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What Did You Think of The Angels Take Manhattan?

What Did You Think of The Angels Take Manhattan?

The final episode of series 7a has aired so what did you think?, was it the best episode ever or just average.

The Doctor’s heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York’s statues come to life around them…

With Rory’s life in danger, the Doctor and Amy must locate him before it’s too late! Luckily, an old friend helps them and guides the way.









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232 comments

  • Will

    October 8th, 2012 - 11:16pm

    Asylum of the Daleks: 3/10

    Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: 8/10

    A town called Mercy: 8/10

    The power of three: 2/10

    The Angels take Manhattan: 3/10

    I am a massive Dalek fan but even I can admit that Asylum of the Daleks was a travesty.

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    • Eamon UltimateCliffhanger

      October 10th, 2012 - 8:25am

      why is the Power of Three lowest mine is:

      Asylum of the Daleks: 9.5/10
      Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: 8/10
      A Town Called Mercy: 4/10
      Power of Three: 9.5/10
      The Angels take Manhattan:10/10

  • Miss Amy already

    October 8th, 2012 - 7:51am

    I really don’t care who the next companion is. Amy was the best companion since Sarah Jane. Why do these stupid writers need to kill people off all the time. I hope the Angels get them, and soon.

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    • davidwroxy

      October 10th, 2012 - 5:02am

      I agree that Amy is the best companion, but Karen Gillan wanted to leave and never return (at least thats what she said). Though, are some rumors that she will return dor the 50th.

  • Kb

    October 7th, 2012 - 6:44pm

    Close one eye at a time!

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  • BOOBOO JR

    October 7th, 2012 - 2:58pm

    So I’m doing ‘The DWM Season Survey 2012′, but I’m stuck for ideas on a few of the sections. These are ones I still need to fill in:

    ‘Favourite Special Effect’
    ‘Favourite Scene’
    ‘Favourite line of Diologue’

    If someone could just give me a few ideaa, it would be much appreciated. Thanks 😀

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    • BOOBOO JR

      October 7th, 2012 - 4:27pm

      It’s alright now, I posted the same question on the Merchandise Site, and have now been replied to 🙂

    • matt smithy

      October 7th, 2012 - 7:29pm

      could I have some suggestions please? O’m stuck with:
      favorite musical score
      favorite line of dialoge
      favorite special effect

      thanks 🙂

    • Mr Evil Fez

      October 8th, 2012 - 4:33pm

      FMS – When Amy and Rory jumped off the building,
      FLOD – “Hello old friend. And here we are, on the last page.”
      FSA- The Parliament of The Daleks.

    • Whovian

      October 9th, 2012 - 8:12pm

      FLD: The doctor talking to susan the horse in ATCM. LOL!

  • Anonymous

    October 5th, 2012 - 10:21pm

    I thought it was awful. Most of it didn’t even make sense.

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    • sdfsdfds

      October 6th, 2012 - 4:06pm

      You’re heartless

    • Anonymous

      October 7th, 2012 - 8:06am

      It wasent that good infact i was glad to see the ponds go

    • Bob K

      October 7th, 2012 - 11:20am

      I thought this was lacking excitement. The weeping Angels though are one of the best characters ever seen in Dr Who, they have an especially creepy feel about them.
      As to the end of Amy And Rory, I thought the story line lead up was boring, although the final scene was particularly moving with the doctor pleading with Amy.
      Bring on some more sci-if western stories.
      As to the best doctor anyone agree that Matt is by far the best, second only to Eccelston. Amy would have to be the best companion…..
      Bit peeved that we have waited months for the return of Dr Who, only to get 5 shows….When are we going to get a Dr Who movie????

    • Trenzalore 64

      October 7th, 2012 - 12:28pm

      The episode was ok, i just wanted to see more magic like like the older series had. All in all the episode was a fitting farewell the ponds. But that is my opinion.

  • Anonymous

    October 5th, 2012 - 5:56pm

    the fall is coming and the question will be answered

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  • crazy guy

    October 5th, 2012 - 5:25pm

    hey one of the working titles for the first episode is the bells of saint John. which sounds interesting i was wondering perhaps it could be something to do with the tardis blowing up and we find out who it is but it might have something to do with the tardis as it has a saint John logo

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  • william stucken

    October 4th, 2012 - 8:05am

    Well we could of seen a bit more of the christmas trailer.

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  • Whovian

    October 2nd, 2012 - 6:04pm

    The music when Amy & Rory were jumping was amazing!

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    • johnnyg

      October 3rd, 2012 - 4:37pm

      yes, it was very moving

    • Trenzalore 64

      October 6th, 2012 - 10:59am

      I agree one of the best peices of music in doctor who.

  • Anonymous

    October 2nd, 2012 - 5:07pm

    Can someone tell me, what was the reference back to the eleventh hour was it Amelia t the end? And what question did it answer from TEH?

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    • booboo

      October 2nd, 2012 - 5:30pm

      yes it was, everyone wondered why she heard the Tardis noise in the 11th hour

    • Dalek Prime Minister

      October 2nd, 2012 - 5:46pm

      Oh it cold also say who the shadow character is, the doctor visiting her!

    • videogamemad00

      October 2nd, 2012 - 8:36pm

      Steven Moffat said that was the original idea but he ended up dropping it.

    • Handbot Scott

      October 3rd, 2012 - 7:48am

      Perhaps Amelia heard the TARDIS noise because that was the Doctor doing what Amy Said for him to do in the afterword

    • Anonymous

      October 6th, 2012 - 11:34am

      So Amelia and The Doctor were together when Amelia waited? That doesn’t make sense. 😛 Crossing timelines and stuff……..

    • Handbot Scott

      October 9th, 2012 - 6:19pm

      Time can be rewritten.

    • Anonymous

      October 11th, 2012 - 10:53am

      Actually the shadow figure was Matt smith

  • Abi

    October 2nd, 2012 - 12:55am

    im gonna miss the ponds =/ they deserved a better send off, but at least they wont be bringing them back (tht annoys me).
    just thinking..Moffat was very clever to have the next companion in the first episode. cause now everyone loves her ^^ (it better be the same character tho or im gonna go and knock some sense into him)
    wish they hadn’t over used the angels =/ loved em in the first ep (blink) but after that it just got a bit silly.
    im now super dreading when river leaves. but the thing i dont get… shouldnt river be getting younger as he sees her… ?

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    • Anonymous

      October 2nd, 2012 - 1:52pm

      this episode wasent the best i mean it was better than asylum of the daleks but i felt no emotion im not fussed about who leaves and who stays. the angels were not scary. i think the show should return to the classic format

    • Jason doctorwhoone

      October 2nd, 2012 - 4:06pm

      Jenna-Louise Coleman’S Oswin Oswald from ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ wont be coming back as she was killed along with all the other Daleks in the Asylum.

      Instead, Jenna is returning as Clara Oswin, a woman from the Victorian times, who maybe a great great great [several times great] Grandmother or some other relation to Oswin Oswald, like Freema Agymans Martha has a Cousin called Adeola back in Army of Ghosts / Doomsdays, same actress, different characters, but both related in some way.

      The Weeping Angels should never have returned after ‘Blink’, they should have stayed scary in that 1 episode and left it at that, just like Joss Whedon did with the Gentle in Buffy the Vampire Slayers series 4 episode ‘Hush’ by not bringing them back after that episode.

    • Jason doctorwhoone

      October 2nd, 2012 - 4:07pm

      The Gentlemen, not Gentle.

    • Anonymous

      October 6th, 2012 - 11:35am

      Perhaps ther sohuld be some kind of spolier alert system? 😛

  • Mandy

    October 1st, 2012 - 10:22pm

    Here’s a few thoughts. The future River does not try to prevent what occured (like NEVER go to N. York!), and it seemed to me that River wrote the book in such a way to ensure Amy and Rory were sent back, coincidence that as a child River lived in New York, also she encouraged Amy to ‘blink’ and really didn’t seem too upset in the Tardis afterwards which makes me think she actually WAS the future River and knew what was going to happen. Rory had to go back as he has to die of old age on a set date. Could the graveyard angel actually be an Angel Of Mercy (a good angel) so Amy could be reunited with him? Remember they get to live their lives free from the angels and live a long and happy life. Surely there is more to be revealed by River about what happened. As far as I can work out the Dr can’t go back to see them as he witnessed Rory’s death, they are part of his timeline. (If someone dies he can’t just jump in the Tardis and go back in time 5 minutes and save them for instance). Once it says on the gravestone they are dead he can’t go back as they have already lived their lives without him. Going back to see Amelia and telling her about some of the future adventures makes sense as I used to puzzle over the fact Amy often seemed to know just what to do, as if she had already lived it before, I used to think she was a time lord or something in the first series. He would of course only tell her certain things and not others. I do wish they had used all the five episodes in a story arc leading to their departure, it felt as if they had already been pushed aside for most of the ‘series’. Amy and Rory I shall miss you!

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  • daleksean

    October 1st, 2012 - 9:50pm

    i enjoyed this story but it was a bit rushed but i thought that amy and rory were going to die because they were jumping off the top of winter quay but in the end it was unexpected the way they left the show all that i can say is goodbye the ponds

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  • PondsForever

    October 1st, 2012 - 8:02pm

    Sigh, if only Someone Had Teleported to the Graveyard either COD Zombies or if they had a Vortex Manipulator and took some guns or something and distracted the surviving Angel then Amy and Rory would have never’ve been zapped back in time.

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    • PondsForever

      October 1st, 2012 - 8:03pm

      I meant either from COD Zombies BTW.

    • matt smithy

      October 4th, 2012 - 6:57am

      you do realise the Doctor doesn’t use guns, right?

    • PondsForever

      October 4th, 2012 - 7:07am

      Yes, but he did in TDD, TEOT P2 and ATCM

    • PondsForever

      October 9th, 2012 - 6:05pm

      And he probably would if there was a zombie apocalypse.

    • Anonymous

      October 11th, 2012 - 10:58am

      The angels are bullet proof.
      They didn’t know it was there until it took Rory.
      That’s a horrible idea for an ending

  • Trenzalore 64

    October 1st, 2012 - 5:42pm

    The apisode was ok, but there were alot of plot holes. it was very dry, but still the weeping angles were as manacing as ever. i just hope that future episodes wont suffer the same fate as this one. as a whole the series was ok, but the wealth of plot holes made it very confusing and stale. and in my personal optinion could have used more T.L.C. as a whole. it feals rushed.

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  • Whovian

    October 1st, 2012 - 5:06pm

    I thought the doctor would go “dark doctor” on the last angel. To be honest I kind of hoped he would.

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    • Trenzalore 64

      October 1st, 2012 - 5:36pm

      me too

  • 11matt

    October 1st, 2012 - 3:52pm

    so if they go back in time how could they be born nowadays and they would never meet the dr

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    • the astronaut of death

      October 1st, 2012 - 4:01pm

      wibbily wobbily timey wymey

    • Some bloke

      October 1st, 2012 - 4:05pm

      they’d still be born in the same time and die in the past. It is possible you know! I don reckon your very knowledgable on you ‘Who’ science

    • Some bloke

      October 1st, 2012 - 4:05pm

      don’t*

    • Some bloke

      October 1st, 2012 - 4:06pm

      oh and they’d still meet the doctor.
      The fact they died in the past before they were born, has NO effect on their births at all, nor on their meeting the doctor!

    • 11matt

      October 2nd, 2012 - 6:05pm

      I am actually a very big fan and collect a lot of stuff I was just a little bit confused

  • Yoni

    October 1st, 2012 - 10:38am

    DID NOT LIKE THE END OF THE PONDS,THEIR ROLE WITH THE DOCTOR WAS FANTASTIC ,AND FREEZING THEM IN TIME ALLOWING FOR A FUTURE RETURN(PERHAPS TO SAVE THE DOCTOR OR RIVER)IN THE FUTURE WOULD BE BETTER OPTION

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    • Anonymous

      October 11th, 2012 - 11:00am

      Freezing them in time? That’s an awful idea

  • Some bloke

    October 1st, 2012 - 10:21am

    We still havent found out what that voice was in the TARDIS at the end of series 5 when the tardis monitor screen cracked and it said ‘Silence will fall, silence will fall…’
    Now before any of you comment on this saying, ‘Oh it was the Silents didn’t you know?’ because it wasnt the slients because its a different voice, and if you dont believe me, go back and have a look, OK?
    I’ll expect that they’ll carry that on through to the 50th

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    • Trenzalore 64

      October 1st, 2012 - 5:37pm

      it sounded like davaros to me.

    • Some bloke

      October 1st, 2012 - 6:07pm

      i dont recognise it, but im still hoping its omega! there was a lot of speculation about it when matt smith started and the cleric’s logo (the army guys) in time of angels and flesh and stone was the symbol for omega, so i’m still hoping

    • 11matt

      October 2nd, 2012 - 6:06pm

      I reckon its omega

    • Whovian

      October 7th, 2012 - 2:46pm

      I’m probbaly going to get slated for this but… Who’s omega? Was he a timelord?

    • 11matt

      October 7th, 2012 - 6:00pm

      he was a bad timelord

  • Joanne

    October 1st, 2012 - 4:46am

    I’m disappointed that they didn’t wrap up the whole Amy and Rory being River’s parent’s thing better. I never saw Amy and River try to get to know each other, and Rory definitely didn’t.
    The end for Rory and Amy came too quickly and is too cruel. Too many plot holes as well. Didn’t like it.

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    • The Cyber Squirrel

      October 1st, 2012 - 7:43am

      I think it would have been better if they died by falling off winter quay

    • Trenzalore 64

      October 1st, 2012 - 5:38pm

      yeah.

    • doctorwhocrazyfreak

      October 3rd, 2012 - 6:30am

      i dont like the fact that in most of moffats episodes he always erases time

  • Rachel Song

    October 1st, 2012 - 12:52am

    This was without a doubt one of the most fabulous and emotional episode I have ever watched absolutely amazing in every way possible Action,Love,Grief. WOW

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  • Jane Daniels

    September 30th, 2012 - 9:35pm

    Plot holes you could drive a truck through… but I still liked it LOL

    The only thing I wish we had gotten was a little more information on the Pond’s life after they’d been sent back in time (as we did in the original weeping angels episode when Sally got the letter from Kathy)

    I will miss the Ponds, I kind of had a crush on them LOL

    Oh, and btw, whoever said angels couldn’t be bronze? At the end of “Blink” we saw all sorts of statues not just stone statues, implying ANY statue could be one of the ‘lonely assassins’ & NOT just the weeping angels… pay attention people!

    Yeah… I gotta get a life, I know LOL

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  • Silence Will Still Fall

    September 30th, 2012 - 8:53pm

    Beautifully written and acted. Best episode of the series so far.And for maximum impact the weeping angels should NEVER EVER return because after this they’ll never be forgotten.

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  • the astronaut of death

    September 30th, 2012 - 7:59pm

    as much as i like the weeping angels if they ever return i hope they are destroyed

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    • Trenzalore 64

      October 1st, 2012 - 5:44pm

      that is what usally happens to all the baddies in doctor who.

    • Anonymous

      October 11th, 2012 - 11:02am

      Why didn’t the doctor deal with the angel that took Amy and rory? It’s not like him to leave an angel loose in New York

    • Sebatron

      November 6th, 2012 - 12:17am

      Maybe that angel is Angel Bob and he survived to take revenge on the Doctor for ruining his plan before!

  • Mr Evil Fez

    September 30th, 2012 - 7:37pm

    What do you think of The Angels Take Manhattan Booboo?

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    • booboo

      September 30th, 2012 - 7:38pm

      best of the series good exit for the Ponds

    • Mr Evil Fez

      October 1st, 2012 - 7:05am

      Cool; 😀

  • Dazza

    September 30th, 2012 - 6:48pm

    So, Rorys dad will forever be sat at their home waiting for them, watering plants? loose plot ends, was just an excuse to use the worst villians of all the stupid weeping angels. 2/5

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    • Anonymous

      October 7th, 2012 - 8:15am

      I agree with you stevan moffat has written good strorys but strories like asylum of the daleks and angeks take manhatten are awfull.

    • George

      December 6th, 2012 - 2:18pm

      They actually released a sort of clip (I can’t quite remember but I think it was a storyboard) where Rory’s dad gets a message from Rory explaining what happened.

      Come on, the Weeping Angels aren’t the worst villains ever. Overused a bit perhaps, but they’re consistently ranked as peoples favourite or near favourite Doctor Who monsters, so to call them the worst villains is simply false (they’re the villains you most dislike, not the actual worst villains).

  • Rob

    September 30th, 2012 - 6:18pm

    It should have been a two parter. A city over-run by weeping angels, The Statue Of Liberty an angel etc… Also how could the angel zapp Amy if both River & The Doctor were looking at it?

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    • The Supreme Dalek

      September 30th, 2012 - 9:10pm

      I think because Amy was right up at it, so when she turned around the Angel’s hand didn’t really need to move as she was very close so she got zapped. It could maybe have moved so little they didn’t notice… 😆

  • BOOBOO JR

    September 30th, 2012 - 5:52pm

    We all knew the Ponds end was coming, but I didn’t expect it to come this fast 🙁 Last night’s episode was great, a perfect send off for Amy and Rory. 10 out of 10 from me, best episode of this season. I can’t wait for Christmas though, it’s time to make way for Jenna Louise Coleman…

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    • Jason doctorwhoone

      September 30th, 2012 - 5:57pm

      R.I.P. Amelia Jessica Williams and Rory Arther Williams 🙁 xx

      HELLO CLARA OSWIN 😀

  • Jason doctorwhoone

    September 30th, 2012 - 5:50pm

    Just learned from a new YouTube video uploaded by user ‘I just subscribe now’ called ‘The Doctor’s Daughter (Jenny) Confirmed By Moffat Returning For 50th’ that the Doctors Daughter herself, Jenny, is to return for Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary celebrations next year 😀

    Can’t find no official confirmation, but Ive just taken a look on Google and a website called ‘Word Press’ talks about it, but features both Jenny the Doctors Daughter and the other Jenny from last years ‘A Good Man Goes To War’ episode, the woman with the Silurian woman.

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    • That Cherub over there

      September 30th, 2012 - 5:52pm

      Moffat wasn’t talking about the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny. He was talking about Jenny from AGMGTW. 🙂

    • Whovian

      October 1st, 2012 - 4:59pm

      AGMGTW?

    • Mr Evil Fez

      October 1st, 2012 - 5:33pm

      A Good Man Goes To War.

    • Whovian

      October 2nd, 2012 - 6:02pm

      Ah! thank you

    • Anonymous

      October 11th, 2012 - 11:05am

      What if Oswin is Jenny regenerated!

  • Esterath

    September 30th, 2012 - 5:24pm

    booboo, I saw a review for ATAM and people were saying stuff about a Paul Mcgann Police Box interior reference?

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    • The TARDIS

      September 30th, 2012 - 5:37pm

      ATAM? I’m probably being stupid, but what does it mean?

    • Esterath

      September 30th, 2012 - 5:42pm

      Oh, sorry, TATM.

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