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* What did the Doctor do to annoy Queen Elizabeth? Or what is he ''going'' to do?

** Apparently, he's just really good at annoying English queens.

*** Wrong Doctor. That would be Nine; we know he turned into Ten but Queen Bess does not.

** He married her, as shown in ''The End of Time''.

*** It's made even more obvious when you look at the scene when Sally examines the statues in the house. If you watch carefully, the statues move whilst Sally is between them and the camera.

** Maybe it's not so simple as that. Maybe looking at an angel forces it to stay still, but just because you're ''not'' looking at it doesn't necessarily mean it can move. Maybe there are other restrictions on movement, like angels can only move a certain distance before they need to "rest" for a couple minutes, or whatever.

** In Blink, at least, the angels pretty definitively treat the camera as an 'observer'. They only move when they're not visible to either the characters or to the Camera. Moving their hands only when Sally passes between them and the camera during the scene where she gets the key is one example. A much more obvious one is when they're rocking the TARDIS, with Sally and whats-his-face inside it, back and forth. The light continues to blink on and off, and the TARDIS only moves while the light is off. You can kind of see the TARDIS moving, because you can still see the backlit windows and 'Police Box' text. But when the light blinks on, they STILL freeze solid into stone. There's a TARDIS side between each angel and everything else with eyes; quite literally the only thing present that could 'lock' them when the light comes on is the Camera.

* Speaking of the Angels, that's a pretty unreliable way to [[Sealed Evil in A Can|trap them forever]]. A group of statues (evem ugly statues)standing in a circle, not connected or even touching. And it's not like they're in an underground cavern, they're in a freaking impound lot. Even if nobody decides to move the statues (sell them off as a set or one by one), the first time that light goes out those angels are going to not be seen. (It could be another level of Steve Moffat induced [[Paranoia Fuel]]).

 

* I know that most viewers think President Winters was a major [[Jerkass]] <ref> (and that he was deliberately written that way such as a stab at American politicians--especially since he's the only victim of the Toclafane who ''remains'' dead after time reverses)</ref>, but was he really ''that'' bad? Aside from being rude and standoffish to the Master and trying to take control of the situation (which other characters have been ''praised'' for doing), we don't see him do anything especially obnoxious; his behavior is ''unwise'', perhaps, but it doesn't exactly scream "Jerk Ass". And he can't really be blamed for the Toclafane invasion, which would have happened ''regardless'' of how he reacted to the situation.

** A better question might be this: if President Winters had been any other nationality (but otherwise remained the same in terms of his behavior), would the character have been perceived any differently?