Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Once, Upon Time
1. What Are The Weeping Angels Planning?
One of biggest pluses of this series has been the return of the traditional Doctor Who cliff-hanger and Once, Upon Time gave us another cracker. The once impenetrable TARDIS has been increasingly vulnerable of late and now the angels have found a way in through the image on Yaz’s phone. They waste no time in taking over the controls of the TARDIS, setting up the next chapter.
The angels provide some of Doctor Who’s biggest jump scares and they have already been used to great effect this series, stalking Yaz at work and at home, presumably with the single purpose of getting into the TARDIS. They are unavoidably scary, which means that even if they are working against the Flux or the Ravagers, it’s going to look like they are out to cause harm.
It would be lazy storytelling to write them as another race taking advantage of the Flux (like the Sontarans) and they aren’t involved in the post-Flux battles with Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans. One plausible scenario is that they need the Doctor’s help.
It would be a stretch to say that the Angels mean no harm for once. The angels feed off the energy of the lives that they have sent back in time, and it’s possible that source has dried up because of the Flux and the Ravagers. The village of angels could be a graveyard of petrified angels in need of revitalisation. A TARDIS would be a rich alternative source of energy. Is the Doctor being used to bring to life a new army of angels and will she be forced to help them if she is to defeat the Flux?