Mybe the effect doesn't work via a mirror? Or the creatures could have learned to attack with their eyes shut.
I wondered why they chose to go to the haunted house in order to look at the DVDs. Obviously Moffat wrote it that way to set up the scary sequence, which I thought was brilliantly done. But why did the characters in the story do it?
I'd probably do it. The video is a half conversation, and you've got to carry out the other half yourself. If you need to take any actions during it, and ask questions, then you'd better be in the right place.
Yes, you could pause it, but if you don't know how the other half knows what you're saying then I think trying to carry it out as a perfectly normal conversation is the right way to go.
We know (or at least are told) that i) the four of them looking at each other in stone form will stay that way forever, so they do count as "observers" in stone form ii) but putting their hands over their own eyes so they can't see each other doesn't lock them into stone forever so presumably the "quantum" effect isn't triggered if one of them looks at itself - via a mirror or not.
When he said "you can't kill a stone", I did wonder what effect smashing them into gravel with a sledgehammer would have when they unfroze. But we could say it's an invulnerable statis field instead.
Would've gone for a towel and an amulet of reflection myself. </nethack>
Fantastic episode. Is it just me or have they been going in for "Back to the Future" references lately? ("At this exact location, on this exact date" in "Blink", and I'm sure there was something in either "Human Nature" or "The Family of Blood" though I've forgotten what it was.)
Yes, that particular group of "angels" had avoided it.
Oh, and yes there are holes in the story. (Once that light burns out, they'd be free, no?) But Doctor Who is (for me anyway) about enjoying the story, not looking for ways to poke holes in it. It's a program about time travel-- can't get much more implausible than that -- but I still love the show.
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-09 07:36 pm (UTC)I wondered why they chose to go to the haunted house in order to look at the DVDs. Obviously Moffat wrote it that way to set up the scary sequence, which I thought was brilliantly done. But why did the characters in the story do it?
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Date: 2007-06-09 07:48 pm (UTC)Yes, you could pause it, but if you don't know how the other half knows what you're saying then I think trying to carry it out as a perfectly normal conversation is the right way to go.
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Date: 2007-06-09 09:39 pm (UTC)i) the four of them looking at each other in stone form will stay that way forever, so they do count as "observers" in stone form
ii) but putting their hands over their own eyes so they can't see each other doesn't lock them into stone forever
so presumably the "quantum" effect isn't triggered if one of them looks at itself - via a mirror or not.
When he said "you can't kill a stone", I did wonder what effect smashing them into gravel with a sledgehammer would have when they unfroze. But we could say it's an invulnerable statis field instead.
smashing them into gravel
Date: 2007-06-10 12:34 am (UTC)Re: smashing them into gravel
Date: 2007-06-11 10:00 am (UTC)Fantastic phrase - however I am now trying to cut it into the earworm of Bill Bailey's 'Human slaves in an insect nation - ahh ahhh ahh...'
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Date: 2007-06-09 10:52 pm (UTC)Fantastic episode. Is it just me or have they been going in for "Back to the Future" references lately? ("At this exact location, on this exact date" in "Blink", and I'm sure there was something in either "Human Nature" or "The Family of Blood" though I've forgotten what it was.)
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Date: 2007-06-10 01:27 pm (UTC)That was probably just a small group
Date: 2007-06-12 06:21 pm (UTC)Oh, and yes there are holes in the story. (Once that light burns out, they'd be free, no?) But Doctor Who is (for me anyway) about enjoying the story, not looking for ways to poke holes in it. It's a program about time travel-- can't get much more implausible than that -- but I still love the show.