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->''If you open your eyes now, for even a second, you '''will''' die.''
-->--'''The Doctor'''
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner.
The episode begins with the humans standing on the ceiling -- or rather the bottom of the crashed ship -- while the Angels are stuck on the floor below. By shooting the gravity globe, the Doctor gave them an updraught powerful enough to pull them into range of the ship's artificial gravity. Mission accomplished: they're out of the trap! Now they just have to get inside the ship and through another airlock door, without getting caught by the Angels again. The first part they manage; the latter is a bit tricky since it means that they'll have to turn the lights out in the corridor for a few seconds in order to get a strong enough surge of power. And a few seconds are all the Angels need.
They make it by shooting at the Angels, causing bursts of light enough to see them and slow them down. Now ensconced in a control room (with comfy chairs), they try to stop the Angels breaking in (not too successfully). Amy has started to count backwards from ten for no apparent reason, without even noticing it. However, it turns out the ship has an on-board cybernetic forest to harvest air from (as you do on a long flight), thus providing a possible escape route.
Angel Bob, the dead cleric, is on the line again. He/it informs the Doctor that the Angels are growing in power and will soon be able to devour the whole universe. According to Bob, Amy has something rather nasty in her eye. And she's still counting down. And apparently there's a much bigger source of power here than the humans had anticipated. The Angels have started laughing, which frankly sounds more like screaming.
And... there's [[ArcSymbol a crack in the wall]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour A rather big, glowing familiar-looking one.]]
The party make a run for it into the forest. All except the Doctor; he's a bit occupied, first with taking samples from the great big crack, and then getting nabbed by the jacket collar as the Angels swarm in. Fortunately ''they'' are a bit occupied with absorbing energy from the crack -- which turns out to be the end of the universe -- to think about killing him. So, he's able to slip his tweedy bonds, leave his jacket behind and make his own escape.
Amy, meanwhile, has reached four in her involuntary countdown and is not doing well. While River and Octavian have a little argument about waiting for the Doctor, the man himself shows up, just in time to see Amy begin to decline. Not just decline, in fact; she's dying, which everyone is quickly made aware of because the Doctor doesn't believe in beating about the bush. He also doesn't have a very good bedside manner as he tries to figure out what's wrong with her. It turns out that, having looked the Angel in the eyes, there's an Angel growing in her mind, or more specifically in the vision centres of her brain. When Bob is asked why the Angels are making her count, it turns out that it's not for anything important, it's simply to make her afraid and ForTheEvulz. The Doctor is ''not'' happy.
With only seconds until the growing Angel "switches off" Amy, River and the Doctor decide that in order to starve it of visual input Amy must do what you should never, ''never'' do when it comes to the Weeping Angels -- close her eyes. And she does.
And it seems to work. She certainly isn't dying any more. But if she opens her eyes again, for more than a second...
They're just going to have to stop the Angels all the quicker, then! The Doctor prepares to set off, taking River and Octavian (who doesn't want to let River out of his sight, although not for romantic reasons, hell no). They leave the Clerics to guard Amy. The Doctor sort of reassures Amy and heads off, leaving Amy feeling rather jilted.
And then he comes back, wearing his jacket... which he lost back in the console room? This will be important ''much'' later. He tries a bit harder to comfort her, and also tells her to remember what he said when she was seven. Unable to recall, Amy asks him what it was, but he refuses to answer -- that's not "the point". She has to ''remember''. Then he heads off again, leaving poor Amy feeling slightly less jilted, but ''very'' confused.
As the Doctor, River and Octavian pick their way through the forest, he teases her about Octavian because of his "wherever she goes, I go" schtick. Hearing this, the bishop meanly decides to break his promise to River and reveals that she's a prisoner under his jurisdiction, and that he's responsible for her until she's earned her pardon. Well, ''that's'' slightly awkward. No time for it, though, as the Doctor's calculated the date that the explosion that caused the crack began, which is 26/06/2010. Amy's era. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall The air date of this series' finale.]]
Back with Amy and the Clerics, it appears that the Angels are using the old reliable method of turning off the lights, namely by ripping the tree borgs apart. And they're wearing their grumpy faces, which means they mean business. Back with the Doctor, River and Octavian, they've reached a service hatch to the primary flight deck, but the Doctor is more intrigued by something that River says... time is running out. What if, he muses, it actually could?
Back again with Amy and the clerics, just as it seems the Angels are about to attack, a sudden bright glow in the distance scares them off. Clerics Philip and Crispin are sent to investigate the bright light, and Amy's just too damn curious not to look. She opens her eyes for that crucial second to confirm that yes, that glowing curtain of energy ''is'' the crack, and it looks just the same as it did before on her bedroom wall. It's following her...[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow not that we didn't]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks already know that]]. Then Cleric Pedro decides to get a closer look at the light. Wait, why not just wait for the other two to get back?
[[{{Retgone}} What other two?]]
...Oh. Oh dear.
Marco's adamant that there never was a Philip or a Crispin on the mission. Amy is just as adamant that there were. And during the conversation, he manages to forget Pedro as well. Amy, now understandably freaked out, tries to persuade Marco to ''please'' not go and investigate the crack, as it doesn't seem to be good for the health at all. He doesn't listen. "Two minutes." But he does leave her a spare communicator to talk to him, so she can hear perfectly clearly when his voice suddenly fades away into crackles and silence. Amy's left all alone. Well, alone except for those Angels.
Octavian is trying to get a preoccupied Doctor to leave, as the Angels are coming. The Doctor waves this off, turning around just in time to stop one going just that little bit further with the headlock it's got Octavian in.
The Doctor attempts to tell the Angel to let Octavian go, which Octavian points out as hopeless since a) the Doctor must take his eyes off the Angel for that to happen and b) the moment that happens, the Angel will break Octavian's neck. Octavian tells the Doctor to leave him, which the Doctor ''really'' doesn't want to do. In the end, he has no choice, and tells Octavian that he wished he knew him better. Octavian replies that the Doctor knew him at his best, which is all that matters. The Doctor reluctantly leaves Octavian to his fate.
On the flight deck, River's trying to get the teleporter to work. But the Doctor says there's no point, since it's as dead as Octavian. He manages to contact Amy and tells her that she has to come to them, since it's dangerous to stay where she is for more than one reason. The Angels will kill her, but if the time energy catches up with her it will erase every moment of her existence. Oh, the essentially walking blind factor? Just follow the sound of the sonic screwdriver on the communicator. And just to help, the Doctor uploads a proximity detector to the device; it'll beep so that Amy can manoeuvre around things. Such as, for example, all those Angels in front of her. Not to worry (for the moment); the Angels are [[AssPull frightened and acting on their instincts]], freezing because they assume she can see them (wait, weren't them quantum-locked ''by nature''?). In order not to dispel that illusion, Amy has to walk as if she ''can'' see them.
River's wondering how they stop the time energy eating everything. The obvious answer is to feed it a big [[Literature/ContinuityErrors complicated space time event]], which will satisfy it -- for the moment. What big complicated space time event were you thinking of, Doctor?... You know, you really have something of a loud martyr complex, has anyone ever told you that?
The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time.
But River beams Amy to the flight deck. Guess there was a point in trying to fix that teleporter after all. But the Angels are draining the last of the ship's power. The doors to the forest vault open, and there are the Angels on the other side. Along with Angel Bob, who is once again their spokesperson. They've had the same idea as the Doctor: if he throws himself into the rupture in time, the rupture will close and they will be saved. The Doctor isn't too impressed with the idea when presented this way. Why should he do such a thing? Oh, yeah, Amy and River will be saved too. Well, there is that.
Understandably, River pipes up, saying that she fits the criterion for sealing the rupture as well. But it turns out she's nowhere near the level of the Angels, and only all together are they on his level, so "get a grip". No, really, get a grip. River gets the message and prepares herself and Amy accordingly, while the Doctor points out to the Angels that they happen to have drained all the power ''out'' of a ship in which, without artificial means, they by all rights shouldn't be standing upright. By means of a not quite IncrediblyLamePun, he points out that the artificial gravity is failing, and the real gravity is about to kick in with a vengeance. And guess what's waiting down below?
"Night night."
And so to the dulcet strains of a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome certain theme tune that still hasn't gotten old]], the three dangle off handrails as the Angels plummet into the crack and into the cessation of their existence.
Later, back on the surface, the Doctor reassures Amy that the Angel inside her head is gone, since with the deletion of the Angels the memory never existed at all. Of course, she still remembers it (and all those poor clerics) because she's got a very good RippleEffectProofMemory. This will be extremely important later. The crack, meanwhile, is gone for now, but there's still the explosion that caused it, out there, somewhere. River and the Doctor flirt a bit, and he tells her he could kiss her for how awesome she was. "Maybe when you're older", she replies, grinning. She also tells him that the next time he meets her, the Pandorica will open. He thinks that's just a fairy tale. With that, she's taken back to prison.
Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged and she's human and he's 907 years old and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now...
The Doctor takes one last look at the clock, and realises that Amy's wedding is on the same day as the explosion that caused the cracks -- 26/6/2010.
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'''Meanwhile In The TARDIS: Second Episode'''
A DVD-only scene. The Doctor has pushed Amy back into the TARDIS, and after a few failed attempts at kissing him again, it slowly dawns on her that he's ''really'' not going to shag her. She calls him out on being the absolute MasterOfTheMixedMessage, and realizes that she's not the first pretty girl he ever took into space. She tricks the TARDIS into showing her pictures of all previous companions and smugly notes that yep, that's a whole lot of pretty young human girls. One of which is wearing a leather bikini. The Doctor is miffed at the TARDIS for not including the tin dog.
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!!Tropes
* AboveTheInfluence: At the end, Amy ''really'' wants a shag from The Doctor. He refuses steadfastly.
* AnyoneCanDie: The Clerics.
* ApologeticAttacker: Angel Bob.
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
-->'''River:''' You'll see me again, soon. [[ArcWords When the Pandorica opens.]]\\
'''Doctor:''' ''(laughs)'' That's a ''fairy tale.''\\
'''River:''' Aren't we all?
* ArcSymbol: The crack in the universe.
* ArcWords: The "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Pandorica]]" is mentioned again.
** Also the second instance of "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know/get it."
* ArtificialGravity: This causes plenty of wacky fun throughout the episode.
* TheAtoner: Father Octavian implies his death in the line of duty makes up for an unnamed failure of duty in his past.
* BadAss: Just as the Doctor claims that there are worse things than Angels on the ship, Father Octavian gets caught in a headlock by one that he ''knows'' is going to break his neck sooner or later. His response: "I beg to differ, sir."
* BerserkButton: The Doctor threatens the soldiers that if anything happens to Amy while he's away he "will hold each of [them] personally responsible. Twice." Later behaviour as he realised leaving Amy behind was a mistake perhaps crosses into PapaWolf or BigBrotherInstinct territory.
* BoxedCrook: River. She seems more comfortable with the idea than Octavian, her gaoler.
* CallBack: Angel Bob calls the Doctor "The Doctor in the TARDIS" and River mentions the Pandorica opening, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour both like Prisoner Zero.]]
** The Atraxi Eye that appeared on monitors all over the world appeared on the computer monitor very briefly just before the final confrontation between The Doctor and the Angels.
* CallForward: To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": "You... me... handcuffs... Why does it always end this way?"
* CessationOfExistence: What happens to you if you're consumed by a crack in time. But worse than just not existing, the cracks make sure that you ''never existed to begin with''.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the episode The Doctor spends some time talking about how they escaped using the gravity and that if it was switched off they'd fall to their deaths.. It seems unnecessarily explanatory at the time. At the climax of the episode, the Angels drain all the power from the ''Byzantium'', switching off the gravity keeping them upright, causing them to fall into the Crack.
* ContinuityNod: This isn't the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius first]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock time]] a companion has been rendered [[TemporaryBlindness Temporarily Blind]].
** This also [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday isn't the first time]] that an army of pure, unadulterated evil is sucked into a bright white space/time anomaly, never to return, while the Doctor and everyone else hold on.
* CosmicRetcon: Thanks to the crack in time, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]" (at the very least) never happened. The Daleks, as pointed out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]" also have vanished from Amy's time.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Time is running out.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: River Song.
* DeusExMachina: Interesting variation with the Crack showing up. Even though it made the situation worse, surviving the Angels would probably have been impossible without it.
* DistressedDamsel: Amy, although she's got a good reason for it.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Doctor makes a couple of snide remarks about the fact that the Angels killed Bob in order to speak through him ''while the Angels are right behind him''.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The way Amy kisses the Doctor, despite his clear refusal, would not have been taken as well if it had been a man kissing an unwilling woman.
* EldritchAbomination: The Cracks are revealed to be this, as they will ''erase you from existence'' if you get too close to them.
* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the [[HellIsThatNoise same noise]] that the freaking [[Film/LordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Amy for most of the episode; justified in that she actually has a ''reason'' for keeping them shut.
* FaceDeathWithDignity[=/=]ItHasBeenAnHonor: Father Octavian may have redefined the former trope.
-->'''The Doctor''': I wish I had known you better.\\
'''Father Octavian''': I think, sir, you know me at my best.
* FalseReassurance:
** Regarding the section of the ''Byzantium'' everyone is stuck in, the Doctor has thought about what to do when the power and artificial gravity fail -- well, they'll plunge to their deaths, of course. See, he ''did'' think about it.
** Regarding the Doctor.
--->'''Father Octavian:''' River Song, I’ve lost good clerics today. You trust this man?\\
'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.\\
'''Father Octavian:''' He’s not some kind of madman then?\\
'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
** Played with, in that Octavian is savvy enough to clock immediately what's she's doing and is not impressed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This little exchange:
-->'''The Doctor''': River Song, I could bloody kiss you.\\
'''River Song''': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Ah, well, maybe when you're older.]]
** The Doctor coming back for Amy briefly, ''with'' his jacket. The Doctor is also noticeably nicer to Amy compared to his departure earlier.
* ForTheEvulz: Why are the Weeping Angels making Amy count down to her death? Just to scare her!
* FriendsWithBenefits: Amy wants this. The Doctor, it appears, does not.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907 years old!! Do you understand what that means?!\\
'''Amy:''' [[CelibateHero It's been a while?]]\\
'''Doctor:''' Ye-No, no, no!
* FromBadToWorse
* GivingThemTheStrip: The Doctor is being held by his coat. He talks through his plan and leaves the angels with his jacket and a last parting piece of wisdom.
-->'''Doctor:''' Never let me talk!
* GladToBeAliveSex: Amy wants this, but as the Doctor, as Creator/StevenMoffat put it, "stumbles over his shoelaces" when a woman starts behaving like that, it doesn't work out...
* GoryDiscretionShot: One for Octavian.
* HailfirePeaks: It's a forest in a ship in a maze in a cave!
* HeldGaze: The Doctor shares one earlier on with River and then again at the end of the episode when he is trying to reassure Amy that she's safe.
* HeroicSacrifice: Father Octavian is content.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: The Angels tried to draw energy from the crack in time to build themselves up to be a universe-consuming army of death. It backfired on them.
* HolodeckMalfunction: The Angels start to turn off the lights ([[EpilepticFlashingLights yes, ''again'']]) by way of the trees.
* ImplausibleDeniability
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' Do you trust this man?
-->'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' He's not some kind of madman, then?
-->'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
* IndyPloy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:
-->'''Doctor:''' "...and anyway, that's not the plan"
-->'''River Song:''' "There's a plan?"
-->'''Doctor:''' "I don't know yet, I haven't finished talking."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just in case you forget when the series finale will be on.
* LetsSplitUpGang: At first it seems the Clerics are doing this even though Amy (and the audience) begs them not to, but then it turns out that the two investigating Clerics have been wiped from existence, and the remaining pair don't remember them or think that anything is wrong with going towards the big glowing light. Creepy? Oh yes.
* LightFlickerTeleportation: In the muzzle-flash of the Clerics' guns in the dark tunnel.
* LightIsNotGood: That bright white light coming out of that crack? The light that makes you feel weird and sick when you look at it? Turns out it will erase you from existence.
** The Angels themselves. "Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.
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!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
->''If you open your eyes now, for even a second, you '''will''' die.''
-->--'''The Doctor'''
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner.
The episode begins with the humans standing on the ceiling -- or rather the bottom of the crashed ship -- while the Angels are stuck on the floor below. By shooting the gravity globe, the Doctor gave them an updraught powerful enough to pull them into range of the ship's artificial gravity. Mission accomplished: they're out of the trap! Now they just have to get inside the ship and through another airlock door, without getting caught by the Angels again. The first part they manage; the latter is a bit tricky since it means that they'll have to turn the lights out in the corridor for a few seconds in order to get a strong enough surge of power. And a few seconds are all the Angels need.
They make it by shooting at the Angels, causing bursts of light enough to see them and slow them down. Now ensconced in a control room (with comfy chairs), they try to stop the Angels breaking in (not too successfully). Amy has started to count backwards from ten for no apparent reason, without even noticing it. However, it turns out the ship has an on-board cybernetic forest to harvest air from (as you do on a long flight), thus providing a possible escape route.
Angel Bob, the dead cleric, is on the line again. He/it informs the Doctor that the Angels are growing in power and will soon be able to devour the whole universe. According to Bob, Amy has something rather nasty in her eye. And she's still counting down. And apparently there's a much bigger source of power here than the humans had anticipated. The Angels have started laughing, which frankly sounds more like screaming.
And... there's [[ArcSymbol a crack in the wall]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour A rather big, glowing familiar-looking one.]]
The party make a run for it into the forest. All except the Doctor; he's a bit occupied, first with taking samples from the great big crack, and then getting nabbed by the jacket collar as the Angels swarm in. Fortunately ''they'' are a bit occupied with absorbing energy from the crack -- which turns out to be the end of the universe -- to think about killing him. So, he's able to slip his tweedy bonds, leave his jacket behind and make his own escape.
Amy, meanwhile, has reached four in her involuntary countdown and is not doing well. While River and Octavian have a little argument about waiting for the Doctor, the man himself shows up, just in time to see Amy begin to decline. Not just decline, in fact; she's dying, which everyone is quickly made aware of because the Doctor doesn't believe in beating about the bush. He also doesn't have a very good bedside manner as he tries to figure out what's wrong with her. It turns out that, having looked the Angel in the eyes, there's an Angel growing in her mind, or more specifically in the vision centres of her brain. When Bob is asked why the Angels are making her count, it turns out that it's not for anything important, it's simply to make her afraid and ForTheEvulz. The Doctor is ''not'' happy.
With only seconds until the growing Angel "switches off" Amy, River and the Doctor decide that in order to starve it of visual input Amy must do what you should never, ''never'' do when it comes to the Weeping Angels -- close her eyes. And she does.
And it seems to work. She certainly isn't dying any more. But if she opens her eyes again, for more than a second...
They're just going to have to stop the Angels all the quicker, then! The Doctor prepares to set off, taking River and Octavian (who doesn't want to let River out of his sight, although not for romantic reasons, hell no). They leave the Clerics to guard Amy. The Doctor sort of reassures Amy and heads off, leaving Amy feeling rather jilted.
And then he comes back, wearing his jacket... which he lost back in the console room? This will be important ''much'' later. He tries a bit harder to comfort her, and also tells her to remember what he said when she was seven. Unable to recall, Amy asks him what it was, but he refuses to answer -- that's not "the point". She has to ''remember''. Then he heads off again, leaving poor Amy feeling slightly less jilted, but ''very'' confused.
As the Doctor, River and Octavian pick their way through the forest, he teases her about Octavian because of his "wherever she goes, I go" schtick. Hearing this, the bishop meanly decides to break his promise to River and reveals that she's a prisoner under his jurisdiction, and that he's responsible for her until she's earned her pardon. Well, ''that's'' slightly awkward. No time for it, though, as the Doctor's calculated the date that the explosion that caused the crack began, which is 26/06/2010. Amy's era. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall The air date of this series' finale.]]
Back with Amy and the Clerics, it appears that the Angels are using the old reliable method of turning off the lights, namely by ripping the tree borgs apart. And they're wearing their grumpy faces, which means they mean business. Back with the Doctor, River and Octavian, they've reached a service hatch to the primary flight deck, but the Doctor is more intrigued by something that River says... time is running out. What if, he muses, it actually could?
Back again with Amy and the clerics, just as it seems the Angels are about to attack, a sudden bright glow in the distance scares them off. Clerics Philip and Crispin are sent to investigate the bright light, and Amy's just too damn curious not to look. She opens her eyes for that crucial second to confirm that yes, that glowing curtain of energy ''is'' the crack, and it looks just the same as it did before on her bedroom wall. It's following her...[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow not that we didn't]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks already know that]]. Then Cleric Pedro decides to get a closer look at the light. Wait, why not just wait for the other two to get back?
[[{{Retgone}} What other two?]]
...Oh. Oh dear.
Marco's adamant that there never was a Philip or a Crispin on the mission. Amy is just as adamant that there were. And during the conversation, he manages to forget Pedro as well. Amy, now understandably freaked out, tries to persuade Marco to ''please'' not go and investigate the crack, as it doesn't seem to be good for the health at all. He doesn't listen. "Two minutes." But he does leave her a spare communicator to talk to him, so she can hear perfectly clearly when his voice suddenly fades away into crackles and silence. Amy's left all alone. Well, alone except for those Angels.
Octavian is trying to get a preoccupied Doctor to leave, as the Angels are coming. The Doctor waves this off, turning around just in time to stop one going just that little bit further with the headlock it's got Octavian in.
The Doctor attempts to tell the Angel to let Octavian go, which Octavian points out as hopeless since a) the Doctor must take his eyes off the Angel for that to happen and b) the moment that happens, the Angel will break Octavian's neck. Octavian tells the Doctor to leave him, which the Doctor ''really'' doesn't want to do. In the end, he has no choice, and tells Octavian that he wished he knew him better. Octavian replies that the Doctor knew him at his best, which is all that matters. The Doctor reluctantly leaves Octavian to his fate.
On the flight deck, River's trying to get the teleporter to work. But the Doctor says there's no point, since it's as dead as Octavian. He manages to contact Amy and tells her that she has to come to them, since it's dangerous to stay where she is for more than one reason. The Angels will kill her, but if the time energy catches up with her it will erase every moment of her existence. Oh, the essentially walking blind factor? Just follow the sound of the sonic screwdriver on the communicator. And just to help, the Doctor uploads a proximity detector to the device; it'll beep so that Amy can manoeuvre around things. Such as, for example, all those Angels in front of her. Not to worry (for the moment); the Angels are [[AssPull frightened and acting on their instincts]], freezing because they assume she can see them (wait, weren't them quantum-locked ''by nature''?). In order not to dispel that illusion, Amy has to walk as if she ''can'' see them.
River's wondering how they stop the time energy eating everything. The obvious answer is to feed it a big [[Literature/ContinuityErrors complicated space time event]], which will satisfy it -- for the moment. What big complicated space time event were you thinking of, Doctor?... You know, you really have something of a loud martyr complex, has anyone ever told you that?
The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time.
But River beams Amy to the flight deck. Guess there was a point in trying to fix that teleporter after all. But the Angels are draining the last of the ship's power. The doors to the forest vault open, and there are the Angels on the other side. Along with Angel Bob, who is once again their spokesperson. They've had the same idea as the Doctor: if he throws himself into the rupture in time, the rupture will close and they will be saved. The Doctor isn't too impressed with the idea when presented this way. Why should he do such a thing? Oh, yeah, Amy and River will be saved too. Well, there is that.
Understandably, River pipes up, saying that she fits the criterion for sealing the rupture as well. But it turns out she's nowhere near the level of the Angels, and only all together are they on his level, so "get a grip". No, really, get a grip. River gets the message and prepares herself and Amy accordingly, while the Doctor points out to the Angels that they happen to have drained all the power ''out'' of a ship in which, without artificial means, they by all rights shouldn't be standing upright. By means of a not quite IncrediblyLamePun, he points out that the artificial gravity is failing, and the real gravity is about to kick in with a vengeance. And guess what's waiting down below?
"Night night."
And so to the dulcet strains of a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome certain theme tune that still hasn't gotten old]], the three dangle off handrails as the Angels plummet into the crack and into the cessation of their existence.
Later, back on the surface, the Doctor reassures Amy that the Angel inside her head is gone, since with the deletion of the Angels the memory never existed at all. Of course, she still remembers it (and all those poor clerics) because she's got a very good RippleEffectProofMemory. This will be extremely important later. The crack, meanwhile, is gone for now, but there's still the explosion that caused it, out there, somewhere. River and the Doctor flirt a bit, and he tells her he could kiss her for how awesome she was. "Maybe when you're older", she replies, grinning. She also tells him that the next time he meets her, the Pandorica will open. He thinks that's just a fairy tale. With that, she's taken back to prison.
Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged and she's human and he's 907 years old and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now...
The Doctor takes one last look at the clock, and realises that Amy's wedding is on the same day as the explosion that caused the cracks -- 26/6/2010.
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'''Meanwhile In The TARDIS: Second Episode'''
A DVD-only scene. The Doctor has pushed Amy back into the TARDIS, and after a few failed attempts at kissing him again, it slowly dawns on her that he's ''really'' not going to shag her. She calls him out on being the absolute MasterOfTheMixedMessage, and realizes that she's not the first pretty girl he ever took into space. She tricks the TARDIS into showing her pictures of all previous companions and smugly notes that yep, that's a whole lot of pretty young human girls. One of which is wearing a leather bikini. The Doctor is miffed at the TARDIS for not including the tin dog.
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!!Tropes
* AboveTheInfluence: At the end, Amy ''really'' wants a shag from The Doctor. He refuses steadfastly.
* AnyoneCanDie: The Clerics.
* ApologeticAttacker: Angel Bob.
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
-->'''River:''' You'll see me again, soon. [[ArcWords When the Pandorica opens.]]\\
'''Doctor:''' ''(laughs)'' That's a ''fairy tale.''\\
'''River:''' Aren't we all?
* ArcSymbol: The crack in the universe.
* ArcWords: The "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Pandorica]]" is mentioned again.
** Also the second instance of "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know/get it."
* ArtificialGravity: This causes plenty of wacky fun throughout the episode.
* TheAtoner: Father Octavian implies his death in the line of duty makes up for an unnamed failure of duty in his past.
* BadAss: Just as the Doctor claims that there are worse things than Angels on the ship, Father Octavian gets caught in a headlock by one that he ''knows'' is going to break his neck sooner or later. His response: "I beg to differ, sir."
* BerserkButton: The Doctor threatens the soldiers that if anything happens to Amy while he's away he "will hold each of [them] personally responsible. Twice." Later behaviour as he realised leaving Amy behind was a mistake perhaps crosses into PapaWolf or BigBrotherInstinct territory.
* BoxedCrook: River. She seems more comfortable with the idea than Octavian, her gaoler.
* CallBack: Angel Bob calls the Doctor "The Doctor in the TARDIS" and River mentions the Pandorica opening, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour both like Prisoner Zero.]]
** The Atraxi Eye that appeared on monitors all over the world appeared on the computer monitor very briefly just before the final confrontation between The Doctor and the Angels.
* CallForward: To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": "You... me... handcuffs... Why does it always end this way?"
* CessationOfExistence: What happens to you if you're consumed by a crack in time. But worse than just not existing, the cracks make sure that you ''never existed to begin with''.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the episode The Doctor spends some time talking about how they escaped using the gravity and that if it was switched off they'd fall to their deaths.. It seems unnecessarily explanatory at the time. At the climax of the episode, the Angels drain all the power from the ''Byzantium'', switching off the gravity keeping them upright, causing them to fall into the Crack.
* ContinuityNod: This isn't the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius first]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock time]] a companion has been rendered [[TemporaryBlindness Temporarily Blind]].
** This also [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday isn't the first time]] that an army of pure, unadulterated evil is sucked into a bright white space/time anomaly, never to return, while the Doctor and everyone else hold on.
* CosmicRetcon: Thanks to the crack in time, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]" (at the very least) never happened. The Daleks, as pointed out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]" also have vanished from Amy's time.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Time is running out.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: River Song.
* DeusExMachina: Interesting variation with the Crack showing up. Even though it made the situation worse, surviving the Angels would probably have been impossible without it.
* DistressedDamsel: Amy, although she's got a good reason for it.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Doctor makes a couple of snide remarks about the fact that the Angels killed Bob in order to speak through him ''while the Angels are right behind him''.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The way Amy kisses the Doctor, despite his clear refusal, would not have been taken as well if it had been a man kissing an unwilling woman.
* EldritchAbomination: The Cracks are revealed to be this, as they will ''erase you from existence'' if you get too close to them.
* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the [[HellIsThatNoise same noise]] that the freaking [[Film/LordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Amy for most of the episode; justified in that she actually has a ''reason'' for keeping them shut.
* FaceDeathWithDignity[=/=]ItHasBeenAnHonor: Father Octavian may have redefined the former trope.
-->'''The Doctor''': I wish I had known you better.\\
'''Father Octavian''': I think, sir, you know me at my best.
* FalseReassurance:
** Regarding the section of the ''Byzantium'' everyone is stuck in, the Doctor has thought about what to do when the power and artificial gravity fail -- well, they'll plunge to their deaths, of course. See, he ''did'' think about it.
** Regarding the Doctor.
--->'''Father Octavian:''' River Song, I’ve lost good clerics today. You trust this man?\\
'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.\\
'''Father Octavian:''' He’s not some kind of madman then?\\
'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
** Played with, in that Octavian is savvy enough to clock immediately what's she's doing and is not impressed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This little exchange:
-->'''The Doctor''': River Song, I could bloody kiss you.\\
'''River Song''': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Ah, well, maybe when you're older.]]
** The Doctor coming back for Amy briefly, ''with'' his jacket. The Doctor is also noticeably nicer to Amy compared to his departure earlier.
* ForTheEvulz: Why are the Weeping Angels making Amy count down to her death? Just to scare her!
* FriendsWithBenefits: Amy wants this. The Doctor, it appears, does not.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907 years old!! Do you understand what that means?!\\
'''Amy:''' [[CelibateHero It's been a while?]]\\
'''Doctor:''' Ye-No, no, no!
* FromBadToWorse
* GivingThemTheStrip: The Doctor is being held by his coat. He talks through his plan and leaves the angels with his jacket and a last parting piece of wisdom.
-->'''Doctor:''' Never let me talk!
* GladToBeAliveSex: Amy wants this, but as the Doctor, as Creator/StevenMoffat put it, "stumbles over his shoelaces" when a woman starts behaving like that, it doesn't work out...
* GoryDiscretionShot: One for Octavian.
* HailfirePeaks: It's a forest in a ship in a maze in a cave!
* HeldGaze: The Doctor shares one earlier on with River and then again at the end of the episode when he is trying to reassure Amy that she's safe.
* HeroicSacrifice: Father Octavian is content.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: The Angels tried to draw energy from the crack in time to build themselves up to be a universe-consuming army of death. It backfired on them.
* HolodeckMalfunction: The Angels start to turn off the lights ([[EpilepticFlashingLights yes, ''again'']]) by way of the trees.
* ImplausibleDeniability
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' Do you trust this man?
-->'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' He's not some kind of madman, then?
-->'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
* IndyPloy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:
-->'''Doctor:''' "...and anyway, that's not the plan"
-->'''River Song:''' "There's a plan?"
-->'''Doctor:''' "I don't know yet, I haven't finished talking."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just in case you forget when the series finale will be on.
* LetsSplitUpGang: At first it seems the Clerics are doing this even though Amy (and the audience) begs them not to, but then it turns out that the two investigating Clerics have been wiped from existence, and the remaining pair don't remember them or think that anything is wrong with going towards the big glowing light. Creepy? Oh yes.
* LightFlickerTeleportation: In the muzzle-flash of the Clerics' guns in the dark tunnel.
* LightIsNotGood: That bright white light coming out of that crack? The light that makes you feel weird and sick when you look at it? Turns out it will erase you from existence.
** The Angels themselves. "Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.
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!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
to:
->''If you open your eyes now, for even a second, you '''will''' die.''
-->--'''The Doctor'''
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner.
The episode begins with the humans standing on the ceiling -- or rather the bottom of the crashed ship -- while the Angels are stuck on the floor below. By shooting the gravity globe, the Doctor gave them an updraught powerful enough to pull them into range of the ship's artificial gravity. Mission accomplished: they're out of the trap! Now they just have to get inside the ship and through another airlock door, without getting caught by the Angels again. The first part they manage; the latter is a bit tricky since it means that they'll have to turn the lights out in the corridor for a few seconds in order to get a strong enough surge of power. And a few seconds are all the Angels need.
They make it by shooting at the Angels, causing bursts of light enough to see them and slow them down. Now ensconced in a control room (with comfy chairs), they try to stop the Angels breaking in (not too successfully). Amy has started to count backwards from ten for no apparent reason, without even noticing it. However, it turns out the ship has an on-board cybernetic forest to harvest air from (as you do on a long flight), thus providing a possible escape route.
Angel Bob, the dead cleric, is on the line again. He/it informs the Doctor that the Angels are growing in power and will soon be able to devour the whole universe. According to Bob, Amy has something rather nasty in her eye. And she's still counting down. And apparently there's a much bigger source of power here than the humans had anticipated. The Angels have started laughing, which frankly sounds more like screaming.
And... there's [[ArcSymbol a crack in the wall]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour A rather big, glowing familiar-looking one.]]
The party make a run for it into the forest. All except the Doctor; he's a bit occupied, first with taking samples from the great big crack, and then getting nabbed by the jacket collar as the Angels swarm in. Fortunately ''they'' are a bit occupied with absorbing energy from the crack -- which turns out to be the end of the universe -- to think about killing him. So, he's able to slip his tweedy bonds, leave his jacket behind and make his own escape.
Amy, meanwhile, has reached four in her involuntary countdown and is not doing well. While River and Octavian have a little argument about waiting for the Doctor, the man himself shows up, just in time to see Amy begin to decline. Not just decline, in fact; she's dying, which everyone is quickly made aware of because the Doctor doesn't believe in beating about the bush. He also doesn't have a very good bedside manner as he tries to figure out what's wrong with her. It turns out that, having looked the Angel in the eyes, there's an Angel growing in her mind, or more specifically in the vision centres of her brain. When Bob is asked why the Angels are making her count, it turns out that it's not for anything important, it's simply to make her afraid and ForTheEvulz. The Doctor is ''not'' happy.
With only seconds until the growing Angel "switches off" Amy, River and the Doctor decide that in order to starve it of visual input Amy must do what you should never, ''never'' do when it comes to the Weeping Angels -- close her eyes. And she does.
And it seems to work. She certainly isn't dying any more. But if she opens her eyes again, for more than a second...
They're just going to have to stop the Angels all the quicker, then! The Doctor prepares to set off, taking River and Octavian (who doesn't want to let River out of his sight, although not for romantic reasons, hell no). They leave the Clerics to guard Amy. The Doctor sort of reassures Amy and heads off, leaving Amy feeling rather jilted.
And then he comes back, wearing his jacket... which he lost back in the console room? This will be important ''much'' later. He tries a bit harder to comfort her, and also tells her to remember what he said when she was seven. Unable to recall, Amy asks him what it was, but he refuses to answer -- that's not "the point". She has to ''remember''. Then he heads off again, leaving poor Amy feeling slightly less jilted, but ''very'' confused.
As the Doctor, River and Octavian pick their way through the forest, he teases her about Octavian because of his "wherever she goes, I go" schtick. Hearing this, the bishop meanly decides to break his promise to River and reveals that she's a prisoner under his jurisdiction, and that he's responsible for her until she's earned her pardon. Well, ''that's'' slightly awkward. No time for it, though, as the Doctor's calculated the date that the explosion that caused the crack began, which is 26/06/2010. Amy's era. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall The air date of this series' finale.]]
Back with Amy and the Clerics, it appears that the Angels are using the old reliable method of turning off the lights, namely by ripping the tree borgs apart. And they're wearing their grumpy faces, which means they mean business. Back with the Doctor, River and Octavian, they've reached a service hatch to the primary flight deck, but the Doctor is more intrigued by something that River says... time is running out. What if, he muses, it actually could?
Back again with Amy and the clerics, just as it seems the Angels are about to attack, a sudden bright glow in the distance scares them off. Clerics Philip and Crispin are sent to investigate the bright light, and Amy's just too damn curious not to look. She opens her eyes for that crucial second to confirm that yes, that glowing curtain of energy ''is'' the crack, and it looks just the same as it did before on her bedroom wall. It's following her...[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow not that we didn't]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks already know that]]. Then Cleric Pedro decides to get a closer look at the light. Wait, why not just wait for the other two to get back?
[[{{Retgone}} What other two?]]
...Oh. Oh dear.
Marco's adamant that there never was a Philip or a Crispin on the mission. Amy is just as adamant that there were. And during the conversation, he manages to forget Pedro as well. Amy, now understandably freaked out, tries to persuade Marco to ''please'' not go and investigate the crack, as it doesn't seem to be good for the health at all. He doesn't listen. "Two minutes." But he does leave her a spare communicator to talk to him, so she can hear perfectly clearly when his voice suddenly fades away into crackles and silence. Amy's left all alone. Well, alone except for those Angels.
Octavian is trying to get a preoccupied Doctor to leave, as the Angels are coming. The Doctor waves this off, turning around just in time to stop one going just that little bit further with the headlock it's got Octavian in.
The Doctor attempts to tell the Angel to let Octavian go, which Octavian points out as hopeless since a) the Doctor must take his eyes off the Angel for that to happen and b) the moment that happens, the Angel will break Octavian's neck. Octavian tells the Doctor to leave him, which the Doctor ''really'' doesn't want to do. In the end, he has no choice, and tells Octavian that he wished he knew him better. Octavian replies that the Doctor knew him at his best, which is all that matters. The Doctor reluctantly leaves Octavian to his fate.
On the flight deck, River's trying to get the teleporter to work. But the Doctor says there's no point, since it's as dead as Octavian. He manages to contact Amy and tells her that she has to come to them, since it's dangerous to stay where she is for more than one reason. The Angels will kill her, but if the time energy catches up with her it will erase every moment of her existence. Oh, the essentially walking blind factor? Just follow the sound of the sonic screwdriver on the communicator. And just to help, the Doctor uploads a proximity detector to the device; it'll beep so that Amy can manoeuvre around things. Such as, for example, all those Angels in front of her. Not to worry (for the moment); the Angels are [[AssPull frightened and acting on their instincts]], freezing because they assume she can see them (wait, weren't them quantum-locked ''by nature''?). In order not to dispel that illusion, Amy has to walk as if she ''can'' see them.
River's wondering how they stop the time energy eating everything. The obvious answer is to feed it a big [[Literature/ContinuityErrors complicated space time event]], which will satisfy it -- for the moment. What big complicated space time event were you thinking of, Doctor?... You know, you really have something of a loud martyr complex, has anyone ever told you that?
The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time.
But River beams Amy to the flight deck. Guess there was a point in trying to fix that teleporter after all. But the Angels are draining the last of the ship's power. The doors to the forest vault open, and there are the Angels on the other side. Along with Angel Bob, who is once again their spokesperson. They've had the same idea as the Doctor: if he throws himself into the rupture in time, the rupture will close and they will be saved. The Doctor isn't too impressed with the idea when presented this way. Why should he do such a thing? Oh, yeah, Amy and River will be saved too. Well, there is that.
Understandably, River pipes up, saying that she fits the criterion for sealing the rupture as well. But it turns out she's nowhere near the level of the Angels, and only all together are they on his level, so "get a grip". No, really, get a grip. River gets the message and prepares herself and Amy accordingly, while the Doctor points out to the Angels that they happen to have drained all the power ''out'' of a ship in which, without artificial means, they by all rights shouldn't be standing upright. By means of a not quite IncrediblyLamePun, he points out that the artificial gravity is failing, and the real gravity is about to kick in with a vengeance. And guess what's waiting down below?
"Night night."
And so to the dulcet strains of a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome certain theme tune that still hasn't gotten old]], the three dangle off handrails as the Angels plummet into the crack and into the cessation of their existence.
Later, back on the surface, the Doctor reassures Amy that the Angel inside her head is gone, since with the deletion of the Angels the memory never existed at all. Of course, she still remembers it (and all those poor clerics) because she's got a very good RippleEffectProofMemory. This will be extremely important later. The crack, meanwhile, is gone for now, but there's still the explosion that caused it, out there, somewhere. River and the Doctor flirt a bit, and he tells her he could kiss her for how awesome she was. "Maybe when you're older", she replies, grinning. She also tells him that the next time he meets her, the Pandorica will open. He thinks that's just a fairy tale. With that, she's taken back to prison.
Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged and she's human and he's 907 years old and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now...
The Doctor takes one last look at the clock, and realises that Amy's wedding is on the same day as the explosion that caused the cracks -- 26/6/2010.
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'''Meanwhile In The TARDIS: Second Episode'''
A DVD-only scene. The Doctor has pushed Amy back into the TARDIS, and after a few failed attempts at kissing him again, it slowly dawns on her that he's ''really'' not going to shag her. She calls him out on being the absolute MasterOfTheMixedMessage, and realizes that she's not the first pretty girl he ever took into space. She tricks the TARDIS into showing her pictures of all previous companions and smugly notes that yep, that's a whole lot of pretty young human girls. One of which is wearing a leather bikini. The Doctor is miffed at the TARDIS for not including the tin dog.
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!!Tropes
* AboveTheInfluence: At the end, Amy ''really'' wants a shag from The Doctor. He refuses steadfastly.
* AnyoneCanDie: The Clerics.
* ApologeticAttacker: Angel Bob.
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
-->'''River:''' You'll see me again, soon. [[ArcWords When the Pandorica opens.]]\\
'''Doctor:''' ''(laughs)'' That's a ''fairy tale.''\\
'''River:''' Aren't we all?
* ArcSymbol: The crack in the universe.
* ArcWords: The "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Pandorica]]" is mentioned again.
** Also the second instance of "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know/get it."
* ArtificialGravity: This causes plenty of wacky fun throughout the episode.
* TheAtoner: Father Octavian implies his death in the line of duty makes up for an unnamed failure of duty in his past.
* BadAss: Just as the Doctor claims that there are worse things than Angels on the ship, Father Octavian gets caught in a headlock by one that he ''knows'' is going to break his neck sooner or later. His response: "I beg to differ, sir."
* BerserkButton: The Doctor threatens the soldiers that if anything happens to Amy while he's away he "will hold each of [them] personally responsible. Twice." Later behaviour as he realised leaving Amy behind was a mistake perhaps crosses into PapaWolf or BigBrotherInstinct territory.
* BoxedCrook: River. She seems more comfortable with the idea than Octavian, her gaoler.
* CallBack: Angel Bob calls the Doctor "The Doctor in the TARDIS" and River mentions the Pandorica opening, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour both like Prisoner Zero.]]
** The Atraxi Eye that appeared on monitors all over the world appeared on the computer monitor very briefly just before the final confrontation between The Doctor and the Angels.
* CallForward: To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": "You... me... handcuffs... Why does it always end this way?"
* CessationOfExistence: What happens to you if you're consumed by a crack in time. But worse than just not existing, the cracks make sure that you ''never existed to begin with''.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the episode The Doctor spends some time talking about how they escaped using the gravity and that if it was switched off they'd fall to their deaths.. It seems unnecessarily explanatory at the time. At the climax of the episode, the Angels drain all the power from the ''Byzantium'', switching off the gravity keeping them upright, causing them to fall into the Crack.
* ContinuityNod: This isn't the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius first]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock time]] a companion has been rendered [[TemporaryBlindness Temporarily Blind]].
** This also [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday isn't the first time]] that an army of pure, unadulterated evil is sucked into a bright white space/time anomaly, never to return, while the Doctor and everyone else hold on.
* CosmicRetcon: Thanks to the crack in time, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]" (at the very least) never happened. The Daleks, as pointed out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]" also have vanished from Amy's time.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Time is running out.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: River Song.
* DeusExMachina: Interesting variation with the Crack showing up. Even though it made the situation worse, surviving the Angels would probably have been impossible without it.
* DistressedDamsel: Amy, although she's got a good reason for it.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Doctor makes a couple of snide remarks about the fact that the Angels killed Bob in order to speak through him ''while the Angels are right behind him''.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The way Amy kisses the Doctor, despite his clear refusal, would not have been taken as well if it had been a man kissing an unwilling woman.
* EldritchAbomination: The Cracks are revealed to be this, as they will ''erase you from existence'' if you get too close to them.
* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the [[HellIsThatNoise same noise]] that the freaking [[Film/LordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Amy for most of the episode; justified in that she actually has a ''reason'' for keeping them shut.
* FaceDeathWithDignity[=/=]ItHasBeenAnHonor: Father Octavian may have redefined the former trope.
-->'''The Doctor''': I wish I had known you better.\\
'''Father Octavian''': I think, sir, you know me at my best.
* FalseReassurance:
** Regarding the section of the ''Byzantium'' everyone is stuck in, the Doctor has thought about what to do when the power and artificial gravity fail -- well, they'll plunge to their deaths, of course. See, he ''did'' think about it.
** Regarding the Doctor.
--->'''Father Octavian:''' River Song, I’ve lost good clerics today. You trust this man?\\
'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.\\
'''Father Octavian:''' He’s not some kind of madman then?\\
'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
** Played with, in that Octavian is savvy enough to clock immediately what's she's doing and is not impressed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This little exchange:
-->'''The Doctor''': River Song, I could bloody kiss you.\\
'''River Song''': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Ah, well, maybe when you're older.]]
** The Doctor coming back for Amy briefly, ''with'' his jacket. The Doctor is also noticeably nicer to Amy compared to his departure earlier.
* ForTheEvulz: Why are the Weeping Angels making Amy count down to her death? Just to scare her!
* FriendsWithBenefits: Amy wants this. The Doctor, it appears, does not.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907 years old!! Do you understand what that means?!\\
'''Amy:''' [[CelibateHero It's been a while?]]\\
'''Doctor:''' Ye-No, no, no!
* FromBadToWorse
* GivingThemTheStrip: The Doctor is being held by his coat. He talks through his plan and leaves the angels with his jacket and a last parting piece of wisdom.
-->'''Doctor:''' Never let me talk!
* GladToBeAliveSex: Amy wants this, but as the Doctor, as Creator/StevenMoffat put it, "stumbles over his shoelaces" when a woman starts behaving like that, it doesn't work out...
* GoryDiscretionShot: One for Octavian.
* HailfirePeaks: It's a forest in a ship in a maze in a cave!
* HeldGaze: The Doctor shares one earlier on with River and then again at the end of the episode when he is trying to reassure Amy that she's safe.
* HeroicSacrifice: Father Octavian is content.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: The Angels tried to draw energy from the crack in time to build themselves up to be a universe-consuming army of death. It backfired on them.
* HolodeckMalfunction: The Angels start to turn off the lights ([[EpilepticFlashingLights yes, ''again'']]) by way of the trees.
* ImplausibleDeniability
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' Do you trust this man?
-->'''River Song:''' I absolutely trust him.
-->'''Bishop Octavian:''' He's not some kind of madman, then?
-->'''River Song:''' ...I absolutely trust him.
* IndyPloy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:
-->'''Doctor:''' "...and anyway, that's not the plan"
-->'''River Song:''' "There's a plan?"
-->'''Doctor:''' "I don't know yet, I haven't finished talking."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just in case you forget when the series finale will be on.
* LetsSplitUpGang: At first it seems the Clerics are doing this even though Amy (and the audience) begs them not to, but then it turns out that the two investigating Clerics have been wiped from existence, and the remaining pair don't remember them or think that anything is wrong with going towards the big glowing light. Creepy? Oh yes.
* LightFlickerTeleportation: In the muzzle-flash of the Clerics' guns in the dark tunnel.
* LightIsNotGood: That bright white light coming out of that crack? The light that makes you feel weird and sick when you look at it? Turns out it will erase you from existence.
** The Angels themselves. "Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.
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!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
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The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time. Even though in every other appearance [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the viewer kept them quantum-locked]] (since what we saw on TV [[FridgeBrilliance was an image of an Angel]] [[FridgeHorror and therefore an Angel]]... well, it doesn't matter anymore).
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The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time.
time. Even though in every other appearance [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the viewer kept them quantum-locked]] (since what we saw on TV [[FridgeBrilliance was an image of an Angel]] [[FridgeHorror and therefore an Angel]]... well, it doesn't matter anymore).
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On the flight deck, River's trying to get the teleporter to work. But the Doctor says there's no point, since it's as dead as Octavian. He manages to contact Amy and tells her that she has to come to them, since it's dangerous to stay where she is for more than one reason. The Angels will kill her, but if the time energy catches up with her it will erase every moment of her existence. Oh, the essentially walking blind factor? Just follow the sound of the sonic screwdriver on the communicator. And just to help, the Doctor uploads a proximity detector to the device; it'll beep so that Amy can manoeuvre around things. Such as, for example, all those Angels in front of her. Not to worry (for the moment); the Angels are [[AssPull frightened and acting on their instincts, instincts]], freezing because they assume she can see them.them (wait, weren't them quantum-locked ''by nature''?). In order not to dispel that illusion, Amy has to walk as if she ''can'' see them.
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** The Angels themselves. "Physically"Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.
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!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.
----
!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
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** The Angels themselves. "Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
%%% Please no natter.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy?
----
!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
%%% Please no natter.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy?
----
!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
to:
** The Angels themselves. "Physically" they are beautiful statues of angels, beings associated with light and purity. Mentally, they're evil on a level only rivalled by the Daleks and the [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456]].
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
%%% Please no natter.
* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy?
----
!!Tropes in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS"
* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment."Physically
* LiteralMetaphor: "Get a grip."
* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap
* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.
* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Nighty night."
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...
%%% PLEASE NO NATTER IN THE PLOT HOLE EXAMPLES. IF IT'S WRONG, DELETE IT.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!
** What else! Have you got?! River! Tell me!
** Actually, about [[LargeHam half the Doctor's lines in this episode are like this]]. Especially when he's worrying about Amy in the forest.
* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.
* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.
* RightBehindMe: River, on the Doctor: "If he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him... And Doctor, you're standing RightBehindMe, aren't you?"
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.
* SaveTheVillain: The Angels ask the Doctor to do this for them. He doesn't.
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* ShoutOut: Amongst others, the ship is a "Galaxy Class" (''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''); and when River is doing the medic thing for Amy, which is a shout-out to Alex Kingston's role in {{ER}}.
** The Doctors gets the Angel to say "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus comfy chairs]]".
* TalkingYourWayOut
-->'''Doctor:''' And I tell you something else -- ''starts running'' Never let me talk!
* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.
* ThrowItIn: The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before ArthurDarvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, ''Blink.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Dumb To Have Ever Existed:]] The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_JghwTWaA the trailer]].
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?
-->'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that?
* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy?
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* AlmostKiss: [[HoodOrnamentHottie Amy slouches across the TARDIS console]] and giggles expectantly as the Doctor leans in towards her...and pointedly flicks a switch on the console.
-->'''Amy:''' Typical bloke. The first thing he does is start fiddling with his motor.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The Doctor says the reason he has companions is so he can see the wonder of the universe through their eyes. A rather miffed Amy Pond asks if that's the only reason he brought her along. The Doctor quietly points out that there ''are'' [[MarsNeedsWomen worse reasons]], whereupon Amy snorts and says, "I was certainly hoping so!".
* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou
* JadeColoredGlasses: The Doctor explains why he has Companions.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm 907. After a while, you just can't see it.
-->'''Amy:''' See what?!
-->'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.
* MoodWhiplash: Between comedy ShipTease shenanigans and the Doctor suddenly getting serious with his JadeColoredGlasses speech.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.
* NubileSavage: One picture in particular catches Amy's eye. "Is that a leather bikini?"
* TheObiWan: The Doctor views himself as this, comparing himself to [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] and [[StarWars Yoda]].
* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.
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* GivingThemTheStrip: The Doctor is being held by his coat. He talks through his plan and leaves the angels with his jacket and a last parting piece of wisdom.
-->'''Doctor:''' Never let me talk!
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