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YMMV / Doctor Who S32 E5 "The Rebel Flesh"

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  • Awesome Music: The workers listen to "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield, which clues Rory into the fact they are not in mediaeval times, and later on lets the characters know the Gangers are more human than initially thought.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The Doctor puts on a Yorkshire accent. Two incarnations later, we'd get a Doctor from Huddersfield.
    • Jimmy becomes something of a walking Hilarious in Hindsight example after his actor, Mark Bonnar, was cast as the Eleven, a Time Lord with a regeneration deficiency that keeps his past incarnations' personas lodged in his head, in the Big Finish Audio Range. Highlights include the Doctor asking if he's a violent man, when the Eleven was one of the Doctor's most violent rogues in the audios, and Jimmy having a minor freakout about the miners "fighting [them]selves", when arguing with himself was the Eleven's main quirk.
  • Narm: Ganger!Cleaves reaction to finding out she's one of the Gangers is to say "We...are LIVING!" in a Narmy way and runs off while yelling (complete with voice-crack). The way everyone else reacts looks like they thought of it that way too.
  • Paranoia Fuel: So how are you going to tell the original and the copy apart? Well, you can't, unless the Ganger is incomplete and has that smooth, transparent face. Just hope you won't be seeing it in the mirror.

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