The Weeping Angels Return | Behind the Scenes | Doctor Who: Flux 

Weird thing is I couldn't picture it happening to any other version of the Doctor... maybe 6, but there's something about Jodie's reactions to it that make it iconic for her.

@@DokkaChapman I agree. In the scene where she is talking to the rogue angel, the hatred she has for them is palpable - understandable, given her history with them and how much they have hurt her in the past, but that kind of species-specific antagonism is rare in this Doctor, it's usually reserved for villains on the level of Daleks, you can tell she feels very strongly about them. Seeing that kind of repulsion she has for them in the scene before, you know it's going to hit her particularly hard when she turned into one; the thoughts running through her head as she transformed must have been terrible.

Then she turned straight back…

I half agree with you. It WILL be IF the pay-off over the next two episodes is worth it. I am hopeful though.

I suspect the original idea of the Weeping Angels in the village, Jericho and the missing girl was Maxine. I also suspect this started out as a standalone episode before the COVID-19 restrictions forced Chibnall to tie it into the Flux storyline

But they will go near you;)

Have you counted the gravestones?

You might want to count them every once in a while... Never know that one could go missing...

No one ever does

Rory survived it twice, but then again Rory survives everything.

@@AnotherScifiGuy I always thought that undoing the paradox reset Rory's first sending back into time, so his second time was his first because of timey-wimey stuff (Or we could always just forget that, because Rory lore overrides every other piece of Doctor Who lore because Rory is king :D)

I also love how it actually makes sense After you've been attacked once, all your life energy's already been eaten, so you wouldn't be able to go back in time again

What's the point in being alive?

@@N3groN3rdZ he’s getting good at this

I want to see Dan smashing one with his wok next episode

And Claire wiping the dust out of her eye; I worried that that would happen before it actually did. I had a feeling this episode would be amazing as Maxine co-wrote it (having wrote The Haunting of Villa Diodati with the Lone Cyberman), and I was right.

@@memassivbeast I hope Maxine aiderton write in series 14

@@charlesfranze3571 I hope she does.

Was that pun intentional??!! 😂😆

Agreed

Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone were way better...

@@Nick7901962 no i dont think so cos thats when they came up with the whole 'whatever holds the image of an angel is an angel' thing and i think that was just unnecessary. Also, i didnt like the angels moving cos the whole mystery for me about them was what they looked like when moving because we didnt know if they stayed looking like an angel while moving. And 'angels are quick. Quicker than you know' so why did they move so slowly?

Definitely Yes

@@Nick7901962 they were good but I didn’t like the idea of seeing the angels move. I just think the angels in this episode were more scarier and more chilling

Her best episode and series so far.

I lost count the number of times I went "Oh no!" at a... sticky situation, or the cliffhanger.

Yes, thank you to all, this episode and indeed the entire season has been a fantastic piece of work so far❤

The prevailing theory I've seen, that I think is most likely, is that she's only been temporarily transformed as a way of restraining her until she's taken to the Division, where they'll turn her back for the face-to-face confrontation we've been waiting for. Whatever happens though, this is all super exciting and I have never wanted next week more than I do now.

@@BlueSparxLPs Same here. I can't wait until the next episode.

What d’ya think?

@@raphnotryry Satisfying ending, I say. It's a mix between Chibnall's own idea and the complaints from the fans. I'm happy.

Same

Not necessarily. I thought that too until I guessed that The Division employed more species. I mean, Karvanista is a member, he's Lupari.

Not really, no. But I can see why people would immediately think that. I still think weeping angels are their own species but it seems that they can also make other beings into weeping angels (they're not the first monster to turn other creatures/humans into their own kind) as we can see with Claire. Makes them a bit more dangerous now that there's more to the list of abilities they can do.

@@poorsmolchildissmol Claire Oswald? 🤔

Never expanding their lore would also cause them to stagnate even if stories with them are few, though. There's a balance to strike and you severely limit the number of stories you can tell if you go in with the idea that you cannot expand any further. This episode used all of the lore to great effect and added a tiny bit more that didn't hurt their status at all.

@@BlueSparxLPs If stories of them are few, which they should be, the risk of stagnation hardly becomes an issue. The biggest draw in of the Weeping Angels is their mystery and lack of explained background. If your story requires explained lore of the villain then the episode is clearly not interesting enough by itself, examples being this episode. Moffat did it well by simply expanding to their 'arsenal' by allowing them to simply kill, allowing them to steal peoples voices after having killed them and talk through technology, not being able to stare in their eyes for too long, and allowing them to impersonate images of themselves but also flopped by allowing them to move on camera and by turning the Statue of Liberty into one. He never tried explaining anything further other than adding to their abilities. Now Chibnall has given them the ability to simply just talk whenever they want without the need for technology or even killing anybody. On top of having them now work for (such a terrible idea) a new mysterious organisation where they don't even act freely as "scavengers" as they once were. It removes their mystery and individuality having them work for somebody else. Also giving them the addition to explode people after having touched them twice goes against old stories such as the Manhattan one where they literally built a farm where they could keep touching people. That sounds pretty weird when I type it out tbh. Also having them constantly cover their eyes when hunting makes no sense. It's like he never even watched the older episodes before writing for them.

Agreed, so glad he was dedicated enough to go for that 16th take for the perfect shot he needed and the vision he had of it being one wrap around shot, so much more effective than the script called for. What an amazing director!

That's my strategy

Or wear mirrored sunglasses

Like Vashdanerada?

Nah thatgaydangernoodle was first

Sorry ur not :)

yeah

me