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It's going to be shit.
1. The Weeping Angels immediately became one of the most popular monsters in Doctor Who's history due to their clever and unique powers. They're portrayed by people in grey paint, and sometimes by bits of polystyrine. The production team still think fleets of CGI spaceships are a good idea, for some reason.
2. The name "Weeping Angels" was coined by the ancient Time Lords, as "The statues that can't move and don't kill you" wasn't pretentious enough for the people who brought us "The Medusa Cascade" (a big splodgey thing), "The Untempered Schism" (a hole with some blue bits) and "The Great Key of Rassilon" (a gun with enough power to kill a single Sontaran before disassembling itself and erasing the user's memory, which at least explains why it really is Gallifrey's last line of defense).
3. If they really believe in themselves, however, the Angels can move in plain sight and go around nonchalantly snapping people's necks, raising the question of why they were even in that story to begin with.
4. The sight of Matt Smith surrounded by Angels, narrowing his eyes and declaring 'There's one thing you should never, ever put in a trap... me!' makes the 'Make the foundation of this society a man who never would' scene from The Doctor's Daughter" seem a lot better in retrospect.
5. Similarly, the sheer desperation with which Steven Moffat gives the Angels new, often contradictory powers on a whim makes "The Vashta Nerada live in trees, and books are made of paper which comes from trees, so this library is a forest OF DEATH" look aesthetically and logically coherent.
6. And they're still more consistently written than Amy.
7. The letter J is forbidden in the Weeping Angel alphabet.
8. If the Angels are "Quantum Locked", then perceiving them through any sense should freeze them, not just sight, making them one of the few galactic menaces that would be rendered utterly helpless after a bad curry.
9. They're not as shit as the Toclafane.
10. My last girlfriend probably still likes them.
11. If you're ever cornered by a Weeping Angel, you can instantly escape by travelling back in time and helping yourself escape in order to travel back in time and help yourself escape. This will "finally" result in "a story with genuine intellectual complexity", according to Gallifrey Base and absolutely nobody else.
12. An image of an angel is capable of transforming itself into an actual angel by manipulating the way in which a conscious observer affects matter, which sounds like an interesting and creepy idea for a story until you actually watch it.
Posted by Richie on June 13, 2009
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