Doctor Who: 13 Cool Details Revealed In Steven Moffat's Time Of Angels Commentary

by Danny Meegan

1. The Finale Of The Episode Was Almost Structured Differently

Doctor Who The Time Of Angels ending gravity globe
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As it stands, the episode ends with the Doctor delivering an epic speech before shooting out a gravity globe. We see the Doctor's face while he fires the gun, get a quick shot of the globe exploding, and finally, the credits roll.

However, the structure of this moment wasn't always set in stone. Pardon the pun.

Originally, the episode ended on the shot of the Doctor firing the gun, without the shot of the globe. However, Moffat felt that it would be better if we actually saw the globe exploding, and so, at his request, this shot was added in.

The shot of the globe actually provides a nice smooth lead-in to the credits, whereas hard-cutting from the gunshot may have felt a little abrupt and jarring.

Either way, this hardly changed the overall quality of the episode. It's just a fascinating example of a small detail - a small detail that might seem inconsequential to us viewers - that the crew put a great deal of thought into.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!