Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Plot Holes Of The Revived Series So Far
10. So The Statue Of Liberty Is A Weeping Angel Now?
...Apparently, yes! Ever since the introduction of the Weeping Angels, every fan is looking at statues differently. A novel idea has gone around that the Statue of Liberty might even be one. There was a good discussion about it, too, even though everyone knows it was not something to be taken seriously. Finally, it became canon in The Angels Take Manhattan.
But it shouldn't have been anywhere else but fan fiction. After all, how can it realistically move? Not only is it the most famous statue in the world but it's also the size of a building. Yet it travelled from Liberty Island to a Manhattan building without anyone noticing it? Throughout the episode, the characters even hear Earth rumbling footsteps as it travels, like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. From how it sounds, there wasn't even a delay. To answer the plot hole, Steven Moffat had this to say in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine:
The Angels can do so many things. They can bend time, climb inside your mind, hide in pictures, steal your voice, mess with your perception, leak stone from your eye. New York in 1938 was a nest of Angels and the people barely more than farm animals. The abattoir of the lonely assassins! In those terrible days, in that conquered city, you saw and understood only what the Angels allowed, so Liberty could move and hunt as it wished, in the blink of an eye, unseen by the lowly creatures upon which it preyed. Also, it tiptoed.
If his statement is true, then why wasn't there any evidence in the episode that the Weeping Angels could manipulate a persons perception in that way? Surely the Doctor would mention something that important while they were escaping with their lives. If Angels in the 1930s were that powerful then our heroes should have been doomed the moment they arrived.
Why even include Overkill Lady Liberty, anyway? How convenient was it that it traveled all the way from Liberty Island without delay, yet when it finally got to its target, it got forced to stop? Were Amy and Rory immune to the Angel's perception powers when all other people in Manhattan weren't? Was the private detective in the start of the episode immune, too? Also, the Statue of Liberty is not made of stone. Just putting that out there.