Why it is beloved? The Weeping Angels are back to play their part in an emotional farewell. It's also revealed that the Statue of Liberty is a Weeping Angel. Why it's overrated? As a final story for the popular characters he himself created, Steven Moffat didn't seem to have brought his A-game. Sometimes a script just need more polishing. That applies to a lot of Steven Moffat scripts nowadays but it is especially true of this. The story starts out with Amy discovering that the storybook the Doctor is reading is actually written by River Song and is telling present events parallel to theirs. From the book they learn that a Weeping Angel has zapped Rory to 1930s New York and the Angels' plan is to lure Rory into a trap so Rory can meet his old version of himself who is about to die on his death bed. This implies that Rory is imprisoned by the Angels until he grows old and dies. Letting Rory meet himself in the future is the Angels' way of putting it in stone (no pun intended there). But why do the Angels have to do this? Is it just us, or has it never really been explained? In the episode Blink, all the Angels had to do was zap a person into the past. The person would live his/her life in the past until they got old and, for the Angels, this is stealing the time energy that the person could have had in the present. They didn't have to monitor the person or imprison them - just zapping them into any random location in the past was enough. As such, the whole hotel scheme inn this episode is just extra effort for no apparent reason. A big twist is that the Statue of Liberty is a Weeping Angel. Which isn't really at twist, given that it was already revealed in the first few minutes of the episode, making the mysterious earthquakes scattered throughout the episode pointless. It also doesn't make sense. The Statue of Liberty is not made of stone and even if it was, it could never move. Thousands of people are looking at it at all times. The only compensation is Amy and Rory's scene on the rooftop, Amy's final message to the Doctor the goodbye scene in which Amy sacrifices herself to be with Rory in 1930s New York - but even that comes with a plot hole so big that even the less timey-wimey included viewers seemed to notice it. Aren't the Angels still out there, free to bother Amy and Rory as they will in the past? If the reason the Doctor can't the Ponds again is because 1930' New York is too risky to travel to via TARDIS, couldnt't just use River's vortex manipulator instead? River implies that she can still visit them so why can't the Doctor too? Couldn't they meet outside of New York? Why could't he just travel to 1940s New York instead? The whole thing hurts out heads. The Angel Takes Manhattan is a mess from start to finish. Steven Moffat has ruined the best monster of the revived series - monsters he himself created. How about his other creation, River Song? It's as if he doesn't even know River at all anymore. In this episode she's someone who hides her vulnerabilities yet she's always been the most vocal. Now that the Ponds are gone, fans won't get to see the relationship she has with her parents. And as far as goodbyes go, Rory didn't even have a chance to say his.