Billy Shipton's deathbed scene was very moving, very sincere. It pulled off an emotional effect that is very hard to achieve.
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Billy Shipton's deathbed scene was very moving, very sincere. It pulled off an emotional effect that is very hard to achieve.
Returning monsters are always tricky: either you change things too much and what was interesting about the original appearance is lost, or you don't change enough and then you're retreading. I think this is even harder with non-intelligent monsters (which the Angels kind of are), since it's not like they can devise new plans. (This is why I get really aggravated when Big Finish brings back things like the Wirrn and the Krynoid.)
Anyway, even when the Moff repeats himself ("Silence in the Library"), it turns out average at least, so I'll wait and see.
Anyway, even when the Moff repeats himself ("Silence in the Library"), it turns out average at least, so I'll wait and see.
How do the Weeping Angels count as "non-intelligent"?
^Well the Doctor did say they were assasins didn't he? Then again you could train a dog to attack people so they may be little more than animals. Yes they wanted the TARDIS but that was no different to a the aforementioned attack dogs being drawn to a bucket of raw meat. I'm not sure we know either way, very little in Blink suggested consious thought or planning on their behalf, but we don't know they're unintelligent either. If they are sentient then it's obviously a very alien intelligence that they have. Personally I hope they come back ala Blink (and given the comments about caves and bits of statues the notion of weeping angels stalking a group of people in caves does sound quite mouth watering.) The last thing I'd want to see is a Weeping Angel "queen" or the Doctor talking to the Angels.
Don't think it would be any of that as the angels are merciless (hence their excellence as assassins). Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't BLINK.
The way Blink ended left the series open to the return of the angels. It's almost like the Vashdanarada (sp?). Can't reason with them, just get away as quickly as possible.
Like I said, *almost*. Plus, the Vashdanarada were dangerous only in great numbers, whereas the Angels are quite deadly on their own.
That's not really true, though, is it? The Doctor meeting and directly defeating Weeping Angels is something we've never seen.
We haven't seen their home planet either, we don't know what their society looks like, and for all we know, the only Weeping Angels we've seen are nothing like your average, vanilla Joe Weeping.
In other words they'd have to be changed completely to use them again.
Easily, as long as he never met an old version of the companion. The Doctor even told Billy that he'd have given him a ride back to his own time if he'd had his TARDIS. But once he used Billy to take the message to Sally, and then Sally used this message to get word to the Doctor...then Billy was stuck in the timeline and the Doctor couldn't take save him lest things unravel.
But a companion touched by an angel could be rescued via the TARDIS, if the Doc did so immediately.
Martha would not have survived "the long road" back, or at the very least would have been an elderly woman who'd wasted her life hanging out in some library with the Doctor while they waited until it was 2005 again...and then they'd still have the angels to deal with! Remember that they'd need to grab the TARDIS from AFTER they originally got touched, not before. So you are at a major disadvantage, considering another touch could put you back in 1908 or 1876 or some other distant time.
I feel a bit of a Christmas grinch now for not being as jazzed about this as everyone else seems to be
No, I'm not really excited about this either. Blink was an awesome episodes, but I agree the Angels don't seem like a compelling recurring villain.
Still, I'll wait and see.
No, me three. They could do with not being overused.
Dammit, the mere mention of them had me checking to see if I could avoid blinking by winking alternate eyes.
And no, I can't
And no, I can't
Would a television camera trained onto a Weeping Angel work just as well as human eyes, or does there need to be a sentient intellect involved?
