History Recap / DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople

'''Original air date:''' May 28, 2011

'''Production code:''' 2.6

Written by Matthew Graham.

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* TakeThatAudience: A minor one to the more [[FanDumb vocal fans]] who persist in their desire to see David Tennant return:

* TomatoInTheMirror: Of the regular cast, Amy is the one most suspicious of the Gangers. She turns out at the end to be one herself.

* After being the most vocal on Ganger prejudice, Cleaves leaves the episode ready to fight for Ganger rights with Ganger!Dicken.

* CloneAngst: Subverted. While the human Gangers question their humanity and their originals don't trust them, the Doctor considers the originals and their Gangers to be literally "the same person twice". In fact he sees his Ganger as himself and deserving of full respect. He's vindicated when it turns out he and his Ganger switched places near the beginning of the episode, and no one noticed, proving they are practically the same. The Ganger!Doctor is also free of angst. This makes sense since the Doctor has been around a ''long'' time and has a more enlightened perspective than the other people who were cloned.

** Jennifer elongating her jaw with an inhuman sound before running after a screaming Buzzer, killing him off-screen. WordOfGod is that she ate him.

* CloningBlues: Subverted. While the human Gangers question their humanity and their originals don't trust them, the Doctor considers the originals and their Gangers to be literally "the same person twice". In fact he sees his Ganger as himself and deserving of full respect. He's vindicated when it turns out he and his Ganger switched places near the beginning of the episode, and no one noticed, proving they are practically the same. The Ganger!Doctor is also free of angst. This makes sense since the Doctor has been around a ''long'' time and has a more enlightened perspective than the other people who were cloned.

->''"I have a plan, and it'll destroy them ''all''."''

The one with Eleven squared.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Jimmy and Dicken are killed, but their Gangers resume their lives for them. However, since they possess their memories, from the perspective of the Gangers, they're simply resuming their lives.

* AndIMustScream: The partially melted down Gangers. Rotting but ''fully alive'' and conscious.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Cleaves has a blood clot in her brain, giving her headaches. In a case of RealityIsUnrealistic blood clots in the brain, whilst ''capable'' of causing a stroke, are not the same thing as one. They still usually cause more than headaches though.

** Jennifer elongating her jaw with an inhuman sound before running after a screaming Buzzer, killing him off-screen (presumably eating him).

* CaptureAndReplicate: At the end of the episode it's revealed that the Flesh technology has been used to do this with Amy.
* ChekhovsGun: When Ganger!Eleven was born, he was created with a brand new set of shoes... which Eleven used to replace his own destroyed pair, switching the work shoes with his Ganger duplicate. He did this ''last'' episode off-screen... which means that the Doctor Amy ''thought'' was the Ganger and confided in... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero was the real deal.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Amy's been piloting a Ganger all along, and is really being held somewhere else by the Eyepatch Lady... and she's ''giving birth''.
* CloningBlues: Subverted. While the human Gangers question their humanity and their originals don't trust them, the Doctor considers the originals and their Gangers to be literally "the same person twice". In fact he sees his Ganger as himself and deserving of full respect. He's vindicated when it turns out he and his Ganger switched places near the beginning of the episode, in order to be sure they were the same. The Ganger!Doctor is also free of angst. This makes sense since the Doctor has been around a ''long'' time and has a more enlightened perspective than the other people who were cloned.

** Later, he calls himself John Smith, his most common alias over the series. More specifically, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature it was his name the last time]] he was "only ''almost'' the Doctor".

* CuteAndPsycho: It's been suggested the original Jennifer was one, as it would explain why her Ganger flipped so quickly.
* DebateAndSwitch: Since the season opener, Team TARDIS has been wondering whether to tell the Doctor that he's going to die and risk some sort of paradox. During this episode, Amy accidentally tells him, thinking she was speaking to the Ganger!Doctor.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: Amy is a Ganger and has been all through this series; human Amy has been locked in a cell ''the entire time'', meaning somewhere along the way human Amy was swapped for a Ganger who has been travelling with the Doctor the whole time. Since the Ganger functions as a remote body to the real Amy, that means that human Amy experienced all this series' preceding adventures while not in her real body.
* FaceHeelTurn: The Doctor pretends to do this, making the Gangers think he's on their side (mostly by freaking Rory the hell out) until he has an out to "trick them into humanity".

* GenreBlindness: How many hints did second Flesh Jennifer give Rory that she wasn't exactly on his side? But she had to flat out tell him for him to catch on.

** The Doctor tricks the Gangers into this to quit their plans and save the humans, having the Ganger version of Jimmy contact their son (and thus realize he is basically killing his son's father). Only Ganger!Jennifer fails to undergo this, coming to see "humanity" as a weakness.

* HeroicSacrifice: All over the place. Final list includes human Jimmy, human Dicken, Ganger!Cleaves and the Ganger!Doctor. Interestingly, all of them die thwarting Ganger!Jennifer's murderous actions.

** There's a subverted case at the end. After spending two episodes preaching about the rights and freedoms the Gangers deserve, the Doctor quickly melts Amy's Ganger in order to learn the original Amy's location, though he says he is going to be as "humane" about it as possible. Considering the fact that Amy’s Ganger is still a remote interface rather than a separate person like the other Gangers, it’s not hypocritical. If the Ganger had become independently sentient, it wouldn't have dissolved when the connection was broken.

* IdiotBall: Ganger!Jennifer, after being "proven" human, uses Rory's handprint instead of her own to access the human-use-only factory controls, and the computer says loudly, "Human identity verified". Rory doesn't notice anything odd about this.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: ''Invoked''. Since Ganger Cleaves has the same memories and thought-patterns as human Cleaves, she's able to correctly guess what her human counterpart chose as a [[TrustPassword code phrase]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Both Human Cleaves and Ganger Cleaves suffer from one caused by a blood clot in their brains that is impossible to cure ''on Earth''. The Doctor has just the thing for that.
* IronicEcho: Ganger Jimmy takes the wedding ring off Human Jimmy's finger after he dies, which is similar to when Human!Martha does to the same thing to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky Clone Martha]] after she dies.

* KarmaHoudini: Cleaves is entirely responsible for the Ganger situation going to hell and a handbasket and somehow she gets to have a terminal illness cured. Then again, having a terminal illness ''was'' responsible for her crappy attitude in the first place, so it's a wash... right?
* LotusEaterMachine: The real Amy has been living her Ganger's experiences, while all the time she's imprisoned in the birthing tube.
* MaternityCrisis: The episode ends with Amy going into labor while being held prisoner in an unkown location.

** The Doctor's Ganger mangling previous incarnations' catchphrases as he struggles to solidify at the beginning. Hearing him say "reverse the jelly baby of the neutron flow!" should be hilarious, but it comes with him obviously in pain and on the brink of losing his sanity.

* OhCrap: The face Eleven makes when he hears from Amy he's due to be murdered. The twist with the Doctor's shoes will reveal why this is so bad. You may not notice it in your first watching of the story due to the way events are framed, but pay close attention and you'll learn ''[[WhichMe why]]'' that expression is not to be ignored.

* ThePowerOfLove: Getting a holo-telephone call from his son is what inspires compassion in Ganger!Jimmy to rescue the humans from the death trap.

* PseudoCrisis: The last episode's cliffhanger was the revelation of the Ganger!Doctor. He and his original get along splendily.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Jimmy and Dicken are killed, but their Gangers resume their lives for them. However, since they possess their memories, from the perspective of the Gangers they're simply resuming their lives.

** The Doctor's shoes have been burnt by acid; Ganger!Doctor's are still intact. Except they swapped shoes so the original Doctor could understand the Ganger's perspective.
** Human Jimmy wears his wedding ring on a cord around his neck, which Ganger!Jimmy takes after he dies.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: Unusual variation. Human Jimmy dies just as his Ganger self undergoes a HeelRealization, asking his other self to watch over "their" family in his place.

-->'''Ganger!Doctor:''' ''[Ten's voice]'' Hello, I'm the Doctor. ''[normal]'' [[BigNo noooOOOOOOOO!!]] ''Let it go, we we've MOVED ON!!''
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: Ganger!Cleaves can guess the password the original Cleaves came up with, because it's the one she would have used.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Amy can be unfeeling at the best of times, but she dislikes Ganger!Doctor before she has any reason to. She says he's amazing but not the Doctor. It turns out he ''is'' the Doctor.

* WorthyOpponent: Ganger and Human Cleaves do not like each other at all, but they ''do'' respect each other's intelligence. Human!Cleaves suspects that Ganger!Cleaves is eavesdropping on her transmition and types the codeword just in case, thus prompting Ganger!Cleaves to remark "Look how smart I am".
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Amy, who shows extreme mistrust towards the Gangers, only to be revealed to be one the whole time. The difference is that the Gangers were separate people from their human counterparts whilst Amy's ganger was only a remote "interface" but she did not know this.

Continued from the last episode, and all-out war is going on between the human crew and their rogue Gangers, both of which fear the other group too much to stay rational. As the solar storm rages, Jennifer, a Ganger driven mad by the unnatural memories of being "decommissioned" over and over, is seeking revenge. As the crumbling factory fills with toxic fumes and drips lethal acid, the "originals" wait desperately for the shuttle from the Mainland to rescue them.

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: ''Invoked''. Since Ganger!Cleaves has the same memories and thought-patterns as human Cleaves, she's able to correctly guess what her human counterpart chose as a [[TrustPassword code phrase]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Both Human Cleaves and Ganger!Cleaves suffer from one caused by a blood clot in their brains that is impossible to cure ''on Earth''. The Doctor has just the thing for that.
* IronicEcho: Ganger!Jimmy takes the wedding ring off Human!Jimmy’s finger after he dies, which is similar to when Human!Martha does to the same thing to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky Clone!Martha]] after she dies.

* FullNameUltimatum: Parodied a bit by the Doctor: RORY POND RORANICUS PONDICUS!

** The climax basically revolves around the poetic irony that while the other Gangers either die heroically (and thus assist in proving their species "humanity" to their originals) or actually take over the lives of dead originals as desired (albeit under far more noble terms), Ganger!Jennifer has come to find such actions "weaknesses" and dies a literal inhuman monster willing to kill even her own out of spite.
** There's a downplayed case at the end. After spending two episodes preaching about the rights and freedoms the Gangers deserve, the Doctor quickly melts Amy's Ganger in order to learn the original Amy's location. He says he is going to be as "humane" about it as possible, and he's not at all happy about doing it. Considering the fact that Amy’s Ganger is a remote interface rather than a seperate person like the other Gangers, it’s [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] all the more.

** The Doctor also pulls one over on Amy, by pulling a TwinSwitch with the Ganger!Doctor she is reviled by.