Oh, now, hang on, that’s so unfair!ª
Tonight’s stunner of a Dr Who is the first half of two!
It’s a ‘To Be Continued’!!
Don’t you just hate that … ?
But I will say this: Smith, Gillan and Moffat have pulled a stonker out of the hat!!
Along with some returning old friends … !
Because tonights’s episode, The Time of Angels, is even better than last week’s Victory of the Daleks.
It sees the Doctor summoned by his future wife/widow* Doctor — at this stage in her life — River Songº.
To the wreck of a ship called the Byzantium.
A wreck with something else in the hold that the Doctor’s met in a previous life …
A Weeping Angel.
And there’s a very good suggestion that the Angel’s up to something more than just sitting in the hold, waiting for the right moment to scare someone … !
Actually, the major scare in tonight’s episode is where Amy is confronted by a video clip of the Weeping Angel in the Byzantium’s cargo hold.
A video clip!
Ever been scared that the hideous horrible thing on the TV screen is going to come and get you?
Well … ?
Have you?
Well …
That’s was a heck of a thing … !
I thing Stephen Moffat’s just hit his stride: the Weeping Angels are his babies, if anyone’s.
And I think we’ve something of a classic, here …
Let’s hope Flesh and Stone carries it on.
º Played, as in the Silence in the Library two-parter, by the returning Alex Kingston. And with a great deal of relish, as well.
ª Anybody mentioning Kevin the Teenager will be given a meaningful Look … !
Hi there,
ReplyDeletePersonally I would say that Weeping Angels was one of the best episodes of this series.
You have mentioned the part where Amy Pond looked at the screen, I would say that this was fantastic in the way the Weeping Angel appeared on the screen.
Everything you have wrote was correct and brilliant.