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Weeping angel speculation
I was just looking sentimentally at the apartment that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yarngeek and oliviacirce and I used to live in, on Google Maps, and then I panned over to the scary Weeping Angel house on Richland (like you do). The one with the row of CREEPY statues, which are all looking down except for that one that has its head turned to look at you as you pass on the street.
For probably two months after I watched "Blink" I was so scared of passing that house. I'd tense up with anticipation for about three houses before it, and wouldn't be ok again until I made it home. Eventually, I got over it and started to think of the statues as my little creepy buddies. I'd say hello to them every time I passed. Also to the recycled metal dragon in the same yard. By the time I moved away I was really fond of that house.
Anyway, I was looking at the house on Maps, and was sad that there wasn't Street View so I could look at the statues to remind myself. So then I got to thinking about the "image of an angel becomes an angel" concept, which was definitely the scariest piece of the episode. (Note: I haven't seen "Flesh and Stone" yet; it's actually downloading right now)
So, anyway the question is: what would happen if, say, one of the Street View cars drove by an Angel and caught it on film? Would it dive out of everybody's computer to kill them? What about satellite imagery? In this satellite image you can't even tell that the gray bits next to the hedge are creepy statues that will haunt you for months. But if they were angels, would that be enough to be an image of them, which would be enough for them to dive out of the map and eat you?
Now, of course, my brain has concocted a mental image where someone is in the Holodeck at el Goog (that is a tiny room where you're surrounded by 300 degrees of street view imagery, animated as though you are traveling in the street view car), and the angel jumps out and eats them. My imagination: something that sometimes needs to be turned off.
yarngeek and oliviacirce and I used to live in, on Google Maps, and then I panned over to the scary Weeping Angel house on Richland (like you do). The one with the row of CREEPY statues, which are all looking down except for that one that has its head turned to look at you as you pass on the street. For probably two months after I watched "Blink" I was so scared of passing that house. I'd tense up with anticipation for about three houses before it, and wouldn't be ok again until I made it home. Eventually, I got over it and started to think of the statues as my little creepy buddies. I'd say hello to them every time I passed. Also to the recycled metal dragon in the same yard. By the time I moved away I was really fond of that house.
Anyway, I was looking at the house on Maps, and was sad that there wasn't Street View so I could look at the statues to remind myself. So then I got to thinking about the "image of an angel becomes an angel" concept, which was definitely the scariest piece of the episode. (Note: I haven't seen "Flesh and Stone" yet; it's actually downloading right now)
So, anyway the question is: what would happen if, say, one of the Street View cars drove by an Angel and caught it on film? Would it dive out of everybody's computer to kill them? What about satellite imagery? In this satellite image you can't even tell that the gray bits next to the hedge are creepy statues that will haunt you for months. But if they were angels, would that be enough to be an image of them, which would be enough for them to dive out of the map and eat you?
Now, of course, my brain has concocted a mental image where someone is in the Holodeck at el Goog (that is a tiny room where you're surrounded by 300 degrees of street view imagery, animated as though you are traveling in the street view car), and the angel jumps out and eats them. My imagination: something that sometimes needs to be turned off.