Talk:Flesh and Stone (TV story): Difference between revisions
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:: Hmmm... maybe that's how the plot is explained, but it's pretty lame. The Doctor definitely said earlier that the Angels are "quantum locked" and that "they have no choice". That always made it sound like a physical reaction to being observed (measurement problem anyone? ;-) ), not like a biological reaction that is in some sense deliberate. Hm, well, this whole episode was kind of laming out, everything was very deus-ex, and the final solution didn't even have anything to do with the Doctor -- the Angels were in fact just thick enough to do themselves in. [[User:Hack59|Hack59]] 23:56, May 3, 2010 (UTC) | :: Hmmm... maybe that's how the plot is explained, but it's pretty lame. The Doctor definitely said earlier that the Angels are "quantum locked" and that "they have no choice". That always made it sound like a physical reaction to being observed (measurement problem anyone? ;-) ), not like a biological reaction that is in some sense deliberate. Hm, well, this whole episode was kind of laming out, everything was very deus-ex, and the final solution didn't even have anything to do with the Doctor -- the Angels were in fact just thick enough to do themselves in. [[User:Hack59|Hack59]] 23:56, May 3, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:: The Doctor says in Blink that they have NO choice. That their quantum lock is a "fact of their biology". While they are certainly Moffat's monsters, and he has every right to add to canon, this change made them logically inconsistent. He should know better as a storyteller that plot holes like that interrupt the suspension of disbelief. I agree that this was a very deus-ex sort of solution, and that it seemed like Moffat was just getting his kicks by trying gimmicks to scare the audience. It completely wrecked the wonderful scariness of the Angels to say, "they can't move if you look at them, and it's so much a fact of their biology that EVEN THE AUDIENCE LOOKING AT THEM freezes them into rock", and then to say, "Nope, we lied, they move if the characters close their eyes and their instincts don't kick in. Watch them move, aren't they scaaaaary!" I was NOT amused. CitizenX | |||
