4. Are The Weeping Angels At The End Of Blink Really Quantum-Locked?
'Blink' is legendary in the Who community. It's an episode of near universal acclaim and terrifying villains, and in the end, the Doctor tricks the Weeping Angels to look at each other, so they can never move again: but can psychopaths as old as the universe really be defeated by an Ikea lightbulb? It's established in the Angels' return that they can turn lights off, but even if they couldn't, how long would that light last? Can't they just chase poor old Carey Mulligan once it dies? The short answer is "yes", the long answer is "yes, and?" These are perhaps the scariest aliens in Who, it just makes it all the more unnerving that the Doctor can never kill them, he can only put them off. If Moffat had wanted us to think they were gone, he'd have had the Doctor sonic the lighbulb; instead he just showed us statues across London and suggested that any of them could be an Angel. It worked: Who fans still stare at statues. But not in the eyes of course.