You’re carrying a torch? They’ll drain the battery, and so on, and so on.Įach successive story runs the risk of making the Weeping Angels a little too powerful, to the point where they’re basically unstoppable. Point a camera at an Angel? It can come crawling out of the monitor.
Find a way to fix your gaze on one and it’ll eventually crawl inside your brain and take over. In response, Moffat made the Angels even more capable. As early as their second appearance in ‘ The Time of Angels’, Steven Moffat was already having to rewrite the rulebook for his beloved baddies, trying to counter all the ways fans had come up with to defeat them in the wake of the phenomenal ‘ Blink’ – well-placed mirrors, shoals of fish, that sort of thing.
Creator Patrick Ness was intending to script an angelic “civil war” if a second series had gotten the go-ahead, which indicates just how tempting a prospect the Angels can be to a writer – every showrunner wants a chance to tackle the Lonely Assassins. If you did stick with it to the end, though, the final episode revealed that the mysterious School Governors at Susan’s old stomping ground were, in reality, Weeping Angels. Remember Class? Nobody would blame you if you didn’t, as Coal Hill Sixth Form’s finest failed to make much of a splash when the show originally landed. Warning: This Doctor Who review contains spoilers.