the signal to Amy is obviously a Necessarytotheplotopathic signal. It travels through a parallel phlebotinum-space, in which there is no matter to impede the signal, and then meets a portal in Flesh Amy's head. It's science.

Colin Baker was screwed. He's actually a pretty good actor. But his costume was awful, his character was written as an abusive asshole. He and Nicola Bryant as Peri staged a minor coup over the writing, and refused to deliver lines as directed. As written, Peri had no reason to stay with The Doctor, and was more…

Cleaves was great. I looked up Raquel Cassidy after the show just to see what else she was in. She juggled all the apparent contradictions of her character flawlessly; she was ruthless, world-weary, wise, impulsive, tough, and vulnerable in the space of the episodes. She's a bit too practical to be a companion, but…

A recent panel with Jane Espenson explored the difference between the British and American script writing process. She was surprised that Russell T Davies didn't have a writer's room, and that the beats of the script and the series were not hashed out with all the writers of all the episodes in advance. Davies, was…

The point of the script probably started out as 'lets explore identity and self-hood, and show That Amy has been kidnapped' and became 'How do we get rid of the doubles of our characters so we can reset?'

There was one Sonic until The Doctor was back in The Tardis where it's been established (from one line of dialog over a year ago) that he has spares. The level of confusion regarding the events of these episodes was totally the fault of the writer and director. A pick-up shot of The Doctor grabbing a second Sonic…

@Kjohnson1585 Yes he's killed lots of people, whole species even, but he always gives them a chance to do the right thing before he does. He kills to save innocent people. It's classic social contract morality. Disregarding the value of other's lives, makes your life less valuable.

yeah, I agree. That was weak. It's one of those moments where verisimilitude is tossed out the window to keep the show from becoming overwhelmingly tedious. If they didn't put that sacrifice in, we would have had two Doctors, and two Cleaves, and we would have known for sure that it was Doctor Goo that died in the…

It makes me feel a tiny bit clever that I guessed that The Doctor knew exactly where he was going and why.

What Actually Happened There
Amy's Ganger was being remote controlled by the real Amy. It's why she was seeing bits of the eye-patch lady, and feeling occasional stomach pains. The Doctor says when he 'disconnects' Amy from her ganger is that he's doing it as humanely as he can. That's why it happened so fast.

The best part was the hook. How do you deal with finding Data's head? Everything from that moment went to shit.

Voyager also had the only moment in her entire existence that Deana Troi got to be cool. When she got the Dabo stripper to confess behind closed doors, I thought, why didn't they let her do stuff like that in the show she was a regular?

TNG should have done the concept Mass Effect and SGU borrowed from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker Machines works from the 60's.

i and 1: I thought they were interesting points.

@Penis While I vehemently disagree with you regarding Love and Monsters, I totally agree with your preference of this episode over the pirate episode.

What does The Doctor Know?
He was looking at Amy's pregnancy thingy before he decided to go to the island. And he wasn't the least surprised when they landed there.

You could give the woman a bad perm, and dress her in a burlap sack, and she'd still be hot. That being said, the hair and pouty look works for her in that picture.

Also the Gangers aren't made of plastic, they are made of flesh, so there's that.

I agree Nathan. He's one of the sharpest and specific performers out there.

I don't think these episodes aren't stand-alone. The Doctor came to this island during this time on purpose. He knew what everything was when he got there. The first thing he did was stick his hand in goop that copies people. We might be seeing a Doctor that's 10 steps ahead of everyone, but can't tell anyone…