Comments on: Possible spoilers: What NYC landmark might be making a creepy cameo on Doctor Who?

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:24:00 +0000

I’m now wondering if Shylock may have emigrated to the Bronx

By: urpBurp

urpBurp — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:40:00 +0000

Love me some Dr Who!

A couple questions though… don’t all weeping angels have wings? Hence the “angels” part. If Liberty was a weeping angel, where are her wings? Also since any picture/recorded image of a weeping angel becomes a weeping angel, what about all those millions of images of the Statue of Liberty that are out there… or is that where the other weeping angels came from in the first place? Maybe Liberty is the Weeping Angel Overlord!

…Sorry, I guess I still have some residual MN Convergence vibes bouncing around in me. :)

By: McGreens

McGreens — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Seventh season?

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:40:00 +0000

I guessed right without looking.

And, Jamie, you post cool things, you just have to know when to stop writing. Are you paid per word? A picture and nothing more after the jump would be enough.

By: WilliamS

WilliamS — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:22:00 +0000

As well as a certain former vice president who lives on stolen life force.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:21:00 +0000

Those sneaky French though, right? Talk about Greeks bearing gifts… Incidentally, are the replicas in Paris also weeping angels?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:01:00 +0000

I’ve gotten such recommendations every now and then since high school. I can’t imagine going all the way back to the early ones (I’m in my forties with two kids and a time-consuming job; I’m neither in the Howard families nor remotely idle, so I really have to ration my time and attention), but I fear if I enjoy the new ones enough I’ll feel the completist urge and the wheels will fall off completely. I still remember the feeling when I had to go cold-turkey with the Star Wars books once I computed the cost/benefit analysis of staying abreast. Don’t wanna go through that again.

By: Gar Lipow

Gar Lipow — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:32:00 +0000

I’m betting these are foilers. Or else the Daily Star outright made them up. Actually I hope the first is true, because I don’t think any episode dealing with Weeping Angels will ever be as scary as blink, so why not make the final weeping angel ep funy-scary and over the top?

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:49:00 +0000

“Blink” is perhaps my favorite TV episode, of any show, ever. However, I didn’t find the subsequent appearances of the weeping angels to be particularly scary. They were off to a good start the second time they showed up, but then they showed them actually moving (not when the characters were looking, just the camera). That isn’t scary, and defeats the entire purpose!

Thankfully, they have shown constraint and didn’t ruin them by using them all the time. The other regular Doctor Who monsters you can’t really ruin by overusing them, but the weeping angels need to be used sparingly to remain effective.

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Most likely during the mid-80s, multi-year renovation. Come to think of it, it’s quite possible that Lee Iacocca is an alien.

By: Tynam

Tynam — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:15:00 +0000

The Ponds are actually among the more long-serving companions (if you count in stories and series; changes in TV since then mean nobody’s ever going to match some of the earlier companions for episode count!) Unless you count the Brigadier, almost nobody’s ever survived as a companion for more than three series without being written out *somehow*. (The only exceptions are Sarah Jane and Tegan, as far as I can recall, and they were still only regulars for about three years.)

Not saying part of me doesn’t want to see those two crazy kids retire happy. (But then, part of me would have killed Amy last series, and had Rory emerge as the villain behind the Silence as a result. Part of me is not nice.)

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:08:00 +0000

Sounds great, Look forward to seeing Baker.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:35:00 +0000

You really need to work on that. Start with the current run (Christopher Eccleston to David Tennant to Matt Smith) rather than the original 1960′s and 70′s episodes, since you’ve gotten the late start. You’ll catch up quickly enough.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Fair point.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:27:00 +0000

But facing the largest metropolis in the US means there is never a moment when someone isn’t staring at her. Sneaky stuff, Moffitt.

By: David Trotsky

David Trotsky — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:51:00 +0000

As I’ve always said, Never Trust The French

By: redrobot25

redrobot25 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:26:00 +0000

It makes me really mad that you just spoiled what would have been a really cool reveal in a show i really like. You did not have a break, and the image gave everything away as i scrolled down. This is the second major spoiler i have seen on BB this week, and it’s really pretty crappy.

By: Pink Frankenstein

Pink Frankenstein — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:08:00 +0000

FYI
The potential spoiler is right there, there is no jump as promised in the first paragraph.

By: Manny

Manny — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:04:00 +0000

But the Statue of Liberty is made of metal and the Weeping Angels are of stone.

By: A J

A J — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Please – if this was supposed to be ‘after the jump’ then make it after the jump and requires clicking through. Right now, it’s all on the front page, ready to look at.

I’d heard of the images (and the concept has been around for ages now) but others may not be quite as aware.

By: TooGoodToCheck

TooGoodToCheck — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:01:00 +0000

I imagine the biggest difference would be that Sherlockians never have to worry that people will assume that they are unreasonably enthusiastic fans of HGTV’s Mike Holmes.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Yep, K-9 and Company, with the most amazing opening theme EVAR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7OiJpnlUs

Warning: What has been seen cannot be UNseen.

By: Vickie Kostecki

Vickie Kostecki — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:46:00 +0000

He’s got his own spin off as well (it’s animated, and he’s only barely recognisable as K9). If I’m not mistaken, he had one back in the 70′s as well.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:37:00 +0000

Speaking of which, it’s time K-9 returned to Dr. Who.

By: angusm

angusm — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:21:00 +0000

That’s the point. You thought they organized all those boat tours and visits to Liberty Island just for the benefit of the tourists? No, the whole idea is to ensure that there’s always someone watching it.

It’s not an accident that the Statue was moved from Paris to New York, “the city that never sleeps”. Can’t take any chances with a Weeping Angel that big …

By: Supernumerary

Supernumerary — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:20:00 +0000

I don’t know re: spin-offs. Without even touching on Torchwood, there was The Sarah Jane Adventures, and that pitch RTD made to give Rose her own program.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Ah. Thank you. Now I wonder if they live in Whovervilles.

Someone once explained to me the difference between “Sherlockians” and “Holmesians” but I’ll be damned if I can remember the distinction now.

By: Psychotronic (Michael F.)

Psychotronic (Michael F.) — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:17:00 +0000

Considering that the source article is a British tabloid, I’m taking the story with a fair bit of salt.

By: Nick Harvey

Nick Harvey — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:15:00 +0000

IIRC, River Song has seen The Doctor’s (final) death, and her reaction when Amy (I think) asked about it was something like “I don’t fear The Doctor’s death and neither should you. There’s a much worse day coming for all of us”. Since River is going backward relative to The Doctor (and the Ponds?) the version of her that we know has presumably already experienced this episode. If the Ponds are killed off, I’m thinking this is what she was talking about.

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

Plus the fact that it’s hollow and you can explore the inside just raises a whole lot of questions. Are the other Weeping Angels potentially hollow too? Does observing it from the inside have the same effect as from the outside? Also looking forward to the explanation for how a massive, famous, constantly-observed human-built structure was replaced by an alien.