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The Time of Angels
"The Time of Angels" is the fourth episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 24 April 2010 on BBC One. It is the first episode of a two-part story written by showrunner Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith; the second episode, "Flesh and Stone", aired on 1 May. Moffat utilised the two-part episode to bring back a couple of his previous creations: the Weeping Angels from his series 3 episode "Blink", and River Song (Alex Kingston) from the series 4 episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead".
The episode is partly set in the 51st century. In the episode, the Eleventh Doctor—a time travelling alien played by Matt Smith—and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) are summoned by River Song, a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future. She takes them to the planet Alfava Metraxis, where the spaceship Byzantium has crashed. Hidden inside is a Weeping Angel, a creature that can only move when unobserved by others. With the help of Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his militarised clerics, the Doctor, Amy and River Song travel through a stone labyrinth to reach the ship. On the way, they discover that all the statues in the maze are Angels, which are slowly restoring and planning to trap them in the labyrinth.
Inspired by the relationship between the film Alien and its sequel, Aliens, Moffat wrote the episode as a more action-oriented sequel to "Blink". It was the first episode to be filmed in the series; filming began 20 July 2009 at Southerndown beach, Vale of Glamorgan which was used as the surface of Alfava Metraxis. The episode was watched by 8.59 million viewers in the United Kingdom, received the highest Appreciation Index given to the fifth series at time of broadcast and was acclaimed by critics as one of the best episodes of the series.
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy find a plea of help from Dr River Song for the Doctor engraved in the Time Lords' language on the flight recorder of the starship Byzantium 12,000 years prior, currently housed in a museum. They travel back in time, and rescue River before the Byzantium crashes on the planet Alfava Metraxis. On the planet's surface, the Doctor realises that while he has only met River once before, she has met him several times before. River explains that the Byzantium holds a Weeping Angel in its cargo. She contacts Father Octavian and his militarised clerics to help capture it to protect a large population of human colonists elsewhere on the planet.
As the clerics set up base camp, River accesses footage of the Angel from the Byzantium to verify that it is secure. She and the Doctor leave to study a text written about the Angels, learning that even an image of an Angel can become an Angel itself. They are unaware that Amy stayed to watch the footage, and when she blinks, the Angel appears to move. The Doctor helps her stop the video feed, and believes Amy is safe, but she feels something in her eye.
Father Octavian orders them to set out through a system of catacombs to reach the Byzantium, using a gravity globe to illuminate the cave. The Doctor and River comment on the various statues they pass, believing they are made by the planet's extinct natives, until they recall the natives are two-headed beings and the statues are only single-headed. They conclude they must be weakened Angels, and that the Angel on the Byzantium purposely crashed the ship here to rescue its kind, reviving an entire army by flooding the catacombs with radiation. The Angels start to pursue the group. Amy finds that she cannot move, and the Doctor realises that the image of the Angel still exists in her eye and is making her believe this; he bites her wrist to prove she is still mobile, and they continue to flee.
An Angel snaps the necks of the rear guard, and more Angels trap the survivors at the highest point of the cave, right underneath the hull of the Byzantium. The Doctor says they never should have trapped him, tells the others to prepare to jump, and shoots the gravity globe.
The episode was written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. He designed the two-part episode as a more action-oriented sequel to "Blink", an episode he had written for the third series. He compared the relationship to the film Alien and its sequel Aliens, with the former being more low-key and the latter more "highly coloured". Moffat thought that Aliens was "the best conceived movie sequel ever" and decided to use it as a model. He also intended to portray the Angels and their actions differently; in "Blink" they were barely surviving and resembled scavengers, while in "The Time of Angels" he wanted them to have a plan that could become "almost like a war". The two-part story was intended to show the worst possible instance that could occur with the Weeping Angels, which was the inability to see, as explored in the second part, "Flesh and Stone", when Amy must keep her eyes closed. Executive producer Piers Wenger thought that the Delirium Archive, the museum the Doctor and Amy visited at the beginning of the episode, needed to be explained, therefore Moffat named it "the final resting place of the Headless Monks" and sent it to him via text message. The Headless Monks themselves appeared in the mid-series finale of the next series, "A Good Man Goes to War".
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The Time of Angels
"The Time of Angels" is the fourth episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 24 April 2010 on BBC One. It is the first episode of a two-part story written by showrunner Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith; the second episode, "Flesh and Stone", aired on 1 May. Moffat utilised the two-part episode to bring back a couple of his previous creations: the Weeping Angels from his series 3 episode "Blink", and River Song (Alex Kingston) from the series 4 episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead".
The episode is partly set in the 51st century. In the episode, the Eleventh Doctor—a time travelling alien played by Matt Smith—and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) are summoned by River Song, a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future. She takes them to the planet Alfava Metraxis, where the spaceship Byzantium has crashed. Hidden inside is a Weeping Angel, a creature that can only move when unobserved by others. With the help of Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his militarised clerics, the Doctor, Amy and River Song travel through a stone labyrinth to reach the ship. On the way, they discover that all the statues in the maze are Angels, which are slowly restoring and planning to trap them in the labyrinth.
Inspired by the relationship between the film Alien and its sequel, Aliens, Moffat wrote the episode as a more action-oriented sequel to "Blink". It was the first episode to be filmed in the series; filming began 20 July 2009 at Southerndown beach, Vale of Glamorgan which was used as the surface of Alfava Metraxis. The episode was watched by 8.59 million viewers in the United Kingdom, received the highest Appreciation Index given to the fifth series at time of broadcast and was acclaimed by critics as one of the best episodes of the series.
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy find a plea of help from Dr River Song for the Doctor engraved in the Time Lords' language on the flight recorder of the starship Byzantium 12,000 years prior, currently housed in a museum. They travel back in time, and rescue River before the Byzantium crashes on the planet Alfava Metraxis. On the planet's surface, the Doctor realises that while he has only met River once before, she has met him several times before. River explains that the Byzantium holds a Weeping Angel in its cargo. She contacts Father Octavian and his militarised clerics to help capture it to protect a large population of human colonists elsewhere on the planet.
As the clerics set up base camp, River accesses footage of the Angel from the Byzantium to verify that it is secure. She and the Doctor leave to study a text written about the Angels, learning that even an image of an Angel can become an Angel itself. They are unaware that Amy stayed to watch the footage, and when she blinks, the Angel appears to move. The Doctor helps her stop the video feed, and believes Amy is safe, but she feels something in her eye.
Father Octavian orders them to set out through a system of catacombs to reach the Byzantium, using a gravity globe to illuminate the cave. The Doctor and River comment on the various statues they pass, believing they are made by the planet's extinct natives, until they recall the natives are two-headed beings and the statues are only single-headed. They conclude they must be weakened Angels, and that the Angel on the Byzantium purposely crashed the ship here to rescue its kind, reviving an entire army by flooding the catacombs with radiation. The Angels start to pursue the group. Amy finds that she cannot move, and the Doctor realises that the image of the Angel still exists in her eye and is making her believe this; he bites her wrist to prove she is still mobile, and they continue to flee.
An Angel snaps the necks of the rear guard, and more Angels trap the survivors at the highest point of the cave, right underneath the hull of the Byzantium. The Doctor says they never should have trapped him, tells the others to prepare to jump, and shoots the gravity globe.
The episode was written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. He designed the two-part episode as a more action-oriented sequel to "Blink", an episode he had written for the third series. He compared the relationship to the film Alien and its sequel Aliens, with the former being more low-key and the latter more "highly coloured". Moffat thought that Aliens was "the best conceived movie sequel ever" and decided to use it as a model. He also intended to portray the Angels and their actions differently; in "Blink" they were barely surviving and resembled scavengers, while in "The Time of Angels" he wanted them to have a plan that could become "almost like a war". The two-part story was intended to show the worst possible instance that could occur with the Weeping Angels, which was the inability to see, as explored in the second part, "Flesh and Stone", when Amy must keep her eyes closed. Executive producer Piers Wenger thought that the Delirium Archive, the museum the Doctor and Amy visited at the beginning of the episode, needed to be explained, therefore Moffat named it "the final resting place of the Headless Monks" and sent it to him via text message. The Headless Monks themselves appeared in the mid-series finale of the next series, "A Good Man Goes to War".