The Weeping Angels are definitely one of the coolest Doctor Who villains. A truly horrifying creature that deals more psychological damage than physical.
A good Weeping Angel story will be clever, scary and leave you wanting more.
Sadly, this does the opposite.
Great villains are ruined by zero tension. The constant changes of scenes remove any possible horror and fear that you might have whilst watching this episode.
It’s another episode that is filled with random events that don’t or won’t matter. Yaz and Dan get sent off to another year where we forget about them. (This may set up for the next episode, but it still proves my point that this series should not be 6 episodes long, and instead be 3 and just written better).
The Doctor continues to talk and talk and talk.
The dumbest coincidences the show has ever seen appear in this episode, to the point where you just want to laugh.
A torn up piece of paper magically repairing itself and a polygraph test drawing a picture of an angel. It’s things like this that completely remove any horror and just make you laugh at it. I remember being terrified of the Weeping Angels but this time you just gotta sigh and think of what used to be.
The strangest ideas that ruin the mood rather than add to it.
You could argue the angels are doing those things, and I’d agree that it certainly could be possible, but why?
Why give the angels the ability to do this?
Why not just have the angels be the angels? Why add more to something that was so brilliant in the first place?
The above line is about the entirety of Chris Chibnall Doctor Who.
When he writes a script, he has an end in mind, but instead of trying to figure out how to reach it using logic the show has established, he will reach his end by breaking it apart and stomping it until it dies a painful death.
Why couldn’t the angels just turn the Doctor to stone if it was so easy?
And sure, ‘they hadn’t made the deal yet’. Well, why hadn’t they? Why hadn’t that angel sold out the Doctor as soon as the Doctor arrived? The whole reason being ‘toying’ seems so forced. Could they not think of any other reason to make the episode longer than 2 seconds?
Some last-minute thoughts, Vinder still isn’t important, same with his girlfriend. The villains seem so unbeatable that it feels like we’ll be getting a terrible ending that will result in the Doctor talking them out of being villains.
But, that’s all for this week. Two episodes left so let’s get something good.
We want to see actual consequences. Actual tension and drama.
One of the easiest ways to do this is to remove the ‘Next Time’ after the credits. If you don’t watch the ‘Next Time’ and just watch the episodes, you’ll probably enjoy it a little more, because you won’t be reminded that none of what just occurred didn’t matter.
I’ll give it one good comment. The end was interesting, I have no idea how they’ll save the Doctor.
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