The Weeping Angels' Scariest Moments | Doctor Who

[@w.whoisrio]

during blink, i love the realization that 10 said there was nothing else on the transcript because larry stopped writing to look at the angel

[@DndMisadventures]

Whos larry??

[@jep9092]

​@@DndMisadventures the man writing shorthand

[@probenfetchak8076]

Imagine Mechagodzilla being controlled by a weeping angel

[@tricursor2481]

She also blinked in the sentence right before the doctor says the communication stopped, don't know if that's a coincidence

[@SayakaMahouShoujo]

@@tricursor2481 That definitely is, we just don’t know how-

[@hopebgood]

"Blink" is one of the all time classic Who stories. It's the one to show to your non-Who friends.

[@loiskapernick2769]

It's not Classic Who, but it is a classic.

[@SueTube7]

One of my my fave episodes ever, & I remember back to Jon Pertwee

[@hopebgood]

@@loiskapernick2769 I know. That's why I didn't capitalise the word "classic".

[@loiskapernick2769]

@@hopebgood I assumed you knew, was making the distinction for any new viewers who might not understand the difference.

[@sarahberkner]

True, although it's an impossible paradox, like a few other interesting episodes.

[@deer3481]

Watched blink at night in my dorm, there's a fountain statue next door, I pulled a hamstring from a jump scare and tried to walk it off, cought a glimpse of the statue and almost had a heart attack because I thought it moved

[@xt4lord770]

😂 I’m soo sorry you had to experience that, but I have tears in my eyes. That’s hilarious. Mostly because that’s something that would totally happen to me too smh lmao

[@mpazinambao2938]

😂nice

[@Revan2178.]

indeed our divine imagination and primal carnal nature betrays us sometimes 😆

[@SG-bt2mg]

our monkey brains are marvelous

[@johnseymorejr7134]

You was fried????😂😂😂

[@Themoonthatdoeseverything]

" The scariest weeping angel scenes " proceeds to show every single weeping angel scene

[@funwithjlxrblx]

That’s how scary they are

[@danielcanty5727]

Agreed

[@DarkDudeTwitch]

It’s cause there terrifying

[@delilah1096]

Except when they realised the alien statues weren't alien statues at all

[@danielcanty5727]

@@delilah1096 oooooh what were they

[@zachariz1490]

what i like about the first bit is that he doesn't answer at the right time every time. Sometimes he comes in a little early, sometimes there's short delay. It's really well made and it shows that he isn't actually talking to her but rather making the conversation up in his head

[@sistakia33]

"Wibbly Wobbly Timey Whimey..." This is the breather before absolute terror takes over!

[@simoneritchie9203]

I saw a stone angel as a water fountain the other day and I had to MAKE myself look away. So uneasy

[@Luiz-eu6iu]

Damn

[@sospecialkayofficial]

@@Luiz-eu6iushoulda kept looking

[@caitlinjordan8551]

I've done that to.. It's creepy af

[@freyamiles3718]

For a few years I had to look at the angel on the Christmas tree

[@britishperson1]

hello i am now in 1701 phillip hamilton just died don’t blink.

[@matthewsander5887]

"You can't kill a stone." Dynamite. If conventional methods don't work set a trap so when you do stop looking, they're stuck.

[@star22sally67]

I don't think that's how they work exactly. They aren't exactly stone. They seem to live in a different reality and turn into stone. I think there was an episode where a guy trapped one and chipped away at it. It didn't die.

[@quiteslayer4067]

@@star22sally67I mean, chipping away and completely alliterating in an instant have very different effects.

[@MirroredDreamscape]

@@quiteslayer4067 If you think about it further though, you really can't kill a stone. You can turn it into smaller bits of stone, maybe even quite a bit smaller, but that's not 'killing' it. The angels don't really seem to mind one way or the other and it's said to be their perfect evolutionary defense, so I doubt something as simple as pulverization would have any effect on them. For al we know breaking their stone bodies into tiny pieces just gives their 'real' bodies more spots to respawn in from once they stop being looked at.

[@quiteslayer4067]

@@MirroredDreamscape bug what if u melted the stone, turned its into lava,teach it first hand about the rock cycle 😂.

[@Lazy_Wulf]

​@@MirroredDreamscapeShiki Tohno enters the chat

[@LiamOwO]

My favourite thing about the weeping angels is how the only way to beat them is to outsmart them, as a lot of the times we see them beaten it's because they were tricked or trapped. Definitely one of the most unique creatures in the show, and the more we learn about them the scarier they get. I wonder if we can see a compilation of the many ways the doctor and their friends have beaten them? I remember during the siege of trenzalore episodes it's implied that the doctor used a mirror to trap a weeping angel by making it perceive itself?

[@aiyannagriffith4382]

So they can’t look at themselves either???

[@dogswifty7800]

The Angels that were trapped at the end of Blink managed to escape. I think its a Big Finish audio or comic

[@aidanmcdonnell3261]

​@@dogswifty7800only because stupid people moved then appart

[@ericswanson9778]

My answer keeps being removed. Sledgehammer when they can’t move.

[@ericswanson9778]

Sledgehammer. They keep removing my answer due to my logic.

[@mrcwillis6970]

Such an incredible monster concept. Had a nightmare about these. Always a great episode when they show up, the lore and powers they have insane.

[@_bariyer]

i genuinely had sleep difficulty after watching Tennant’s weeping angel episode for the first time

[@GafftheHorse]

As usual on Who, the writing can be patchy and some episodes play out like they picked the alien by lottery. The silent assasins start ripping out peoples spines rather than zapping them through time to feed on their time energy. It's like a lion hanging people rather than devouring them.

[@vapor-sings]

I love that "It's impossible" "How impossible?" "Two minutes."

[@The_Lost_Subrosian]

That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel..

[@rlawnqls159]

???: You are my angel

[@ennayanne]

then what about the photos in the last episode you wrote, Mr moffat

[@thefriendlycar2nist836]

@@ennayanne I imagine that could be part of the plot (obviously it wasn't intentional at the time). The doctor is given the photos, the angels attack from the photos, and then it loops over and over

[@jimgilbert9984]

You all do realize that by watching this video, you've put an angel into your phone, even if only for a short time? Uh-oh! OOPS!!! Cue the evil laugh: "Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

[@rlawnqls159]

@@jimgilbert9984 OH NO

[@nexius4029]

If angels cannot move if observed by ANY libing being... just throw a few ants at em, or a bottle of flies, anything with a high field of view especially fragonflies

[@chrys2979]

Where the hell would they get ants or flies if they are stuck there

[@babaganoush4786]

Sledgehammer

[@BritishBeachcomber]

*This may save your life.* We all blink automatically. But you can prevent it by closing one eye at a time, every few seconds.

[@ultrapokemon9984]

Big brain move

[@Mowingthefrontlawn]

Yes, but it’s difficult. Any tries in The Time of Angels.

[@aidanmcdonnell3261]

Yes but the angels are fast and even if you managed it there is a split second where both ur eyes are closed

[@AnimeWatchRoom]

​@aidanmcdonnell3261 when you close your eye, you open it first before you close the other one, instead of just switching at the same time.

[@aidanmcdonnell3261]

@@AnimeWatchRoom what about not looking at the eyes tho

[@kristensaul8202]

9:08 I love how the doctor’s best argument is just to bite. Pretty effective though. 😄

[@Reginald425]

Pretty sure the bite was real.

[@ameliapond1916]

@@Reginald425 it was

[@gavla-82]

Let's be fair. Anyone would love to have a nibble of Karen Gillan ❤

[@Racing4Fun05]

I literally got jumpscared by the thumbnail on the notification. Definition of PTSD .

[@blueraccoon1088]

My sister had nightmares of stones at weeping angles. She then let time pass and out grew her fear. Maybe you can too.

[@LordOfRibena]

"That which holds the image of an angel becomes an angel"

[@BlindGirlUK]

As someone with ACTUAL PTSD, please don't add to the stigma and stereotype by trivialising what we go through.

[@alexghebenei5850]

Can you imagine the statue of liberty being an angel? Yet how the heck did it move, there had to be someone in the city to notice

[@probenfetchak8076]

Mechagodzilla when controlled by the head of monster zero vs the statue of liberty weeping angel would be very interesting

[@realaztes]

Not possible, they only move when no one’s looking

[@Aki-kari]

⁠@@realaztesthat’s the point for all they know it could be a angel but since atleast 1 person is looking at it at all times it’s forever stuck

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Lady Liberty is copper, not stone. She’s also not an angel.

[@yayamilkyway]

The Statue of Liberty is Copper. Plus she’s not a angel she’s a slave who just got freed (which explains the chains on her feet)

[@soundgal_sine_qua_non]

16:20 when you rewatch this episode after season 6, you truly get more of a sense of River doing whatever she can do to make sure her mom gets out alive so that she can be born 😅 And I don't think Alex knew about that aspect of the relationship yet.

[@Darthhester459]

I remember seeing something with Alex saying that she had the diary and it was full of Rivers memories that Alex thought were just character building but turned out were upcoming episodes. However even if she did know about all these aspects of the relationships it doesn’t make it any less amazing

[@DrWhoFanJ]

None of these characters are in Season 6 (other than the Doctor themself, obviously!).

[@tideoftime]

Alex Kingston said she had been told by Moffat over a year prior what River's and Amy's relationship actually was -- it was Karen/Arthur/Matt who were kept in the dark until S-6, being genuinely surprised when reading "x" during the run-throughs. Alex kept the secret to herself for over a year with Moffat having told her it so as to inform how she approached certain scenes from an acting/delivery POV.

[@psychofish2585]

I always thought the weeping angels were the scariest of the Doctor's foes.

[@rokit430]

It was Autons of Nestine consciousness that scared me the most. Still think of them when I see mannequins in shop windows😱

[@ColKilgour]

Clockwork droids

[@Swampert384]

How about the Not Things?

[@rokit430]

@@ColKilgour I thought they were cute..😆

[@M0rningm00n]

vashta nerada , i refuse to watch those episodes in the night..

[@joshuamoss9409]

I really love the silence in doctor who. The thought of this race of aliens that are immediately forgotten the second they’re looked away from. Absolutely love those weird things

[@skin2925]

Angels take manhattan will always be one of my favourite pond era episodes it’s so tragic but beautifully written by Steven Moffat such a unique concept for the angels

[@blueraccoon1088]

It really is. 😢

[@skin2925]

@@blueraccoon1088 7 year old me couldn’t comprehend that many emotions but I was so upset when Amy and Rory left 😢

[@Whoami691]

"You can't kill a stone...." *Laughs in sledghammer*

[@Blebstinchen]

Wait, you might be fucking onto something. What would happen if you just smash an angel in its stone form? Would the smashed pieces just live on?

[@mranima748]

@@Blebstinchenit wouldn’t work, they aren’t actually made of stone, they just become completely solid, the term stone was only used to make it easier for Sally and Lawrence to understand

[@omegatired]

Suddenly realizing that the angels were terrified of what was about to happen ... in the sight of the Doctor and others, they literally could not make a move to save themselves. The fasted unseen things in the universe ... frozen as they are sucked through the rift. Never thought I'd ever feel sorry for the things ... and yet now I do. Damn good writing.

[@kempy31]

The weeping Angels always scared me when they were shown. Definitely one of the most scary villains of all Dr Who.

[@homelessperson5455]

I know nothing about Doctor Who. I've never seen an episode. But I do know that the Weeping Angels are one of the most ingenious creations to ever be written. What great horror!

[@343TheVoid]

I think my favourite moment was when they were exploring the caves and the doctor asks why all the statues have one head when the aliens that lived there had two ... that moment of realisation that every single statue we had seen was a weeping angel ...

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

Don’t … blink. Blink and you’re dead!

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Blink and you're dead. Not really true. You live out the rest of your life in the past.

[@DittoGTI]

Blink was such a great episode

[@BeckyM2000]

The weeping angels is one of my favourite scariest villains on Doctor Who.

[@Sam4e82]

Of all the outwardly creatures that have been on Dr. Who, the Weeping Angels are by far the scariest of them all.

[@lanta1594]

"It's just stone! It's just a statue!" And then the slow turn of absolute horror. Genius timing.

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

Okay, woah woah woah, wait wait wait wait wait. I just watched the episode where the Doctor meets the Devil - an ancient beast from before the beginning of the universe or after or during, doesn't matter - that's the quote. Defeated and imprisoned by an unknown force. And the Angels, nobody knows where they're from - but they're angels. No matter what statues they inhabit or become or whatever - they're always angels. Always angels. So, here's my standing theory: Whatever imprisoned the Devil either utilised, impacted, or became the Weeping Angels. That's why they have such a unique relationship with time, being able to "eat" it, and that's why they're angels.

[@backbreakerextraordinaire]

How inconvenient everything requires energy that the angels can simply take away 😂

[@plixrplays]

I remember when I was young I use to have nightmares about the angels 😭🙏

[@orangemoon286]

The reason the angels turning to look at Amy is such a poorly received scene is because it goes against the logic of the angels, they don’t choose to be stone, its a biological fact, they would immediately stop being stone and know Amy is defense less.

[@seantaggart7382]

24:30 "its only a statue" The doctor: *what?*

[@katherinekania8736]

I love that most of the time they are never really looking at the angles. I loved doctor who. Some really great writing for adults and kids to enjoy.

[@sarahberkner]

The weird thing about the angels have the phone box is I saw that on a t-shirt years before I saw the episode, and then in the episode the T-shirt comes from the conversation, but actually is made before the confrontation takes place (from her end).

[@kharris9359]

I'm 45 and this is the first time I've ever seen Dr.Who

[@BritishBeachcomber]

You've been without The Doctor for most of your life? Start from the beginning and binge watch them all.

[@delilah1096]

The scariest moment in the entire series in my opinion, is when one of them says 'theyve got two heads'. The look of dread as they realise whats surrounding them

[@toainsully]

Even today, the Weeping Angels are terrifying to encounter

[@locqueenvibez9415]

The hell you mean even today?😩😩

[@shawneldridge4465]

Love the weeping angels and they are my favorite of all times in Doctor who. Weeping angels fan for life and I'm proud of it

[@chris-hz2wd]

I love Jericho so much he was so good!

[@swiftbird4846]

What a genius concept.

[@August321]

i remember watching this as a kid and being scared to go down stares during the night XD

[@suecondon1685]

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey 😂

[@JustASleepySloth]

I wonder what would happen if you smashed an angel with a hammer whilst in their stone state

[@Aki-kari]

They would reform

[@destinyhunter1926]

Nothing, the hammer would bounce off

[@89BlackGatomon]

Humans have two eyes, blinking one at a time would help a lot, but its very exhausting to keep up and blurring eventually sets in.

[@YoungChip69]

man i love the weeping angels all about them is super cool and kinda scary

[@ScottRandolph-dd7dr]

Greetings from coastal Mississippi. Have watched Dr Who for 50 years. Weeping Angels ....ny favourite

[@Ryanspeer3025]

Everyone don't blink

[@Luiz-eu6iu]

Wink slowly and walk slowly away while looking at them

[@shayanm9944]

I love how since the reels/shorts of the weeping angles started kicking up outa nowhere whole complications/theory videos are popping up. Shorts, reels, and memes have really been dictating what is popular and what isn’t for a while now

[@XeonicXD]

Found a mistake, the 4 angels that got tricked by the time machine, 2 of them were looking at each other and 1 looked at the one on his left side, yet that one looked at the 2 that were looking at each other, wich means that that one can still move given no one is looking at it

[@mudassarkmmk]

The rory and amy scenes is one of my most favourite bit of TV. So much emotion.

[@SinTakai]

You are now blinking on manual. You are now breathing on manual.

[@victor.faustus]

Could I use the excuse of being “quantum locked” to explain my introvertness?

[@ree1120]

Why not just wink each eye back and forth

[@DittoGTI]

Some people can't wink. Lucky plothole cover

[@Laban540frickuwhoevertooklaban]

@@DittoGTI damn they really won the lottery having like 20 people woh couldnt wink 💀

[@shavonnepayne4749]

The eyebrow statement is the best part of this entire thing 😂😂😂

[@LORFCASTER]

This was a good era for the show :o

[@lorantpapp07]

dont leave this video paused in the background while an angel is on screen. the angel will come out and you will have to carefully maneuver around it to close the tab or switch to another

[@andreasmartin7942]

Never caught one picking his nose

[@adrianyoung6475]

I absolutely trust him. Hes not just some mad man? I absolutely trust him. Not NO because...

[@gyuunyuu]

bro just blink 1 eye at a time

[@briandaleske5139]

I think the best opponent against, the Evil Weeping-Angels, is a separate faction of them, who are genuine Good Weeping-Angels, who hate what they are, and they want to eliminate all the Evil Weeping-Angels.

[@sillythewanderer4221]

That would be quite cool actually.

[@nickrffpatellis852]

It would be funny if the reason weeping angels were so angry all the time was because every body has their eyes closed when they see them. In angel culture that could be considered offensive

[@dparker1988]

Amy...'you think you'll just come back to life!?!?' Rory...'When don't I!!!' I miss The Ponds

[@JoseMoreno-iv3mu]

I never understood why you cant just blink one eye at at a time. Checkmate Angels.

[@DittoGTI]

You mean winking. Also this may come as a shock but some people can't wink. I can but other can't. Lucky way to cover a plothole

[@MELol-n4h]

​@@DittoGTI snooze you lose

[@mimiquoi7380]

Weepings Angels are so good monsters. With such a unique concept They where really well used in they're first apparence ! But the Matt Smith episodes with them (even if they are not bad episodes) make me worried about the future of the Angels. But Village of the Angels was really good and really use them well 👍

[@Web_2567]

It’s so stupid cause sometimes the angels just don’t move despite no one watching them.

[@paulkothgasser6623]

The idea is that even the viewers count as watching them. *this doesn't work with the angels moving while being stones on the alien planet. Which also doesn't work with anything else we know about them, so I personally treat those as alien shapeshifters not angels.

[@shloyash7459]

I remember as a kid my brother told me to never ever play the dvd that had the blink episode on, naturally i ignored this warning and watch one of the best/ truly terrifying episodes of my life. Blink kept me up at night for months and even to this day at 23 this things still creep the hell out of me but im still addicted to watching these episodes

[@ajkenny3313]

Notice how with the angels the doctor almost always loses

[@TheAnxiousOwl]

I know a good way to get around the blinking problem at least for one angel. Blink eyes intermittently seperately.

[@neemz0117]

Your the first person I've heard say for just ONE angel. Everyone forgets about their peripheral vision.even if you do one at a time... your still somewhat blind.

[@patriciahendler]

Many years ago I was a student at a Christian private school. We saw "Blink" for the first time in English class. You wouldn't believe what happened. Half the class was mentally exhausted. But since then I've been a Dr. Who fan.

[@CassandraPhelps-t1e]

This episode was brilliant. When I first watched it I had to stop watching DW for a while as I wanted to just replay the whole episode in my mind and wanted to ingest the whole thing in my brain.

[@Destyinee]

I would be frightened and scared 💩less it’s hard not to blink when you blink so many times out of a day unless you’re sleeping

[@27july1954]

They are without question the scariest things ever to appear on Doctor Who by a long way. In a dimension of their own. Quite epically inspired. Ultimate nightmare fodder. Blink and you are gone. I mean...

[@unorthodoxbox]

I swear Moffat when he first saw the burning Weeping Angel must've though "Damn! Why didn't I think of that!" xD

[@patrickadamcruz3406]

It is like you can't get away from them.

[@thomasaberle-nt1fg]

15:50 I forgot I put the lid on my Pringles can and it spooked me

[@brandoncattermole9403]

The weeping angels are the best

[@kannavsharma2]

4:14.. most scariest scene 😂😂😳😳😳

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

"No, I can't really hear you. I just... I know exactly what you're going to say."

[@courtneylane7639]

Idk how i found this but im glad i did. Im about to start watching Dr Who. Also very cool seeing Jorah Mormont and Daemon Targaryen in the same place😂

[@uwuloluwu]

Wait, he stood up with his back turned at one of them and blocked its vision .....

[@redenvy649]

I always expect Rammstein song "Sonne" to play whenever this Angels appear 😂😂😂

[@jeannedeaux540]

The Weeping Angels are my favorite "villains" ever. I love the concept. Some innocent and good looking statues that can and will (try to) kill you as soon as you turn away from them. After blink I spent quite some time being very cautious when going to pay my respect to my elders at the cemetary. Way too many potential Weeping Angels all around the place. :D

[@MrMalachiteStone]

Wouldn’t all you need to do is place a mirror infront them? They can look at each other

[@gojirabh9383]

Ngl when i first saw Blink as a kid, it unlocked a fear in me that has lasted for years. I was terrified of statues. 😂

[@adamparr6464]

Even on the LEGO DIMENSIONS (DOCTOR WHO LEVELS) part of the game, the Weeping Angels are nerve wracking.

[@ericswanson9778]

I got hooked on Doctor Who from the episode Blink. I love how everyone uses a sledgehammer to instantly render them useless when they are statues. Oh wait. I guess the writers aren’t very bright. That’s what I would do if there were a statue in front of me that would attack when I looked away. I do love the show but, that’s very stupid of them to not think of that.

[@KenZaracki]

Not how it works they dont stay that way for long even if you did

[@davidambiguous4650]

Blink is my favourite episode , dark ,thought provoking , sad : in particular the hospital , last night shot . Brilliant.

[@MatthewVlossak]

This video brought back so many wonderful memories I had watching 11 and The Ponds. Miss them. 💙💙

[@dummymydum3934]

The difference between doctor who and "doctor who" begins at around 26:16, be happy with that.

[@Starkiller5121]

The angels should have been a one and done enemy. They slowly made them less scary with every appearance.

[@TARDIStraveller96]

Best NuWho monsters without a shadow of a doubt. Village of the Angels is 13s best episode too and that cliffhanger was jaw dropping.

[@ninaplays4276]

This is giving me PTSD again from the first time I watched this

[@courtneytatefigueroa1172]

Literally my favorite Doctor Who enemy

[@BSFSAGE]

25:55 the real reason he shaved was because Matt had to shave his head for his role in a movie prior to this episode. Funny that they gave a silly in universe reason. 😂

[@Laban540frickuwhoevertooklaban]

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THIS VIDEO IM GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS NOW 😭😭😭

[@markwhittingham7626]

Absolutely Brilliant Episode! Despite being 50+ when on TV, my eyes opened wide and I sweated! Just like the Early Days! Superbly written and acted. WOW!

[@DaCostaRica48]

im making up my own canon the weeping angle that moved its head while we are watching is a species that evolved to look like the weeping angles to survive