An Angel in Time

Weeping Angel

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However, Angels are capable of communication, as they often work in groups and clearly communicate with each other. On those occasions when they have chosen to communicate with their prey or foes using the gruesome proxy method mentioned above they have demonstrated a cold and impersonal intelligence, but exhibit no empathy and no emotions beyond hunger, determination, and occasional predatory sadism.

While Angels can recognise individuals in other species when the situation requires it, they themselves speak collectively and appear to have little or no concept of themselves as individuals. Weeping Angels prefer to take their energy from live victims, but if required, they can drain other forms such as that from electric lights as seen in "Blink" or other electronics.

The engine of the vehicle contained enough time energy to feed them forever, but The Doctor stated that the possible damage they could cause "could switch off the sun". Without power, an Angel will start to decay and revert to a stone state even when not being watched.

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While still initially capable of movement, its speed will also be extremely hindered when close to a starvation point as seen in "The Time of Angels" , with its range lessened from meters to a partial step. The effects of starvation can be undone by providing the Angel with energy, but it is implied that Angels can no longer acquire energy themselves in this state. A starving Angel becomes less and less active, and if dormant for too long will erode as a stone statue does, or even lose its physical existence altogether although it can still exist in an image-based or conceptual state.

Weeping Angels have also exhibited a startling ability to project themselves through images, suggesting that they are as much conceptual entities as physical ones. A warning in an ancient book on the Angels, found by River Song , states that "that which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel". Using this ability, the Angels appear to be able to hijack both audio-visual equipment and organic memory. In "The Time of Angels", an Angel trapped in the vault of the starship Byzantium took advantage of a video screen which was playing footage of it elsewhere in the vessel: Weeping Angels can also imprint a mental image of themselves into a person's mind by looking straight into their eyes: Amy Pond was infected in such a manner where an involuntary verbal count-down indicated her remaining open-eyed moments as a human.

She was able to suspend the Angel's gestation but not eliminate it by closing her eyes, refusing to let it breach the 'filter' of her optic nerve. In the novel Touched by an Angel , a starving angel is reduced to the point where it no longer has a physical being, and instead exists in the image viewed by cameras.

As such, whatever is within the sight of the camera is within the range of the angel which retains fast movement, but at the cost of range. Normally, as in " The Time of Angels ", the Angel image would walk right out of the screen; but when it is starving, it cannot do so. To stop movement, simply viewing the screen is enough to lock the angel. The Weeping Angels are well known to Doctor Who companion River Song, who appeared in two of the three major stories to date. Professor River Song has mentioned that she studied the Weeping Angels and wanted to learn more about them.

In the seventh series episode "The Angels Take Manhattan", despite being removed from New York's history, a lone angel gained a small victory in permanently trapping the Doctor's companions, Amy Pond and her husband Rory Williams, in the past. The Angels emerged from the snow-covered ground of a frozen forest during a swirling blizzard; both Clara and the Doctor were thus blinded to their presence, unable to see them as they approached. They were, however, able to escape the angels despite this.

In the ninth series finale episode " Hell Bent ", a Weeping Angel is shown to be in the cloisters of Gallifrey. Sally Sparrow takes the key from one of them while it is in stone form, leading them to stalk Sally to recover it. Eventually, the four Angels, having surrounded the TARDIS, are tricked into looking at each other when the box disappears, leaving them quantum locked in their stone forms forever.

In The End of Time , the President of the Time Lords refers to the two dissenters on the return of Gallifrey as being forced to stand like the weeping angels, and the two Time Lords are posed with their hands over their eyes. In "The Time of Angels", in the distant future, a large group of Weeping Angels have been trapped in a catacomb for centuries, slowly losing their form due to starvation. When a rogue angel causes a starship to crash into the catacomb, the Angels feed off its leaking radiation and revive.

The Weeping Angels are seen moving on-screen for the first time when they realise that Amy Pond cannot see them. They are defeated when they fall into a crack in time and are erased from existence. 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".

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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.

Doctor Matt Smith Eleventh Doctor. Companion Karen Gillan Amy Pond. Retrieved 3 May The Return of the Weeping Angels". Retrieved 5 October Retrieved 27 September Retrieved 27 April He changes the subject, asking River about the last line in the book — it's a rather ominous prophecy: What happens when dreams no longer need dreamers?

When these things have come to pass, the time will be upon us. The Time of Angels. They hear gunfire and return to the main chamber. Cleric Bob has fired at a statue, thinking it looked at him. Octavian berates him, telling Bob that according to the Doctor, they are facing an enemy of unimaginable evil and it would serve them best not to be scared of decor. However, the Doctor insists Bob's fear will keep him alert and fast; "anyone who isn't scared is a moron. Octavian orders Bob to guard the entrance with Christian and Angelo, while he and the four other Clerics join the Doctor's exploration.

As they ascend to the second-to-last level, River tells the Doctor that something's wrong, but doesn't know what. The Doctor's feeling the same. He then tells Amy that they should go meet the Aplans some time; Amy counters that they're dead. I'm on her bowling team. The Doctor explains that the Aplans were a relaxed happy race, and then the Church prevented self-marriage. Examining a statue while Amy points out that divorce of self-marriage must have been messy, the Doctor and River have a terrifying epiphany. As they explain, the Aplans had two heads So why don't the statues? Gathering everyone behind him, the Doctor has them turn off their torchlights.

When they turn back on after a second, all of the statues have turned to face them; every single statue is an Weeping Angel! River wonders how they didn't notice, to which the Doctor says it is either because of a low level perception filter or because they were too thick to notice the oddity. Amy notes how slow the angels are, as they should've had them by now; the Doctor puts this down to starvation after being there for centuries without a supply of energy.

Elsewhere, Cleric Bob gets a call from Angelo over his radio, begging him to come and see something. Angelo becomes increasingly annoyed that Bob won't come, telling him it's something he has to see. Finally, Bob does so, and he's killed by the same Angel.

Back to the Doctor's group, he's deduced the angels are slowly being restored by the radiation leaking from the wreckage; the Byzantium was crashed by the healthy Angel to save its species. Apparently, the Angels caused the extinction of the Aplans by displacing too many of them in time, leaving hardly enough left to reproduce and keep the species alive. Octavian radios Bob to warn him.

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Bob says he's on his way and that the others are dead; the Angels have broken their necks. The Doctor is surprised; Angels normally displace their victims in time, unless they need bodies for something. He asks Bob how he got away, but Bob explains the Angel killed him as well. River and Amy share a grim stare. The Doctor asks how he can be talking to him, and learns that the Angels stripped the cerebral cortex from Bob and reanimated a copy of his consciousness to speak to them as it cannot speak their language.

When Bob said that "he" is on his way, he really meant the Angel. The group flees to the Byzantium while the Doctor chats with Bob, confirming he is speaking to the original Angel; thus as it's not in the ship, it's the safest place.. As the Doctor runs to join the others, he finds Amy frozen in the corridor.

She tells the Doctor that, because she looked into the Angel's eyes earlier, her hand has turned to stone. He must leave her. Her hand is not stone, though, and it's just the Weeping Angels playing with her mind. As the lights in the cavern flicker and the Angels approach, the Doctor apologises, but Amy tells him she understands why he must leave her; he doesn't mean for that , and bites her hand, taking her out of the trance.

They meet up with the others, who are standing on a rocky ledge some fifty feet beneath the Byzantium wreckage; they're trapped. He says there is nowhere for the Doctor to go and the Angels will kill them all. The Angels are also keen to have him know that the real Bob was afraid when he died; the Doctor had assured Bob that his fear would keep him fast, but he died alone and afraid.

They are trying to make the Doctor angry, and angering the Doctor is a very bad move. The Doctor tells Bob that he's sorry for his death, promising what's left of him that the Angels will pay. But they're trapped with no chance of escape. The Doctor tells Bob that there is something wrong with the trap: He asks the group if they trust him.

He takes Octavian's sidearm and orders them to jump on his signal. The Doctor warns the Angels, "There's one thing you never put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Sign In Don't have an account?

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