History Fridge / DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan

** More subtly still, for all his pleading, there must be ''some'' part of the Doctor that knows he can't deny her this choice, as painful as the notion of losing Any might be for him. Because there's no reason whatsoever why ''he'' couldn't just [[spoiler: keep the Weeping Angel frozen ''himself'' by staring at it, while grabbing Amy and physically hauling her back inside]]. Torn by imminent grief though he is, he still respects Amy too much to ''force'' her to stay with him, rather than just ''persuade'' her to do so.

* River mentions that The Doctor has gone about erasing himself from every database and effectively all of history. So who was it who makes the Daleks quiver in fear, who holds the Cybermen in check, who ended the Time War, who did all of those terrifying foes of old band together to lock in the Pandorica? [[spoiler:"... A goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies."]]

* A sad bit of symbolism/FridgeBrilliance: there have been plenty of jokes made about the Doctor back in ''The Eleventh Hour'' not liking apples, since "an apple a day keeps the Doctor away". Then you remember that New York City's nickname is "the Big Apple", and suddenly it's not so funny anymore...

** Maybe, although perhaps the paradox destroying the hotel may have changed the past so that never happened.
** There is a theory going around that the Angel!Liberty was actually the picture of the Stature in the Hotel, and the actual Statue. Meaning that either yes, all pictures of the Statues are Angels as well, or that pictures of statues can be turned into Angels by themselves. Not sure which ones worse.

* Question- Why did Amy and Rory stay in New York City [[spoiler: after getting zapped permanently into the past]]?
** [[FridgeBrilliance Possible reasons]] may be that they stayed to help anyone who else the Angel may have zapped into the past. Or that, knowing the WorldWarII was coming up, they may not have wished to take their chances in wartime England.
*** The future was written so they knew they had to [[spoiler:be buried there]]. But they may have been traveling around in the meantime (after all, Amy knew the age at which [[spoiler: Rory would die]]).
*** That episode actually showed that futures that are written could be changed. The better question would be what is stopping the Doctor from travelling to just outside New York and just walking to the graveyard to meet them
*** That last one is what bugs me as well. What's keeping the Doctor from visiting them at a different point in their lives? The only fixed points in time and space are a) [[spoiler:Amy and Rory get zapped back in time]] and b) [[spoiler:their headstone is in Central Park]]. What's preventing the Doctor from going back to, say, April 12th instead of April 11th and visiting them? Or, for that matter, taking them with him again? Why would they be ''buried'' in New York, anyway? Creepy episode, but way, way too much fridge logic surrounding the whole temporal paradox thing for me.
*** Presumably it's because [[FridgeHorror New York is still full of Weeping Angels, who won't let them leave?]] Wiping the battery farm from time clearly didn't kill all of them given the ending, nor did it undo all the temporal damage the Angel had been doing by sending everyone back in time- meaning they still *had* been sending everyone back in time.
*** Isn't it implied that that's what he does in the ending? Goes back to see Amy at a moment before she got zapped back/died? The problem for the Doctor is that his options to see the Ponds are now far more limited than they were before and he clearly wasn't ready to say goodbye yet (he was working toward it, but wasn't there yet).
*** The weird time distortion field is still intact, I'd assumed. The one that nearly stopped him from finding Rory when he got sent back the first time? The field is probably in place until about that point, since the Doctor was still able to access 1930's Manhattan in "Daleks in Manhattan." It's never said when in "The Chase" the Doctor appears in Manhattan, but it can be assumed it's the 60's. I assume the field lets things OUT but not IN- it wants to stay intact, so anyone who can time travel will put an end to it, so it doesn't want them in, but it's perfectly fine letting them leave.
*** Maybe he could have gone back and picked up Amy and Rory later in the time-line for further adventures, if only he hadn't read the novel's afterword (where Amy specifically mentions never seeing him again), thereby setting that time-line in stone.
* When people were zapped back in time to the front of the hotel, why exactly did they go in? Why not walk away?
** Some people went in due to weather, some people went in wondering what the hell were they doing there, some people needed a place to stay since Winter Quay is clearly a motel, still others probably went in because of curiosity, and there's probably some kind of field around it that draws in people's curiosity- the opposite of a perception filter. Humans are, after all, shamelessly curious beings. Manipulate that just a little and they're drawn in like flies to honey. Or the filter is put in their brain when they get touched.
* Who built the hotel? Did the Angels somehow arrange for it to be built? Was it something they found and used for their own purposes? Or was it something another villain had built?
** When the detective at the very beginning is about to enter the hotel, he looks around and sees all these strange people staring at him knowingly from the windows. Maybe I'm WildMassGuessing here, but I assumed that these strange people were human agents of the Weeping Angels. Maybe even cultists, as the Weeping Angels could be considered EldritchAbomination that happen to resemble our popular conceptions of divine messengers. Since we know that angels can gain the ability to speak, I think it would be within their power to arrange for a hotel to be built and maintained using human intermediaries.
** Presumably they used the building that was there already, whomever owned it before and it's prior inhabitants being sent back in time to get rid of them AND feed at the same time. It looks a little abandoned and run-down, save for its electricity still running. In the case of that, I would assume the Angels know how to keep electricity running as well as they know how to turn it off just by pointing at a bulb.
* Manhattan, the city that never sleep. Seriously, how can the Liberty Statue is able to move, especially when each of its step makes a loud BOOM. After the first step, it should have been quantum locked by people looking at it in its new position.
** I've found a theory that the angel wasn't the Statue of Liberty that's by the the bay, but that it came out of the picture in the elevator.
*** But wouldn't the statue itself also have to be an angel for the picture to be an angel?
* Since when do people have to be awake for angels to feed off of them? Why is "The city that never sleeps" a better food source than '''literally anywhere else on the planet'''? The angels weakness is people looking at them; why would they invade a city that could have eyes on them at any given moment?
** Presumably because there are more people wandering around. At night, whose looking at the statues? In the daytime, people are always looking at them. It's dark, too. Angels do best when in the dark, remember? Turn out the street lamps, blow the power for the whole street on a cloudy, moonless night... instant feast. They're like Dementors in that way... Just like Moffat. I think it's a lot easier for them to feed at night when people are constantly wandering the streets than breaking into their homes while they sleep to send them back. They're style is no mess, no fuss, absolutely no notice that they'd ever even been there. And think about it, frightened people herd together. They lead the Angels to more people. Sure, your friend might vanish mid-sentence, and you look to see where they went, and see that FACE staring at you, and you scream and you turn to run, and you're gone. They follow your remaining friends one by one to other people. People who run away with their backs to the creepy statue. Give the Angel time to attack.
* The Doctor heals River's broken wrist with regeneration energy....[[spoiler: but in ''The Time of the Doctor'', he says he's on his thirteenth and final incarnation, meaning he has no more left at this point. It makes sense from a real-world standpoint -- the War Doctor was supposed to be Eccleston's Ninth Doctor, and Moffat couldn't have known he would turn the role down -- but in-universe, it is a bit of a pickle.]]