Steven Moffat once said that this was based on a children's game called Grandmother's Footsteps. Grandmother stands with her back to the group, who form a line about 12 metres away. The players then creep forward with the goal of reaching Grandmother, but he or she can turn around at any point, and if they see you moving, you have to start again.
This episode was partially filmed in my husband’s vinyl record store, they turned it into a dvd store, you can see my husband’s writing on some of the boxes. Got to meet David and Freema, plus a quick hello from Carey Mulligan. Lots of pictures too. Fantastic episode.
@@fayesouthall6604I suppose that makes sense since the Angels were mainly limited to certain locations or maybe it was just due to scheduling but still very nice, how was it meeting the cast?
I think one reason why this episode is rated so highly is it works well all by itself. It can serve as an introduction to Doctor Who, and has been used as much by many.
Moffat tells that he came up with the idea of the weeping angels from an statue he saw abandoned in a courtyard. After filming Blink he took his sons there to see the statue, but… it was not there anymore…
Next episode idea: I stopped my motorbike for a coffee at a pub and the town had a bunch of scarecrows and a Pennywise at the approach. Standing alone, scarecrow are okay, but mounted on the sides of buildings gave it a whole new vibe. I asked the landlord, what's with the crucified scarecrows and he said it was a kids' contest. I told him, I'd seen the Hammer House of Horror and knew how this works - a stranger rides into town with something folklorish going on and the next day he disappears and there's one more scarecrow; he wasn't going to get me that easily!
The Weeping Angels are such a great concept for a monster. You can never seen them move but the implied threat is so much stronger than anything they could’ve showed us. Plus the teeth freaked me out the first time too.
The implication of danger is the primal fear, the reason why we are afraid of the dark. This is the fear that created all other fears, it's why every version of the Devil and ghosts and other hostile otherworldly entities are associated with the dark. What you can see, you can understand. What you can't see, you can't understand.
It also spawned this joke "a guy walks into 😢 comic shop and the clerk working there tells him the Doctor Who comics are against the back wall, the guy asks how he knew he wanted Doctor Who comics, simple the clerk replies when you came in you stayed away from the statue outside
When i was a kid, back in 2010, they had an interactive Weeping Angels experience in my home town called Crash of the Elysium. There was a segment where they had an angel chase us down a corridor with blinking lights before 'touching' us and sending us back in time to a 1800s freak show set. Ngl, i very nearly shit myself during that bit. The Angels are such a scary concept and 'Blink' made me spend most of my childhood being scared of graveyard statues.
I saw it in real-time. I was in a on-line community that was hugely into Doctor Who, and we were all blown away. It's been years and whenever I come across stickers on street signs that say "Don't Blink" I get a little shiver. Loved all the characters.
Louis Mahoney, who plays the older version of the cop, Billy Shipton, appeared in two classic Who stories - Frontier in Space (1973) and Planet of Evil (1975).
The Weeping Angels and Sally Sparrow are so famous and iconic. Steven Moffatt won a Bafta and many other important awards for this landmark Dr Who episode. Blink catapulted Carey to superstardom 😍
So glad you got to this one. Blink is the episode that I caught on tv just flipping through channels and stayed to watch. This 1 episode of viewing turned me into a Whovian, seriously, 1 episode and I was hooked.
I'm glad you enjoyed this storyline! Imagine watching this as an eight year old, at night, whilst its raining outside. We were all on the edge of our seats when this aired! The impossible planet episode from season 2, and this, were two thrilling episodes. Thank you for the great reactions and insight. 💫
Nice review, guys! Definitely going to check out your other Who reactions :) Don't worry, you've still got a ton of great episodes to come. Blink isn't even my favourite, you've got a long way to go to get to that one. It's called Heaven Sent and has an imdb rating very nearly as high as this one.
I’m so glad that the both of you enjoyed watching Blink 😊 Personally, my three favorite episodes from Doctor Who are from Season 4 called Turn Left, Stolen Earth, and Journey’s End. I can’t wait until the both of you get to these episodes. It’s gonna blow your mind 🤯 #whovianforlife
I’ve been watching through classic who for the first time, and I’ve just realized that Louis Mahoney (who plays old Billy) was in Season 10 Frontier in Space with the 3rd Doctor, and season 13 Planet of Evil with the fourth Doctor.
Because they filmed parts of this story out of sequence, they didn't know that Louis Mahoney would play the elderly Billy with an Afro-Caribbean accent, so Michael Obiora (young Billy) was recalled to re-dub his lines in a similar accent, and did a great job! BTW, Louis Mahoney was making a return to Doctor Who, having previously appeared in two stories in the 1970s.
Apart from Angels the next most frightening creatures in Doctor Who are Vashta Nerada (you will encounter them in Library episodes) and Silence. But Angels and Vashta are the scariest to mee personally, cause they hide in the parts of the world that are real to us
Part of why this rates so highly is because lots of us Whovians use it as a gateway drug for our uninitiated friends. As far as stand alone DW episodes go this one is not only an entire experience but the Doctor is barely existent. You don’t need a flow chart and to try and explain 60 years of a franchise while someone’s eyes glaze over. If you can get a friend to enjoy an episode with you you might be able to talk them into an otherwise intimidatingly huge show.
While I agree it's a great episode it's a terrible yardstick to gauge the rest of the series against if you're trying to ease someone in. Just show them S1E1 Rose, it's literally DESIGNED to introduce you to everything in stages and it's a lot more indicative of what the rest of the show will be like.
@cornparade6874 puh puh puh PIZZA! and the burping rubber trashcan has turned off several friends I've tried to show the show to. 😂 Otherwise, I would agree more. And to be clear, I don't have a better answer or anything Rose is the only one I've tried.
My husband, on first watch of Blink, attempted to use me as a human shield to protect him from the angels. 😂 This episode is a fantastic one, and your reaction was hilarious! 10/10 reactions, you two!
This is my favorite episode and it pretty much launched Carey Mulligan into stardom. She’s been Oscar nominated multiple times and she’s a brilliant actress! Loving these reactions y’all!
This is another double banking episode, like last season's "Love and Monsters" (although not like it), where the Doctor and Martha are shooting another episode at the same time. You may or may not recognize Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow. She has gone on to be nominated three times for Oscars, including this year for _Maestro._ David Tennant, when hosting the BAFTAs (for movies) got her to introduce him to Bradley Cooper. Cooper and Mulligan had done one of those publicity things where they have to ask questions about each other, and when asked who was the Doctor in her DW episode, he guessed wrong.
"Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" was a novel and adapted as episodes by the novel's author. It was a Classic Who Doctor and companion in the book, though. (I haven't read it yet.)
This episode has its origins in a short story featuring Eccleston's Doctor. What I Did on my Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow doesn't feature the Angels, but it does involve the Doctor trapped in the past, communicating with twelve year-old Sally in the present day.
I’m blown away that you mentioned the angels reminded you of Ridley Scott’s Alien because the next episode where you see the angels again definitely reminds me of James Cameron’s Aliens. You’ll see and can’t wait until you both get there.
That final sequence of the episode is a brilliant example of good horror writing. The Angels are terrifying and then they just show you random stone statues everywhere playing the Doctor’s message. Just invoking a fundamental fear into those sculptures/statues. Love it.
15:07 lol this jump scare was great. 15:28 reminded me of “Back up Terry…” This is a 10 rated episode for me. One of my favorites. Enjoyed your reaction to it.
YEEEEESSSSS!!!! You finally got here!!! And yes, it deserves to be dubbed "fabled!" And no, it's *not* downhill from here!!! LOL!!!! This is the episode that created and popularized the term "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey!!!" And I hope you liked this episode's character *archetypes,* because..... [CENSORED] :).
Isiah Bradley, the weeping angels are such a genius concept because they are 5th dimensional beings that sustain themselves on the potential time energy of the timeline you would have had if they wouldn't have zapped you into the past.
My 2nd favourite Moffat Doctor Who episode. The first is a while away... But the rest of this Season is pretty excellent too. Loved the reactions, as always.
There's a theory that the weeping angels break the fourth wall as they also stop moving when we the audience see them yet the characters in the episode are not looking at them. The weeping angels also make a cameo appearance in The Witcher 3 as an easter egg, there's a graveyard with 2 of them stood either side of a mausoleum, if you go into the mausoleum then come out they have moved and are now facing the entrance and everytime you look away they change position until eventually they just vanish for good.
I always appreciated how even our eyes as the viewers, and the camera count as the angels being seen. There's parts where clearly no one is watching them, but they're still statues. Because WE can see them. This episode is fantastic. Was looking forward to seeing your reactions for this one, to the first time an angel moved, not disappointed hahaha.
Yet another great summing up by both of you at the end.... absolutely spot on with all your comments.... ps the man that played old Billy in the hospital was in classic dr who way back in the 70s....
Another comment from me about the legendary guest stars in Who.. The grandson Syntell commented on at the beginning of the episode is Richard Cant. Those of you who have followed the multi-decades running cozy mystery series Midsomer Murders, recognize him as the iconic Dennis Rainbird (and his cousin, Alistar Gooding.) I highly recommend the 2 episodes he is in, without even needing to see the rest of MM show.
Family of Blood (& Human Nature) wasn't a short story as such but rather a full-length novel (Human Nature) by Paul Cornell (based on a plot developed by himself and Kate Orman - another Doctor Who author). There's a Wikipedia page on it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Nature_(novel)
A brilliant episode! Sally Sparrow is played by future 3 time Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan. Steven Moffat has been making increasingly ordinary things terrifying since 2005. Series 1 - gas masks. Series 2 - clocks. Series 3 - statues. Series 4 - [spoilers]. He was the showrunner for series 5-10, which had various plots involving complicated timelines and loops, rather than just using time travel to arrive at a particular time and place. He also has written an episode for the upcoming series. We'll see how it compares to this one in 12 days time.
Best part of this episode is that they are locked when they are observed that includes the audience. So whenever we see them they are frozen however if they are out of our view or we dont see them directly, such as when the weeping angle reaches for sally upstairs you can see the shadow of it moving. 10/10
Oh! It's been my pleasure gentlemen! This episodes reaction was as good as expected! And I'm incredibly excited about some pretty major events to come!
Glad you loved the episode. Steven Moffat sure knows how to take everyday objects (or fears) and turn them against both his characters and the audience at home. And he will continue to do that in future seasons. The next episode is the start of NuWho’s first ever three parter that wraps up season 3. You may or not be aware but there is a short 8 minute mini episode which is sandwiched between the last episode of season 3 and the beginning of the Christmas special. It’s called Time Crash and is a little nod to classic Doctor Who with a connection in it to David Tennant.
I think it’s definitely justified that this be the highest rated episode - everything comes together to make an incredible experience here. That Steven Moffat - never misses 🫡
Writer Steven Moffat took premise of the Angel’s movement from the children’s playground game ‘Grandmother’s Footsteps’, the idea being children having to sneak up on ‘Grandma’ whose back is turned. But at any point, the grandma can turn around. When they do, everyone has to freeze.
You've got to hand it to u.k. kids tv........ and don't.... I'm a child of Tom Baker I remember hiding from Davros as an 7 year old..loving your commentary
I am so glad you guys enjoyed this. Your reaction had be cackling 😂. Absolutely a masterpiece from Stephen Moffat. He is the same writer of “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances” with Christopher Eccleston and he is 100% my favourite Doctor who writer. He really understands the whole time travel aspect and uses so much of it to his advantage. So many of his episodes are likened to movies, and he never fails to mess you up 😂😂
Carey Mulligan is epic in this and went on to great things. You will notice that Andy Pryor, the casting agent, has good instincts - look how many famous people got a start here. More to come!
I was born in 2001, Doctor Who was one of the shows that was a huge part of my childhood. I was 6 when this episode aired, and to this day, I remember being absolutely terrified of this episode to the point where every time I was outside and about to approach the direct of a statue, I used to hold my mums hand so tight and stare at it so I neither of us got zapped back in time 😅 I was never a kid who was easily scared of mosters & aliens because I knew they weren't real. However, this episode humbled me and completely to me off gaurd since Doctor Who is a family show which eventhough has dark moments it still prominently remains lighthearted. This episode, on the other hand, was something different entirely. It is so crazy how this show made something as unassuming as a statue into one of the most disturbing creatures of all of science fiction & undeniably one of the greatest villains of all time.
My cousin attends a Catholic Church that has a garden pool with concrete angels assending from it. It is beautiful, but it freaks me out whenever I attend (weddings, baptisms, etc.) None of my extended family has seen the Dr. Who weeping angel saga. They think I'm crazy.🤣
Top-tier Moffat right here. He's got his misses during his tenure as showrunner, as you'll see soon enough. But when he's on point.....it SLAPS. So hard.
ahh the first Steven Moffat knock it out of the park writing this one! a couple seasons ahead he becomes the show runner and when I say he writes some of the best over all DW arcs! some of best writing in TV I swear
This episode isn't as strong on repeat viewings because of its reliance on jumpscares and other shocks for the viewer. That doesn't make it a bad episode, but for me it does mean it's not as great as some rate it. There will be other episodes written by Moffat that I think hold up or even *improve* with repeat viewings, so I'd personally rate those higher. All that said, "Blink" is phenomenal on a first viewing. Old Billy was played by the groundbreaking African-British actor Louis Mahoney, who sadly passed away a few years ago. His scenes were recorded after those with young Billy, and the younger actor had to redub his lines to match Mahoney's accent. From memory, there's one line they missed, possibly because the younger Billy wasn't on screen when he was speaking, so his accent briefly changes! Great reaction, chaps, and thank you once again. 😀 Edited to add: I think I'm right in saying that Steven Moffat felt he owed RTD an episode for some reason, and he chose this slot as a challenge because it had to use the two leads as little as possible and also had a much smaller budget (to free up money for the finale).
This episode is partly inspired by a Ninth Doctor adventure in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine. It focused on a 12 year old Sally Sparrow who was visiting relatives and found some old photographs of the Doctor asking for her help. No Weeping Angels, just the Doctor being stranded in the past. He has the "conversation" with Sally through an old VHS tape. Short, sweet, and a fun adventure focused on a pre-teen.
I've been binging your reactions to the Doctor so far (other than the newer specials you've watched cause I haven't seen past Capaldi myself so I am saving those for when you guys get to that season officially) and I am SO excited for you guys to see this and for me to witness you experiencing this episode. I have to say, I TOTALLY agree with IMBD's rating of this. It is by far one of my top 3 favorite episodes! Your reaction did not disappoint! To the point of not every statue is a weeping angel, but ANY statue could be a weeping angel - Doctor Who does a fantastic job of making us whovians scared of specific things, ex...Christmas Trees, Christmas Baubles, Statues, Darkness and if ever they come back around in future episodes like the 'santa guys', you're automatically like 'Ope..nope nope that's not a good sign!! I don't trust this!' lolol
This is a superb episode and considered one of the favourites among fandom i loved the Sally Sparrow character i personally i thought she was great the Weeping Angels are the new scary of Dr. Who after the Daleks and the Cybermen. My only nitpick is the Doctor hardly features in it.
Hi, I watched this last night, Blink is a fantastic episode of Nu Who as Earthshock was for this old whovian. My story in relation to this was after it aired, I was strapped for time to decorate for Halloween, so I wrote Dracula "step into my house" speech on cardboard and popped it on the gate. I got my garden statues lined up with "don't blink" signs beside them and the doctors final speech at the door with good luck at the end. After a few visits I opened the door to an Asian teenage girl, she looked petrified, she said she didn't know what to expect and rated it the best house in the street! I must recreate that one day 😉
Never noticed until watching this but recon the inspector married Cathy’s daughter Sally? - say Cathy had her daughter in 1930s ish she would be about 77 ish in 2007, so about the same name as Shipman?
Of the new show, this is by far my favourite story; only one Season 5 story coming even remotely close. I fell in love Sally & Billy; even wrote a drabble (a 100 word fanfic about them). The actor who played the older Billy was a favourite from British TV of the sixties & seventies and passed a few years ago; I included a tribute to him when I posted it. Because he couldn't do an English accent the actor who played the younger Billy changed his to match his elder counterpart. Between the three of them, in just a few scenes they created a love story for the ages. Someone crunched the numbers and posited the theory that the Sally that Billy married was Kathy's youngest daughter. Currently enjoying your Extraordinary Attorney Woo reactions btw, kerk
Blink was the first episode of doctor who I ever saw, it was my introduction to the franchise. I love doctor who, but still to this day I feel uncomfortable around stone statues of angles! I never take my eyes 👀 off of one until I'm a safe distance away 😂
Have you seen Rekkai's breakdown of this episode - ua-cam.com/video/OYJXNLQFrRQ/v-deo.html
No, because I was waiting for this!!! But I'll go today!!!!
Steven Moffat once said that this was based on a children's game called Grandmother's Footsteps. Grandmother stands with her back to the group, who form a line about 12 metres away. The players then creep forward with the goal of reaching Grandmother, but he or she can turn around at any point, and if they see you moving, you have to start again.
@@josefschiltz2192 WOW! So much to learn about the creative process! TY!
@Syntell I just did and I enjoyed it! Rekkai makes me go deep...
Thanks so much bro!
This episode was partially filmed in my husband’s vinyl record store, they turned it into a dvd store, you can see my husband’s writing on some of the boxes. Got to meet David and Freema, plus a quick hello from Carey Mulligan. Lots of pictures too. Fantastic episode.
Now that's amazing. 😲
@@fayesouthall6604 Lucky you, did you get to meet any of the Angels too.
@@vimtocat1741 unfortunately not. Just David, Feema and a very talented but shy Carey Mulligan.
@@fayesouthall6604I suppose that makes sense since the Angels were mainly limited to certain locations or maybe it was just due to scheduling but still very nice, how was it meeting the cast?
@@fayesouthall6604 I bet that was an interesting situation. I would have loved to have been there.
I think one reason why this episode is rated so highly is it works well all by itself. It can serve as an introduction to Doctor Who, and has been used as much by many.
Yeah, before Season 5 I thought that this one and "Shakespeare Code."
Indeed. Sometimes a story transcends its genre. This is one of those. Another example would be "The Inner Light" from Star Trek TNG.
@@Llanchlo YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Llanchlo A brilliant episode!! family is another of my own favourites and Lessons and, of course, Measure Of A Man and Darmok.
I could definitely see this as a gateway episode. Quality all the way around.
The line 'It's the same rain' always gets me.
Heartbreaking and beautiful
@@David-cg1lh hi again david
@@David-cg1lh are you david tennant 🧐
For me, it was "I have until the rain stops." Always breaks my heart.
Moffat tells that he came up with the idea of the weeping angels from an statue he saw abandoned in a courtyard. After filming Blink he took his sons there to see the statue, but… it was not there anymore…
They are faster than you think.
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Next episode idea: I stopped my motorbike for a coffee at a pub and the town had a bunch of scarecrows and a Pennywise at the approach. Standing alone, scarecrow are okay, but mounted on the sides of buildings gave it a whole new vibe. I asked the landlord, what's with the crucified scarecrows and he said it was a kids' contest. I told him, I'd seen the Hammer House of Horror and knew how this works - a stranger rides into town with something folklorish going on and the next day he disappears and there's one more scarecrow; he wasn't going to get me that easily!
The Weeping Angels are such a great concept for a monster. You can never seen them move but the implied threat is so much stronger than anything they could’ve showed us. Plus the teeth freaked me out the first time too.
The teeth definitely got me.
Never got how if they feed off of temporal energy, what do they need such sharp chompers for? 🤔🤔
The implication of danger is the primal fear, the reason why we are afraid of the dark. This is the fear that created all other fears, it's why every version of the Devil and ghosts and other hostile otherworldly entities are associated with the dark. What you can see, you can understand. What you can't see, you can't understand.
It also spawned this joke "a guy walks into 😢 comic shop and the clerk working there tells him the Doctor Who comics are against the back wall, the guy asks how he knew he wanted Doctor Who comics, simple the clerk replies when you came in you stayed away from the statue outside
When i was a kid, back in 2010, they had an interactive Weeping Angels experience in my home town called Crash of the Elysium. There was a segment where they had an angel chase us down a corridor with blinking lights before 'touching' us and sending us back in time to a 1800s freak show set.
Ngl, i very nearly shit myself during that bit. The Angels are such a scary concept and 'Blink' made me spend most of my childhood being scared of graveyard statues.
I saw it in real-time. I was in a on-line community that was hugely into Doctor Who, and we were all blown away. It's been years and whenever I come across stickers on street signs that say "Don't Blink" I get a little shiver. Loved all the characters.
Louis Mahoney, who plays the older version of the cop, Billy Shipton, appeared in two classic Who stories - Frontier in Space (1973) and Planet of Evil (1975).
Love when they invite the Classic actors back. Elizabeth Sladen's hubbie/widow is another who was in classic and new Who.
The Weeping Angels and Sally Sparrow are so famous and iconic. Steven Moffatt won a Bafta and many other important awards for this landmark Dr Who episode. Blink catapulted Carey to superstardom 😍
I’ve watched all your Doctor Who reactions. This, by far, was my favorite. You’re reactions made me laughed so hard!!
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Me, too!!!!
So glad you got to this one. Blink is the episode that I caught on tv just flipping through channels and stayed to watch. This 1 episode of viewing turned me into a Whovian, seriously, 1 episode and I was hooked.
I'm glad you enjoyed this storyline! Imagine watching this as an eight year old, at night, whilst its raining outside. We were all on the edge of our seats when this aired! The impossible planet episode from season 2, and this, were two thrilling episodes. Thank you for the great reactions and insight. 💫
Nice review, guys! Definitely going to check out your other Who reactions :)
Don't worry, you've still got a ton of great episodes to come. Blink isn't even my favourite, you've got a long way to go to get to that one. It's called Heaven Sent and has an imdb rating very nearly as high as this one.
Awesome! Thank you!
So incredibly grateful for your time.
You are *not* lying!
I’m so glad that the both of you enjoyed watching Blink 😊 Personally, my three favorite episodes from Doctor Who are from Season 4 called Turn Left, Stolen Earth, and Journey’s End. I can’t wait until the both of you get to these episodes. It’s gonna blow your mind 🤯 #whovianforlife
I rewatch those last 3 episodes many times as they are a favourite.
David hosted this year's Baftas. He said a quick hello to Carey as she was sat in the audience.
I loved that little moment!
Carey Mulligan has had an amazing career since this. You should check out some of her movies.
Among the cavalcade of actors who broke on Dr Who
She's on my radar now.
Promising Young Woman is her masterpiece performance!
@@itsreeeshaaa7560 I almost mentioned it, but then once I start listing them . . .
One of the best pickup lines. I've used it a couple times and it does not fail. Love this episode, glad you guys liked it as well.
I’ve been watching through classic who for the first time, and I’ve just realized that Louis Mahoney (who plays old Billy) was in Season 10 Frontier in Space with the 3rd Doctor, and season 13 Planet of Evil with the fourth Doctor.
Doctor Who royalty.
Because they filmed parts of this story out of sequence, they didn't know that Louis Mahoney would play the elderly Billy with an Afro-Caribbean accent, so Michael Obiora (young Billy) was recalled to re-dub his lines in a similar accent, and did a great job!
BTW, Louis Mahoney was making a return to Doctor Who, having previously appeared in two stories in the 1970s.
Apart from Angels the next most frightening creatures in Doctor Who are Vashta Nerada (you will encounter them in Library episodes) and Silence. But Angels and Vashta are the scariest to mee personally, cause they hide in the parts of the world that are real to us
All written by Moffat !
Silence in the library is my favorite behind this one. Rewatching after the mat Smith Era is heart-wrenching😭
Been waiting for this one, can’t wait for you guys to watch the conclusion to series 3, there’s definitely no downhill! 😁
Part of why this rates so highly is because lots of us Whovians use it as a gateway drug for our uninitiated friends.
As far as stand alone DW episodes go this one is not only an entire experience but the Doctor is barely existent. You don’t need a flow chart and to try and explain 60 years of a franchise while someone’s eyes glaze over.
If you can get a friend to enjoy an episode with you you might be able to talk them into an otherwise intimidatingly huge show.
This is how my friends started with me. Next thing you know, I’m hosting who live parties and named my dog K9
While I agree it's a great episode it's a terrible yardstick to gauge the rest of the series against if you're trying to ease someone in.
Just show them S1E1 Rose, it's literally DESIGNED to introduce you to everything in stages and it's a lot more indicative of what the rest of the show will be like.
@cornparade6874 puh puh puh PIZZA! and the burping rubber trashcan has turned off several friends I've tried to show the show to. 😂 Otherwise, I would agree more. And to be clear, I don't have a better answer or anything Rose is the only one I've tried.
My husband, on first watch of Blink, attempted to use me as a human shield to protect him from the angels. 😂 This episode is a fantastic one, and your reaction was hilarious! 10/10 reactions, you two!
This is my favorite episode and it pretty much launched Carey Mulligan into stardom. She’s been Oscar nominated multiple times and she’s a brilliant actress! Loving these reactions y’all!
This is another double banking episode, like last season's "Love and Monsters" (although not like it), where the Doctor and Martha are shooting another episode at the same time. You may or may not recognize Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow. She has gone on to be nominated three times for Oscars, including this year for _Maestro._ David Tennant, when hosting the BAFTAs (for movies) got her to introduce him to Bradley Cooper. Cooper and Mulligan had done one of those publicity things where they have to ask questions about each other, and when asked who was the Doctor in her DW episode, he guessed wrong.
Now that's a great nugget
@@Syntell It was very cute.
WHOOP WHOOP!!! Here we go, brilliant viewing ahead of you both. Now you're going for the fantastic finally. Enjoy : )
"Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" was a novel and adapted as episodes by the novel's author. It was a Classic Who Doctor and companion in the book, though. (I haven't read it yet.)
The novel is just titled "Human Nature".
Another Moffat classic and a creature that became an instant classic in the pantheon of doctor who villains and creatures
And as a hobby, he co-created "Sherlock!" WTF??? :) GENIUS, thy name is Moffat!!!!
This episode has its origins in a short story featuring Eccleston's Doctor. What I Did on my Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow doesn't feature the Angels, but it does involve the Doctor trapped in the past, communicating with twelve year-old Sally in the present day.
I’m blown away that you mentioned the angels reminded you of Ridley Scott’s Alien because the next episode where you see the angels again definitely reminds me of James Cameron’s Aliens. You’ll see and can’t wait until you both get there.
That final sequence of the episode is a brilliant example of good horror writing. The Angels are terrifying and then they just show you random stone statues everywhere playing the Doctor’s message. Just invoking a fundamental fear into those sculptures/statues. Love it.
15:07 lol this jump scare was great.
15:28 reminded me of “Back up Terry…”
This is a 10 rated episode for me. One of my favorites. Enjoyed your reaction to it.
YEEEEESSSSS!!!! You finally got here!!! And yes, it deserves to be dubbed "fabled!" And no, it's *not* downhill from here!!! LOL!!!! This is the episode that created and popularized the term "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey!!!"
And I hope you liked this episode's character *archetypes,* because..... [CENSORED] :).
Worthy of every bit of that rating.
Isiah Bradley, the weeping angels are such a genius concept because they are 5th dimensional beings that sustain themselves on the potential time energy of the timeline you would have had if they wouldn't have zapped you into the past.
@@JacksomLacke Yes, and it's not a spoiler to say they have joined the pantheon of "Doctor Who" great villains!!! (Which, as you know, is not easy!)
@@IsiahBradley its smart because 4th dimension is time and 5th dimension is probability. The angels are 5th dimensional
Genuinely the only guys I actually love hearing say Ello Guvner 😂 it's iconic at this point
It really is!!!
Cracks me up everytime.
I am honored!
My 2nd favourite Moffat Doctor Who episode. The first is a while away...
But the rest of this Season is pretty excellent too.
Loved the reactions, as always.
There's a theory that the weeping angels break the fourth wall as they also stop moving when we the audience see them yet the characters in the episode are not looking at them.
The weeping angels also make a cameo appearance in The Witcher 3 as an easter egg, there's a graveyard with 2 of them stood either side of a mausoleum, if you go into the mausoleum then come out they have moved and are now facing the entrance and everytime you look away they change position until eventually they just vanish for good.
That isn't really a theory. It's just demonstrably what happens in the episode.
This is the best Blink response I’ve ever seen. I come back to it every few months to rewatch your reaction and I just laugh my butt off!😂
Wibbly wobbly timey whymy, remember that phrase, cus it's about to get really wibbly wobbly in the future. Lol
We're here for all of it.
Quite a river ride…. 😅
The last two episodes and this one are probably the best Martha episodes.
I always appreciated how even our eyes as the viewers, and the camera count as the angels being seen. There's parts where clearly no one is watching them, but they're still statues. Because WE can see them. This episode is fantastic. Was looking forward to seeing your reactions for this one, to the first time an angel moved, not disappointed hahaha.
The time loop is called a bootstrap paradox, you see it all the time in doctor who
The technical term is "a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff."
I went to Vienna two years ago. So many statues.
and zero sleep 😂
"... The Oz prison treatment", it's lines like this that have me following this channel 😂😂😂
Interesting comparison the xenomorph. I buy it. Never thought of it before, but you're right.
Yet another great summing up by both of you at the end.... absolutely spot on with all your comments.... ps the man that played old Billy in the hospital was in classic dr who way back in the 70s....
Another comment from me about the legendary guest stars in Who.. The grandson Syntell commented on at the beginning of the episode is Richard Cant. Those of you who have followed the multi-decades running cozy mystery series Midsomer Murders, recognize him as the iconic Dennis Rainbird (and his cousin, Alistar Gooding.) I highly recommend the 2 episodes he is in, without even needing to see the rest of MM show.
For years I wondered who he reminded me of, and thanks to your comment I now know he’s the son of legendary children’s TV presenter Brian Cant.
@@EvilSoupDragon Very Cool!! I'm glad you found the connection :)
The beginning of this episode, where she is finding a message under the wallpaper, has really 1960s _Avengers_ (Steed & Mrs. Peel, not Marvel) vibes.
"Mrs Peel, we're needed!"
@@josefschiltz2192 Yes! I love them.
You guys are fantastic reactors - a joy to re-watch the show with you.
Family of Blood (& Human Nature) wasn't a short story as such but rather a full-length novel (Human Nature) by Paul Cornell (based on a plot developed by himself and Kate Orman - another Doctor Who author). There's a Wikipedia page on it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Nature_(novel)
Martha has gotten a lot snarkier. Good for her.
I agree. More of this please
@@Syntell Oh, just you wait... :)
Wow, 3 of my favorite Whovians in a convo. Made my day!
@@punkrockpollyanna7829 Right back at you. :)
A brilliant episode! Sally Sparrow is played by future 3 time Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan.
Steven Moffat has been making increasingly ordinary things terrifying since 2005. Series 1 - gas masks. Series 2 - clocks. Series 3 - statues. Series 4 - [spoilers]. He was the showrunner for series 5-10, which had various plots involving complicated timelines and loops, rather than just using time travel to arrive at a particular time and place. He also has written an episode for the upcoming series. We'll see how it compares to this one in 12 days time.
Best part of this episode is that they are locked when they are observed that includes the audience. So whenever we see them they are frozen however if they are out of our view or we dont see them directly, such as when the weeping angle reaches for sally upstairs you can see the shadow of it moving. 10/10
As a Brit, I love watching British shows being watched by you guys across the pond!
A favorite episode, and a favorite villian! Excellent reaction! Thanks guys!
Thank you for watching with us.
Oh! It's been my pleasure gentlemen! This episodes reaction was as good as expected! And I'm incredibly excited about some pretty major events to come!
Glad you loved the episode. Steven Moffat sure knows how to take everyday objects (or fears) and turn them against both his characters and the audience at home. And he will continue to do that in future seasons.
The next episode is the start of NuWho’s first ever three parter that wraps up season 3. You may or not be aware but there is a short 8 minute mini episode which is sandwiched between the last episode of season 3 and the beginning of the Christmas special. It’s called Time Crash and is a little nod to classic Doctor Who with a connection in it to David Tennant.
I think it’s definitely justified that this be the highest rated episode - everything comes together to make an incredible experience here. That Steven Moffat - never misses 🫡
I have been wwaaaaiiiitttttinnng. For this episode. Iconic. 😈✨
Billy got so much rizzzz
Writer Steven Moffat took premise of the Angel’s movement from the children’s playground game ‘Grandmother’s Footsteps’, the idea being children having to sneak up on ‘Grandma’ whose back is turned. But at any point, the grandma can turn around. When they do, everyone has to freeze.
You've got to hand it to u.k. kids tv........ and don't.... I'm a child of Tom Baker I remember hiding from Davros as an 7 year old..loving your commentary
The actors are perfect in this episode. Which makes this incredible story just shine.
“I done soiled myself”💀
Thank you for reminding me that this is THE best episode to introduce someone to Doctor Who. Loved watching your reactions!
I am so glad you guys enjoyed this. Your reaction had be cackling 😂. Absolutely a masterpiece from Stephen Moffat. He is the same writer of “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances” with Christopher Eccleston and he is 100% my favourite Doctor who writer. He really understands the whole time travel aspect and uses so much of it to his advantage. So many of his episodes are likened to movies, and he never fails to mess you up 😂😂
Not just one of my Doctor Who faves - one of my all time fave episodes of TV period.
The introduction(and best episode) of the best new original monsters in New Who.
First appearance of the Weeping Angels.
You make it sound like there will be more, but that would be a "spoiler."
Carey Mulligan is epic in this and went on to great things. You will notice that Andy Pryor, the casting agent, has good instincts - look how many famous people got a start here. More to come!
When I say I LOOOOOOOVE this episode. This is canonical in the Dr. Who universe in my opinion. (And, the Doctor is barely in it.)
Came for Blink. Subscribed when you nicely tied it to Alien!
Have you blinked since watching this episode?
I see what you did there 😂
I was born in 2001, Doctor Who was one of the shows that was a huge part of my childhood. I was 6 when this episode aired, and to this day, I remember being absolutely terrified of this episode to the point where every time I was outside and about to approach the direct of a statue, I used to hold my mums hand so tight and stare at it so I neither of us got zapped back in time 😅
I was never a kid who was easily scared of mosters & aliens because I knew they weren't real. However, this episode humbled me and completely to me off gaurd since Doctor Who is a family show which eventhough has dark moments it still prominently remains lighthearted. This episode, on the other hand, was something different entirely. It is so crazy how this show made something as unassuming as a statue into one of the most disturbing creatures of all of science fiction & undeniably one of the greatest villains of all time.
My cousin attends a Catholic Church that has a garden pool with concrete angels assending from it. It is beautiful, but it freaks me out whenever I attend (weddings, baptisms, etc.) None of my extended family has seen the Dr. Who weeping angel saga. They think I'm crazy.🤣
Top-tier Moffat right here. He's got his misses during his tenure as showrunner, as you'll see soon enough. But when he's on point.....it SLAPS. So hard.
Even to this day. My daughter and I cannot walk past a statue without reciting Don't blink
Rekkai looks like he's in the Tardis today
i tried
Absolutely love your reactions!
Surely you know Carey Mulligan? She's everywhere!
The episode I’ve been waiting for!
Next episode wednesday
ahh the first Steven Moffat knock it out of the park writing this one! a couple seasons ahead he becomes the show runner and when I say he writes some of the best over all DW arcs! some of best writing in TV I swear
This episode isn't as strong on repeat viewings because of its reliance on jumpscares and other shocks for the viewer. That doesn't make it a bad episode, but for me it does mean it's not as great as some rate it. There will be other episodes written by Moffat that I think hold up or even *improve* with repeat viewings, so I'd personally rate those higher. All that said, "Blink" is phenomenal on a first viewing.
Old Billy was played by the groundbreaking African-British actor Louis Mahoney, who sadly passed away a few years ago. His scenes were recorded after those with young Billy, and the younger actor had to redub his lines to match Mahoney's accent. From memory, there's one line they missed, possibly because the younger Billy wasn't on screen when he was speaking, so his accent briefly changes!
Great reaction, chaps, and thank you once again. 😀
Edited to add: I think I'm right in saying that Steven Moffat felt he owed RTD an episode for some reason, and he chose this slot as a challenge because it had to use the two leads as little as possible and also had a much smaller budget (to free up money for the finale).
Wibbly wobbly timey...as iconic as What! What! What! for me.
This episode is partly inspired by a Ninth Doctor adventure in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine. It focused on a 12 year old Sally Sparrow who was visiting relatives and found some old photographs of the Doctor asking for her help. No Weeping Angels, just the Doctor being stranded in the past. He has the "conversation" with Sally through an old VHS tape. Short, sweet, and a fun adventure focused on a pre-teen.
I've been binging your reactions to the Doctor so far (other than the newer specials you've watched cause I haven't seen past Capaldi myself so I am saving those for when you guys get to that season officially) and I am SO excited for you guys to see this and for me to witness you experiencing this episode. I have to say, I TOTALLY agree with IMBD's rating of this. It is by far one of my top 3 favorite episodes!
Your reaction did not disappoint! To the point of not every statue is a weeping angel, but ANY statue could be a weeping angel - Doctor Who does a fantastic job of making us whovians scared of specific things, ex...Christmas Trees, Christmas Baubles, Statues, Darkness and if ever they come back around in future episodes like the 'santa guys', you're automatically like 'Ope..nope nope that's not a good sign!! I don't trust this!' lolol
The next episode is EXTREMELY interesting (Utopia)
Ah yes the m- almost spoiled there for a sec
Should be out Wednesday 🙌🏾
@@Syntell can't wait for your reaction syntell
Florence Nightingale was on Doctor Who too. Of course. :)
I watched Dr Who a long time ago and don’t remember a lot but I’ve never forgotten the weeping angels or how much they scared me
This is a superb episode and considered one of the favourites among fandom i loved the Sally Sparrow character i personally i thought she was great the Weeping Angels are the new scary of Dr. Who after the Daleks and the Cybermen.
My only nitpick is the Doctor hardly features in it.
It's like watching a great sports team not need to rely on their star.
Creative time travel stories are so thought provoking and interesting, like Back to the Future.
Hi, I watched this last night, Blink is a fantastic episode of Nu Who as Earthshock was for this old whovian.
My story in relation to this was after it aired, I was strapped for time to decorate for Halloween, so I wrote Dracula "step into my house" speech on cardboard and popped it on the gate. I got my garden statues lined up with "don't blink" signs beside them and the doctors final speech at the door with good luck at the end.
After a few visits I opened the door to an Asian teenage girl, she looked petrified, she said she didn't know what to expect and rated it the best house in the street!
I must recreate that one day 😉
7:14 Classic Doctor Who line! 🙏🏽💪
Never noticed until watching this but recon the inspector married Cathy’s daughter Sally? - say Cathy had her daughter in 1930s ish she would be about 77 ish in 2007, so about the same name as Shipman?
This was a golden age of Dr. Who. He was barely in this and is one of the best....just cause it is based in this world.
Greatest tragedy in Dr Who is that Sally Sparrow was never a recurring character. Carey Mulligan absolutely shone in this episode
Of the new show, this is by far my favourite story; only one Season 5 story coming even remotely close. I fell in love Sally & Billy; even wrote a drabble (a 100 word fanfic about them). The actor who played the older Billy was a favourite from British TV of the sixties & seventies and passed a few years ago; I included a tribute to him when I posted it. Because he couldn't do an English accent the actor who played the younger Billy changed his to match his elder counterpart. Between the three of them, in just a few scenes they created a love story for the ages. Someone crunched the numbers and posited the theory that the Sally that Billy married was Kathy's youngest daughter. Currently enjoying your Extraordinary Attorney Woo reactions btw, kerk
Let's Go, One of the Best Episodes!
Blink was the first episode of doctor who I ever saw, it was my introduction to the franchise. I love doctor who, but still to this day I feel uncomfortable around stone statues of angles! I never take my eyes 👀 off of one until I'm a safe distance away 😂
Ive been so looking forward to yall hitting this episode. Best episode of Doctor Who. And it barely even has rhe doctor in it lol.