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

* [[Everybody Lives]]: Subverted; this is an episode where you don't expect someone to die on screen (the Angels just send you back in time, not kill you), especially as it's a Steven Moffat episode. Explicit body count? Seven: Alistair and the three known ''Byzantium'' crew in the crash; and Bob, Angelo, and Christian, of a quick snap of the neck. And that's to say nothing of the people who were retroactively erased from existence.

** The neck-snaps are horrifying in their own way: obviously, you'd never be able to ''show'' something like that in ''Doctor Who'''s time-slot, but you get a fleeting shot of a Weeping Angel that [[Gory Discretion Shot|cuts to black]] [[Sound-Only Death|and a snapping noise]]

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: The doctor and River fail to notice the discrepancies between the statues the Aplans supposedly left and the physical attributes of the Aplans until it's just a bit too late.

* [[Fantastic Aesop]]: The Church's opposition to the Aplans' "same-person marriage" would appear to be one about gay marriage, but this is then subverted/played for laughs when Amy points out that they do have a point - the divorces would be ''messy''.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Sacred Bob shoots a statue that he claims turned and looked at him. He's promptly told off for panicking and shooting at the decor. {{spoiler|Of course we later find out that all these statues ''are'' Angels.}}

** In the beginning of the episode, the Doctor makes an off-hand remark about the museum being the final resting place of the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E7 A Good Man Goes to War|Headless Monks]].

** If you look closer, there's a green one just below it that says {{smallcaps| smith}}.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]:

* ''(spoiler for the following season)'' {{spoiler|[[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: River and Amy both say the Doctor goes to museums in order "to keep score." It's not revealed for another whole season that River is Amy's daughter.}}

* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: When River is caught snooping about at the beginning: "Wait until she starts running. Don't make it look like an execution."

* [[Metaphorgotten]]:

{{quote| '''River''': A needle in a haystack.<br />

{{quote| '''Doctor:''' Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. That's from having two heads. You're never short of a snog with an extra head. ''[...]'' Then they started having laws against self-marrying and what was that about? But that's the church for you. Uh, no offense, Bishop.''[...]''<br />

'''Amy Pond:''' Church had a point, if you think about it. The divorces must have been ''messy''. }}

** 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/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]" and this episode.

* [[Screw Yourself]]: This was apparently a problem with the two-headed Aplan race, which commonly made out with themselves and even self-married before the Church stepped in.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: "Come and see this!"<ref>[[File:The_Time_of_Angels_8637.jpg|frame]] Whoops</ref>

** Also a [[Church Militant]] group in a sci-fi setting? Using dropships? With names like Octavian? Exterminating an amoral alien menace to humanity with extreme prejudice? After all it's the Fifty-First Century and the church has moved on. [[Warhammer 40000|In the Fifty-First Century there is only war.]]

** Possible oblique one to the Book of Revelation, or at least the King James Version, with the angels saying, "Come and see." The Four Horsemen said that to John, and some equate the horsemen with the archangels Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, and Raphael.

* [[Suggestive Collision]]: The Doctor and River upon River entering the TARDIS.