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:::One wonders why the Doctor wasn't able to bring Billy back to his own time via the TARDIS, but was still free to move after being sent back by the same Angels. If there's some kind of potential that they consume permanently, this hasn't been a problem for the Doctor. This makes sense, considering he doesn't age, but what about Martha? She's a human who got sent back, but she somehow gets a free pass for just being with the Doctor. Perhaps it's some effect of exposure to the Time Vortex? If you really wanted to stretch things, you could imagine the ontological paradox as the result of the displacement of the Vortex's energy snapping back to its proper place (seeing as the Angels apparently use other means of transport). Just a thought. | :::One wonders why the Doctor wasn't able to bring Billy back to his own time via the TARDIS, but was still free to move after being sent back by the same Angels. If there's some kind of potential that they consume permanently, this hasn't been a problem for the Doctor. This makes sense, considering he doesn't age, but what about Martha? She's a human who got sent back, but she somehow gets a free pass for just being with the Doctor. Perhaps it's some effect of exposure to the Time Vortex? If you really wanted to stretch things, you could imagine the ontological paradox as the result of the displacement of the Vortex's energy snapping back to its proper place (seeing as the Angels apparently use other means of transport). Just a thought. | ||
::: Well, time is wibbly-wobbly. I think that time gives you a "get out of paradox free" card if you don't make it ''physically impossible'' for you to have gone back. For example, if Person B didn't get killed, Person C (the time traveller mentioned in the original thing) still could've imagined Person A killing Person B, and so then they would've still gone back in time. However, if Person A is the time traveller, and they go back and kill themselves, ''then'' it rips a hole in time and space, because it would be physically impossible for them to have gone back. | ::::Well, time is wibbly-wobbly. I think that time gives you a "get out of paradox free" card if you don't make it ''physically impossible'' for you to have gone back. For example, if Person B didn't get killed, Person C (the time traveller mentioned in the original thing) still could've imagined Person A killing Person B, and so then they would've still gone back in time. However, if Person A is the time traveller, and they go back and kill themselves, ''then'' it rips a hole in time and space, because it would be physically impossible for them to have gone back. | ||
*Sally sees the Weeping Angels on the edge of the building across the one she is in. She blinks, and they have moved to the edge of the building she is in now. There a lots of cars and people around, surely one of them would have seen? | *Sally sees the Weeping Angels on the edge of the building across the one she is in. She blinks, and they have moved to the edge of the building she is in now. There a lots of cars and people around, surely one of them would have seen? | ||
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::::Yes, if they all end up facing each other so all of them are locked, then they can't move. That's what happens at the end. But in normal circumstances, they don't do that. They've been doing this for a very long time, so presumably they have some kind of system. For example, maybe they intentionally waste a tiny fraction of each second deliberately looking at each other (in a synchronized sequence so no two Angels are ever looking at the same time), just to spot and fix problems (oops, A looked early for some reason, so he and B are looking at each other, so I'll turn them). The only way that could possibly fail is if someone somehow tricked the whole group into looking at each other all at the same time (as the Doctor did). | ::::Yes, if they all end up facing each other so all of them are locked, then they can't move. That's what happens at the end. But in normal circumstances, they don't do that. They've been doing this for a very long time, so presumably they have some kind of system. For example, maybe they intentionally waste a tiny fraction of each second deliberately looking at each other (in a synchronized sequence so no two Angels are ever looking at the same time), just to spot and fix problems (oops, A looked early for some reason, so he and B are looking at each other, so I'll turn them). The only way that could possibly fail is if someone somehow tricked the whole group into looking at each other all at the same time (as the Doctor did). | ||
:::::Or they can't see in the dark, and they are just very aware of their surroundings. | |||
*How does the Doctor know exactly when Sally should duck? | *How does the Doctor know exactly when Sally should duck? | ||
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*When the Weeping Angel reveals itself and Larry turns his back briefly to see it move up to him, he looks into the Angel's eyes. So why doesn't he become infected like in flesh and stone? | *When the Weeping Angel reveals itself and Larry turns his back briefly to see it move up to him, he looks into the Angel's eyes. So why doesn't he become infected like in flesh and stone? | ||
:: Either it's an ability that a Weeping Angel can choose to activate, or he didn't ''acually'' look into the eyes, and it was just | :: Either it's an ability that a Weeping Angel can choose to activate, or he didn't ''acually'' look into the eyes, and it was just for dramatic effect. That's probably what Moffat would say if he was asked that. | ||
*Why didn't Sally and Larry simply keep one eye open thus allowing them to keep an eye on the Angels whilst at the same time giving them the opportunity to rest the closed eye and switch eyes when needed? | *Why didn't Sally and Larry simply keep one eye open thus allowing them to keep an eye on the Angels whilst at the same time giving them the opportunity to rest the closed eye and switch eyes when needed? | ||
::They are clearly scared, and the thought of using one eye at a time probably wouldn't have occurred to them. It's also more physically challenging than it sounds, given the automatic aspect of blinking. | ::They are clearly scared, and the thought of using one eye at a time probably wouldn't have occurred to them. It's also more physically challenging than it sounds, given the automatic aspect of blinking. | ||
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*When the Doctor reads the transcript, Sally turns around and sees the shadow of three Weeping Angels moving. But if she is observing part of them they shouldn't be moving. | *When the Doctor reads the transcript, Sally turns around and sees the shadow of three Weeping Angels moving. But if she is observing part of them they shouldn't be moving. | ||
:The Angels are only affected by being directly observed, as described by the Doctor. Observing their shadow is merely seeing the obstruction of light as they pass across a light source and is not a tangible part of the actual creature, so they are unaffected. | ::The Angels are only affected by being directly observed, as described by the Doctor. Observing their shadow is merely seeing the obstruction of light as they pass across a light source and is not a tangible part of the actual creature, so they are unaffected. | ||
*When Larry turns around when he's staring at the Angel, he turns back again and the Angel is right in front of him but in the next shot it is about 6 inches away and its hands are pointing at him. | *When Larry turns around when he's staring at the Angel, he turns back again and the Angel is right in front of him but in the next shot it is about 6 inches away and its hands are pointing at him. | ||
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*Why didn't the photo Sally took of the Angels and gave to the Doctor become an Angel, just like the recording did in ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''? | *Why didn't the photo Sally took of the Angels and gave to the Doctor become an Angel, just like the recording did in ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''? | ||
::They were scavengers, not up to full strength, so may not have had this power to turn a picture of them into an Angel. Also when they come out of recordings they are just projections of the real thing, but since all of them are eternally made of stone they couldn't project themselves. | ::They were scavengers, not up to full strength, so may not have had this power to turn a picture of them into an Angel. Also when they come out of recordings they are just projections of the real thing, but since all of them are eternally made of stone they couldn't project themselves. | ||
::Also, they might only have that ability with video. | |||
::Also also, they might only have that ability if it's the ''full'' image; part of the angel was cut off at the bottom. | |||
*Why didn't Martha and the Doctor take Billy with them when they came back to the present day? | *Why didn't Martha and the Doctor take Billy with them when they came back to the present day? | ||
