Flux Village of the Angels notes
Devon, Nov 1967
Very pretty blue
I’m not loving the overtones of Hide
Nov. 21
Cool visual of the phone box back lit
The lie detector is measuring absolute truth, not what Claire
believes/
Claire Brown
A little girl named Peggy is missing
Claire was born May 13, 1985. Great moment when she say’s that to a lie
detector in 1967
What is the professor testing, exactly?
I like Claire.
What is Claire experiencing here?
Oh, that’s the angel talking through Claire
***The Angel has the TARDIS.
Very cool flickering lights in the TARDIS with Angel
moving. This is a bit deus ex machiona
technobabble just to get them over the cliffhanger.
The Doctor: It does
have an element of risk
Dan: How big an element
The Doctor: Well,
pretty big. The only element, really.
Nice tri-split screen for the blink
Dan reacts to danger a lot like Jamie used to. He just shrugs and ghets on with it
Have we ever seen someone trying to use the call box
I like the way they remember that Yaz has cop training every
time it comes time to interview someone.
She does it exactly the way a cop would
It’s happening again.
Count the stones – very Stones of Blood
The Professor keeps his own bees
The Institute of Psychic Investigations
Professore Eustacius Jericho.
Who’s George Elliot?
What Experiment was he running?
Percipiant is a good word.
The image of an angel becomes an angel. Or ‘can’ now.
Amazing visual of Claire looking up and seeing the angel
wings on her back. I bet there’s already
a snapchat filter for that
So older Peggy is spreading notes to get people to leave to
break the cycle.
Such a nice and simple representation of people disappearing
Is there suntext here that Gerald isn’t taking Yaz’ advice because
she’s a woman of color.
Dan: Maybe she’s not
missing. Maybe she just ran to get away
from him.
The Angel looks like a scarecrow in the distance. That’s a new one
I like how the Angels keep quite successfully snatching
people.
Bel is still out in the Lupari ship looking for Vinder and
showing us how completely trashed all of space is.
Puzano had canals
So it’s like Planet Venice
The guy on Puzano is just the right level
NOPP – I’m Namaca Ost Parvess Po
Bel: Bel.
NOPP: Nice. Shorter.
Better.
They have ¼ of a sun, third of a moon, half a planet. A poetic description but not really a
scientific one.
Nioce that Namaca is dressed vaguely venetian, and also that
this brief hope of hookinmg up with Bel comes and goes
Love this house
The Angels threw the rock to lure him outside. Wait, did they just explain the cold open
with Sally Sparrow?
They always have to give the little Angels Tutorial speech
in these.
I’d been assuming that this is Claire earlier in her
timestream, but it turns out that she’d just had premonitions before her
appearance in episode one. Her
timestream isn’t out of sync with the Doctors.
That’s disappointing.
She’s been in the 60s for two years
Would they have had a television as small and portable as
that in 1967.
Something about the delivery of ‘Are they really ringing the
doorbell?’ is hysterical/.
Nice usage of Claire knowing that everyone in this village
disappears on this day and also did in 1901
And now stone dust from Claire’s eye. They’re hitting all the angels’ greatest hits
It feels like time is way too linear for what Swarm and
Azure said had happened last week. Should
it be this coherent?
I wish they’d at least just mention that it’s odd time isn’t
more fucked up.
They set up the 1901 info at just the right moment for us to
know where Dan and Yaz are
Dan is pretty quick to know that she’s Peggy
It makes sense that the Angels would need two quantum
extraction points, one from where they grab people and one from when they send
people back to, in order to get the energy
You have to stay in the village, you musn’t go beyond the sign
Ah. Time is all
fucked up, these are just isolated extracted safe spaces
Very cool image of the village hanging in space.
Gerald: What do you
think gives you the right to speak to me like that, Jean.
Jean: Forty-seven
years of pain, Gerald.
Again, really great visual of the universe
Have we ever seen someone hug the Angel instead of vice
versa? I don’t think we have
Ah, older Peggy is safe because they already told her they
were leaving her alone.
So ‘being observed’ also includes watching a CC feed.
Escaping the screen takes a lot of effort.
Nice way to explain what’s happening to the angel sketch via
the TV disussionm
The flaming angel image is just SO COOL
And now Claire is turning into Angel parts like Amy thought
she was
The premonition of an Angel counted as containing the image
of an angel. That’s clever.
It’s very Doctor-y for her to be impressed by Professor
Jericho’s ability to handle stress and still be curious.
Now they’re doing to mind meld from Girl in the Fireplace
Professor J. liberated the concentration camps
He must have been planning to experiment on her psychic powers
in some way. Hence explaining the leather
head helmets
Again, the image of the Doctor and Claire/Angel on the dual beach is just
beautiful.
Specifically the Angel that hijacked the TARDIS is the one
on Claire’s mind.
A weeping Angel is asking the Doctor for help. That’s a bit of a sci-fi trope.
So this is not the Angel that grabbed Claire in 2021. Another one did to trty to capture the rogue
weeping angel. Interesting
These Angels are an extraction squad and work for the Division. That’s big
And the savior for these people turns out to be Azure,
tricking them into a passenger form.
Fortunately, Bel recognizes what’s really happening. Why do the Ravagers want all these people
inside Passengers?
There’s a bit of an echo of Utopia
Oh, Bel was deployed against passenger forms before.
So now Bel knows what Azure looks like, and that she’s not a
friend
It makes sense that my dude is pissed about Bel stripping
away his false hope. Sad, but makes
sense.
The crumbling universe is closing in on them
Dan’s asking good questions , just to focus the audience on
what they are.
Ah, Gerald and Jean have finally found Peggy
Nobody survives it twice.
That’s a change
Peggy: He was never
nice to me.
That’s a bit sociopath-y
Yaz asks the smart question regarding, OK, what else is weird? Let’s check that out.
The transition to angel leaping out of the TV screen is just
gorgeous. There is such good imagery in
this one.
The lie detector lines drawinmg an Angel is pretty
meaninmgless, but god it looks so cool.
The visuals in this are just wonderful.
So this Angel ran away from Division like the Doctor
did. Interesting bond
The Division uses anything it can. No moral high ground at all.
The Angel agrees to leave Claire if the Doctor fights off
the Angels for it.
What knowledge does this Angel have that they’re trying to
protect. It says ‘Everything.’ Including
all of the Doctor’s missing memories. It’s
offering that in exchange for protection.
Professor:
Sorry. Threw a cup at you.
There’s a secret tunnel from the basement out to a lovers
meeting point.
What’s putting the helmets on the angels do, other than give
them an excuse to say ‘reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.’
Angel wings on the tunnel walls.
The Angel hands reaching out of the walls are very
Mummenchanz
Burial site from the stone age is an Angel ship that just
arrived yesterday
Mrs. Hayward is Peggy
How does Peggy growing up there work if they’re extracted
from time. Part of time collapsiong I
guess.
They left them alive because they’re cruel and want them to
have witnesses
Flickering lights are so the Angels thing
And the Angels win and get the Professor. They’re really winning all over the place.
Professor: Mrs
Hayward. You appear to be.. at night…
Chilling moment when the Doctor realizes they aren’t following
her out of there stone ship
Nioce reveal that the tunnel comes out where the Dan/Yaz
conversation is happening.
Claire can sense that ‘her’ angel has been talking to the
others.
The Doctor thinks she’s sacrificuing her chance to get her memories
back ion exchange for getting everyone put back in the right place.
But one last rug pull, the rogue angel has traded the Doctor
for her own freedom.
Claire: You are
recalled. To Division.
What is the connection between the Time Lords and the
Weeping Angels? There certainly seems to
be one based on End of Time pt.2
The Doctor turning into an Angel. What? Looks
cool though/.
Mid credits interruption to show that time really is fucked
up!
Also, that’s the William Hartnell closing music. Nice touch
Vinder has found what’s his face on Space Venice
Lovely bit of scriupting that he’s finally come to terms
with the idea that she saved his left
Recording cutting out just before Bel says where’s she’s
headed. BUT – Vinder did just meet
Passenger forms himself. Surely he’ll
put that together.
No Swarm this week.
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