

SO: If you've seen the ep, please do some speculating with me in the comments! (Just NO SPOILERS please! Only pure speculation based on the episodes! I came across what I consider to be a pretty damn big spoiler courtesy of Google news the other day, and I was Not Happy.)

Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Actually, you know what... completely different issue at mind now. If all the Doctor had to do was melt the Jenbeast with his sonic, why didn't the one who wouldn't melt do it? (I kind of suspect that this is an actual plot oversight, but until I'm proven wrong, I'm going to assume that they were both Doppeldoctors. Which explains how they switched shoes even though there was almost no time for shoe switching. And speaking of... so, the Flesh reproduces clothing, right? Which means the Doctor's new boots are technically made of the Flesh. Weird!))

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

That is a good point: the non-meltable Doctor could have sonicked the Jenbeast and then herded everyone into the TARDIS. I suppose this means the Doppeldoctor Had To Die?

He does say to ganger!Miranda "There might be a way out of this" (in re: to their untimely demise) before he opens the door, so who knows: maybe it was Part Of The Plan All Along! :P

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

There was a lot of "there's a chance you'll survive this!" going on beforehand, but I don't know if that's just the Doctor being all "I'll be okay, I'm saying it'll be okay, but I'm lying" or if it actually did mean "You might be able to spring back from whatever a 'molecular memory' is."

But yeah... from a plot standpoint, having a Doppeldoctor around would just be way too easy, so he had to die. (-;

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's just the Doctor being all "I'll be okay, I'm saying it'll be okay, but I'm lying" or if it actually did mean "You might be able to spring back from whatever a 'molecular memory' is."

I'm gonna go with the latter. 'Cause when he tells Not!Miranda "there might be a way out of this", the others have already left, and so it wouldn't have said it to reassure them. He oculd have just been trying to comfort not!Miranda in the moments before her demise, but she seemed pretty damn resigned to the whole thing, and not really in need of a comfortable lie.

Gonna have to find and listen to that 'molecular memory' line again! After all: Amy was able to reboot the entire universe from just a few atoms of the old one! Surely they can rebuild the Doppeldoctor?

But yeah... from a plot standpoint, having a Doppeldoctor around would just be way too easy, so he had to die. (-;

Or at least we have to think he's gone forever so we're surprised anew when me makes his triumphant return!!!

Oh, dear God: this show has turned me into a conspiracy theorist! (My dad would be proud...I should go tell him I have my doubts about Climate Change now...)

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if Doppeldoctor turns out to be a plot point, but I've more or less ruled out that he's the one that dies, since I don't think the Flesh could pull off regenerative energy. Did I mention that I thought he might've invited Doppeldoctor to his death, and not himself? We have so many separate threads going at once I'm not sure anymore. I'm starting to pick at his greeting to Rory as a kind of foreshadowing to their war. Or everything is a lie and what the Doctor did was throw a Wake of Fakes (excellent band name?), summoning Plastic!Rory from the past to hang out with Fake!Amy and Mystery!River and Doppeldoctor.

Conspiracy theories are the best! But only when Moffat and his ilk are the shadowy secret government putting the lies in the internet. ^_^

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say I've ruled it out completely that it's the Doppeldoctor who's zapped by the astronaut, but I would be mildly surprised if that were the case. Moffat is very good at keeping me guessing, and the way he called attention to the Doctor's death scene in relation to the Doppeldoctor (when Amy brought it up with who she thought was the Doppeldoctor) makes me think that it's just not going to play out that way.

A Wake of Fakes is an excellent band name. Should you ever find yourself in a position where you need a tambourine girl with a slightly-less-than stellar sense of rhythm, know that I'm in like Flynn. :D

It's also an intriguing theory. Now that you've drawn my attention to it, I'm convinced that it can't be coincidence that there's all this doubling/duplicating of the main cast going on.