Moffat: 'Weeping Angels to bring war'

Steven Moffat has blogged about the Weeping Angels' return to Doctor Who.

In a post on the BBC's TV blog today, the showrunner revealed that his upcoming Weeping Angels episodes play like an action-orientated sequel to the series one episode 'Blink'.

"The best way to explain the difference between 'Blink' and these two episodes would be to say that I think the best conceived movie sequel ever was Aliens following Alien," he wrote.

"It took the same monster into an entirely different type of film. That is very roughly the model for this. 'Blink' was a small, low-key one and this is the highly coloured, loud, action movie one."

He added of the Angels: "Last time, the implication was that they were hiding out on earth, as scavengers who are just surviving - they didn't have a big terrible plan. This time there really is a big terrible plan which goes beyond mere survival, and is almost like a war."

Moffat also compared new Doctor Matt Smith to Indiana Jones and Stan Laurel, saying that Smith brings back the Doctor's silliness at times.

"We find out he's a bit rubbish at flying the Tardis and he trips over his feet and breaks things," he explained.

"Both Chris [Eccleston] and David [Tennant] were quite cool Doctors, and while Matt certainly isn't short on cool, he has an amazing clumsiness. He's halfway between Indiana Jones and Stan Laurel."

'The Time Of The Angels' episode airs on Saturday at 6.20pm on BBC One.