Flux Does One Doctor Who Trick Much Better Than Steven Moffats Era

Flux Does One Doctor Who Trick Much Better Than Steven Moffat’s Era

Doctor Who: Flux revisits Steven Moffat’s Weeping Angel eye dust trick, but does a better job of making the moment as scary as it should be.

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Flux Does One Doctor Who Trick Much Better Than Steven Moffats Era

Doctor Who: Flux’s Weeping Angels repeat a trick from Steven Moffat’s horror playbook – but the execution is way more effective this time around. “Village of the Angels” begins with a rogue Weeping Angel piloting the TARDIS to 1960s England (when else?), where the humble locale of Medderton is under siege from Doctor Who’s stoniest villains. Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor reunites with Claire, and rapidly discovers it’s her the Angels are hunting. Claire is soon confirmed as a seer possessed by a rebel Weeping Angel, and her arms start turning to stone. Even more creepy is the moment a frightened Claire brushes stone dust out of her eye.

The Weeping Angel stone arm and eye dust tricks will be familiar to Doctor Who fans thanks to season 5’s “Time of the Angels.” Like Claire, Amy Pond gets possessed by a Weeping Angel (albeit to a lesser extent, since Eleven’s companion isn’t a percipient) and brushes her eye, causing stone dust to fall out. Amy Pond also believes her hand has become stone, forcing The Doctor to break the illusion with a well-placed chomp. A wonderfully creepy, horror-tinged idea, Amy’s dusty eye should’ve sent shivers down the spine of Doctor Who’s Moffat era, but the imagery didn’t land quite as intended, while Matt Smith’s mouth antics removed any severity from Amy’s hand becoming gray and cracked.

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No one watching Doctor Who in 2010 believed for a second that Karen Gillan’s Amy Pond was in serious danger of dying in only her fourth episode, leaving no real stakes to back up her threatened transformation. Sure enough, “The Time of Angels” quickly diminished the importance of Amy’s eye dust by having Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor reveal her inner Weeping Angel was simply playing tricks, wearing down its unwilling host in preparation for death. All is resolved in the final moments of continuation episode “Flesh & Stone,” when The Doctor flushed the Weeping Angels through a time crack and fixed Amy good-as-new for the next adventure.

With “Village of the Angels,” Doctor Who: Flux finally gives season 5’s dusty eye and stony arm ideas their disturbing, frightful due. As Matt Smith’s brand new companion, Amy Pond’s body horror was never likely to have major consequences, but in Doctor Who: Flux, the symptoms are happening to Claire – a character viewers are curious about and invested in but could feasibly perish at any moment. There’s no guarantee Claire will get the same happy ending that inevitably awaited Amy Pond, nor that she’ll recover from Weeping Angel possession. Higher stakes give Doctor Who: Flux’s freaky eye and rock-arm scenes a gravity “The Time of Angels” lacked.

Claire’s inner Weeping Angel is also more tangible compared to Amy Pond’s. When Amy shed dust and believed her hand had turned to stone, these were hallucinations designed to torment her. Perhaps because Claire’s possession is psychic (whereas Amy’s was merely in the brain’s visual center), not all of her symptoms are imaginary in Doctor Who: Flux. Though she admits hallucinating the Weeping Angel wings, Claire brushes stone dust from Professor Jericho’s furniture to avoid others spotting it, and the Thirteenth Doctor actually witnesses Claire’s arms physically change. Claire’s grave situation makes her Weeping Angel transformation much scarier than Amy’s. Claire isn’t just hallucinating – she’s genuinely developing traits of a Doctor Who Weeping Angel – and that’s a far more terrifying prospect than having Matt Smith bite her hand.

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