Either way, it’s a fact that becomes terrifying to any Doctor Who fan with a postcard of the Statue of Liberty stuck to the door of their fridge.Ī natural extension of that rule gets to the next rule: you stare at an Angel too long, you create an image of it in your mind. The rules on Angel individuation are a bit murky. Images become how Angels reproduce, or teleport. Next, as established in 2010’s ‘ The Time of Angels,’ “that which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel.” If you view an Angel on CCTV or videotape recording, it’s still being perceived. Sometimes, however, the Angel will just break your neck. ‘ Village of the Angels’ also establishes that you will die if an Angel feeds on you twice, which is bad news for Rory Williams. If it gets you, it sends you backwards in time – usually back far enough in time that you will die of natural causes before you encounter yourself (although ‘Village’ breaks this rule with Peggy). When you aren’t looking at it, it moves incredibly fast. The basic rule is the one everyone knows: when you look at a Weeping Angel, it turns to stone, it cannot move, it also cannot be harmed. The Law of the Angelsīefore we go into what the Angels are, let’s look at how they work, a subject which ‘ Village’ looked at far more closely than Moffat, because frankly, Moffat was never above skipping quickly past something that might not bear up to close examination. But it also starts asking questions about the Angels that Moffat worked very hard to skip over. It does this partly by putting the Angels in a folk-horror-ish English village setting for which they are a terrifyingly natural fit. ‘Village of the Angels’ has to work hard to justify itself.

Barring a couple of cameos, we didn’t see the Angels again in his tenure. ‘ The Angels Take Manhattan’ showed us what happened when the Angels won, with a New York hotel turned into a Weeping Angels battery farm.Īfter that story, Moffat declared he was resting the Weeping Angels, and he stuck to that. ‘ The Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone’ gave them the Aliens treatment (more of them, and now they’re fighting people with guns). ‘Blink’ established the rules for Angels. Moffat’s trilogy of stories pretty covered all the bases. To be honest, even attempting another Weeping Angels episode is a pretty brave feat in itself. The Weeping Angels are back, and they are not playing. Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux Chapter 4 ‘Village of the Angels’

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