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"Flesh and Stone" is the fifth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by showrunner Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith, the episode was first broadcast on 1 May 2010 on BBC One. It is the conclusion of a two-episode story that began with "The Time of Angels" that features the Weeping Angels as primary villains and sees the return of the character River Song (Alex Kingston). Following the cliffhanger of the previous episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith), his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), River Song, and Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his militarised clerics have escaped entrapment by the Weeping Angels, creatures who only move when unobserved by others. They take refuge inside the crashed starship ''Byzantium'', but the Angels pursue them and Amy is on the brink of dying from the imprint of an Angel in her eye. Both the Angels and the Doctor's team face danger from a widening crack in space and time which has the power to erase persons from history. Moffat wrote the two-part story as a more action-packed sequel to his 2007 episode "Blink", inspired by the relationship between the film ''Alien'' and its sequel, ''Aliens''. The episode contains vital information concerning the main story arc of the cracks in time, and contains many instances which are character-motivated. "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" were the first two episodes to be filmed; filming for "Flesh and Stone" took place in late July, with location filming in Puzzlewood and Southerndown beach. The episode was watched by 8.495 million viewers in the United Kingdom and received mostly positive reviews from critics, though many commented that it did not live up to the quality to the first part and disagreed about the decision to show the Angels moving. Additionally, a scene in which Amy attempts to seduce the Doctor generated some complaints to the BBC. ==Plot== Continuing from the cliffhanger of the previous episode, the destruction of the gravity globe allows the Doctor, Amy, Dr. River Song, and Father Octavian and his clerics to jump into the localised gravity well of the starship ''Byzantium'' and escape the horde of approaching Weeping Angels. The Angels follow them into the ship and the Doctor directs everyone into the ship's oxygen factory, a forest contained within the starship. While in the secondary control room, the Doctor observes a familiar crack in the wall and realizes that it is the same one from Amy's bedroom ("The Eleventh Hour"). He determines that it is leaking time energy from which the Angels are attempting to feed. In the forest, the Doctor and River find Amy struggling with an image of an Angel imprinted in her brain. Amy has been counting down backwards and is close to being killed by the Angel when The Doctor instructs her to keep her eyes closed to starve the angel. With Amy unable to move, The Doctor, River and Octavian attempt to reach the primary control room on the other side of the forest. River and Octavian reveal to the Doctor that she is a prisoner in Octavian's custody, with a pardon promised should she help them complete their mission. Octavian is captured and killed by an Angel as the Doctor and River enter the control room. As Amy and the clerics wait for rescue, the crack in the secondary control room opens further and the Angels move away from it. When some of the clerics approach it to investigate, they disappear completely; while Amy remembers them, the remaining clerics have no knowledge of their existence. Amy is soon left alone as the remaining clerics also disappear investigating the crack. The Doctor instructs Amy to begin moving towards the primary control room, keeping her eyes closed but acting as if she is still able to see in order to fool the Angels. Amy trips and reveals her blindness to the Angels, but before they can kill her River teleports her to the control room. The Doctor reveals that the crack is due to an explosion somewhere in time, a date that he and River are able to determine. The Doctor warns that anything that falls into it is erased from time; this is why the Angels fear the crack. The only way of temporarily closing the crack is to send a "complicated space-time event" such as the Doctor himself or the whole of the Angels into the crack. The Angels continue to drain power from the ''Byzantium'' until they cause the artificial gravity to fail, dropping the Angels into the crack and sealing it while the Doctor, Amy, and River hang on to the controls. With the Angels gone, the Angel in Amy's mind never existed, and she is able to recover. River is teleported away by the clerics; she tells the Doctor that they will meet again soon when the "Pandorica" opens, which is dismissed by the Doctor as a fairy tale. Aboard the TARDIS, Amy asks the Doctor to return her to Earth on the night they left because she wants to show him something. In her room, she shows the Doctor her engagement ring and wedding dress and tells him that she is to wed Rory the next day. Amy then attempts to seduce the Doctor. Alarmed by this, the Doctor tries to deter her by pointing out that kind of relationship she is suggesting will not work between them, and that she is engaged. He then realises that Amy's wedding the next day, 26 June 2010, happens on the same day as the time explosion epicenter and he takes Amy away so that he can figure out what is going on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flesh and Stone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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