Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Weeping Angels
5. They Can Alter The Perception Of Other Beings (Which Explains The Statue Of Liberty)
Series 7's The Angels Take Manhattan provided a twisty-turny and heartbreaking departure for Amy Pond and her loyal husband Rory, but one major sticking point that a lot of folks had with the episode was the fact that it turned the Statue of Liberty into a gigantic Weeping Angel.
Even by Doctor Who standards, this was a tough concept to buy, and because the episode wasn't really concerned with offering an explanation, many fans were left wondering how such an enormous statue could move across a bustling city.
Well, the answer to that is... some form of mind control, which is the explanation that Moffat offered to Doctor Who Magazine a few years ago:
"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… 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."
Basically, because Manhattan is essentially under the control of the Angels - and they can move at lightning-quick speeds - the Statue of Liberty can move anywhere it wants, and the power of the Angels will make it impossible to perceive.
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone established that the Angels can mess with people's heads and make them see things, so, in theory, the Angels could also make people not see things - in this case, the Statue of Liberty.
Does this make sense? Not one lick. But then again, nothing about Doctor Who really makes sense.