8. The Doctor Dies
Within the first 10 minutes of the Series 6 premiere, we were promised that someone would die. Knowing that it would be one of the four (The Doctor, Amy, River and Rory), it wasn’t a total surprise to see it be the Doctor. But the shock came after seeing it happen, as his body was burned and he seemed to be most definitely dead. The rest of the Series saw a younger version of the Doctor adventuring about until he reached this supposed death. Of course, with Doctor Who, nothing is as it seems and it was all resolved by the Series’ end. Regardless of how you felt about the plot, this set up was very well done and gave us a few months of intense speculation.
7. Amy Is A Ganger?
The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People two-parter would not normally have been a memorable episode had it not been for its ending. After two episodes dedicated to gangers separated from their hosts and trying to live their own lives, it was revealed that Amy herself was also a ganger. The surprise was not in that revelation, but in realizing that she’s been a ganger for pretty much the whole of Series 6 up until that point.
Her actual self was elsewhere on Demon’s Run, and had been there for a while. Furthermore, she was pregnant, and woke up just in time to have the baby, little Melody Pond. We knew something big was coming, but this was completely out of the blue and left many of us shocked.