Doctor Who: 10 Underrated Stories In New Who

Season 6 was a divisive series, to say the least. With Amy’s pregnancy, the origins of River Song and the Doctor’s death, it had some very dark and adult themes running through it, as we mentioned before. It was a tone that was became typical of Steven Moffat’s time as showrunner.

This two-parter is often regarded as boring and weak, but it really isn't. It followed a group of people working in an acid factory who use doppelgangers, or Gangers, of themselves to do dangerous work. They use a unique substance called the Flesh to create these clones, which they then control, and if there’s an accident or someone dies, the original person is unharmed.

When the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in the middle of a solar storm, something goes wrong, and the Gangers are severed from their original forms. They begin to form their own group of rebels and fight for their freedom, threatening war on their human counterparts.

The episode addresses issues like body autonomy, the morals and ethics of cloning, as well as xenophobia and extremism. It's pretty deep for Doctor Who, but it works so well! The scenes with Ganger Jennifer remembering her childhood were harrowing, and her transformations were very disturbing despite verging on comedic. This was also a massive redemption for Matthew Graham, who wrote season two’s flop, Fear Her.