I went to the store and got some isopropyl alcohol, a spray bottle, some paper bowls, plastic cups, and baby oil today. The alcohol went into the spray bottle and I sprayed all the soft surfaces around here with a liberal amount of the stuff. It's also for if I see a bedbug I can spray it. The baby oil was put into bowls and cups which had been placed around the legs of the couch and the bed. The bugs can't crawl up and they can't crawl down, meaning any bug on the bed is on the bed and any bug who isn't can't get anywhere near me.
I'll remove them in a month or so and I'll keep spraying with the alcohol for awhile longer, probably once a week or so.
Now, onto Doctor Who!
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The Almost People
I'll rehash the episode a bit, but I'm totally going to analyze everything from those last five minutes. I went back to Episodes 1 and 2 and rewatched them for stuff.
Well I was right on the memories being an issue for GangerDoc...at least for the first couple of minutes. The other stuff never even came up.
Also, the GangerDoc is essentially dead so the target has moved back onto the "real" Doctor once again. And the real Doctor knows he's going to die, thanks to the illicit swapping of shoes between versions. Amy didn't know she was talking to the REAL one.
What happens next episode? The Doctor potentially is shot two hundred years in his personal future. He knows it's coming, knows who will shoot him, has obviously orchestrated events to get himself back even when all looks lost. Since the man has two hundred years before to plan for it, do you really think he doesn't have a way out? The boat, the gas, the envelopes are planted. All set neatly into place for everything to be done right and proper.
There was no fighting between Amy and Rory because they spent most of the episode apart...which considering what happened in the last five minutes, is probably a good thing.
It turns out that Amy hasn't been Amy since probably before Ep 1 of this year. We don't know why there was a second Amy made of protean goop. We don't know who has the real one (lady with the eye patch but hello, we have no idea who the hell that is.) All we know is that Amy has had small windows in each episode where she's been telling us what's really going on, but up to this point we haven't had enough to go on. Now we're sure she's in a highly advanced medical facility, about ready to give birth to ???. We don't even know if what she's about to give birth to is remotely human (although why would these people have kidnapped her if it was just Rory's?)
I am tentatively assuming that the baby in the photos, the child in the spacesuit, and the little girl who regenerates are all the same child, making the kid Amy's, and if the prequel bit I saw was to be believed, we know who Daddy is as well. All we know is that she was in a spacesuit with twenty different kinds of tech to keep her alive and keep her safe from harm, that if she became afraid, the suit would hack into the highest authority and call for help, and that the child is incredibly strong to be able to rip her way out of all that wiring.
"And you've put on a couple of pounds-I wasn't going to mention it." Doctor to Amy, Episode 1.
"Then he's a clone or a duplicate or something." (Amy, after the Doctor's apparent death, Episode 1)
"You must tell the Doctor what he must know...and what he must never know." (One of the Silence, Episode 1.)
"Sorry. I have to tell the Doctor." (Amy, Episode 1)
"I had something I wanted to tell him, but stuff always gets in the way." (Amy, Episode 1)
About three seconds after she says that, she doubles over in pain, and while they are trying to solve whatever's going on, she's holding an arm across her stomach. False labor or first movements?
"I need to tell you something. It's really important."
"Doctor, I have to tell you something and I have to tell you it now."
"No, it's important, it has to be now. Doctor, I'm pregnant." (Amy, Episode 1.)
It appears in this ep that while trying to remember the Silence, the fake Amy may be getting reads from her psychic link with the real Amy telling her she's pregnant. In other words, reality is breaking through even when she doesn't understand what's going on.
Episode 2, of course, she denies that anything is going on. She sees the woman, who looks at her and states to someone that we don't see that she thinks Amy's just dreaming. In the room behind the same door, Amy finds the room of a little girl, with pictures of a little girl at various ages. Behind these photos, Amy finds one of herself holding a baby. She disappears before the rest of the team can get to her and winds up communicating her fear through a neural link. However, I think she was already the fake Amy by this point.
Rory has an interesting line in this episode, when talking to the Doctor about whether he remembers anything from his time as a plastic Roman waiting for Amy. He says the memories aren't there all the time, but are like a door in his head that he keeps shut.
Amy wakes up bound to a chair. The Silence say they will do her honor because she will bring the Silence. We never see that explained at all.
The Doctor asks after Amy's health, and she says her head's still a bit weird. When the Doctor tries to discover why Amy told HIM of all people, she steps neatly around the topic. At the end of this episode, the Doctor begins scanning Amy with TARDIS instruments without her knowledge.
Last scene: The little girl regenerates.
It happens again in Episode 3, when the wall opens and we see the eyepatch woman, who tells her to stay calm and that she's doing fine.
Episode 4 doesn't have her turning up at all.
Episode 5, she sees the woman again, but this time she doesn't say anything.
Episode 6, she sees the woman again and tells the Doctor, who has put two and two together. He keeps telling to breathe. She does have a stomach moment again early on and then right before he deatomizes her (meaning she's an advanced version of the flesh we just saw in this episode.) The real Amy awakens in a blindingly white room with the woman talking to her and well, well, well...
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Having seen the prequel for next week, I think I can safely say that whatever the guys in robes are going to try to imprison, you can bet a million stars the Doctor's going to be royally pissed if they mess with his kid. I think they're underestimating him again-big mistake there. He would go to the ends of the Universe to rescue his little girl.
How this relates to him rising higher than he ever has and then falling, how this relates to River, and who the HELL the mean bitch with the eyepatch is, well, we have to wait 6 more days.
And then we get a cliffhanger.
And then we wait three months.
Steven Moffat, you bloody evil genius...
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