Thats the reason they were scary, the fact that such an icon of purity was used as a remorseless killing machine, also the fact that you are not able to observe it's behaviour adding to the fear of the unknown, or being capable of communicating with it
Not sure if 173 can fall under the same effect of being locked when being looked by another statue. But seeing as how even 682 was afraid of it, you can say 173 has immense physical power and invulnerability.
Maki Marquez Dr warmedics notes read as follows,'SCP neutralization attempt Subject:scp173 SCP 173 put in expirament chamber KEC-198342 Weeping angel placed in chamber Several hours later lights started flickering and a emergency halt of expirament was ordered by Dr.warmedic and on site security and containment staff succsesfully recontained SCP 173 On [REDACTED] at site [REDACTED] there was a blackout ,Weeping Angel 1285 escaped killing researcher daymond, researcher hammers and researcher Benromy Weeping Angel 1285 still at large
When I was younger I actually woke up one night and saw one a few feet away from my bed. Obviously it wasn’t real, it turned out to just be a a grey hoodie crumpled on a concrete floor. I’m still petrified of them.
Thanks for doing these guys. They are probably the most interesting and terrifying sci-fi creatures in existence. If not for the doctors they would easily cause the extermination of all life in the universe. You should do the Silence aliens as well, they are another very interesting doctor who creature
i think i speak for everyone when i say that the weeping angels aint shit compared to the vastion naroda aka shadow parhanna i mean come on they have to be the most op monster in doctor who plus there on earth according to the doctor and i quote "not everyone come back out of the dark" literally made me scared of the dark again but after seeing blink i keep my distance from statue's
These creatures alongside with the water from mars creatures scared the living daylight out of me when I was a kid. Even make me jump a bit today when I watch a past episode of doctor who with them in it. I'm really glad you did a video about these creatures.
Even though the science behind the Angels is laughably stupid (observation in a quantum sense doesn't mean "looking" at it), the way they are portrayed is really frightening. It plays off the fear of the unknown as you can never see them act and that creates a gap between the reality of danger and the supposed harmlessness of a statue. Terrifying indeed.
kittysplode I love how you offend people in such a kind way by considering anyone who doesn’t understand an extremely complicated topic regarded. Have a good year
I always just assumed there was a bit more going on there and this was just a conveniently easy way to explain it. Something like them being partly spiritual creatures, so the "quantum lock" would be more a "spirit-quantum locking" and refers to them being observed by an entity with a spirit/soul as well. Which is why more mundane physics "observation" actions (such as interaction with other particles and so on) wouldn't count in this sense.
I read somewhere that one of the episodes tht featured the Weeping Angels broke the fourth wall in a pretty meta way. As we all know, they stop existing if someone sees them, but there were a couple shots that featured an Angel or 2 but with nobody else in the room to watch them. That's because *we* can see them. The audience is looking at the Weeping Angel and that's why it's still in its statue form
I wonder if there is a certain type of Tier of weapons that can actually harm them, doesn't have to be just normal level human made or something like that.
A sledgehammer is a temporary solution, yes. It will buy you enough time to get away. But the Angels sustain themselves on ambient radiation, as seen in The Time Of Angels, and can heal from just being exposed to radiation for a long enough period.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache well bullets didn't have much effect so I doubt a sledgehammer is gonna do much else I guess u could push them over but whatever
The weeping angels are genuinely the most terrifying creatures that have ever appeared on Doctor Who. They're simple and common, but at the same time, what they're capable of doing is unexpected, that exactly what makes them frightening, especially in the episode "Blink".
Thank you for covering this! I'm a massive Doctor Who fan, and this has delighted me as a recent find. Whilst being at the Doctor a Who Experience in Cardiff in Whales, I also found out that due to the loss of sight and not being able to see anything directly, Weeping angels can also move in the loss of light, though I feel like that was seen in the Tenth Doctor episode and the episode featuring Matt Smith and Karen Gillian
That exact episode is how my best friend introduced me to Doctor Who. It was confusing and trippy but the show is great. Then again, I love weird and monstrous creatures. I'm so glad you're expanding into different shows!
Eeep! So happy that you covered these aliens! One of my favourite Doctor Who villians! Plus introduced us to wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff :3 great video!
I love the Weeping Angels. I visited Russia and my best friend introduce me to the series. We would spend many hours watching all the seasons. There were 5 at a time. Such an amazing series. I'm going to rewatch the new Doctor Who from Season 1 soon. I also loved those gas mask zombies. They chilled me to the bone.
To this day these episodes are the scariest entities in the whole show besides maybe the silence. Anytime me and my friends watch doctor who, we’d watch these episodes for some good scares
Could you take a look at "The Beast" from the DW episodes, 'The Impossible Planet' and 'The Satan Pit'? Those two are among my favourite DW episodes ever and I have always been intrigued by "The Beast" from the way he possesses Tobias Zed and the Ood to his physical form and his personal history, plus the episodes don't explain too much about him. This would be very much appreciated and keep up the good work, I absolutely love your channel!
These things are terrifying, but the Batman version that was in Batman: Arkham Knight was 10x more scary. How would you like it if the weeping angels were actually all Batman statues? Yeah I know right?
What really makes weeping angels a stroke of genius is how perfectly they fit to the medium they are used in. Problem with Doctor Who, just like many other sci-fi and fantasy series is that creating creatures out of this world isn't cheap. And what if the whole premise of the show is that almost every adventure happens in different point of time and different place in whole universe? Yeah, it's going to require some creativity and heavy compromises if you want to do justice for such ambitious idea. But what if there was nearly immortal and invulnerable race that required zero animation because they simply don't exist when anyone sees them. They could be in any point of time and any place and since they eat time energy any encounter with them anywhere is already justified when protagonists dabbles in time travel and no matter what's the scenario, making them won't cost much so the team can go crazy with remaining budget. And as added plus they tap to some of our most primal fears and thus will be almost universally effective as horror creatures so they won't be hard to market for wider audience. It's amazing how such simple concept can have so many positive qualities
I really awesome touch with the Angels: they also never move if WE are looking at them! If you pay attention they also only move when the audience can't see them.
Watched this whole video while only blinking with one eye a time, while also waiting inbetween, as to not leave a period of accidental blinking. My god is it exhausting, but suffice to say there's some endgame strats to be had.
Hello! I have a request for a topic in the future! Could you possibly do a bit on the Sand People, or Tuskan Raiders, from Star Wars? I don't know much about them, but I think you can help me better understand this underrated part of Star Wars Lore.
My entire knoledge of DR. Who is specificaly only from this channel!!! I dont think i could dedicate the time for another series, easier to figure it out here.
No Fred you must watch it! Dont just rely on me, its soo good. lol I started watching season one when I was 7 and have been in love with the series since!
FilmComicsExplained well if its suggested by you i guess i gotta check it out! Hope this doesnt mean i forget daylight for the next 2.5 months of addictive screen time...
Ya missed a key point of the creators that added to the angels... They are locked in place when someone views them.. even those watching the episode!!! It breaks the fourth wall and all but it's pretty damn amazing!! Why ya never see them really move on the show. We see them as well ;) when the lights go out and on... Or when it cuts to a character and back.. they move :)
This is so similar to the SCP statue thing but worse. This time there's more than one. I gotta say you are too good for this keep up the good work as always
Every time I see an angel statue now, or any statue, my heart races. I'm 16! Seeing statues shouldn't scare me! I think I may have developed an actual fear of statues since I was 10. Thanks Dr Who for ruining my childhood! (I do still love Dr Who though.)
Wasn't there also some ability they had that when you look into their eyes, they can create an image of an angel in your mind that manipulates you, like, make you count down the seconds to your death? And when it is fully grown, it basically pops out of your head, killing you?
They’re fucking scary the weeping angels!!!! They are the apitimy of scary well jump scares which are the worst kind!!!! And I thought angels that didn’t move were scary!!!
I started watching the New Dr. Who series back in late 2012, and to say the least, the Weeping Angels actually are terrifying. I can't remember the name of the episode in which this young lady was transported back in time when she and a friend were inside a house, that's when the angels moved--in secrecy ofcourse--and transported the girl in time, and at the same time a knock on the door was heard. While the other girl still in present time, answered, a middle aged man gave her a letter from her friend who was transported back and the guy happened to be the grandson of her friend. It was then, the angels were scary AF.
Some advices for fighting weeping angles... 1) You might want to tell other people what you are doing...just in case that you do not make it. Would be a pitty if the next guy dies because you did not warn him would it not? 2) Bring some Friends. The more the merrier. Blinking becomes a none issue if you are not the only one staring at the angle 3) If you can chose the time when to fight them. Day would be good. 4) If you need to fight them at night. Organice yourself light sources. Note the plural. You want to have more then one. You might also want to have non electricity based.. because they kind of tend to drain these. 5) Once you have successfully freeced an angle .. do not turn away and run. Now is time to experiment. The question we all need to know is. What happens with the angle if it turns into stone and you smash the stone statue into pieces with a sledgehammer. 6) If you do get thrown 50 years into the past... then PLEASE use the 50 years preparation time you just got to prepare some REALLY nastly suprise for the angle. I mean you know exactly when and where that thing is going to be...so it should not be SO hard to organice a little present for it.
I'm not a doctor who fan, and after watching this I have cvome up with a solution to beat them. Niyat said that if you can trick them into looking at each other they become trapped. My plan only requires two people. One person to simply watch over the statues, and another to move them. The guy moving them just positions them to be staring directly at each other. If my understanding is correct that should take care of them.
It sad that they are called the lonely assassin's with them being lonely and unable to at each other even though they will be locked in places and all that who agree with me on that
Never watched much Doctor Who, to date i've seen 3 episodes. Silence In The Library pt1 and 2, and the episode that came after which i think was called A Midnight Ride. I watched silence in the library after hearing about a creature in the series called the Vashta Narada.
i was literally watching that episode of Dr.Who yesterday ... its as if you know what shows im into. PS. your channel and the content on it is incredible 👍
Could you do the unseen aliens from the episode Listen? It was with Peter Capaldi and one of the creepiest aliens because you don't even know they exist, but I'm pretty sure you hear them once or twice in the episode! Also great video, I love DW.
