Five thoughts after watching "The Almost People"

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1) Ohemeffgee, my eyelids. You know what hurts so bad it will make you cry? Salt in a soft-tissue wound. You know how you can get salt in a soft-tissue wound? Crying. You know how I got my soft-tissue wounds to begin with? Salty tears cracked open partially-healed eyelid rashes. The end of this episode transformed me into a *literal*

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4.) Okay, so now you HAVE to tell me what happens in the penultimate scene of the episode. Gee's been keeping me pretty up-to-date on what happens in each episode of "Who," but I don't know which scene you're referring to and now I'm all curious.

5.) I *think* it was The Waters of Mars (unless it was Planet of the Dead, but I'm really pretty positive that it was TWoM) wherein I had to turn on the closed captioning a few times to make out a few lines of Tennant's dialogue. (Ooh, yeah, it was definitely TWoM because I remember not being able to figure out what he was going on about until I put on the CC and discovered he was discussing bicycles.) This was not really his fault, though -- the problem was that it had been positively AGES since I had watched any Who (or British TV) in general, like literally MONTHS, and I was sort of "out of practice" at understanding the accents. Luckily by the end of TWoM (and as I moved into TEoT), I was past the problem.

Contains spoilers for "The Almost People"

[magratpudifoot]

4) Matthew Graham had just spent two episodes establishing that the Flesh is sentient, that it takes on the memories and personality of whoever it is forced to mimic (and is, in fact, being controlled by), that it honestly believes itself to be that person, and that returning it to its liquid form is tantamount to killing a person. That was *the entire point* of the two-parter. We have just watched The Doctorganger stay behind to sacrifice himself in order to help another doppelganger save everyone else the way only The Doctor can