Doctor Who: 14 Most Paused Moments Of The Last Decade

8. The Doppelgänger Who Waited (The Almost People)

2011 was a turbulent year for Doctor Who, to say the very least. The show was facing trials and tribulations both on and off screen with its newly adopted 'mid-series split' format which, in retrospect, really wasn't as exciting as it was made out to be. They did try their best, though, to make the first half of Series 6 as memorable as could be, helped somewhat by the shock revelation that Amy Pond had actually been a freaking doppelgänger the whole entire time. Seriously. It made sense (relatively speaking), really, that not everything had been as it seemed. The girl who waited had been suffering from a phantom pregnancy since the opening US two-parter so at least finding out that she actually was with child reassured us that she hadn't just gone completely insane. The fact that child was River Song and Amy had been kidnapped by a creepy eye patch lady to have her unborn child conditioned into a psychopathic killing machine was perhaps taking it all a bit too far, but it did make for one almighty cliffhanger. One which no doubt left you feeling piqued and perturbed in equal measure. Whether you were trying to get your head around the fact that Amy hadn't even been Amy, or the realisation that the Eleventh Doctor had known all along, you definitely needed a minute or two of Silence (geddit?) to recover from this one. Poor Amy.