Sorry this is a bit late.
I guess if the Flesh had only been in one episode instead of this two-parter I would have felt less like Amy’s sort of pregnancy plot twist wasn’t some kind of total cop out. Maybe this was better than some timey-wimey thing being the cause, but I don’t feel like it. As it is I can just kind of be angry at the Doctor for not being very comforting when he dissolved Flesh-Amy causing Amy to wake up in her pod. Also, after so much talk of saving the Flesh, the Doctor must not count them as living beings if they are still connected to the original person.
Before I can get to the rest of the mostly enjoyable episode, we have to think about Amy’s pregnancy timeline. She must have been knocked up before getting the the invitation to go out to America, but does that mean that she was a ganger then? Or was there a point in the first episode of the series that she was replaced? If this is the case then it has been around 5 or 6 months since the day of the moon, relative to the TARDIS residents. My money is on somewhere within the first episode, if only because I feel like Moffat must have left some kind of small hint to that nature somewhere. It’s really no good to guess at this sort of thing in Doctor Who considering the flexible nature of all of the show’s rules.
The rest of the episode was pretty much as expected. The two Doctors work together to get both sides of the conflict to recognize their common humanity, while the ganger leader Jenny ends up turning into a monster straight out of Silent Hill. This last part is really disheartening considering her blatant manipulation of Rory, who will probably never learn to trust again. I don’t have much to say about this episode. It was poorly written, but once again Matt Smith’s acting kept things afloat.
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