Doctor Who: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone
by Steven Moffat; dir. Adam Smith (BBC, 2010)
Moffat further develops the Weeping Angels as New Series adversaries, and puts in some deft touches concealing plot points within incidental humour. Matt Smith is tremendous, but whereas the suspense elements prove genuinely gripping, the actual resolutions are underwhelming, verging on facile.
Doctor Who: Blink
by Steven Moffat; dir. Hettie Macdonald (BBC, 2007)
No ‘Doctor-lite’ episode should work this well, but Moffat’s script offers an adroit balance of humour, suspense and timey-wimey SF, the Weeping Angels are creepily effective (at least as a one-off), and Carey Mulligan, taking the lead, puts in a virtuoso performance.
Dr. Eleventh
by Adam Hargreaves (BBC, 2017)
Hargreaves, in his usual clumsy way, has Matt Smith’s Doctor and River Song run a pointless gamut of monsters… but can only think of three (Zygons, Silurians, Weeping Angels) before resorting to snakes and spiders! The ending is as tiresome as ever.
Doctor Who: The Lost Angel
by George Mann & Cavan Scott; audiobook read by Kerry Shale (BBC, 2017)
The Weeping Angels, like the Daleks before them, have faded from show-defining monsters into one-dimensional ho-hum tripe. The bits with the Doctor work well enough — as one would expect — but whenever he’s absent the writing, characters and scenario simply fail to engage.