Review: The Angels Take Manhattan

Yeah, okay. You know the deal.













































Spoilers.




So, the fifth episode of Series Seven of "Doctor Who".


Set in New York, between 1938 and 2012, the Weeping Angels are back about their business. This time they've got creepy little cherub babies to add to the mix.

There's some kind of gangster in 1938 keeping a damaged Angel prisoner. He's mixed up with investigations of "statues that move", getting one private investigator killed in a really creepy way.

Flash forward to 2012. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are in New York. The Doctor is enjoying a book about "Molly Malone", a P.I.

Rory goes to get coffee. Creepy cherub angels zap him back to 1938.

While reading his book, the Doctor realizes the book is not fiction. It's a narrative written by River Song.

Rory is back in time.

The Doctor and Amy try to go to 1938 to get Rory, but there's a huge time-space whatsit preventing them from getting there. Meanwhile Rory materializes next to River Song. River is not sure why he's there and they're both taken to the gangster.

The gangster tosses Rory into a basement with more cherubs while he reveals to River that he's interested in angels for some weird reason.

Rory is not tossed back in time by the cherubs or killed, he's displaced near the same hotel where the P.I. at the beginning was killed.

Turns out the hotel is a "farm" of people caught back in time by Angels to feed them. Including one giant Statue of Liberty Angel.

The Angels want to add Rory to their farm. As part of that, Rory meets himself dying in the hotel, as does the Doctor, Amy, and River.

The Doctor and River determine that all this fixed-time getting created is making it impossible to save Rory unless somehow they create a paradox.

Rory and Amy jump off a building together, dying, and creating a paradox that wipes out the Angels.

Well, almost all of the Angels.

Flash forward to 2012. There's a graveyard there with a tombstone bearing Rory's name.

An Angel gets him. Amy, overwhelmed, lets the Angel zap her too.

Lots of angsty stuff at this point. Lots of driving the endless point home that the Ponds are gone and that the Doctor should not travel alone.

Why doesn't River hang out with the Doctor? Vague b.s. reasons. For the best, really. I'm tired of her.

It was a nice, if overdone, sendoff for Amy and Rory. Good-bye Ponds. You were good fun.