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

[plumeriandeity.livejournal.com]

I'm crap at speculating but I wonder if the Flesh Doctor (or Smith!11 as I like to call him) is still alive. I just want to believe he is because he did say something about surviving the whole ordeal with Ganger!Cleaves.

I didn't like Jen at all. She just annoyed me during the entire episode. I was relieved she wasn't the first one to die (like that girl in Silence in the Library) but if not that, then let her spiral down to evilness!

*LOVED* the two 11s! And I loved even more that they switched places and Amy totally fell for it. And YES I wonder what's going to happen now that Amy's told 11 what's going to happen to him in the future. I actually like the way he's going to try to get out of it.

OK my brain cannot think anymore and I really must go to bed. But OMG AMY'S HAVING HER BABY. And she was a Ganger in the TARDIS! AHHH I am so glad I watched this episode today rather than Saturday and now I have fewer days to wait for the next one!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling the Flesh Doctor will come back and be a Plot Point: there was just too much hinting around about him possibly surviving for it not to happen. What part he'll play exactly, I can't say, but I do still think he's going to have a role to play in the Doctor's death. I'm sure it won't be as straight-forward as "he switches places with the real Doctor and so he's the one who's killed instead", I expect the real solution to be much more twisty than that, but they did make rather a big deal of proving how interchangeable the two of them were!

I liked Jen in the beginning, when she was just scared and looking for help. Once she started to go all 'evil', she got on my nerves. (Whereas Cleaves started off getting on my nerves, and then started to grow on me as she became more of a complex character. 'Transparent Evil' is always really boring to me!)

I just CANNOT WAIT for the mid-season finale! Even though I just know that it's going to leave me all dissatisfied and pining for the second half of the series! (Which airs when, fall? PLEASE tell me 'fall' means September, and not October or November!!!)