Doctor Who: 10 Creepiest Corners Of Steven Moffat’s Mind

By Chris Quicksilver /

3. Innocent-Seeming Statues Are Actually Plotting To Kill Us All...

Statues are everywhere, placed throughout cities all over the world. Some of them are of people you recognise, some of them aren€™t. They don€™t usually do much except provide tourists with easy holiday snaps, act as climbing frames for drunken students and provide pigeons with effective toilet facilities. However, for an increasingly deranged Steven Moffat, some statues are actually quantum-locked monsters that can only move when they aren€™t being directly looked at, but whenever they do move, they move really fast. Known as €˜The weeping Angels€™, these bizarre monstrosities feed off the life a person would have lived if he/she hadn€™t fallen victim to the angels, then they boot you into the past and force you to live a different life...If you€™re lucky. ...If you€™re unlucky, they simply terrify you before snapping your neck. Just for the fun of it. Oh yeah, if you stare too long at a picture of an angel, you will yourself become an angel. So that€™s postcards out too, then. Great. Drawing influence from the children€™s game €˜Grandma€™s Footsteps€™, as well as (possibly) the Jean-Paul Sartre short story The Room, The Weeping Angels would go on to become a Doctor Who monster every bit as terrifying as his classic adversaries The Daleks (everybody€™s favourite pepper-pot space Nazis armed with egg whisks and sink plungers) and The Cybermen (An army of grown men inexplicably wrapped from head to toe in bako foil, something that I have always found to be deeply unsettling).