Both "Blink" and "The Girl in the Fireplace" are fantastic standalone episodes and I love that they focus on the lives of people who are just sort of sucked into the Doctor's world of monsters and time travel. The weeping angels are terrifying in the way they're portrayed in "Blink," and what an ingenious idea for a monster! Quantum-locked creatures who literally turn to stone. Having watched the other weeping angel episodes from later seasons, though, the angels are probably the kindest monsters in the sense that they just zap you back in time and let you live to death. For example, as heartbreaking as "The Angels Take Manhattan" was, that was the kindest way, I think, for Moffat to end Amy and Rory's storyline, especially compared to the way that some of the other companions' time with the Doctor ended, like in "Doomsday" with Rose or "Journey's End" with Donna.
Truthfully, I think I'd be more terrified if faced with a dalek or a cyberman or a clockwork repair drone with a broken ship.
Side note: for those of you who have seen The End of Time (spoilers for those who haven't) there's a scene where the two time lords (time ladies?) who opposed Rassilon's plan to take over Earth to escape the time war become the first weeping angels. I was just wondering what you thought about how the angels could have originated there as all the time lords were thrown back into the time lock at the end of the episode.
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ReplyDeleteI do agree in regards to it being the kindest way to say goodbye to the Ponds and make room for a new companion. However, "The Angels Take Manhattan" is legitimately the only episode of Doctor Who that I have no intention of ever watching again, because it caused my physical pain. Also, "we can't go back and get them because you know stuff" was the icing on the despair-flavored cake.
All I can think of with the Time Lord origin of the Weeping Angels is that orcs used to be elves.