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Post by runtpuppy on Apr 2, 2014 19:25:45 GMT
So, I believe most people here have seen Blink and have seen how the Doctor foiled the weeping angels' dastardly plan by making them look at each other. As he explained, the angels have the ultimate defence mechanism where they turn to stone when anyone looks at them, even if it is another angel. What I want to know is - How come 4 angels looking at each other turns them into stone but a huge hall full of angels in 'Time of the Angels' and 'Flesh and Stone' does not? What was different about these Angels?!
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Post by Moose on Apr 2, 2014 19:40:36 GMT
I have wondered this also. I also found it highly improbably that Amy was NOT touched and managed to walk though them with her eyes closed. The Doctor said 'they will presume you can see them'.. how silly is that? I suppose that in Flesh and Stone, at first at least, the Angels were damaged and weren't back to their full power as it were but they cetainly were later on in that two parter.
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Post by runtpuppy on Apr 2, 2014 20:25:36 GMT
Yes! I never realised that! The angels were following Amy. There was nothing stopping them from touching her. Even if they didn't know she had her eyes closed, they were still all around her. Why didn't they just reach out and send her to Vincent :^)
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Post by Moose on Apr 2, 2014 20:32:13 GMT
LOL that would have been quite something but alas I don't think that people got to choose their destination - tho it is hinted previously and in later episodes with the Angels (no-one give away spoilers please as runt has not see them all  that if you are touched by the same angel as someone else you wind up in the same time and place. |
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Post by runtpuppy on Apr 2, 2014 21:00:51 GMT
Well, I just said Vincent coz that seemed to be the best place for her in the past  AND we'd have more of his paintings *sigh* But that's interesting... so if Sparrow HAD been touched by the Angel in the house that touched her friend, she'd have gone straight to her? |
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Post by Moose on Apr 2, 2014 21:34:03 GMT
That seems to be the implication ... the Doctor and Martha wound up in the same place as Billy, for instance, and he (the Doctor) said 'same one probably, since you've ended up in the same year'. There are later episodes that suggest the same thing but wait till you've seen them and no-one spoil them for her please  . What I don't really get is how Cathy wound up being touched and transported whereas Sally managed to meander around upstairs for ages and not be. That was not terribly realistic. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 2, 2014 22:36:23 GMT
I find the angels thing very borderline. I know a lot of people like them and I think blink is a good episode, although for other reasons.
1) People spend a lot of time running directly away from the Angels, at which point they are not looking at them and they'd be free to catch up as fast as they could.
2) It would only matter if everyone blinked at the same time. As long as someone in the group has their eyes open, then everyone else is free to close theirs.
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Post by runtpuppy on Apr 3, 2014 19:57:09 GMT
Yeah, I think the angels have a lot of glaring loopholes, but Blink was a brilliant episode simply coz my mother and I were clutching each other's hands and going 'omigod omigod omigod' while my husband laughed |
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 3, 2014 21:19:51 GMT
I like the simplicity of the idea. I think that was one area where the original stuff worked. They didn't have the budget to get bogged down trying to make things realistic or slick like they do with everything these days. They just got on and put it together. I think some of the recent stuff suffers because they've tried to create something around a clever idea, at which point the plot and interest end up taking a back seat.
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Post by Moose on Apr 4, 2014 17:35:52 GMT
i dunno - I would have said that they always had a big budget right from the start .. ti was clear that the BBC was going all out to make the new Who a succcess. I agree that they do tend to draw storylines and ideas out for far too long tho
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 5, 2014 18:28:48 GMT
...and yet they still made the Peter Kay episode!  |
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Post by Moose on Apr 6, 2014 20:34:54 GMT
Hmm I did not like that the first time I saw it. The second time I thought it was a bit better but still not at all a favourite or one that I would watch voluntarily again. It's weird because Blink also does not feature much of the Doctor and yet that is a wonderful episode. The Peter Kay episode, whose name I can't even remember, just really .. lacked a good deal.
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Post by Lorien on Apr 6, 2014 20:37:28 GMT
Never thought that hard about it, but I do have to add the the music in Blink is AMAZING!
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Post by Moose on Apr 6, 2014 20:43:53 GMT
Hi Loreen and welcome . Yeah I might watch it again this evening... it's great all round |
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that if you are touched by the same angel as someone else you wind up in the same time and place.
AND we'd have more of his paintings *sigh* But that's interesting... so if Sparrow HAD been touched by the Angel in the house that touched her friend, she'd have gone straight to her?
. What I don't really get is how Cathy wound up being touched and transported whereas Sally managed to meander around upstairs for ages and not be. That was not terribly realistic.
