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Post by senko on Dec 2, 2019 7:23:09 GMT
I was rewatching the time of the angels and the bit at the begining with the angel on the video photage and it got me thinking angel is a statue in a major city full of CCTV cameras, speed cameras, mobile phone cameras, tourist cameras and even just reflecting surfaces. How many times in the course of a single day would any given angel be caught on camera especially if it were perched on a monument like a church, how many images, how many new angel holograms sneaking in through people's eyes . . . ?
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Post by Stormcrow on Dec 2, 2019 20:52:20 GMT
Yeah, I never liked when they gave the Weeping Angels a new super power...
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Post by senko on Dec 3, 2019 7:17:07 GMT
Yeah, I never liked when they gave the Weeping Angels a new super power... Not a fan myself they felt scarier in their first apperance before all the powerups. |
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Post by Hedgewick on Dec 3, 2019 19:20:13 GMT
To me, this was a brilliant escalation of the Weeping Angels. I was enthralled by the idea that "whatever holds the image of an angel becomes an angel." You can't blink at them... and now, you can't stare at them! There's a lot in this high-concept conceit, I think, a lot that could be explored in further storytelling. (It's an idea that's been explored in other Doctor Who stories, too. See Big Finish's "The Red Lady.") It takes a particular kind of story to do the concept justice, however. Admittedly, as you and others have noted here, it's a concept that falls apart without the right setting or set-up.
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Post by senko on Dec 4, 2019 7:53:31 GMT
I'm not a fan of the power escalation but the look them in the eye and you let them into your head I can live with as it does fit reasonably well with the show. The one I choke on is that they can use a partial and buggy video recording to create a holographic projection to attack people with.
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