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

8. Why Are The Angels Working For The Division?

Doctor Who Flux Village of the Angels
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The Weeping Angels employed by the Division? It sounds somewhat farfetched, but does at least confirm that the Division are not just Time Lords, making Karvanista more likely to be a Lupari than a Time Lord in disguise. The Fugitive Doctor also had a human companion in Lee Clayton. So Time Lords, Lupari, humans and Weeping Angels have all worked for the Division.

Could an Angel have even been part of the Doctor’s team when she stormed the temple of Atropos? Was Yaz or Vinder standing in for an angel in Once, Upon Time? It would make sense that the rogue Angel fled the division at the same time as the Doctor, on the back of whatever happened after that final mission.

The Angels are also known as ‘lone assassins’ which does imply they can be hired. But what is in it for them? It’s a background detail likely to be conveniently ignored, but a deal whereby the Time Lords feed the Angels with temporal energy is possible. What is clear is that the Ravagers taking captive every survivor of the Flux in their Passengers is bad news for an Angel. The Angels need victims to stay alive, so it’s possible they only worked for the Time Lords on this single mission to defeat Swarm and Azure.

One curious point of comparison is the still unexplained ‘Time Lords’ who were covering their eyes beside Rassilon in The End of Time. The Doctor does the same when she is transformed into an angel. Could there be a link here?

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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.