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The Doctor finally learns how to heal people and we get one of the greatest cliffhangers of all time

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Our heroic protagonists are still at a medieval monastery in the 22nd Century where a band of contractors have been digging for super-potent subterranean acid.

But now The Gangers are after them, and to protect themselves from said gangers, they use and control Rory, a rubbery gloop, fully equipped with memories, emotions and clothing.

And then the mother of all cliffhangers puts the last few episodes in a whole new viewfinder.

Who’s real? Who’s plastic? Don’t worry. The Doctor will tell you.

A Ganger yawns during The Almost People Doctor Who

(This review follows our recorded conversation about N079 The Rebel Flesh.)

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Here's what we think of N080 The Almost People

We rate Doctor Who stories on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0. For context, very few are excellent enough to merit a 5.0 in our minds, and we'd take a 0.0 Doctor Who story over a lot of other, non-Whovian stuff out there.

Leon | @ponken

2.2

Drew | @drewbackwhen

2.7

Marie | @hammashandjelly

1.8

Jim | @jimmythewho

3.2

Featuring
The Eleventh Doctor
Amy Pond
Rory Williams
Madame Kovarian
Gangers
Here's what we think of N080 The Almost People

We rate Doctor Who stories on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0. For context, very few are excellent enough to merit a 5.0 in our minds, and we'd take a 0.0 Doctor Who story over a lot of other, non-Whovian stuff out there.

Leon | @ponken

2.2

Drew | @drewbackwhen

2.7

Marie | @hammashandjelly

1.8

Jim | @jimmythewho

3.2

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