From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: jameskuyper@verizon.net
Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan plot holes

On 10/22/2012 10:44 PM, gerard.morvan wrote:
> "James Kuyper"  a crit dans le message
de news: 
> k64nmq$fn8$1@dont-email.me...
>> ...
>>> -- The Statue of Liberty being an Angel makes no sense.  First of all, 
>>> everyone
>>> knows that it was built.  It's not like a random statue in the street 
>>> whose
>>> history nobody knows.  Second, we were reminded *in the same episode* 
>>> that New
>>> York is the city which never sleeps--there's always going to be someone 
>>> looking
>>> at it.
>>
>> That bothered me too.
>>
> Not me. After all, who said that it was the _real_ Miss Liberty (who, as we 
> all know, is made of Copper, not stone) ? Maybe it was an Angel who took her 
> form (or a colony of Angels, that could work too). After all, unless I 
> missed it, we never saw the statue missing from her platform.

It doesn't matter if she was the real Miss Liberty. All that matters is
that she was HUGE. I've no idea if she was the same size as the real
one, but she was big. Because she's so big, there will almost always be
a lot of people watching her at any given time - not because they're
interested in her, but just because she happens to be in their field fo
view. As a result, under the rules of the Angels, she could almost never
move. And, the minute she started walking, her unexpected location would
draw a LOT of attention, making it even harder for her to move.
A densely populated city like New York that (famously) never sleeps, is
generally a bad area for Angels; they need to remain unobserved for
significant amounts of time, in order to be dangerous. Modern day Hong
Kong or Tokyo would be even worse.
-- 
James Kuyper

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