Monster File: Weeping Angels (webcast)
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Monster File: Weeping Angels was the sixteenth story of the in universe Monster Files and the first to be presented by Alex Kingston as River Song.
Synopsis
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Plot
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Cast
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- Writer - Justin Richards
- Director - Ian Smith
- Producer - Ian Smith
References
- River Song has files on the Weeping Angels in her diary.
- River compares her journal to that written by Rastan Jovanich. The definitive work on the "Lonely Assassins", better known as the Weeping Angels, the knowledge contained there drove him mad.
- Rastan was sent to the "terrible" sanatorium of Dispard, never to be seen again.
- Rastan's journal survived, though barely readable, and is now in River's possession.
- The Weeping Angels appear as statues but are not infact angels, nor made of stone, at least all the time.
- One touch from a Weeping Angel sends their prey to the past, consuming the energy of the lifes they might have led.
- Victims of the Weeping Angels include Kathy Nightingale, Billy Shipton and Julia Hardwick.
- The Weeping Angels are called as such since they cover their eyes as if they are crying, doing so to prevent them from seeing each other. River notes that they are not sad for the suffering they cause.
- The Weeping Angels' use quantum-locking as a defense mechanism, to appear as statues whenever they are seen by any sentient being.
- When not observed, the Weeping Angels can move fast to catch their prey in the blink of an eye. As such, one is advised not to blink.
- One cannot be sure if a Weeping Angel is not just a statue, or if a statue is a Weeping Angel.
- A Weeping Angel may be statue anywhere, however old, broken or seemingly innocuous.
- "Useful Spoilers" for dealing with a Weeping Angel is to not turn one's back, do not look away or blink.
- Rastan warns in his book: "that which holds the image of an Angel, becomes itself an Angel." As such, even the appearance of a Weeping Angel in a picture or on a television is dangerous.
- Children know instinctively of the Weeping Angels, to the point of inventing playground games such as Grandmother's Footsteps to train themselves to escape them. River suggests this is why children are afraid of the dark, as one cannot see the Weeping Angels there.
- River notes that the Weeping Angels can turn out the lights.
Story notes
- In addition to new footage of River Song's diary, this Monster File uses archive footage from TV: Blink and The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, as well as imagery from WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas.
Continuity
- Victims of the Weeping Angels include Kathy Nightingale, Billy Shipton (TV: Blink) and Julia Hardwick. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)
- River consults Rastan Jovanich's journal. (TV: The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone)
