Doctor Who: the Almost People

[miss_s_b]

I liked the first five minutes of that. Then the continuity errors started annoying me - how many sonic screwdrivers? - then Rory falling for Jennifer!Ganger doing the helpless female act annoyed me. Then Jennifer!Ganger/monster looking like Mark Gatiss in the Lazarus experiment really annoyed me.

Then the Doctor committed murder. He's spent the entire two-parter telling us that gangers are people too, that the flesh remembers, that it is sentient, that it feels pain... And then he murders Amy!Ganger in cold blood. I'd figured out that Amy was going to be a ganger, and was wondering how they would resolve it, but I never, never thought they would do it like that.

And yes, I know, he has killed before - notably sending the hand of omega after the daleks - but only EVER after giving people a choice. He gave Davros a choice. He gave the silents a choice. He didn't give Amy!Ganger a choice. He just aimed and fired.

My Doctor is not a murderer. This episode is going into the Definitely Not Canon box in my brain.

I feel genuinely quite ill after that.

Comments

[gominokouhai]

Um, what? Amy wasn't a ganger.

[miss_s_b]

The not-pregnant Amy was.

[matgb]

Amy's been a ganger since the begining of this series, minimum, even before she was captured by The Silence, that's what the whole "spot Frances Barber" bits have been about. The Doctor actually said this in the last scene.

[gominokouhai]

No, the Doctor gibbered something about how he needed to know enough about the gangers to stop them having some sort of undefined magical hold on the Amy-baby plot device. It was so obviously a bad welding job between the overarching arc plot and this retarded abortion of a pair of episodes that I reflexively ignored it.

Whatever's going on with Amy's Schroedinger-pregnancy and the Doctor being shot in the future by an astronaut that may or may not be a grown-up baby with a time-head: Moffat wrote that, and we've yet to see where it goes. Stupid bullshit about goo that becomes human and declares war against humans and then decides not to declare war against humans any more and witters incessantly about the fact that some of the goo has a son who's an even worse actor than the allegedly-Yorkshire lass: that was written by the bloke who wrote `Fear Her' and then, inexplicably, was allowed near a typewriter for the second time. I have yet to see any evidence (apart from the bad welding job alluded to previously) that there is any relation between the two.

[sir_guinglain]

It's not a bad welding job - the whole thing was absolutely well-integrated, Matthew Graham writing from Steven Moffat's brief.