Doctor Who

[armb]

iPlayer good.


Plotwise I assume that the "quantum lock" makes them invulnerable and they don't actually turn into literal stone, but if I was was told that a lethal monster turned into stone when looked at, I would at least ask if the stone form can be broken up with a sledgehammer, instead of just assuming that the Doctor would think of something eventually.
(Presumably the decayed/eroded/dormant Angels were in darkness for the last four hundred years, so their decay doesn't actually tell us anything about their invulnerability while "stone".)

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

I thought of Ace when the soldiers were laying the explosives to break in. Where's the Nitro-9 when you need it?

[armb.livejournal.com]

Sledgehammer was my reaction to Blink, but an explosive shaped charge collar would be more effective than a hammer. But I suppose if the Angel they were expecting to find had been stolen from a confinement facility, then enough experiments had been done to know it wouldn't work, even if it wasn't ever mentioned. (So why bring guns at all? Just in case they found someone else hostile in the way.)
But overall, in spite of some of the lazy scripting (how can we tell the audience these statues are dangerous before the Doctor realises? Perception Filter), it actually felt like a proper Doctor Who episode to me.
Landing the TARDIS without making the noise is just wrong though....

[keristor.livejournal.com]

That whole first River Song scene was just wrong. It played the Doctor for laughs (not knowing about the stabilisers for 900+ years, ditto the handbrake) and meant that from now on we shouldn't see any people being thrown around or hear the noise. Both of those would make it not Doctor Who (particularly the noise). Or if they do use those effects it means that the Doctor is being a prat and deliberately not using stabilisers because they are 'boring' and leaving the handbrake on because he likes the noise which breaks it in other ways.

For me it hasn't got to the point of Do Not Want (I missed several series in RealWho because I just wasn't that interested and didn't have the replay facility[1]) but IMO Moffat has a lot to do to win back my trust in him as a writer.

[1] No VCR back then and way before iPlayer and torrents.