A common feature of TV these days is to entice viewers to tune in by staging a competition. You too can win a luxury holiday in a swanky spa on the borders of a sunny, unspoilt beach. Or how about a big fat cheque for an amount of money that could bank you for your next nine lifetimes? The great thing about these competitions is that the questions are not exactly brainteaser material. An average question goes along the lines of: “What do people drink tea from? A – A crane grab? B – A cup? Or C – A vase?” The phone bill at the end of the month is more likely to give you a thumping headache, however.
A shrewd Doctor Who fan could have worked out how the latest thrilling adventure will conclude. Let's look at the facts: It's Amy and Rory's swansong. It has Weeping Angels in it. Amy...
A shrewd Doctor Who fan could have worked out how the latest thrilling adventure will conclude. Let's look at the facts: It's Amy and Rory's swansong. It has Weeping Angels in it. Amy...
- 10/3/2012
- Shadowlocked
The finale of Doctor Who Series 7a seeks to answer an intriguing question – what if each living soul was like a sheaf of pages waiting to be rewritten? This imagined book – an epic account of each existence – would be forever in flux – shifting and changing with each decision made, expanding and contracting with connection and loss, beginning and ending but not necessarily in that order. How much control would we have over what is written there? And if we do not read ahead, can our story be changed?
“Angels Take Manhattan”, in an obvious nod to film noir, begins very fittingly, with typed words on a blank page. Sam Garner, depression era private eye, has been hired by mob boss Mr. Grayle to investigate an apartment building in Battery Park, New York City. Garner arrives at the address and immediately begins to notice that something is not right. Stepping into the waiting elevator,...
“Angels Take Manhattan”, in an obvious nod to film noir, begins very fittingly, with typed words on a blank page. Sam Garner, depression era private eye, has been hired by mob boss Mr. Grayle to investigate an apartment building in Battery Park, New York City. Garner arrives at the address and immediately begins to notice that something is not right. Stepping into the waiting elevator,...
- 10/1/2012
- by Mary Ogle
- Obsessed with Film
The Fall of the Ponds. The Last Page. The Great Weeping. You knew it was coming, The Grand Moff Steven made it clear. Who died, who lived, and who will have a Lot of explaining to do to the parents. Spoilers abound, even more than usual, so here we go…
The Angels Take Manhattan
by Steven Moffat
Directed by Nick Hurran
The episode jumps between 1938 and 2012 Manhattan – in 1938, detective Sam Garner is asked to investigate a mysterious apartment house “where the angels live”, only to meet…himself, years older. In modern day, The Doctor is visiting Central Park with Amy and Rory, when Rory is sent backwards by a weeping angel, into the arms of his daughter River Song. How do you fight an enemy that can suddenly make you go decades into the past? Perhaps the answer in some cases is: you can’t.
The story bears more than...
The Angels Take Manhattan
by Steven Moffat
Directed by Nick Hurran
The episode jumps between 1938 and 2012 Manhattan – in 1938, detective Sam Garner is asked to investigate a mysterious apartment house “where the angels live”, only to meet…himself, years older. In modern day, The Doctor is visiting Central Park with Amy and Rory, when Rory is sent backwards by a weeping angel, into the arms of his daughter River Song. How do you fight an enemy that can suddenly make you go decades into the past? Perhaps the answer in some cases is: you can’t.
The story bears more than...
- 10/1/2012
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
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