Touched By An Angel (2011) Review

Touched By An Angel is an unexpectedly touching timey-wimey story where the Weeping Angels are at their best and the time travel actually makes sense. Well, sort of.

PLOT

After the death of Rebecca Whitaker, his husband Mark turns depressed and unsocial until one day when the Angels send him back in time and he has a chance to undo all that. At the same time, he is stalked by the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory in their attempt to keep Mark's history together and prevent the Angels from feeding on the growing paradox...

ANALYSIS

The time travel in this story is just brilliant. It's not from B to A to C, more like from Z to D to H to... you get the point. It's a big, wonderful mess and feels like an actual story from the 2010-2011 heyday of the Moffat era. Unlike Prisoner Of The Daleks, past references are kept to an absolute minimum, with Mark Whitaker's story taking precedence. And I don't have any problems with that.
 
The story is less directly humorous than its' Dalek "WHERE DID YOU LAST HAVE THEM?!" counterpart, but there's still a lot of hilarity just from the situations alone and the characters' reactions to them.
 
My favourite was probably Mark's wedding, where everything that could go wrong, went wrong and the Doctor constantly had to go back in time and fix everything.
 
That's all I really have to say. Touched By An Angel is well constructed, entertaining and charming as any other great Doctor Who story.

CHARACTERS

The writing for the TARDIS crew is spot-on, all three of them. The Doctor's jokey attitude covering his dead serious, Time Lord persona is captured without a flaw, as is Amy's flirtiness and Rory's misery.
 
Mark Whitaker(in all ages) feels like a real, rounded person who's blindly trying to do the right thing and is capable of both extreme generosity and trust and extreme idiocy.
 
Rebecca is also a perky, witty character, kind of like a blend of Rose and Amy, but with more smarts and less whining.
 
None of the other characters are particularly important, but they all feel like real people too. We see glimpses of their varying personalities and quirks that speak of their own lives beyond the book. I love that.
 
Even the Weeping Angels feel creepy and for once, their abilities match the ones we've already seen in Blink and The Time Of Angels.

NOTES

*Poor Rory, having to wait for the Doctor and Amy to show up TWICE.
 
*If the TARDIS flew right next to Mark's train, how come nobody saw it?
 
*How did the Weeping Angels(especially if they were seen by the TARDIS crew) fly outside of Mark's apartment?
 
*Psychic credit card! Lol.
 
*The Doctor has a wibbliness detector! It doesn't go ding.
 
*Where did the Weeping Angels even come from? Speaking of that, where do they EVER come from?
 
*Rebecca turning the old Mark young again is plot magic that's never happened before in time travel. I was kind of expecting her to survive the story herself(as it would've happened if Moffat had written this), but ultimately, this feels like the best happy ending that could've been written.

BEST QUOTE

"Time can't be rewritten without people getting hurt."

CONCLUSION

A stellar story all the way round. The best presentation of the Weeping Angels yet, plus the best timey-wimey story yet. *clap clap clap*