TIME ANGELS

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Full Cast and Crew. Season 2 Episode 5. What is Emily Mortimer Watching? Share this Rating Title: Time Angels 07 Sep 8. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode cast overview: Alphonse Inuit June Diane Raphael The Doctor promised to take her to a planet next, and the museum is on an asteroid.

She wonders why they are at a museum while the Doctor announces that most of the displays are "wrong" until coming to one that he says is "one of mine". Amy deduces that this is how he keeps score. The Doctor is fascinated by the box seen earlier. He says it's a home box , which works like an aeroplane's black box except it homes. He says the message scrawled on the box is for him. It is written in Old High Gallifreyan. Amy asks what the message says, and the Doctor exasperatedly replies, "Hello, sweetie. Getting a visual, he sees River Song smiling at the camera.

Changing the footage, River is now cornered in front of an airlock by the man in evening clothes and two guards. She explains coolly she needed to see what was in the vault and warns them that the ship will not reach its destination. Meanwhile, River tells the men they'd better find something to hold on to. They grab for handholds as alarms sound, and the airlock blows open. She flies inside, knocking the Doctor to the floor.

Surprised to see her again , the Doctor greets her. But the Byzantium 's getting away. River yells "Follow that ship! As River takes over the piloting, the Doctor sits down and complains about the "blue boringers". River says she had lessons from the very best. The Doctor looks smug until she adds, "A shame you were busy that day. River announces that she's plotted all possible landing locations, and, with a soft thud, that she's parked the TARDIS next to the Byzantium. River replies that it only makes that sound because he leaves the brakes on, though he insists it's a brilliant noise.

The Doctor, grumbling, opens the door — despite River's warnings that they must do environmental checks — and announces they have landed on Alfava Metraxis , which has an oxygen -rich atmosphere , an eleven-hour day, and a chance of rain later. River sneers, "He thinks he's so hot when he does that.

The Time of Angels

He tells Amy that River is his future, and can run away from it if he wishes to, but Amy reminds him that he promised her a planet and insists on spending 5 minutes there. The Doctor reluctantly accepts, though insists River is not dragging them into anything. Happy to learn that she'll be a professor one day, Rivers states her trademark, " spoilers "; the Doctor is annoyed he just gave away foreknowledge.

River asks the Doctor to boost the signal of her radio with his sonic screwdriver , so that she can use it as a homing beacon for reinforcements in orbit. She also mentions there was one survivor of the crash, something that can never die; she notes that "now he's listening". She produces her diary , and asks the Doctor where she's landed in his timeline. The Doctor orders Amy to keep away from it, as it is "Her past, my future".

Before River can read off any past adventures, four men in combat uniform teleport in and approach them.

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Their leader, Father Octavian , is rather cross; River had promised him an army. However, she corrects him, saying that she promised the equivalent of an army. He takes back his complaint once introduced to the Doctor. They then reveal their enemy. Turning to the Doctor, River asks him what he knows of the Weeping Angels. River calls them to a drop-ship to show them footage of the Weeping Angel they're chasing. It is a four-second clip on a loop.

The Doctor and River explain the nature of the Weeping Angel to Amy and Father Octavian, including their quantum-lock defence mechanism ; the Doctor also briefly recounts his previous encounter with the Weeping Angels on Earth. The Angel that they're after had been patient and feigned dormancy since it was discovered.

All but Amy depart the drop-ship as River offers the Doctor a book about the Angels ; he reads the whole book in seconds. He is perplexed; something is missing, but he doesn't know what. While the others make plans, Amy is left with nothing to do. Looking back at the tape, she realises the Weeping Angel has changed its position slightly.

When she asks River if she has more than one clip of the Angel, River says no, it's just the one. When Amy looks back, the Angel has moved again; it now faces the camera with its arms spread out. The door behind her shuts without her noticing. Amy tries to turn off the television , but it quickly switches back on. She then tries and fails to unplug it. When she looks back up, though, the Angel's face has filled the screen. She tries to leave, but the door won't budge. She looks back again to find the Angel is now baring its fangs at her.

Outside, River wonders how early the Doctor is in his time stream. When he replies it is fairly early, she is amused because he doesn't know who she is yet. The Doctor wonders how she knows who he is as he doesn't always look the same. River says that she has all his faces in her diary, but he doesn't show up in order; River thinks she needs a spotter's guide. The Doctor then realises what the book of angels is missing: Why would there be no visual on what to look out for?

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River says there was a mention about images in the book. The Doctor returns to the sentence and reads it aloud: Back in the dropship, Amy looks away again. This time, when she looks back, the Angel has projected itself into the drop-ship as a hologram. Amy shouts for the Doctor. He runs to the door and tries to open it with the sonic screwdriver, but fails. River tries burning through the hull as the Doctor fails to cut the power; the Angel has added a deadlock seal , though, and neither succeed, River noting it's "not even warm".

The Doctor warns Amy not to blink, then looks back into the book , and adds she is not to look into the Angel's eyes; however, Amy already has, though doesn't mention it. The Doctor explains to River the book says that the eyes are the "doors" to the soul, not windows. The Doctor says they never should have trapped him, tells the others to prepare to jump, and detonates the gravity globe. This episode sees the return of River Song , the woman from the Doctor's future who was previously seen in " Silence in the Library " and " Forest of the Dead ".

The episode was written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. Moffat thought that Aliens was "the best conceived movie sequel ever" and decided to use it as a model. He also intended to portray the Angels and their actions differently; in "Blink" they were barely surviving and resembled scavengers, while in "The Time of Angels" he wanted them to have a plan that could become "almost like a war".

Moffat also brought back the character of River Song from his fourth series episodes " Silence in the Library " and " Forest of the Dead ". In the former, River asks the Doctor if he had done the "crash of the Byzantium " with her yet. The read-through for the episode took place on 15 July Director Adam Smith, new to Doctor Who , felt pressure in making the episode be a worthy sequel to "Blink", which he called a "brilliant, brilliant, brilliant episode", but also said that it was great to work with the Weeping Angels.

This was originally an accident during one of the takes, but director Adam Smith liked it and filmed it again, with Matt Smith doing it on purpose. Most of the Weeping Angels are not statue props but young women wearing masks, costumes, and paint that took two to three hours to apply. A stunt double was used for some shots of the scene where River flies out of the Byzantium 's airlock, but Kingston wished to do some of it herself.

The scene was filmed on a greenscreen with Kingston hooked up on wires that pulled her up and backwards as a wind machine was blown to create the effect of the airlock. Kingston said she "absolutely loved" filming the scene. This was also the second highest overnight figure for a fourth episode over the last five series, " The Girl in the Fireplace " taking the top position. During the cliffhanger ending of the first broadcast of "The Time of Angels", an animated graphic was shown in some regions, showing Graham Norton revealing a banner trailing his show Over the Rainbow.

According to the BBC, the overlay graphic was run 20 seconds too early. Graham Norton himself went on to parody the incident in his own show by placing a similar banner at the bottom of the screen and having a Dalek exterminate his own cartoon caricature. The episode received widespread acclaim from television critics.

Daniel Martin, writing for The Guardian called it "an astonishing achievement" and "absolutely bloody terrifying".

He praised the way Moffat handled River Song's story, as well as for making it an "intricate romp jammed with ideas that make a truly cinematic piece of drama". Though he commented it "took a while to get going", once it did he thought it had turned into the "first genuine chiller" of the series. Patrick Mulkern, writing for the Radio Times , described the episode as "simply superb television" and claimed that "Matt Smith really is shaping up to be the best Doctor since Tom Baker ", praising him for being "simultaneously intense and subtle".

He thought it started out with "arguably the most impressive opener to any Doctor Who yet" and also praised Amy for being "cheerfully free of the emotional baggage that mired her predecessors" so far. Although he wrote it "never quite matched the relentless tension of 'Blink'", he commented that it was "flawlessly paced and, when it mattered, genuinely scary". SFX magazine reviewer Dave Golder gave the episode five out of five stars, praising it for being "superbly paced, the changes in tone happening gradually and organically".

He also commended the directing and sound effects. Club gave the episode a grade of A-, praising the scary atmosphere and the development of the Weeping Angels. He commented that he was a little "fuzzy" on the Doctor and River Song's relationship, but he expected that he was supposed to be. Pearson Education published a novelisation of this episode and "Flesh and Stone" under the title The Time of Angels by Trevor Baxendale for school literacy programs in May From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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