History Recap / DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople

** Cleaves towards Gangers in general. Amy demonstrates repeated prejudice and anger towards the one she thinks is the Ganger!Doctor.

** The Doctor and his Ganger both tell Amy to "breathe" several times.

* CloningBlues: Subverted. While the 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.

* NotSoDifferent: The point of the Aesop is that the Gangers are not different at all from their human counterparts. The Doctor and his Ganger prove this with the TwinSwitch they pull on Amy.

As the Doctor dissolves the Flesh of Amy's Ganger, telling Rory to be very brave, we cut to where Amy really is: on a bed, giving birth. The eyepatched woman who Amy keeps seeing through doors and walls is staring at her, real this time, happy that the baby is about to be born. Amy ''screams''.


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[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar Continued.]]

* HeadacheOfDoom: Miranda Cleaves suffers from headaches, revealed to be the result of an inoperable blood clot in her brain. Her Ganger, being a perfect replica, also experiences these symptoms. [[spoiler: The Doctor gives her some medicine that can dissolve the clot at the end of the story, giving her a new lease on life and allowing her to testify on behalf of Ganger rights.]]

* 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. [[spoiler:It turns out he ''is'' the Doctor.]]

The one with Eleven squared. And Amy accidentally spills the beans that the Doctor is going to be shot. Then finds out it's her due date without ever realizing she was pregnant.

** 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.
*** Though considering the fact that Amy’s Ganger is a remote interface rather than a seperate person like the other Gangers, it’s [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: Amy, who shows extreme mistrust towards the Gangers, only to be revealed to be one the whole time.
** The difference being that the Gangers were separate people from their human counterparts whilst Amy's ganger was only a remote "interface."

* 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.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Cleaves has a blood clot in her brain, giving her headaches. In real life we have a word for a blood clot in the brain: a stroke. They do a bit more than headaches.
** Actually, 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.

** The Doctor gambits 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.
** The Doctor also gambits one onto Amy, by pulling a TwinSwitch with the Ganger!Doctor she is reviled by.
* HeroicSacrifice: All over the place. Final list includes human Jimmy, human Dicken, Ganger!Cleaves and the Ganger!Doctor. Interestingly, all of them are attempts at thwarting Ganger!Jennifer's murderous actions.

It turns out that the factory is full of discarded bits and pieces of Flesh . . . still fully conscious.

* {{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''.

** Amy waking up in a small coffin-like space, like in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]].

* DifferentlyDressedDuplicates: The Doctor is wearing a pair of borrowed work boots, and his Ganger is wearing his original shoes. Except that they actually switched shoes early on . . .

-->'''Ganger!Doctor:''' The Flesh can grow, correct?\\

* RedHerring: The Gangers immediately led both Amy and the viewers to the hypothesis that the Doctor who died in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]] was a Ganger.

The one with significant shoes.

** 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.

* NotSoDifferent: The point of the Aesop is that the Gangers are not different at all from their Human counterparts. The Doctor and his Ganger prove this with the TwinSwitch they pull on Amy.

-->'''The Doctor:''' (''Tenth's voice'') Hallo, I'm the Doctor. (''normal'') [[BigNo noooOOOOOOOO!!]] ''Let it go, we we've MOVED ON!!''

It turns out that the factory is full of discarded bits and pieces of Flesh... still fully conscious.

Amy sees the eye-patch woman again, and finally decides to tell the Doctor about it. He brushes her off. When the Doctor's Ganger takes her aside, she freaks out and asks him if he can die. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut Because she may have seen that]], and the real Doctor invited her to come see it. The Ganger takes in that information, but is distracted when his innate psychic Time Lord powers pick up the screams of the decaying discarded Flesh. He heads back to confer with the Doctor, and hesitantly agrees to keep his distance from the main crew as a safety precaution.

%%* HollywoodAcid

* IdiotBall: Ganger!Jennifer, after being "proven" human, uses Rory's hand-print 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.

* RedHerring: The Gangers immediately led both Amy and the viewers to the hypothesis that the Doctor who died in "The Impossible Astronaut" was a Ganger.

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

* 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.

%%* UsedToBeASweetKid: Ganger Jennifer

** Actually, in a case of RealityIsUnrealistic blood clots in the brain whilst capable of causing a stroke are not the same thing as. They still usually cause more than headaches though.

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

Amy is ''very'' freaked out by seeing the Doctor's Ganger. She treats it coldly and stops just short of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter generated anomaly]]". The Doctor keeps asking her why, and she explains that the friendship she has with the Doctor can't suddenly be directed towards his Ganger, regardless of whether or not they have the exact same feelings and memories.

Amy sees the eye-patch woman again, and finally decides to tell the Doctor about it. He brushes her off. When the Doctor's Ganger takes her aside, she freaks out and asks him if he can die. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut Because she may have seen that]] and the real Doctor invited her to come see it. The Ganger takes in that information, but is distracted when his innate psychic Time Lord powers pick up the screams of the decaying discarded Flesh. He heads back to confer with the Doctor, and hesitantly agrees to keep his distance from the main crew as a safety precaution.

As the Doctor dissolves the Flesh of Amy's Ganger, telling Rory to be very brave, we cut to where Amy really is: on a bed, giving birth. The eye-patch woman who Amy keeps seeing through doors and walls is staring at her, real this time, happy that the baby is about to be born. Amy ''screams''.

* ArcWords: Arc Person again -- Eye-Patch Lady.

** Actually in a case of RealityIsUnrealistic blood clots in the brain whilst capable of causing a stroke are not the same thing as. They still usually cause more than headaches though.

* CloningBlues: Subverted. While the 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 quotes his First, Third, Fourth and Tenth incarnations while trying to stabilise himself. At one point he even offers people a jelly baby in Creator/TomBaker's voice.

* 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 Ganger Doctor.

-->'''Ganger Doctor:''' The Flesh can grow, correct?\\

* DistressedDude: After Rory unwittingly helps Ganger Jen with her plans, she drags him away after trapping the other team.
* 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 has been 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.

** Cleaves towards gangers in general. Amy demonstrates repeated prejudice and anger towards the one she thinks is the Ganger Doctor.
** Ganger Jennifer plans to go to the mainland and kill as many humans as she can because she believes them to [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters be the real monsters]].

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Ganger Jenny completely loses it thanks to all her memories of being "decommissioned".

** The Doctor gambits 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.
** The Doctor also gambits one onto Amy, by pulling a TwinSwitch with the Ganger Doctor she is reviled by.
* HeroicSacrifice: All over the place. Final list includes human Jimmy, human Dicken, Ganger Cleaves and the Ganger Doctor. Interestingly, all of them are attempts at thwarting Ganger Jennifer's murderous actions.

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Subtle example. Rory finds the human and Ganger versions of Jennifer only for them to fight, and is shocked when the human Jennifer hurls her counterpart into a pool of acid. We later learn that both of them were Gangers and it was done to manipulate Rory -- in other words, the Ganger Jennifer views humans as being so callous that she presented her supposedly human version casually disposing of the Ganger version as normal behaviour, but Rory himself is morally superior to her idea of what humans are like.

** The Ganger Jennifer rails against the humans for "executing" Gangers, but it turns out she deliberately killed another Ganger Jennifer herself in order to manipulate Rory.
** 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.

* IdiotBall: Ganger Jennifer, after being "proven" human, uses Rory's hand-print 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.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The previews made it look like Ganger Doctor would be an antagonist. Not only does he help the original throughout the episode, he eventually pulls a HeroicSacrifice.
* NightmareFace: Ganger Jennifer sports two of them this episode. The second one is when she takes a genuinely monstrous form.

* OneWingedAngel: Ganger Jenny mutates into some kind of large, four-legged beast near the end.
* PowerOfLove: Getting a holo-telephone call from his son is what inspires compassion in Ganger Jimmy to rescue the humans from the death trap.
* ThePlotReaper: Ganger Doctor tidies all the surplus elements of the plot (including himself) away once they've outlived their purpose.

* PseudoCrisis: The last episode's cliffhanger was the revelation of the Ganger Doctor. He and his original get along splendily.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cleaves, responsible for the whole mess by murdering Ganger Buzz, becomes one in the end. At the press conference she is accepted as "boss" by one of the remaining Gangers after saying they would confront the matter "side-by-side".
* RedHerring: The gangers immediately led both Amy and the viewers to the hypothesis that the Doctor who died in "The Impossible Astronaut" was a ganger.
* 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.
* TheReveal: We finally get to know a bit more about the Eye-Patch Lady Amy has been seeing.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Ganger Jenny promises the other Gangers it will be "us or them".

* SiblingTeam: Time Lord Doctor and Ganger Doctor are technically twins and work extremely well together.

** 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 band on a cord around his neck, which Ganger Jimmy takes after he dies.

* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: Ganger Cleaves can guess the password the original Cleaves came up with, because it's the one she would have used.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Amy's visions of the Eye-Patch Lady are revealed to be what the real Amy sees when the woman opens the hatch to her cell. The image sometimes bleeds through into wherever her Ganger happens to be at that time.

* 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.
* UnwittingPawn: Rory plays into the gangers' plans for most of the episode.

* WhamEpisode: It turns out that Amy is a Ganger. Also, we finally find out who the Eye-Patch Lady is.

* 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!Cleves to remark "Look how smart I am".
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Amy, who shows extreme mistrust towards one of the gangers, only to be revealed to be one the whole time.

* NoExceptYes:
-->'''Ganger Doctor:''' The Flesh can grow, correct?\\
'''Cleaves:''' ''Its cells can divide.''