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::But your post does also brings up another question I have: '''Why''' would the Liberty Angel move as slowly as it does? Angels ('''including''' the other statues in New York that the Angels had "converted", in whatever way) have always moved EXTREMELY fast in very very short moments of time. We can't even be sure that they "walk" in the normal sense of the word. Even during the fraction of a second when someone blinks or a light goes dim, they're much closer than they were before, and certainly in a way that walking would not accomplish. Now, they apparently need to use elevators and stairs to move vertically, so they '''are''' moving rather than teleporting, but they still move at a high rate of speed. (That does bring me to wonder why Angels can't use their "powers" on themselves or even other Angels- at the very least their ability to move in space, even if not in time. It wouldn't seem that the space-moving trick gifts them with the energy they feed on, so it wouldn't seem like they would be unable to do it to themselves without somehow causing damage.) Honestly, I would have an easier time believing someone had built the Liberty Angel as more of a robot and disguised it as an actual Angel, for whatever reason. But the paradox having cancelled the entire event out means that they probably won't ever explain it, since there's really no point. [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:10, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | ::But your post does also brings up another question I have: '''Why''' would the Liberty Angel move as slowly as it does? Angels ('''including''' the other statues in New York that the Angels had "converted", in whatever way) have always moved EXTREMELY fast in very very short moments of time. We can't even be sure that they "walk" in the normal sense of the word. Even during the fraction of a second when someone blinks or a light goes dim, they're much closer than they were before, and certainly in a way that walking would not accomplish. Now, they apparently need to use elevators and stairs to move vertically, so they '''are''' moving rather than teleporting, but they still move at a high rate of speed. (That does bring me to wonder why Angels can't use their "powers" on themselves or even other Angels- at the very least their ability to move in space, even if not in time. It wouldn't seem that the space-moving trick gifts them with the energy they feed on, so it wouldn't seem like they would be unable to do it to themselves without somehow causing damage.) Honestly, I would have an easier time believing someone had built the Liberty Angel as more of a robot and disguised it as an actual Angel, for whatever reason. But the paradox having cancelled the entire event out means that they probably won't ever explain it, since there's really no point. [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:10, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | ||
:::Saghan: As far as Liberty, I just assumed that an Angel that big is slower and needs more time to move (as 87 just said), so the gaps of a few seconds here or there weren't enough to let her zap Rory. Or you could be right that Liberty is just there to watch, and she's waiting for the regular Angels to get to the roof. Really, I don't think that's the interesting mystery. | |||
:::The big mystery is the one everyone keeps raising: "Surely someone else in NY must have seen her, so how did she walk across the river in the first place?" There is a possible answer in the episode, but it just raises even more questions: For some reason, in "the city that never sleeps" (which I think they even call it in the episode, twice), there are a grand total of 0 pedestrians and 3 cars in all of the night street scene shots (the one car we see into has no passengers, just a driver). Have the Angels so thoroughly dominated NY in that timeline that everyone's in bed asleep at night? (Chapter 2 of the book _is_ called "The Angels Take Manhattan"… as is the episode… But they didn't seem to be _that_ in control, judging by Grayle.) Or is something else strange going on? | |||
:::As for the chapters, yes, we _are_ missing most of the story of chapters 1-6. We only saw a little bit of what River was doing before Rory showed up and Grayle captured them, and we only heard a few paragraphs from either late chapter 6 or early chapter 7. So it's no wonder the chapter titles don't mean much to us. (Whether it was just Moffat the writer wanting to hint that there was a lot more backstory for River than we got to see, or Moffat the producer intentionally teasing the book, I don't know, but I don't think it matters much.) --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 03:05, October 2, 2012 (UTC) | |||
