8/18/2023 0 Comments Weeping angels doctor whoLimestone is notoriously vulnerable to chemical weathering via acidic rain or groundwater. Now that may not sound like much to you, but to a geoscientist who loves Doctor Who, that’s a bloody revelation. I can’t say for sure about those in the forest scenes, but the thousands in the caves of Alfava Metraxis were made of, rather magically, the same material that’s found in the Forest of Dean’s Clearwell Caves: limestone. That means Rey was pretty damn lucky not to be thieved by a hungry Weeping Angel, which is a weird thought.)įrom forests to cities, they're everywhere. (Apropos of nothing, here’s a crossover fun fact for you, because I’m an enormous geek: Puzzlewood, found in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, was used (along with part of the Lake District) to represent the planet Takodana in The Force Awakens, just as it was used to represent Trenzalore’s angel scene, and the oxygen factory scenes of the crashed Byzantium in Who. ![]() I have no idea what the geology is like on those alien worlds, so I’m going to cheat and use their filming locations. Secondly, their physical form is alterable they can be damaged, so to speak.īoth give us a clue as to what their geological compositions may be, but before we give that a go, we need to recall precisely where they’ve appeared to date.īased on the TV part of the Whoniverse, angels appear in only a handful of places: Earth, including in an unspecified town or city early on, and throughout Manhattan in 1938 the caves of the alien world Alfava Metraxis the bowels of the starship Byzantium, which crashes into said planet on the outskirts of a village on the planet Trenzalore. Firstly, apart from when they sneak into your mind or form part of an image, they’re invariably made of stone, no matter how many of them there are or where they appear. …yes, that’s a lot to take in, but it’s highlighted two key points here. ![]() Stare too long at that photograph of one, and it’ll materialize out from the image into a real one. You can’t take any photographs or videos of them either, because the image of an angel becomes itself an angel. If you stare into the eyes of an angel, one will infiltrate your mind and slowly eat away at you. If you create a temporal paradox, it’ll corrupt the “well” of time energy their feasting off, and that reality, and you’ll capture by the angels, will cease to be. There are some other wibbly wobbly timey wimey rules too. Sometimes, if they’re starved of time energy, their image will fade, like a statue whose surficial features have been worn down and eroded. Other times, they appear in vast numbers, in caves or in cities, as they did in episodes in Smith’s era. ![]() Sometimes, angels appear in isolation or in small clusters, as they did in their debut episode, Blink, during Tennant’s time. As cool as that is – and it’s a real, measurable effect, not a fiction exclusive to the realm of Who – we’re taking on bold, weird new pop-science territory here. If you’d like to know more about the physics behind this weird quantum freak effect, then I’d advise you pop on over to Gizmodo, which explains it beautifully. With one exception, when you look away, they become living, but still-stony monsters, ready to feed. The reason they cover their eyes and appear to be crying is that, if they look at each other, the same thing happens when you look at them yourself: they become “quantum locked”: frozen as non-sentient stone as part of a defence mechanism.
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