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

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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

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I'm wondering how long the Doctor has known about Ganger!Amy. It's quite possible he's known for a little while but hasn't done anything until now to buy himself time. When he melted Ganger!Amy with the sonic, he seemed very confident that he wasn't killing Amy or another, independently thinking version of Amy. He would never have murdered a fully autonomous Amy, ganger or not. All through this two-parter he'd been banging on about gangers being just as much alive as the humans, yet when it came to Amy he was willing to let her ganger survive only as long as he needed her/it around (probably to stop Rory freaking out until he could do something about it and also to save Amy the horror of her real situation). I see this as evidence that she was a remote control copy and he knew it.

I'm going with the "lost" 3 month window, and whoever is responsible was able to synthesise a Not Pregnant Amy from a Pregnant Amy. Either that or, heaven forbid, they aborted Ganger!Amy's baby...

Something else I think might be significant concerning the timing of Amy's duplication is gangers' perception of time.


Suspected Ganger!Amy in DOTM: I've just got here.
Silence: You have been here many days.

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Doctor in TRF: How long would you say we were unconscious for?
Ganger!Miranda: Not long, about a minute? Two minutes?
Doctor: I'd hazard we've been out a teensy bit longer. An hour.


/straw-clutching (yes I'm reeling as much as the next man about Amy's predicament. Or, more accurately, I'm as anxious about her well-being as Rory's going to be, and demand a phenomenally good explanation from the Doctor!)

Stewart

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I imagine he started to suspect her after DOTM when he first discovered the Schrodinger's pregnancy. I would love to know when exactly he figured it out, though. As evilhippo said: I didn't catch any foreshadowing before The Rebel Flesh.

Yeah, Almost!Amy was definitely a true 'ganger', and not 'fully human' like the other duplicates became after entering the TARDIS. I have no trouble buying that, but I do wonder how exactly we're supposed to differentiate after we spent the entire two-parter sympathizing with the Flesh.

I'm going to have to make a list of everything I think "could be significant", and see how much of it I'm right about after next week's ep! :P