WEEPING ANGELS DOCTOR WHO SERIES

Relation to the most ubiquitous statue for law and cultural legal Seeks to take up this warning by exploring the nature of the Weeping Variety of famous and publicly displayed statues. However, as the conclusion to the episode ‘Blink’ implies, it is potentially any statue that can be a ‘WeepingĪngel’-with the Doctor providing the viewer a warning interposed Would suggest, these figures normally take the appearance of a statue Seen by their victims or the television audience as they move on their prey. Stone ornaments, but as mobile monsters that can take us away from ourselves. The Weeping Angels render strange and threatening the familiar sight of The Doctor states that they are ‘the only psychopaths in the universe to Victims feel no pain and the rest of their livesĪre theirs to live as they are able in their new temporal and spatial locations. They deposit their victims in a past time, not a time through which WeepingĪngels thrive by consuming all of the energy from the If the Weeping Angel touches you, then you are gone. If you blink, a Weeping Angel will have silently However, thoughĪ Weeping Angel is capable of extremely quick The shape of an angel, usually with its hands daintily Just in time for us to notice that the beautiful statue has moved towardĪ Weeping Angel – when seen – appears as a statue, carved into Just in time to avoid being hit by a rock flying through the window – and She peels back the wallpaper in time to seeĪddressed to her, telling her to duck.

Sally’s attention is drawn to a wall with In the background is a beautiful statue of a cryingĪngel. She is a photographer, and when we first see her, she is breaking intoĪn old, abandoned house. Met the Doctor and only interacts with him for a few The plot centres on Sally Sparrow (played by Carey Mulligan), a Sadness, but in the blink of an eye can touch theirĪnother time.

WEEPING ANGELS DOCTOR WHO SERIES

University of Technology Sydney Law Research Series >ĭon’t Blink: Monstrous Justice and the Weeping Angels ofĮnvisioning Legality: Law, Culture and RepresentationĪliens that when perceived look like statues of angels covering their eyes in | Feedback University of Technology Sydney Law Research Series Indeed, the evidence we’ve seen suggests that Angels have a choice: to feed off the time energy from their victims straight away or to be more sadistic, and snap their necks.įar from being a gimmick that reduces the Angels’ power and impact, this development makes them all the more terrifying.Crofts, Penny - 'Don't blink: monstrous justice and the Weeping Angels of Doctor Who' UTSLRS 2 Tim Peters and Karen Crawley (eds) Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation (Routledge, 2018) 46-67 Sending someone back in time might be the most gratifying way for an Angel to dispatch their victim – but that doesn’t mean it’s the only way. For some this was a stretch too far, taking the Angels too far from their original premise. The Angels Take Manhattan continues this trend, with Julius Grayle’s Angel grabbing River Song’s arm and not letting go – to the point where she can only escape by breaking her wrist.īoth these cases contradict what we've previously learnt: that Weeping Angels automatically send anything they touch back in time. In The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, we see them grab hold of the Doctor’s jacket (without sending him back in time), then put Father Octavian in a headlock.

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