The Angels Take Manhattan review/thoughts

[kilodalton]

This was really full of plotholes.

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1) ... so, if "an image of an angel becomes an angel," then shouldn't the detective have been zapped back in time almost as soon as he stepped into the elevator with the poster of the Statue of Liberty? (Or gotten his neck broken/sand in his eye or something?) And since angels can turn other statues into angels,

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[lunawho]

I agree with you on all of these points. I wanted SO MUCH to love this episode because, contrary to popular myth, I never set out to hate on Moffat eps (I still think Blink is the second greatest episode ever written), but the man has officially lost it. I can understand (somewhat) ignoring things made canon in prior eras and what not, but the man can't seem to keep things canon that *he* wrote in previous episodes to be laws.

I mean, numerous times he's had the Doctor say that the past can be re-written and that the TARDIS can't be moved once he's gotten involved in events (which is why the Doctor had to jump through a time window to save Reinette.) But in other episodes, he's always completely ignoring his own rules. As much as "time can be re-written," whenever someone suggests using that idea to fix things, the retort is, "Oh no! Now it's a fixed point!" and the reasoning why it's fixed never really makes any sense. And with the TARDIS locking him in events, 50% of the time he has the Doctor moving the TARDIS to try to change things and then the other 50% the canon law stays a law (according to the Doctor.)

Just pick a canon and stick with it! That's what I spend half of my time yelling at the screen. Or, in the 2% of the time that the Doctor changes canon law, some horrible consequence should come with (a la Waters of Mars.)

I really wanted to be emotional about the Ponds leaving, but I was too distracted by the terrible plot writing to get worked up about it at all.

What happened to the Doctor Who that I remember?!