Goddamn you sons of bitches.
What the hell is wrong with you? Just as Im getting over my irrational fear of statues, that you caused, you air another weeping Angels episode?
I don’t have irrational fears, I just don’t. But you, you’ve somehow managed to create an irrational fear of fucking STATUES in me twice, you sick sadistic bastards.
Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t read this thread.
Steven Moffat is an evil man. Absolutely brilliant, but completely fucking evil.
Moved from the Pit to Cafe Society.
I didn’t really like this one so much. Now the angels can climb out of TV screens, take over your mind, and turn out lights with their psychic powers or whatever. How the hell do they work?!? Is there anything they can’t do when they’re not being looked at?
No.
This was actually intended as a pitting. A mild one, but a pitting no less.
They work by making you so scared you poo yourself, and they can’t be nice and cuddly.
pffft big deal. They throw you into the past. Not like they’re killing you.
Sure, you lose out on your current life, connections and future. But you’re in the past, where you should at least be able to benefit a little bit from knowledge of the future, assuming you’ve got any part of an actual intellect.
The newer ones apparently do worse stuff.
Yeah, these newer ones break your neck. Oh what’s that? Weeping Angels are meant to feed off your temporal energy, sending you back in time so you end up living to death?
No, not these ones. Yeah, that’s what they were doing last time, but now they’re doing something different. Next time we see them they’ll kill you by turning you into statues too. Or drowning you. Or stabbing you. Or indeed doing whatever it takes to remove any trace of distinctive style they can possibly have, until they become part of the Great Collective Of Generic Aliens Who Do Bad Things To You And Are Bad But Are Helpfully Stopped By Whatever It Is That A Sonic Screwdriver Can Do This Week.
And that was an episode I actually liked.
Those cracks. Watch those cracks or you may just cease to exist.
Although in the UK, I’m about a week behind in following the series so I’ll post the observation here:
I did like the touch that, while the gimmick in Blink is that the statues have to be looked at, the constraint in the second half of their appearance in this series becomes:
Amy can’t open her eyes.
As with Coupling, Moffet likes playing with the format.
Okay, so I’ve never seen a single episode of Doctor Who.
I just watched this clip just to see what all the fuss is about.
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Sleep? Who needs that?
Clip won’t play for whatever reason.
But I more or less get what you’re saying, I rationally knew that the statues weren’t going to do anything horrific to me after seeking the first weeping angels episode, but I still didn’t want to blink when I was alone in a room or area with one.
But now, they apparently break your fucking legs and disembody your soul (or something). And they look so peaceful and sweet until the fucking things go all horrific on you.
Fangs, seriously?!?! why do statues need FANGS?!?! Oh, that’s right, to scare the shit out of todderbob. I understand now.
I thought the ending of Blink was brilliant, after introducing and defeating the Weeping Angels, the show closes with footage of ?statues?, implying that it’s possible that any one of them (or even all of them) could be “Angels”…
…now, where’d I put that jackhammer?..
I was walking the new baby at four a.m. the night after seeing the fist recent Angels episode. I became convinced one of the decayed ones was coming up the stairs for me. The basement stairs- the dark, creepy ones.
The decayed Angels combine my fear of statues with my fear of zombies. Dammit.
…if you can, watch the whole episode if you can find it. “Blink” is one of the greatest examples of science fiction ever put to screen: and its scary to boot.
I was so disappointed when they started shooting at them. At least it didn’t do any good, but I thought that was the first step into turning them into generic violent alien monsters. The simplicity of how they worked was what made Blink so damn scary. Changing the mythology cheapened both episodes. Why couldn’t they have had a different monster, who killed people and got inside their heads, preventing them from opening their eyes? The bit where Amy was left alone with her eyes shut was brilliant, but they didn’t really need Angels to get there.
I still love Steven Moffat, but I think the two River Song episodes are him being so enamoured with his own brilliance that he forgot to make sense.
</grouchy Weeping Angels purist>
Er…the US hasn’t seen the second half yet.
As a US citizen, and resident, I haven’t seen it yet.
But, in the title, right there in brackets… Spoilers. Don’t read, if you don’t want to know.