Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Village Of The Angels

9. How Did Claire Know The Doctor?

Doctor Who Flux Village of the Angels
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Claire’s first encounter with the Weeping Angels supposedly happens after she meets the Doctor in 21st century Liverpool. So how is it she already knew who the Doctor was? Was she already possessed by the rogue Angel because of her psychic abilities?

When Claire struggled to hide from the Angel in her house, she was careful not to take her eyes off the statue, so was this down to her psychic intuition too? That’s what she thinks, she’d heard a voice telling her not to blink even before she first met the Doctor. The renegade Angel is trying to stop her being taken by the other Angels, so yes she must have already been taken over by the Angel.

But is it really all because of Claire’s premonitions, or did someone else plant that knowledge of the Doctor, the TARDIS and the Angels in her mind? Much will depend on whether Claire makes it out of 1901 and back into 2021. She is now free of the Angel and if they keep their word, they should send her back. She could be caught in a time-loop if she then meets the Doctor. It would explain the meaning behind her avoiding Halloween by going ‘the long way’ home.

There is also the tantalising possibility that before meeting the Doctor in Liverpool she went somewhere else first. Our money is on Claire being the one who makes contact with Kate Stewart.

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.