All The Tropes

Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E04 The Time of Angels: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E04 The Time of Angels (view source)

Revision as of 05:22, 10 November 2015

10 bytes removed ,  8 years ago
m
update links
VisualWikitext
m (update links)
m (update links)
Line 4:
{{quote|''What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if, one day, our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us: [[Title Drop|the time of Angels]].''}}
 
In the 51st Century, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Not-Yet-Professor]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4S30/E08 Silence in the Library|River Song]] carves a message in Old High Gallifreyan onto the "home box" (like a black box) of a starliner, the ''Byzantium''. 12,000 years later, the Doctor and Amy come across the message while the Doctor’s [[Troll|trolling]] a museum, "keeping score" by laughing at all the mistakes on the plaques and noting the bits he’s been involved in. It says [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4S30/E08 Silence in the Library|"Hello, sweetie"]]. (Although Amy can't read the ancient Gallifreyan it's written in, which will be important later.) They run off with it, and after watching [[Timey-Wimey Ball|what's happening to River at this exact moment 12,000 years ago]], they travel back just in time to catch River as she [[Thrown Out the Airlock|ejects herself from the starliner via the airlock]]. She offers a warning that there’s something in the hold that will make sure the ship never reaches its destination.
 
Much to Amy’s curiosity and the Doctor’s resentment, River takes control of the TARDIS. She learned how to pilot it from the best pilot there is. The Doctor was sick that day. The team follows the Byzantium to where it has landed -- or, more accurately, crashed. Specifically, on top of an ancient, abandoned temple built on Alfava Metraxis. Not long after they’ve arrived, River is joined by a team of ‘Clerics’, a [[Church Militant|military off-shoot of the Church]] led by a 'bishop', Father Octavian, who are hunting the creature that caused the ship to crash -- [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3S29/E10 Blink|a Weeping Angel]]. River has promised the Doctor’s help in catching it, as it appears to have escaped into [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|'The Maze Of The Dead’]], the catacombs underneath the temple. Also, Amy quickly figures out that River has just ''got'' to be the Doctor's wife. The Doctor honestly doesn't know, and River delights in keeping the answer a secret.
 
As the clerics work on breaking into the temple, the Doctor and friends work on decoding the mystery of the Angels with a four-second clip of the Angel in the Byzantium and an old Alfava text -- which, ominously, does not include any images of them. The Doctor and River eventually realize that the text is trying to tell them that any image of the Angels essentially ''becomes'' an Angel, and is imbued with the qualities that make them so dangerous -- something that Amy is well ahead of them in discovering, having become trapped in the room with the recording of the Angel, which is gradually coming out of the screen towards her. Amy manages to defeat it by stopping the looped recording at the exact point where the image of the Angel is not on-screen, but not before she looks into the Angel’s eyes despite the Doctor’s instructions.<ref>To be fair, she'd been looking into its eyes way before the Doctor realized that she shouldn't.</ref> As the clerics manage to access the temple, Amy complains of something in her eye...
Line 48:
* [[Colonel Badass|Colonel ]][[Badass Preacher|Bishop Badass:]] Bishop Octavian, natch!
* [[Commercial Pop-Up]]: Those fans watching on [[BBC 1]] in many regions were [[Sarcasm Mode|uniformly delighted]] to be presented with [[Mood Whiplash|a brightly-coloured animated banner complete with a caricature of Graham Norton]] for yet another talent show. ''During the cliffhanger.'' They might as well "[[Charlie Brooker|just wipe s*** all over the screen during the final scene of Dr. Who next week]]".
** It's the second time Graham Norton has turned up in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' when he's not wanted, the first time being some wire mix-up leaking sound from BBC3 during "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1S27/E01 Rose|Rose]]".
** [[The BBC]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8643684.stm reported] the incident (which attracted ''thousands'' of complaints) as "Doctor Who fans want Graham Norton Ex-ter-min-ate-d!"
** Norton [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnpZS_54uoA later engaged] in some [[Self-Deprecation]] for the incident.
Line 102:
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: In "Blink", the Angels' MO and abilities were fairly straightforward. In this outing they get a whole raft of new powers that were never mentioned before. Possibly excused by [[Rule of Scary]], though.
** Although it's [[Handwaved]] that the Angels in "Blink" were starving and possibly dying, hence their reduced abilities.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: It's implied that the Doctor and River have met a few more times between "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4S30/E09 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]" and this episode.
* [[Odd Name Out]]: Octavian, Christian, Angelo, and Bob. Sacred, Scared, {{spoiler|Angelic}} Bob.
* [[Oh Crap]]: "Just something in my eye..."
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1339198"