![]() The new rule added in the “Time of the Angels”/”Flesh and Stone” two-parter carries over here: that which holds an image of an angel becomes an angel itself. The Angels have already breeched the perimeter – not just through the sketch Claire made of her premonition but also through her very mind’s eye. They barricade themselves inside, and the Doctor even sets up a primitive surveillance system, but it’s all a farce. What follows with Jericho, Claire, and the Doctor after she barges in on them is basically a home invasion horror movie with Weeping Angels instead of a guy with a big knife. Zoom in on Yaz and Dan’s barely contained disdain. I’m guessing that the psychic experiments he’s conducting have something to do with the town’s “cursed” reputation, but whatever is going to happen in 1967 hasn’t happened yet, so what cause does he have to posit that the mass disappearance in 1901 wasn’t a one-time thing? And why aren’t he and Claire also out looking for the lost child? They couldn’t have been worse search party participants than Peggy’s Uncle Gerald, who seems skeptical that a 10-year-old girl can be a distinct person with thoughts and feelings of her own. One also wonders if there’s more to Jericho than meets the eye. Is she hoping to make contact with the Doctor? Is she the one making this choice or is the Angel within her influencing her? In the past – I think – if it’s true.”) For reasons that the show doesn’t take pains to explain (this is my shocked face), Claire has submitted to Dr. (“Not yet,” she says in “The Halloween Apocalypse” when Yaz asks if they’ve met, “but we will. Claire has psychic abilities and saw the Doctor for the first time in one of her visions. And while the standard Doctor Who assumption would be that they would meet for the first time in the Doctor’s future, the show takes it in another direction. Here, we reunite with Claire Brown, who we spent a brief scene with in the series premiere when she recognized the Doctor in Liverpool without the Doctor recognizing her. Dan and Yaz head off to help the girl’s crotchety great-uncle and disturbingly passive great-aunt continue the search, while the Doctor follows her blazing hot sonic to the study of a Professor Eustacius Jericho. And “Village of the Angels” also has atmosphere in spades, from the foggy (and over-populated) graveyard to the crisis the Doctor, Yaz, and Dan walk into: a 10-year-old girl has gone missing on a dark night. Maxine knows how to set a foreboding mood. She also wrote the Series 12 banger “The Haunting of Villa Diodati,” so it’s safe to say that Ms. This episode is the sole co-write of the season and the credit belongs to Maxine Alderton.
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