We don't know but it's the Christmas special they're filming - her debut episode, so it's very possible she is from Victorian times or maybe it's an Ace type scenerio and she's a modern girl who ends up there for reasons unknown.
No one knows yet for certain, but this is the third episode filmed that has her in the Victorian period (the other two are Mark Gatiss' The Crimson Horror with Dame Diana Rigg and Vastra/Jenny/Strax, and I think the Neil Cross story with Dougray Scott) so there seems to be a good chance either she is from the mid-to-late 1800s or she's kind of like Ace and a girl-out-of-time that the Doctor finds there.
My suspicion is that she's from the twenty-first (or at most, late twentieth) century, but got to the eighteen hundreds through some sort of involuntary time travel. If so, I predict that whatever brought her there is not going to be revealed in her debut episode, at least not completely. Furthermore, I predict that she and the Doctor will realize that they're talking to a person-out-of-time at approximately the same moment, leading to satisfying amounts of Eleventy-flail.
What's more, if they're going with the girl-out-of-time thing, it seems enough like a deliberate Classic Who callback that I predict tentatively predict really, really fondly hope this means Sophie Aldred is showing up for one of the fiftieth anniversary specials.
Furthermore, I predict that she and the Doctor will realize that they're talking to a person-out-of-time at approximately the same moment, leading to satisfying amounts of Eleventy-flail.
That's such a cheering thing to picture I'm going to be disappointed if it doesn't happen now.
That's the easiest answer, which is why I'm automatically skeptical of it. I think Moffat would prefer something that the Doctor can puzzle over/sneakily investigate over the course of the season, like the cracks in Season Five. Weeping angels don't have much of an agenda beyond "eat your future," and "be astoundingly creepy."
Unless they do, and that's the mystery . . .
Thing is, though, I don't think we need to find out that much about the inner life of a weeping angel. The creepiness of them comes at least partly from the juxtaposition of, "is totally hunting you down," and "doesn't really seem alive at all." You don't want to familiarize them too much; you don't want to make them entirely comprehensible. Weeping angels could still be involved, but it would have to be something like, I dunno-maybe Clara got caught by them several times. Maybe the first jump took her to the fifties, and the next one to the twenties, and it took yet another angel to zap her back to the Victorian era-which is either an epic run of bad luck, or
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What's more, if they're going with the girl-out-of-time thing, it seems enough like a deliberate Classic Who callback that I predict tentatively predict really, really fondly hope this means Sophie Aldred is showing up for one of the fiftieth anniversary specials.
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That's such a cheering thing to picture I'm going to be disappointed if it doesn't happen now.
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Unless they do, and that's the mystery . . .
Thing is, though, I don't think we need to find out that much about the inner life of a weeping angel. The creepiness of them comes at least partly from the juxtaposition of, "is totally hunting you down," and "doesn't really seem alive at all." You don't want to familiarize them too much; you don't want to make them entirely comprehensible. Weeping angels could still be involved, but it would have to be something like, I dunno-maybe Clara got caught by them several times. Maybe the first jump took her to the fifties, and the next one to the twenties, and it took yet another angel to zap her back to the Victorian era-which is either an epic run of bad luck, or ( ... )
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