capaldi’s doctor definitely deserved a weeping angels story. although to be honest, capaldi’s doctor deserved about 5 more seasons

The Angels are at their best when they're kept simple. If you think about them too much, they stop making sense. Best left a mystery.

Reminder that the best Weeping Angel stories aren't even on TV. Touched By An Angel and The Weeping Angels of Mons are absolutely superb stories, and more people should recognise the two stories more.

The Weeping Angels are much like the Daleks, but to a greater degree IE They don't need another new gimmick, they need a fresh perspective.

The Weeping Angels even appeared in LEGO Dimensions to scare a whole new wave of kids shitless

I’d like a whole story on how someone would cope with getting sent back in time.

I like to think that the photos in Sally Sparrow’s binder turned into the Angels that zapped 10 and Martha into 1969

I thought the angels were fine until the angels of Manhattan episode. That’s when they jumped the shark with the Statue of Liberty angel.

I mean that WW1 story sounds amazing, just adapt that, make the angles look like real angles saving people and the dr an insane person on the battlefield It would be fantastic

I know you don't like that Russell commissioned Steven with the Doctor-lite in Series 3, but if it helps, he was originally supposed to do the Dalek two-parter. He "messed them around" and took the Doctor-lite to make up for it. It was his own fault, really. Fair play to Helen, writing a two-part Dalek story with an unreasonable deadline is ridiculous. The story was never gonna be great, but she still managed to produce something of note. I'm so glad Steven did take the Doctor-lite tho. I'm not hard for Blink like others, but it is pretty great.

I always thought Time of Angels was scarier than Blink aswell

"If Whittaker faces an Angle next year-" *Cut to the Flux, where Whittaker does, in fact, fact an Angel. Or several thousand*

1:24 Maybe they zap each other back in time. Also it's weird how there was no followup on Sally's Weeping Angel photos.

This aged like fine wine in terms of Village of the Angels

the way I was terrified to blink watching this whole video

"I was never scared of the Angels as a kid." My back hurts for some odd reason now.

I think the whole Blue Peter thing had some level of merit An Angel that wants to feed off of the potential energy of an important object instead of a person is a neat idea, just a shame it was never really picked up again I'm not sure how the plot would work, but Angels infiltrating a museum to grab an especially important art piece whilst blending in as exhibits is a fun concept that I'm sure someone could make a good plot with. Maybe the plot revolves around the Doctor planning a heist to steal the macguffin before the Angels do?

Everytime I'm reminded that Class was a thing... why couldn't we have had an Ace spin-off ?

Credit to Moffat for creating one of the only monsters in new who that have become as iconic as the Daleks, Cyberman and Master. I just wish the show used its other new villains more. I get that the Silence were wrapped up in 11's arc so it would be weird if we saw them post Time of the Dr and as much as I love them the Vashta Nerada are about as gimmicky as the angels and only work in certain settings. But I think the Boneless have a lot of potential that we're missing out on.

Love the music your using. It’s from damaged goods right? The big finish adaptation. Aaaaa man that’s good one. Any way yeh stone lady’s with grrr face. Love em. Don’t think they’ve had a bad outing. Some much better than others but never wasted. Still don’t think we should have seen them move though. I thought that was a bit stinky.

Hey great vidz

4:56 Oh I know! I loved that series, but man, it was a continuity explosion. Touched by an Angel is honestly one of the best Angel stories in my opinion, as the whole story is just so good.

Thanks for spoiling the 13th comic for me, I'm still waiting for issue 4 to arrive lol.

I always wanted to know what would happen if you just threw a blanket over one of them. Would they be able to move, since we're technically not looking at them? Because then we could get a real sense of how they move, and how fast they really are. And if things get really bad, you can just try and poke a hole in the blanket, so that you will see part of them, and they'll freeze.

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a weird creepy little story, I had totally forgotten about it

I remember going to the Doctor Who experience when I was 12 and it was literally the best day of my life!

i remember the time of the angels being the first new who story i can think of i remember sneaking downstairs in the evening and seeing the angels and it scared the hell out of me.

They need to do something like A Quiet Place or Bird Box but with The Angels. Like, characters fleeing from a world overrun by Angels, having to come up with designated 'blink safe' areas or something. There's gotta be a writer who can do the idea justice more than one time in 2007.

I wanna see the Vashta Nerada again but I'm afraid they'll end up like the weeping angles.

I really stopped caring for them when after they started showing up after Blink, like they are a great idea, like I absolutely love that horror aspect to them, but like anything that is a smash hit you just gotta keep trying to repeat it and just run it into the ground, I feel like they probably work best at small story fodder if they tried to do different aspects of it, like that WW1 story, actually sounds dark and interesting, they really were the last great iconic monster though because I can't think of anything that has been literally everywhere since they first appeared

I was thinking this would be a good video the other day

Lost Angel is just 1h, maybe that's more palatable? I quite enjoyed it. Nothing groundbreaking but a fun little story and a good introduction to two new companions.

Just to reiterate something you mentioned, "The Lost Angel" is genuinely good and does some fun stuff with the angels. Definitely worth renting on a library app and listening to on a drive sometime. It even kicks off a neat little mini-series with unique companions too, and the whole thing is actually pretty enjoyable. Like Big Finish on a budget.

Actually Sam I think you’ll find that the weeping angels also appeared in lego Batman 3...I don’t fucking know why but they did

_Paradox dust disease that really likes gothic architecture_

2:30 my (2 sort of) fan theorys about the origins of the weeping angels is as follows: 1: the marble plague was a super weapon on Gehanna that got out of control(it’s likely that it is a creation of the gehannan’s seeing that the 12 doctor told the last survivors were there race did wrong implying that they have something to do with the marble storm) 2: the weeping angels were a super weapon created by a extinct(pre space travel) race that were at war, & the weeping angels were genetically modified soldiers that went Insane & reverted back to there primal instincts to survive & killed/turned everyone(they were whether or not they have the ability to turn any image of them into an angel or they somehow evolved that is up to you cause 🎶I can’t decide🎶 But then eventually a ship came to the planet most angels were either already dead or on deaths door when an opportunity arose(at this point let’s just say they have become as intelligent as there creators) they hitched a ride on the ship & when they got desperate enough they killed the entire crew. Over(a very short) time they figured out the ships basic controls & crashed & the nearest populated planet & the rest is history p.s the is still a lot of mystery in this story like how they developed time travel powers & telekinetic powers & the rest, hope you like it😁

I was never scared of the Angel's as a kid either because I wasnt a kid anymore when they first came to the show

I think just turn them invisible for some reason, but keep the quantum lock thing... You still can't blink, but now you don't know where to look either!

I had wished that a blind 12 would have faced off The Weeping Angels, it would have been Epicness itself.

Does Jeff Goldblum disapprove of the weeping angel museum? “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could not blink, they didn’t stop to think if they should not blink”

It’s the middle of the night, you wake up in your bed feeling as though someone or something is watching you. You look around and see no one else at all. The only other thing in the room is an old painting of a forest, it looked almost as though there was a figure in the trees. You could’ve swarm in the past the painting was empty. You switch the light on only for it to quickly flicker off. You try again to turn it on but it won’t light up, maybe the power has gone out you think. You turn and realise the figure you saw in the painting is now more visible, it’s a statue. Was it just your Imagination or had it moved. You turn to pick up a lighter when suddenly you feel a chill in the room. There’s a breeze but your windows are all shut the breeze is from behind you, from the painting. You spark up the lighter and see that there is now a stone hand reaching out of the painting. The small flame gets blown out by the breeze and in the darkness you feel a touch more cold than ice, a touch that goes right through you. Then you’re blinded by a flash of lightning and deafened by the sound of rain and waves. You feel your body become submerged in icy water as the waves crash all around you. All alone in the stormy ocean You sink under the waves out of shock.

My theory is that the Angels began at the end of the universe and spread backwards in time. When you get sent back in time, you remember what an Angel looks like, and an image of an Angel becomes an Angel. Repeat this process and they infiltrate themselves through history. That explains how they ended up on 21st century Earth without a spaceship and why they appear so soon after the Big Bang.

I really enjoyed captain jack's ghost story for christmas, it was epic in it's hopeless foreshadowing and that the woman's family is trapped in a bootstrap paradox forever. Just a great short, good on you captain jack, but save that woman will you? You have all the time in the universe

NGL I miss the Doctor Who Monster Invasion magazines. Collected the cards too.

My weeping angels episode ranking 1: Time Of The Angles (Personal Favorite Of the 11th Doctor era.) 2: Blink (Probably The only Doctor-Lite episode I actually like.) 3: Angels Take Manhattan (A fairly dull episode that’s only saved by compelling drama and my love for Art Deco noir stories.) 4: Flesh and Stone (A disappointing Fallow up with my main complaint being that it’s so forgettable that I’m having trouble remembering what happens in it.)

i was soo scared of then when i first saw the episode in 2007 i was even scared of the statue in my garden because of this episode

3:51 I'm in love with Jodie's art style. Should I read this comic?

Came back after legend of the sea devils to say we had village of the angels

A strange piece of angel media that I don't think anyone will find. However I remember taking part in an immersive performance of a weeping angel adventure. It started off as a museum about a crashed boat called the elysium then soldiers barged in that the doctor had sent and then matt Smith appeared on various laptops on Skype calls to help you and have banter. They recreated the corridor scene from forest of the dead and still to this day i have no idea how, it terrifies me cause they were real stone statue props no costumes. Then after being sent back in time to the designing of the elysium you save the day and get a 'personal' letter from the 11th doctor. Certainly strange but it was rather excellent, I'd still enjoy it if I did it now

The reason why class hasn't done anything based on series 2 is because big finish only have the license to make stories which are set during series 1

I genuinely shat myself whenever the dw experience first opened in London and the weepin angels happened

Thank you for another excellent Broke Cannon, ofcourse the Doctor wouldn't use a normal one. ^_^

What episode is it with Matt Smith in the blue vortex and the angel shows up and explodes? The clip is in this video.

The weeping angels are apparently set to meet the 4th doctor, in a future 4th Doctor Box-Set! :)

In the Doctor Who Experience my brother had to go to one of the Angel's.

shrek angry

Wait, so the 10th Doctor carried the torch in universe while the actor for the 11th Doctor carried the torch in real life? What the heck?!?

Some people seem to think they're Time Lords from the future.

I find the Weeping Angels to be a really weak villain. They can't move while being observed, which is supposed to be a defense mechanism, but should actually be detrimental. A quick swing from a sledgehammer and bye bye angels. The Bad Days cartoon was really good showcasing this.

The Silence could've competed with the Angels for a iconic recurring new who villian - butttt then Moffatt tied them directly to the series 5-7 series arcs making them have no point afterwards

Well we'll see them, or hear them, in Wink with the 6th and 10th Doctor in 2022, which might be fun!

There was an angel in the very next episode that came out after this video haha

While they peaked in Blink, I liked what they did in The Time of The Angels and Village of The Angels (besides that one death scene, they have been shown REPEATEDLY to have sent people back more than once 🙄) but seeing them move is what ruined them for me (it didn't make sense they moved so slow despite having been shown to move like lightning earlier and when they were weaker along with still looking like stone which is stated to ONLY happen when looked at and the atrocious The Angels Take Manhattan.

There's a fourth doctor vs the angels audio story coming out in a few years time

While I do think the silence should of definitely returned outside of Matt's run, the Vashda Nerada are a dead end monster. There's nothing else you can do with them which isn't a repeat of the same story. The one time they tried doing something different it didn't really work and played like a cheesy monster movie. I love them and it's my favourite story but I never wanna see them come back. The Boneless on the other hand....

oi big man, what's that tune you normally use in broke canon videos?

i might just be being an idiot but how does river song appear in 8th doctor audios and 10 still doesnt recognise her

10 years late in the game I'm finally watching moffat's run. and i gotta say i think he brought the angels (and river song, in the same episode no less) back far too soon, felt a tiny bit desperate to remind everyone what he wrote before. episode was fine though, just felt a bit much a bit too soon.

I'll always love the Faction Paradox implied origin story for them don't @ me FP makes everything Doctor Who even more batshit and I love it

Trinston was here

The Angels feel like they should've been a one-off villain, like the Midnight Entity or the Vashta Nerada. That's not to say they never should've come back and that I don't want to see another Angel story, but I always felt that _Blink_ was supposed to be their only appearance, but Moffat decided they should probably come back.

How long until a story is set in the corona pandemic

I feel like The Angel's could really benefit from animation

The weeping angels are at their best when their mysterious entities that don't make any sense. They are monstrosities that are, just because they are. Horrific, very horrid.

You know that the Class boxsets are set during the one series that there was, right? They're not allowed to explore further.

I'm watching this while trying to study for my Christmas science exam. Science fiction is still science, right?

Personally the Weeping Angels are by far my favourite. Bringing them back just like the Daleks and Cybermen isn't gonna ruin the Angels, it's about keeping them as they are. If you add a new ability to them then yes they will stop to be interesting, But keep as they are now and play with just that, we all know a old house with Weeping Angels works just fine, and a Graveyard. There are countless ideas you could do with them.

"I promise this is not just bad Fan-Fic... ergh... it kind of is - but then, isn't all of it?" - it's a good point when all of "New Who" has been made by [...and much of it has starred] super-fans of Classic Who!

Don’t forget they were in LEGO Dimensions.. I know it’s Lego but still counts

I always took them to be some kind of memetic beings created by Thought and belief

can you make a vid about airplanes being scary

fly me to the moon baby

I may just be stupid but in flesh and stone didn’t the angels fall into the cracks and wouldn’t that make them stop existing

I completely forgot Class was a thing

Wait so what are you telling me because I’m going back in forth on if I should have them in my doctor who fan series this just made that worse

Review doctor screw

I can now die happy

I want the silence back

Just wait till 2022 when 6th + 10th meet up.

imagine there was nothing after blink for a moment imagine the statue of angelty never happened, imagine the overuse of angels never happened and angel fatigue didnt happen for 1 moment no new stories, no overuse now imagine class still happened the way it did, the hype for the ending and the droves of fans that would of flocked to it just for that ending would of made it the angels appear in doctor who and are never seen again only to appear in a spinoff and where we can find out more about them more naturally instead of being destroyed by there very creator through overuse, a singular creature could of made the series a success because fans of the angels would actually want to know more but no, its like the daleks cybermen and master today, they are overused but under utilised and the fact is the daleks have never never been better than in the early days of david whittaker in fact the stories are copied today victory of the daleks is basically power of the daleks and evolution is evil the angels will return everything does but whether they are used right is another matter

H. P. Lovecraft would be proud to see them, Vashta Nerada And Daleks, that are like the Flying Polyps, who fought their own time war with the Great Race Yith.

ben shrimpo is right about everything

Ummm. The angels aren't a hugely original idea, but they're taken from H P Lovecrafts "The Nameless City". A ruined temple lined with statues of lizards, that move once the lights go out and take away the equally unnamed protagonists.

wait is the thirteenth doctor meeting 10 in BLINK canon?

Wait does that mean the Nestine in Rose just...kinda showed up because an Angel sent him back there? Oh god are we gonna have to get a Entire History of the Nestine and the Autons?

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but i think overexposure kills villains, particularly horror ones. I think the weeping angels mostly work, as long as we never see them again.

Cancelled harder than Kevin Spacey 😂

What’s the episode at 13:12 ?

Six doctor more like doctor who

Newer iterations were progressively ass. But I think alot of new who villains could do with more screentime if handled well, personally I wanna know why max capricorn is a cyborg.