Sometimes I move my Weeping Angel around the display cabinet and alter its pose just to mess with my kids... One day I'm going to have to buy the attacking angel version and substitute it for the placid angel while no one's looking...
@@nathanfrancis9376 Ah, you refer to the idea that Moffat came up with to "up the stakes" that makes no sense in the context of Sally Sparrow having a folder containing photos of Weeping Angels for _years_ and her and Nightingale both having stared into the angels' faces for lengthy periods - all with no ill effect. :P Overthinking it? Sure - that's the internet for you. :)
@@wolf1066 nothing wrong with escalating outstanding villians. The silence didnt ACTUALLY kill anyone on screen till episode 3. Doctor vs 1 dalek, then doctor vs the dalek race half a season later. Cybermen in an open field then 50 cyberman in a metre wide corridor half an episode later then cybermen with actual guns next appearance. If they kept the weeping angels the same then river and the doctor had already won with 50 people to look at em instead of 2
@@212mochaman *Escalating* villains is fine. _Totally changing an aspect_ of them so that it actually *breaks* what was previously known about them *and* gives a side-helping of Fridge Horror (look that up on TVTropes.org at your own peril - TVTropes will ruin your life ) is not. The change made to the angels is more akin to suddenly having it revealed that _just being in a room with a Cyberman_ automatically starts converting you into one from the inside out or that _just looking at a Dalek_ will result in you spontaneously vaporising at some random point in the future. If you've only got 50 people looking at them and you've got a catacomb filled with *thousands* of angels, that's escalation. "Oh noes, this character who looked at an angel for _less time_ than Sally Sparrow did is going to turn into an angel in about half an hour" is just bad writing that makes you wonder how Sally and her boyfriend _lived long enough_ to pass on the info about the angels and Sally's half of the conversation to Tennant!Doctor. And the rest of London, for that matter, given the number of angels *clearly visible everywhere* _and_ anyone who has ever looked at so much as a _picture_ of the Statue of Liberty (let alone visited it), it seems.
I assumed it was like, maybe the Doctor? Assuming Sally wrote down EVERYTHIGN that happened in relation to the Angels and the house, and then gave it to the Doctor, he knew that if he was to prove to Sally that there was something going on, he had to throw the rock at the exact moment she pulled down the wallpaper. But then again, I may just be going insane
@@carealoo744 That envelope she handed him at the end had much more than just the transcript in it. I'm sure it included everything he needed to figure things out.
@@carealoo744 Right before Sally gives the envelope to the Doctor, there is a scene in their store where she and Larry talk about how she can't let go of what happened. The talk is prompted by the fact that she is rifling through the papers in the envelope. And we can see photos and other papers in there. They clearly show that it isn't just the transcript.
There were so many possible openings to this video: "Don't look away, don't blink" "Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey" "The Angels have the Phone Box" "Who threw the rock" I wouldn't be able to choose to be honest. Also there was a lot of self-awareness from you this video.
'Blink' made me afraid of the dark again at 20. Just for a while but it's worth mentioning. I was living in a creepy old house with a nutcase landlady and all that might have been contributing factors.
Silence in the library with the vashta nerada made me afraid of the dark for a good while when i watched when i was younger, this was compounded earlier with sunday school telling me monsters in the dark were real, i had gotten over THAT fear before watching that episode, it came back hard.
There was an episode with the first doctor where the crew (this is before Susan was abandoned with the Daleks...) they landed in a museum and they saw the Tardis and their frozen bodies in a space museum. They have to figure out what happened, it's a pretty good story.
I my god. We seem to like the same episode coz my favourite episode is blink then my second is girl in the fireplace and my third in the empty child 2 parter
You should've made the Angel figure behind you move after each cut. (Edit: great minds think alike I guess) (Edit: people noticed before the end jumpscare right?)
I remember at first thinking that this one was wayyyy overhyped in its scariness, until I rewatched it a couple months ago. Hearing the Tenth Doctor monologue about moving statues in an otherwise completely silent house made me change my mind pretty quickly.
Growing up this episode always stood out to me. I remember thinking about what my favorite episode was and I always found myself coming to this one. Everything in this story just works so well, I love when an episode can use time travel to cleverly inform the narrative, and that's exactly what happens here. Also Sally Sparrow is brilliant, I'll always wish she had been a companion.
I presumed it was The Doctor who threw the rock as a way of getting Sally to realize that she has to take these messages seriously rather than thinking it's her mate playing a prank.
That's how I saw it, seeing as it was the Doctor who left the message. Who else would know to be there at that exact location at that exact time. It was either him or Martha.
Blink was the first episode I ever watched and I was 4 years old... I was terrified so badly afterwards I went upstairs and cried and refused to use the downstairs bathroom for a month. 4 year olds who've never watched doctor who should not be shown blink at night time. So it holds a special place in my heart
@@weswheel4834 Here's your answer, 6 months later. When Sally starts peeling back the wallpaper she sees the word "duck" and then she pulls back more wallpaper to see the words (something like) "seriously, duck now!" or and that's when the stone hits the wall. Fortunately, she sees it coming and ducks in time.
I threw the rock. I never got why this would be an introductory episode of The Doctor since this is a very Doctor Light episode. It is a good episode though. I saw that coming from a mile away with you moving the Weeping angel around.
IMO the danger with Blink as an introductory episode is that it sets up expectations that the rest of the series can't live up to. Like Nathaniel says, it's probably makes the tightest use of time travel mechanics as a narrative device anywhere in Who (probably only the Season 5 finale really comes close). So if you introduce people to Doctor Who with episodes like Blink they're going to expect more episodes like that... and there aren't any.
To me, it always felt like it could be an episode of The Twilight Zone or some other anthology show. There's little about the Angels that make them specific to the world of Doctor Who.
@@patrickt.6492 About the angels? No. But the concepts and narratives of this episode strike me as very much being in the Moffat Who style. . You really could argue that there's nothing about most Who opponents that make them specific to the world of Who. The Autons, The Silurians, The Silence, the Sontarans (wow there are a lot of "S"s .xD) etc. - you could easily just drop them into many SF shows. Personally I'd consider only the Daleks, the Master and *maybe* the Cybermen to intrinsically scream "Doctor Who". IMO what makes Who feel like Who is more about a style of storytelling than any particular creature used. . P.S. For fun here are pretty much all the aliens that have ever appeared on Doctor Who: www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/aliens/)
Great review, would recommend a series called Life on Mars to watch and review! It stars John Simm as the lead and is a brilliant watch if you haven’t already!
Make sure it's the British one though, chibnal also wrote for life on mars too, I'm not sure who the show runner was, but I know the main characters surname wasn't a coincidence. It was a nod to who.
holy heck, i never realized the thing about how Sally talks to the same recording twice, and the responses work both times, even though she says different things. that’s amazing.
The Angel threw the rock. Sally ducks, the rock is thrown, she turns around, and there is the Angel who threw it at her. The real question is why? If she had her back turned, it could have gone up to her "faster than you can believe." My only explanation is that, if not for the note in the wall, Sally would not have ducked, the rock would have knocked her out, and the Angel could have sent her in the past with no possibility of her looking at them. Of course, if it cracked her skull and she died, the Angel'd be shit out of luck for her time energy, wouldn't they?
The angel would never throw the rock though, it would alert Sally to it's presence, which was the point of throwing it. In my head, I always thought it was the Doctor or Martha, warning her of the angel being behind her. The Doctor left the note, so it makes sense that one of them threw it. I may need to rewatch (again), purely to put it to rest.
It was kinda explained in the time of angels, flesh and stone two parter. The angels do things for fun. They have a sense of humour and they know throwing the rock would scare Sally making her potential death more amusing, hence why they sent Cathy back to get to her. They were just messing around (they also smiled a lot)
@@lwaves The rock only alerted her because of the note in the wall though. If she hadn't ducked, the rock would have hit her in the head (why would the Doctor or Martha do that, even if time said they were "supposed to"?) and she would be fair game to send back in time. An unconscious enemy can't see you. Of course, Sally would never be standing there with her back turned unless she was reading the note, but the Angel doesn't know that LOL. The other problem is that the story makes it pretty clear everything the Doctor did to help Sally happened in the 1960s (writing a note inside Wester Drumlins, meeting Billy and filming the segment, etc.) because they got her folder on an earlier adventure. This means after they are touched by the Angels, the Doctor and Martha have no interaction in the modern day segments of the episode. We don't have any indication they come back to do anything, much less throw a rock, once the TARDIS is returned to them. If the post-getting the TARDIS back team is interacting with the main cast off camera, that isn't as interesting as every bit of help coming from 1969.
@@zorion9294 Great explanation! Yes, there is a sadistic, we're doing this to amuse ourselves aspect of the Angels. This could very well be a game to them.
There's a reason Blink is considered the best Barometer of if someone should invest the time into watching New Who -- and you touched all of the basic points that are the reason for that.
Moffat is a genius. There were episodes under his tenure as show runner that weren't all that great but my goodness, there were a bunch of great episodes for which he is responsible!
For me...it's not a question of how high this ranks as best Doctor Who episodes, I would wonder how this would rank in a list of best-ever Sci-Fi episodes overall.
There is an indirect connection to a Star Trek TOS time travel episode. But it's though the name Gary Sparrow, who was the main character in a London time slip (sitcom/Science Fiction)TV series. That series, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, was entitled 'Goodnight Sweetheart', which came from the record playing in the Star Trek TOS time travel episode.
For some reason, I’ve never found this episode particularly scary. I thought the cinematography was excellent and that the storytelling was good, but I always found this more tense and atmospheric than actually frightning. I’m always suprised to see this top spooky Who lists when I got much more of a fright from episodes like “Listen,” and “The Edge of Destruction.” If you want a REALLY tense Who story, watch “Inferno!”
What more IS there to be said? This is top-notch New Who, a shining beacon of how GOOD it can be when it tries. Should there have been only the one story with the Weeping Angels? Possibly, but I don't really feel that the subsequent stories manage to dilute Blink in any way. Thta's how good it is, imho. Glad to be your top-of-the-list (on the crawl) Patreon!
I'm not by any means trying to toot my own horn here. When I first saw this episode it was immediately evident there was something special about Carey Mulligan. I thought I must have seen her in something else because her performance was fantastic. She has gone on to many fine things but it's kind of nice she got her big break in Doctor Who.
BTW, Blink is a brilliant episode but I don't know that I'd consider it *the* best NuWho story. For me that would be the Silence in the Library two-parter. It had *so* many really interesting concepts (be very afraid if you suddenly have a second shadow, technology that speaks your last words even after you're dead, Doctor Moon, the library as the final hunting ground of a tree-dwelling threat, the woman who knows the Doctor but he doesn't know her yet, etc. etc.) and it managed to integrate them all into a single, strong, coherent narrative. (By comparison, "It Takes You Away" had a large number of neat concepts too, but was much less successful at integrating them).
This is probably my favorite episode of the new show: it's the only episode that actually had me scared after the episode ended. If a Weeping Angel wants you, you would only see it coming by coincidence. That's the sort of thing you can't help but be paranoid about. It helps that this was pretty clever with the use of different timestreams.
A little science fact I like about this episode is that the Angel's property of only existing when it is seen is actually a thing in quantum physics. It's called the Quantum Zeno Effect, where a particle stops changing when you observe and measure it.
I'm so Mandela moment now! I could've swore you already did this one!!! What's happening?!?!?!? (Perhaps it's from one of your best of Moffett vids?) Regardless of what universe, thanks for the take!!! Classic of the 'new' Whos, for sure!
I still remember seeing that first trailer after Family of Blood. "Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away and don't blink. Good luck." I convinced all my many 4 or 5 friends to watch this despite not being Who fans. I would have to assume since you're running the meetings of The Council of Geeks that you yourself are a geek and found the easter egg on the series 4 DVD. I did. It's really cool. They actually did film David Tennant's part and play it for the actors. You can tell it's really playing. The timing works too because I watched the episode so much that one day I put on the pre recorded bit and talked to The Doctor in my TV. It all lines up perfectly.
Blink is one of Moffat's best, followed by the two parter The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. I honestly wish he'd just stuck to writing single and two part episodes because he excels at them. I've lost track of how many times I've re-watched Blink and I always, always, have this feeling of dread right in my guts - even though I've watched it I don't know how many times and I know how it ends, it just.....it's visceral. It's primal, hairs stand up on the back of your neck, flight or fight or freeze kind of fear that you can't just help but feel. I don't like I'll ever get inured to it.
This is just a truly freaking amazing episode. Absolutely everything about this episode is just beautiful and scary and confusing and fun. I love this episode
I love this episode so much. It’s great. The thing I love the most is when Sally tells the Doctor that he’s gonna be eventually trapped in 1969 and that he would need the stuff that Sally is giving to him… and he just rolls with it.
WHO THREW THE ROCK?? I remember thinking this every time I re-watched this episode only to forget about wondering by the end of the episode. I have one other question about the Angels, and that is why do they have such scary sharp teeth? The only way that we know of that they kill people is to send them back in time so they can live to death, and in the Crash of the Byzantium, they break people's necks. Even in The Angels Take Manhattan, the biggest Angel (you know which one I'm talking about) has scary sharp teeth. That's not the only problem I have with the biggest Angel but that's for another conversation.
The same way Mickey, Rose and 10 feels like Amy Rory and 11 in The Girl in the Fireplace. I think The Angels in Manhattan was also inspired by this episode.
Okay so for someone who is savvy to this internet and post Internet culture they may remember the SCP foundation. I'm bringing this up because there is an SCP known as 173 who has a mildly similar method of killing as the Angel except for the quantum stuff, it's a sculpture that moves when you blink and snaps your neck when it gets too close. SCP 173 actually cam before the weeping angels. Just a fun fact for y'all.
I like the fact they brought the weeping angles back in the flesh and stone 2 parter apart from the fact they showed the weeping angles head move. Also it was the weeping angels who thru the stone. They probably wanted to knock her out and then attack her
I love that Angels will come back in later stories. I love Blink, I love The Angels Take Manhattan but The Time of Angels two parter is a bit meh for me. I think that one apperance per one incarnation of the Doctor would be great.
I loved Time of Angels. "I didn’t escape, sir. The Angel killed me too......Snapped my neck sir. Wasn’t as painless as I expected but it was pretty quick, so that was something." must be one of my favourite lines from the show. Blink was still a better episode, but only just for me.
It keeps Who from being the same formula and brings a feeling i have no idea what could be in the next episode. To me a long series needs these offtrack episodes.
The angel threw the rock. Sally Sparrow was inside while the angel was outside. The angel probably assessed the situation and thought that it couldn't reach Sally Sparrow without her turning her head and seeing it. Of course, it's also possible that there was a heavy door or something like one in the way, and the angel couldn't reach Sally without making a loud noise. Knocking out Sally would, of course, free the angel to then dispose of her more effectively. What's more, the angels were presumably hiding out in that house, and what they feared most of all was letting Sally escape and them being discovered by humankind. In that situation, it makes sense for the angel to have been cautious. Sally then presumably wrote down her experience, and the writing (which she photographed) and both were probably in the folder she then gave to the Doctor.
Great story, though I would have cut the scenes where we see Cathy and DI Shipton in the Past and instead have the entire story be from Sally's perspective.
Blink is a fantastic introduction to the Weeping Angels. With The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone a few years later you can tell the writers don't really understand the characters. By The Angels Take Manhattan (which I still love), they're pretty much ruined though in the show. The final scene with the Statue of Liberty is just awful. Every time I see a Weeping Angel cosplay at a convention, I'm still terrified even though I know it's just a costume.
Blink is such a brilliant episode. It was scary in a way things haven't been in a long time. It was a brilliant time travel story, great standalone episode and though time is certainly wearing it out (old tech, not the greatest HD quality) it's probably one of my favorite if not my favorite episode of who. I used to think it was sad but now I would say sad doesn't cover it and part of the reason why is probably because it's scary. I always catch myself thinking the good old what if that was real, how hard it would be and all of that. Great characters, amazing actors, brilliant time travel writing and who threw the rock? I never stopped to think of that before. I would say I'm not a big fan of other angel episodes (I like scenes but definitely not the whole thing) BUT I have read some fanfiction that was really well written and gave the same feeling of that episode all over again... So blame writing. And don't blink
Angels feed off of potential energy. Throwing a rock at Sally before sending her back in time would have erased two timelines. The one where she lives in the present and the one where she dies in the present. More potential energy. Like cooking your food before you eat it.
You know what, this is probably one of the main reasons why so many fans hate season 11. I think after being exposed to so much greatness from every season. Season 11 looks like complete shit. If doctor who never got this epic, we probably would have somewhat tolerated season 11. The pandorica opens, the impossible planet/the satan pit, the girl in the fireplace, silence in the library, the day of the doctor, heven sent, are you my momy(forgot the name lol), the waters of mars, the girl who waited, the living planet named house who traps time lords and their tardis's, the episode where an alien was living upstairs from the funny chubby guy(they need to bring him back.) etc etc the list goes on. Doctor who greatness!!!!! After experiencing all of that, how can you not fall asleep on series 11? They didn't have 1 classic or memorable episode the whole season. This is the 1st time this has happened. Even the weakest episodes like fear her, hell bent, love and monsters, and dinosaurs on a spaceship. Are like classic episodes compared to the ghost monument, tsurangaWHATEVERTHEFUCK, and big ass spiders in the U.K. Season 11 seemed like a parody of doctor who. From the monsters/bad humans, the dumb ass dry childish doctor, forgetable outfit of the doctor, and forgetable compan......."FAM". Oh yeah, how about that tardis......?
I agree with the basic idea: Season 11 is a sub-par season for sure. . But Fear Her and Love and Monsters being better? *No.* Arachnids in the UK was *terrible* but the others were just meh. Tsuranga was a dull but serviceable Doctor Who story. The Ghost Monument was a somewhat better serviceable Doctor Who story. The Woman who fell to Earth was... fine. (On the flip side, I'm not sure how you avoided mentioning the season 11 finale - *wow* was that bad!). Kerblam! was pretty entertaining - not peak Who by any stretch of the imagination, but I could see it being a middle-of-the-pack episode in season 3 or 5 or 10. . Opinions vary of course, but I think most people agree that there were one or two strong episodes in Season 11. I know it's a polarising episode but I loved "Demons of the Punjab". "It Takes You Away" suffered badly for the "no two-parters" rule, but even as crunched as it was, it's one of the more imaginative Doctor Who episode concepts I've seen in a while. (I'm not the first person to point this out but most of the episodes not written by Chibnall were decent-to-good). . BTW, I've just recently rewatched Season 11 and found I enjoyed it more on a rewatch than I did first time around. You might find the same. (Arachnids in the UK is just as terrible second time around though. >_
I basically posted the shorter versions of this lol. You rewatched season 11...? Oh you poor soul! Season 11 just kept hitting us every week with more and more boring weak ass attempts at sci fi. It was a chore to watch and I just kept telling myself every week that it would get better. The bad to midcore episodes pre season 11 weren't boring. They all had at least something interesting in them for us to talk about. It was also clear that they were filler episodes. Season 11 felt like it was all filler. Demons, ghost, rosa, and takes you away were missed opportunities. Russell and moffet would have made those episodes classics. Great ideas, bad execution.
@@THIZZAVELI I totally agree that Season 11 felt like an entire season of filler. . I also agree that even the stronger episodes of Season 11 might have been better realised under a more capable showrunner like Moffat or Davies. . About the only thing I disagree with is the idea that the poorer pre-Season 11 episodes all had at least something interesting in them. I think nostalgia may be influencing you there. Episodes like "The Idiots Lantern", "The Lazarus Experiment" or "Sleep no More" really didn't have any redeeming features. And episodes like "Curse of the Black Spot" were moderately entertaining at the time, but were also instantly forgettable - there wasn't really anything novel or interesting in them. . There are definitely Who episodes like "The Power of Three" - poor episodes which nonetheless have discussion-worthy elements (the idea of an invasion so *boring* the Doctor doesn't know what to do with it is genius. xD). But there are quite a few episodes over the years that were too meh to merit discussing at all.
@@notactuallyhere316 What, "Blink"? It probably wouldn't be as big a hit today because some of the Moffat quirks (like timey-wimey plot twists and menaces that exploit everyday biological limitations) have become a bit played out in the years since. It wouldn't be as novel if it debuted today. But it's still a strong episode in term of concepts, narrative and characters and it would still be considered one of the strongest Who episodes.
JustSomeRandomGuy Online I respect your trolling bruh, it's over 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But If blink was part of season 11 lol!!!!!!, it would overshadow the whole season.
@Sean Bassett well the fact that after he was on Doctor Who he went on to be Spiderman. while yeah it may not have been the biggest role for him i just like that both of these people who went onto be big Hollywood stars in their own right not only started out on Doctor Who but were only a few episodes apart in the same series. Something i quite like about that fact.
I feel as though the episode they returned in (the time of angels and flesh & stone) really took a lot away from them as threatening but mysterious monsters. It showed them moving, overcomplicated their lore and retconned things we already new about them from Blink. I think in the long run they were better off as one-off creatures.
Maybe an angel threw the rock to try and knock her out so it could zap her back in time? Still one of the best hours of television from any show, period.
Maybe I missed something but I still don't get how the Doctor and Martha were stuck in 1969 but every other Angel victim could age and not be stuck in any year. Why wasn't Billy stuck in 1969 too?
Yes but but for the events to play out he couldn’t be rescued, because of he didn’t age and talk to Sally before dying then she wouldn’t have known what to do to rescue the Doctor. If he’d been rescued too then he wouldn’t have aged to tell her and you have a paradox.
@@CouncilofGeeks Oh! Thankyou for replying! Sorry but I still don't get it. I realise that there is no story unless the D and M are stuck in 69, but a little on screen explanation as to why they are in a different situation as the rest wouldn't have hurt, surely? To me it's a glaring plot hole and frankly spoils the whole thing. 2 minutes of dialogue could've sorted it all out, but without it Blink is forever flawed, to me.
I wish they'd never been invented. Moffat is a good writer of stories, but he comes up with kiddy concepts that surely only a small child could believe in. A creature that turns to stone whenever anyone looks at it? Maybe on the Discworld, but it doesn't work here in our universe.
I can't help but wonder, how much of what makes Blink the episode it is came from Russel T Davies? He was notorious for putting his fingerprints over just about every episode of his tenure. How much of Blink is him rather than Moffat? And is that why Moffat never really managed to hit the highs he did in series 3 and 4 once he became showrunner?
I'm pretty sure it's like 90% Moffat. The timey-wimeyness is very much his schtick (think the season 5 finale, A Christmas Carol, the Doctor's interactions with River Song or the Under the Lake two-parter), as is inventive monsters that take simple everyday ideas and making them scary (think man-eating shadows, weaponised forgetfulness, and the 'perfect hiding' monster from Listen). Davies probably helped with some of the character work. . IMO, Moffat had some decent heights through his run (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon two-parter was pretty cool, as was Heaven Sent amongst a few others). IMO what made him weaker is that it's just orders of magnitude harder to fill entire seasons with good ideas. Writing quirks that were clever and interesting once a season or so got stretched well past breaking point by the end of his run...
Davies has gone on record and said that the only scripts he didn't rewrite on his tenure are those written by other showrunners, which means he gave notes on Moffat's work but never actually changed any of the words to his own
Honestly, my biggest problem with bringing the weeping angels back was that they showed them move! A huge part of what made Blink really stick with you was the fridge horror of realizing that the angels didn't move... even when no one in-universe was watching them, just the audience...
Yes, that was a let down in later episodes when we saw them move. It felt like the director got lazy and couldn't be bothered to figure it out, or budget/time constraints didn't allow for it. It was such a cool moment, when you question why they aren't getting closer as the characters aren't looking at them, only to realise that I was looking at them.
Sometimes I move my Weeping Angel around the display cabinet and alter its pose just to mess with my kids...
One day I'm going to have to buy the attacking angel version and substitute it for the placid angel while no one's looking...
You're an awful parent!
And I'm so stealing that idea to play on my own kids.
@@HelenWheelsUtah Oh, I'm way worse than that :P You should've seen what I did when my son noticed I bought one of the "Silence" aliens...
@@nathanfrancis9376 Ah, you refer to the idea that Moffat came up with to "up the stakes" that makes no sense in the context of Sally Sparrow having a folder containing photos of Weeping Angels for _years_ and her and Nightingale both having stared into the angels' faces for lengthy periods - all with no ill effect. :P
Overthinking it? Sure - that's the internet for you. :)
@@wolf1066 nothing wrong with escalating outstanding villians. The silence didnt ACTUALLY kill anyone on screen till episode 3. Doctor vs 1 dalek, then doctor vs the dalek race half a season later. Cybermen in an open field then 50 cyberman in a metre wide corridor half an episode later then cybermen with actual guns next appearance. If they kept the weeping angels the same then river and the doctor had already won with 50 people to look at em instead of 2
@@212mochaman *Escalating* villains is fine. _Totally changing an aspect_ of them so that it actually *breaks* what was previously known about them *and* gives a side-helping of Fridge Horror (look that up on TVTropes.org at your own peril - TVTropes will ruin your life ) is not.
The change made to the angels is more akin to suddenly having it revealed that _just being in a room with a Cyberman_ automatically starts converting you into one from the inside out or that _just looking at a Dalek_ will result in you spontaneously vaporising at some random point in the future.
If you've only got 50 people looking at them and you've got a catacomb filled with *thousands* of angels, that's escalation.
"Oh noes, this character who looked at an angel for _less time_ than Sally Sparrow did is going to turn into an angel in about half an hour" is just bad writing that makes you wonder how Sally and her boyfriend _lived long enough_ to pass on the info about the angels and Sally's half of the conversation to Tennant!Doctor.
And the rest of London, for that matter, given the number of angels *clearly visible everywhere* _and_ anyone who has ever looked at so much as a _picture_ of the Statue of Liberty (let alone visited it), it seems.
I assumed it was like, maybe the Doctor? Assuming Sally wrote down EVERYTHIGN that happened in relation to the Angels and the house, and then gave it to the Doctor, he knew that if he was to prove to Sally that there was something going on, he had to throw the rock at the exact moment she pulled down the wallpaper.
But then again, I may just be going insane
@@carealoo744 That envelope she handed him at the end had much more than just the transcript in it. I'm sure it included everything he needed to figure things out.
@@carealoo744 Right before Sally gives the envelope to the Doctor, there is a scene in their store where she and Larry talk about how she can't let go of what happened. The talk is prompted by the fact that she is rifling through the papers in the envelope. And we can see photos and other papers in there. They clearly show that it isn't just the transcript.
Cian Mulhearne That's what I always thought
That's the only possibility that makes sense
I stand by my theory that Larry was proto-Rory, I would love to see a proper analysis of the two characters
I at first thought they were both played by the same actor!
There were so many possible openings to this video:
"Don't look away, don't blink"
"Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey"
"The Angels have the Phone Box"
"Who threw the rock"
I wouldn't be able to choose to be honest. Also there was a lot of self-awareness from you this video.
'Blink' made me afraid of the dark again at 20. Just for a while but it's worth mentioning. I was living in a creepy old house with a nutcase landlady and all that might have been contributing factors.
Silence in the library with the vashta nerada made me afraid of the dark for a good while when i watched when i was younger, this was compounded earlier with sunday school telling me monsters in the dark were real, i had gotten over THAT fear before watching that episode, it came back hard.
As a wise youtuber once said about this episode, "HE SAID THE WIBBLY WOBBLEY THING!"
This was the first episode I ever saw. I had no context, I had no idea who the Doctor was. It. Was. AMAZING!
it got me into doctor who, we had to watch it in a year 8 English lesson and i was obsessed from then on
There was an episode with the first doctor where the crew (this is before Susan was abandoned with the Daleks...) they landed in a museum and they saw the Tardis and their frozen bodies in a space museum. They have to figure out what happened, it's a pretty good story.
Still my favourite episode of all time, followed closely by The Empty Child & The Girl in the Fireplace.
You can see why the made Moffat the main writer after Davies.
Silence in the Library too
The impossible planet/satan pit >>>>>>>
It felt like a movie.
I'm with you on this one and The Empty Child is also great. However I really hate The Girl in the Fireplace!
D huh that’s one of the best imo
I my god. We seem to like the same episode coz my favourite episode is blink then my second is girl in the fireplace and my third in the empty child 2 parter
I appreciate the angel moving around in the background during the cuts....
Love the moving weeping angel in the background. Nice touch.
You should've made the Angel figure behind you move after each cut.
(Edit: great minds think alike I guess)
(Edit: people noticed before the end jumpscare right?)
Woah! I didn't notice at all!
I always keep an eye out for angels. Great idea.
I came to the comments just to see if anyone else noticed.
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this one.
Thank you for all of your work for this channel it’s definitely appreciated
I love your enthusiasm when you discuss doctor who.Especially this one. thank you.
I remember at first thinking that this one was wayyyy overhyped in its scariness, until I rewatched it a couple months ago. Hearing the Tenth Doctor monologue about moving statues in an otherwise completely silent house made me change my mind pretty quickly.
Growing up this episode always stood out to me. I remember thinking about what my favorite episode was and I always found myself coming to this one. Everything in this story just works so well, I love when an episode can use time travel to cleverly inform the narrative, and that's exactly what happens here. Also Sally Sparrow is brilliant, I'll always wish she had been a companion.
I fell asleep last night listening to these reviews. Had your voice in my ear all night. Had the weirdest dreams - big epic adventure dreams!
I like how the way they defeat the Weeping Angels is that they just make them look at each other.
@:35 did anyone else notice the sudden appearance of the angel in the background
yes the angel moves when someone in here blinks 1:36 4:20 8:38 10:34
That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.
I presumed it was The Doctor who threw the rock as a way of getting Sally to realize that she has to take these messages seriously rather than thinking it's her mate playing a prank.
That's how I saw it, seeing as it was the Doctor who left the message. Who else would know to be there at that exact location at that exact time. It was either him or Martha.
Blink was the first episode I ever watched and I was 4 years old... I was terrified so badly afterwards I went upstairs and cried and refused to use the downstairs bathroom for a month. 4 year olds who've never watched doctor who should not be shown blink at night time. So it holds a special place in my heart
The stone was just thrown by a random yob, the dramatic effect was purely coincidental.
I've forgotten the stone. When was it/
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Here's your answer, 6 months later. When Sally starts peeling back the wallpaper she sees the word "duck" and then she pulls back more wallpaper to see the words (something like) "seriously, duck now!" or and that's when the stone hits the wall. Fortunately, she sees it coming and ducks in time.
I love how the weeping angel in the background keeps moving whenever you put in a cut.
I threw the rock.
I never got why this would be an introductory episode of The Doctor since this is a very Doctor Light episode. It is a good episode though.
I saw that coming from a mile away with you moving the Weeping angel around.
You don't really need to understand any of the lore to get into the episode, it stands on it's own pretty well. I think that's why.
IMO the danger with Blink as an introductory episode is that it sets up expectations that the rest of the series can't live up to. Like Nathaniel says, it's probably makes the tightest use of time travel mechanics as a narrative device anywhere in Who (probably only the Season 5 finale really comes close). So if you introduce people to Doctor Who with episodes like Blink they're going to expect more episodes like that... and there aren't any.
To me, it always felt like it could be an episode of The Twilight Zone or some other anthology show. There's little about the Angels that make them specific to the world of Doctor Who.
@@patrickt.6492 About the angels? No. But the concepts and narratives of this episode strike me as very much being in the Moffat Who style.
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You really could argue that there's nothing about most Who opponents that make them specific to the world of Who. The Autons, The Silurians, The Silence, the Sontarans (wow there are a lot of "S"s .xD) etc. - you could easily just drop them into many SF shows. Personally I'd consider only the Daleks, the Master and *maybe* the Cybermen to intrinsically scream "Doctor Who". IMO what makes Who feel like Who is more about a style of storytelling than any particular creature used.
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P.S. For fun here are pretty much all the aliens that have ever appeared on Doctor Who: www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/aliens/)
Great review, would recommend a series called Life on Mars to watch and review! It stars John Simm as the lead and is a brilliant watch if you haven’t already!
Make sure it's the British one though, chibnal also wrote for life on mars too, I'm not sure who the show runner was, but I know the main characters surname wasn't a coincidence. It was a nod to who.
karen stewart yeah definitely the british version, we don’t speak of the US remake 😂
@@FraserSmith95 that US ending.....absolutely awful.
Marcus Hicks think I watched 3 episodes, couldn’t put myself through any more, absolute butchering of a masterpiece
@@FraserSmith95 Me either, to be honest. However, I did track down the last 5-10 minutes, because someone told me how awful it was 😉.
holy heck, i never realized the thing about how Sally talks to the same recording twice, and the responses work both times, even though she says different things. that’s amazing.
Nor me. I'm going to have to watch the episode again. Damn.
10:30 look at that fluffy thing on the shelf to the top right
That's Totoro, in the movie he can turn invisible (or only some people can see him) so maybe that was really him
When I was younger before I watched doctor who and just knew a few names, I thought Sally and Larry was Amy and Rory
The Angel threw the rock. Sally ducks, the rock is thrown, she turns around, and there is the Angel who threw it at her. The real question is why? If she had her back turned, it could have gone up to her "faster than you can believe."
My only explanation is that, if not for the note in the wall, Sally would not have ducked, the rock would have knocked her out, and the Angel could have sent her in the past with no possibility of her looking at them.
Of course, if it cracked her skull and she died, the Angel'd be shit out of luck for her time energy, wouldn't they?
The angel would never throw the rock though, it would alert Sally to it's presence, which was the point of throwing it. In my head, I always thought it was the Doctor or Martha, warning her of the angel being behind her. The Doctor left the note, so it makes sense that one of them threw it.
I may need to rewatch (again), purely to put it to rest.
It was kinda explained in the time of angels, flesh and stone two parter. The angels do things for fun. They have a sense of humour and they know throwing the rock would scare Sally making her potential death more amusing, hence why they sent Cathy back to get to her. They were just messing around (they also smiled a lot)
@@lwaves The rock only alerted her because of the note in the wall though. If she hadn't ducked, the rock would have hit her in the head (why would the Doctor or Martha do that, even if time said they were "supposed to"?) and she would be fair game to send back in time. An unconscious enemy can't see you. Of course, Sally would never be standing there with her back turned unless she was reading the note, but the Angel doesn't know that LOL.
The other problem is that the story makes it pretty clear everything the Doctor did to help Sally happened in the 1960s (writing a note inside Wester Drumlins, meeting Billy and filming the segment, etc.) because they got her folder on an earlier adventure. This means after they are touched by the Angels, the Doctor and Martha have no interaction in the modern day segments of the episode. We don't have any indication they come back to do anything, much less throw a rock, once the TARDIS is returned to them. If the post-getting the TARDIS back team is interacting with the main cast off camera, that isn't as interesting as every bit of help coming from 1969.
@@zorion9294 Great explanation! Yes, there is a sadistic, we're doing this to amuse ourselves aspect of the Angels. This could very well be a game to them.
Eric Johnson *insert Angel Bob here*
Haha love the weeping angel creeping towards you in the background of this video, nice touch!
Oh that's why there were so many cuts!
There's a reason Blink is considered the best Barometer of if someone should invest the time into watching New Who -- and you touched all of the basic points that are the reason for that.
Moffat is a genius. There were episodes under his tenure as show runner that weren't all that great but my goodness, there were a bunch of great episodes for which he is responsible!
For me...it's not a question of how high this ranks as best Doctor Who episodes, I would wonder how this would rank in a list of best-ever Sci-Fi episodes overall.
Blink is on many top 100 TV episodes of all time and like top 10 in IMBD I think.
I like the Weeping Angel moving in the background throughout the video
There is an indirect connection to a Star Trek TOS time travel episode. But it's though the name Gary Sparrow, who was the main character in a London time slip (sitcom/Science Fiction)TV series. That series, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, was entitled 'Goodnight Sweetheart', which came from the record playing in the Star Trek TOS time travel episode.
For some reason, I’ve never found this episode particularly scary. I thought the cinematography was excellent and that the storytelling was good, but I always found this more tense and atmospheric than actually frightning. I’m always suprised to see this top spooky Who lists when I got much more of a fright from episodes like “Listen,” and “The Edge of Destruction.” If you want a REALLY tense Who story, watch “Inferno!”
What more IS there to be said? This is top-notch New Who, a shining beacon of how GOOD it can be when it tries. Should there have been only the one story with the Weeping Angels? Possibly, but I don't really feel that the subsequent stories manage to dilute Blink in any way. Thta's how good it is, imho.
Glad to be your top-of-the-list (on the crawl) Patreon!
I'm not by any means trying to toot my own horn here. When I first saw this episode it was immediately evident there was something special about Carey Mulligan. I thought I must have seen her in something else because her performance was fantastic. She has gone on to many fine things but it's kind of nice she got her big break in Doctor Who.
BTW, Blink is a brilliant episode but I don't know that I'd consider it *the* best NuWho story. For me that would be the Silence in the Library two-parter. It had *so* many really interesting concepts (be very afraid if you suddenly have a second shadow, technology that speaks your last words even after you're dead, Doctor Moon, the library as the final hunting ground of a tree-dwelling threat, the woman who knows the Doctor but he doesn't know her yet, etc. etc.) and it managed to integrate them all into a single, strong, coherent narrative. (By comparison, "It Takes You Away" had a large number of neat concepts too, but was much less successful at integrating them).
This is probably my favorite episode of the new show: it's the only episode that actually had me scared after the episode ended. If a Weeping Angel wants you, you would only see it coming by coincidence. That's the sort of thing you can't help but be paranoid about. It helps that this was pretty clever with the use of different timestreams.
A little science fact I like about this episode is that the Angel's property of only existing when it is seen is actually a thing in quantum physics. It's called the Quantum Zeno Effect, where a particle stops changing when you observe and measure it.
I'm so Mandela moment now! I could've swore you already did this one!!! What's happening?!?!?!? (Perhaps it's from one of your best of Moffett vids?) Regardless of what universe, thanks for the take!!! Classic of the 'new' Whos, for sure!
I still remember seeing that first trailer after Family of Blood. "Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away and don't blink. Good luck." I convinced all my many 4 or 5 friends to watch this despite not being Who fans. I would have to assume since you're running the meetings of The Council of Geeks that you yourself are a geek and found the easter egg on the series 4 DVD. I did. It's really cool. They actually did film David Tennant's part and play it for the actors. You can tell it's really playing. The timing works too because I watched the episode so much that one day I put on the pre recorded bit and talked to The Doctor in my TV. It all lines up perfectly.
Blink is one of Moffat's best, followed by the two parter The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. I honestly wish he'd just stuck to writing single and two part episodes because he excels at them. I've lost track of how many times I've re-watched Blink and I always, always, have this feeling of dread right in my guts - even though I've watched it I don't know how many times and I know how it ends, it just.....it's visceral. It's primal, hairs stand up on the back of your neck, flight or fight or freeze kind of fear that you can't just help but feel. I don't like I'll ever get inured to it.
This is just a truly freaking amazing episode. Absolutely everything about this episode is just beautiful and scary and confusing and fun.
I love this episode
One of the best Doctor Who stories of all time. 10/10 for sure.
Nice touch with the Angel in the background ;)
I love this episode so much. It’s great. The thing I love the most is when Sally tells the Doctor that he’s gonna be eventually trapped in 1969 and that he would need the stuff that Sally is giving to him… and he just rolls with it.
WHO THREW THE ROCK?? I remember thinking this every time I re-watched this episode only to forget about wondering by the end of the episode. I have one other question about the Angels, and that is why do they have such scary sharp teeth? The only way that we know of that they kill people is to send them back in time so they can live to death, and in the Crash of the Byzantium, they break people's necks. Even in The Angels Take Manhattan, the biggest Angel (you know which one I'm talking about) has scary sharp teeth. That's not the only problem I have with the biggest Angel but that's for another conversation.
On a rewatch, it feels like Sally and Larry are sort of proto-Amy and Rory
The same way Mickey, Rose and 10 feels like Amy Rory and 11 in The Girl in the Fireplace. I think The Angels in Manhattan was also inspired by this episode.
Love Blink, quite probably my favourite episode of New Who.
Really liked your Weeping Angel moving around in the background :-)
I love the second half of Series 3. Everything from Human Nature to The Last of the Time Lords is golden!
I don't understand why the Angels don't zap Sally back in time the first time she comes to the house
No one was looking at them!
They would have done but they didn't get close enough when she wasn't looking.
They were probably weak for long time no feeding and zapping her friend back in time helped them quite a bit and they could run around the city.
Okay so for someone who is savvy to this internet and post Internet culture they may remember the SCP foundation. I'm bringing this up because there is an SCP known as 173 who has a mildly similar method of killing as the Angel except for the quantum stuff, it's a sculpture that moves when you blink and snaps your neck when it gets too close. SCP 173 actually cam before the weeping angels. Just a fun fact for y'all.
Blink is a great episode. One of Monday’s best. Not THE best but definitely up there.
The angel in the background though.
I assumed neighbourhood kids "lets throw stones at the ghost house."
I like the fact they brought the weeping angles back in the flesh and stone 2 parter apart from the fact they showed the weeping angles head move. Also it was the weeping angels who thru the stone. They probably wanted to knock her out and then attack her
I love that Angels will come back in later stories. I love Blink, I love The Angels Take Manhattan but The Time of Angels two parter is a bit meh for me. I think that one apperance per one incarnation of the Doctor would be great.
I loved Time of Angels. "I didn’t escape, sir. The Angel killed me too......Snapped my neck sir. Wasn’t as painless as I expected but it was pretty quick, so that was something." must be one of my favourite lines from the show. Blink was still a better episode, but only just for me.
Does anyone know why the TARDIS changed in the snowman?
It keeps Who from being the same formula and brings a feeling i have no idea what could be in the next episode.
To me a long series needs these offtrack episodes.
You should do a whole video on just the thrown rock paradox. Yeah! :)
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I'm afraid I am one of those that wished they hadn't come back.
Great video, as always.
The angel threw the rock. Sally Sparrow was inside while the angel was outside. The angel probably assessed the situation and thought that it couldn't reach Sally Sparrow without her turning her head and seeing it. Of course, it's also possible that there was a heavy door or something like one in the way, and the angel couldn't reach Sally without making a loud noise. Knocking out Sally would, of course, free the angel to then dispose of her more effectively. What's more, the angels were presumably hiding out in that house, and what they feared most of all was letting Sally escape and them being discovered by humankind. In that situation, it makes sense for the angel to have been cautious.
Sally then presumably wrote down her experience, and the writing (which she photographed) and both were probably in the folder she then gave to the Doctor.
Great story, though I would have cut the scenes where we see Cathy and DI Shipton in the Past and instead have the entire story be from Sally's perspective.
Blink is a fantastic introduction to the Weeping Angels. With The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone a few years later you can tell the writers don't really understand the characters. By The Angels Take Manhattan (which I still love), they're pretty much ruined though in the show. The final scene with the Statue of Liberty is just awful. Every time I see a Weeping Angel cosplay at a convention, I'm still terrified even though I know it's just a costume.
I noticed the statue in the back round. Nice going.
Ha! I love the angel in the background keeps moving. :D
Blink is such a brilliant episode. It was scary in a way things haven't been in a long time. It was a brilliant time travel story, great standalone episode and though time is certainly wearing it out (old tech, not the greatest HD quality) it's probably one of my favorite if not my favorite episode of who. I used to think it was sad but now I would say sad doesn't cover it and part of the reason why is probably because it's scary. I always catch myself thinking the good old what if that was real, how hard it would be and all of that. Great characters, amazing actors, brilliant time travel writing and who threw the rock? I never stopped to think of that before.
I would say I'm not a big fan of other angel episodes (I like scenes but definitely not the whole thing) BUT I have read some fanfiction that was really well written and gave the same feeling of that episode all over again... So blame writing. And don't blink
I only just rewatched your review here and is it me or that Angel is moving when your talking...
11:19 Really it is...Wait where did you go?!!!
Angels feed off of potential energy.
Throwing a rock at Sally before sending her back in time would have erased two timelines. The one where she lives in the present and the one where she dies in the present. More potential energy. Like cooking your food before you eat it.
You know what, this is probably one of the main reasons why so many fans hate season 11. I think after being exposed to so much greatness from every season. Season 11 looks like complete shit. If doctor who never got this epic, we probably would have somewhat tolerated season 11. The pandorica opens, the impossible planet/the satan pit, the girl in the fireplace, silence in the library, the day of the doctor, heven sent, are you my momy(forgot the name lol), the waters of mars, the girl who waited, the living planet named house who traps time lords and their tardis's, the episode where an alien was living upstairs from the funny chubby guy(they need to bring him back.) etc etc the list goes on. Doctor who greatness!!!!!
After experiencing all of that, how can you not fall asleep on series 11? They didn't have 1 classic or memorable episode the whole season. This is the 1st time this has happened. Even the weakest episodes like fear her, hell bent, love and monsters, and dinosaurs on a spaceship. Are like classic episodes compared to the ghost monument, tsurangaWHATEVERTHEFUCK, and big ass spiders in the U.K. Season 11 seemed like a parody of doctor who. From the monsters/bad humans, the dumb ass dry childish doctor, forgetable outfit of the doctor, and forgetable compan......."FAM". Oh yeah, how about that tardis......?
I agree with the basic idea: Season 11 is a sub-par season for sure.
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But Fear Her and Love and Monsters being better? *No.* Arachnids in the UK was *terrible* but the others were just meh. Tsuranga was a dull but serviceable Doctor Who story. The Ghost Monument was a somewhat better serviceable Doctor Who story. The Woman who fell to Earth was... fine. (On the flip side, I'm not sure how you avoided mentioning the season 11 finale - *wow* was that bad!). Kerblam! was pretty entertaining - not peak Who by any stretch of the imagination, but I could see it being a middle-of-the-pack episode in season 3 or 5 or 10.
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Opinions vary of course, but I think most people agree that there were one or two strong episodes in Season 11. I know it's a polarising episode but I loved "Demons of the Punjab". "It Takes You Away" suffered badly for the "no two-parters" rule, but even as crunched as it was, it's one of the more imaginative Doctor Who episode concepts I've seen in a while. (I'm not the first person to point this out but most of the episodes not written by Chibnall were decent-to-good).
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BTW, I've just recently rewatched Season 11 and found I enjoyed it more on a rewatch than I did first time around. You might find the same. (Arachnids in the UK is just as terrible second time around though. >_
I basically posted the shorter versions of this lol. You rewatched season 11...? Oh you poor soul! Season 11 just kept hitting us every week with more and more boring weak ass attempts at sci fi. It was a chore to watch and I just kept telling myself every week that it would get better. The bad to midcore episodes pre season 11 weren't boring. They all had at least something interesting in them for us to talk about. It was also clear that they were filler episodes. Season 11 felt like it was all filler. Demons, ghost, rosa, and takes you away were missed opportunities. Russell and moffet would have made those episodes classics. Great ideas, bad execution.
@@THIZZAVELI I totally agree that Season 11 felt like an entire season of filler.
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I also agree that even the stronger episodes of Season 11 might have been better realised under a more capable showrunner like Moffat or Davies.
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About the only thing I disagree with is the idea that the poorer pre-Season 11 episodes all had at least something interesting in them. I think nostalgia may be influencing you there. Episodes like "The Idiots Lantern", "The Lazarus Experiment" or "Sleep no More" really didn't have any redeeming features. And episodes like "Curse of the Black Spot" were moderately entertaining at the time, but were also instantly forgettable - there wasn't really anything novel or interesting in them.
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There are definitely Who episodes like "The Power of Three" - poor episodes which nonetheless have discussion-worthy elements (the idea of an invasion so *boring* the Doctor doesn't know what to do with it is genius. xD). But there are quite a few episodes over the years that were too meh to merit discussing at all.
@@notactuallyhere316 What, "Blink"? It probably wouldn't be as big a hit today because some of the Moffat quirks (like timey-wimey plot twists and menaces that exploit everyday biological limitations) have become a bit played out in the years since. It wouldn't be as novel if it debuted today. But it's still a strong episode in term of concepts, narrative and characters and it would still be considered one of the strongest Who episodes.
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I respect your trolling bruh, it's over 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But If blink was part of season 11 lol!!!!!!, it would overshadow the whole season.
Everyone says Sally would've made a great full companion, and I agree, but Billy Shipton would've been an even better one.
It's a shame Carey seems to distance herself from the part these days, since it was the part that essentially gave her a career.
I have always said the Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan owe their careers to Doctor Who. Without this series they would not have careers. Fact.
@Sean Bassett well the fact that after he was on Doctor Who he went on to be Spiderman. while yeah it may not have been the biggest role for him i just like that both of these people who went onto be big Hollywood stars in their own right not only started out on Doctor Who but were only a few episodes apart in the same series. Something i quite like about that fact.
I think that people believing she has a career because of this episode may be why she isn't that fond of it.
The Doctor threw the rock when he got back.
Whàt do you think about the theory that the Weeping Angels are Time Lords?
I love that one.
The DVD conversation single handedly disproves anyone that says Moffat was a bad writer.
You didn't get me. I was that angel move in the background and was expecting something like this.
I thought you said you didn't like jumpscares?
I never said I wasn’t a hypocrite.
Honestly don't find them scary but do enjoy the episode. Looking forward to seeing your next 2 reviews
I feel as though the episode they returned in (the time of angels and flesh & stone) really took a lot away from them as threatening but mysterious monsters. It showed them moving, overcomplicated their lore and retconned things we already new about them from Blink. I think in the long run they were better off as one-off creatures.
That ending where they implied that anything could be a Weeping Angel did concern me a little. You can't trust statues.
That's why they're being dumped in harbors... amongst other reasons.
You should beware for behind you the angel keeps moving??????
Maybe an angel threw the rock to try and knock her out so it could zap her back in time? Still one of the best hours of television from any show, period.
I think I first saw this episode when I was like 5 years old, I was terrified
8:38 someone blinked and at 10:34
Love the costume!!!
Definitely one of my favorite "watch from behind the sofa" episodes.
When I first saw Blink, I knew. Very little about the show. I just knew I loved the episode and I can never look at a statue the same way again. LOL.
Maybe I missed something but I still don't get how the Doctor and Martha were stuck in 1969 but every other Angel victim could age and not be stuck in any year. Why wasn't Billy stuck in 1969 too?
Yes but but for the events to play out he couldn’t be rescued, because of he didn’t age and talk to Sally before dying then she wouldn’t have known what to do to rescue the Doctor. If he’d been rescued too then he wouldn’t have aged to tell her and you have a paradox.
@@CouncilofGeeks Oh! Thankyou for replying! Sorry but I still don't get it. I realise that there is no story unless the D and M are stuck in 69, but a little on screen explanation as to why they are in a different situation as the rest wouldn't have hurt, surely? To me it's a glaring plot hole and frankly spoils the whole thing. 2 minutes of dialogue could've sorted it all out, but without it Blink is forever flawed, to me.
The angels were scariest for me in Angels Take Manhattan, I’m not sure why
Another great video.
Still one of my favorite episodes. Of course, this was before Moffat ruined the weeping angels in later series.
I'm one of the people who feel the Angels should have stayed in this episode. I only ever thought they were good here.
I wish they'd never been invented. Moffat is a good writer of stories, but he comes up with kiddy concepts that surely only a small child could believe in. A creature that turns to stone whenever anyone looks at it? Maybe on the Discworld, but it doesn't work here in our universe.
Who did throw that rock!?!?
Yeah I noticed that the weeping angel figure in the background kept moving. Great payoff in the end, well done.
I can't help but wonder, how much of what makes Blink the episode it is came from Russel T Davies? He was notorious for putting his fingerprints over just about every episode of his tenure. How much of Blink is him rather than Moffat? And is that why Moffat never really managed to hit the highs he did in series 3 and 4 once he became showrunner?
I'm pretty sure it's like 90% Moffat. The timey-wimeyness is very much his schtick (think the season 5 finale, A Christmas Carol, the Doctor's interactions with River Song or the Under the Lake two-parter), as is inventive monsters that take simple everyday ideas and making them scary (think man-eating shadows, weaponised forgetfulness, and the 'perfect hiding' monster from Listen). Davies probably helped with some of the character work.
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IMO, Moffat had some decent heights through his run (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon two-parter was pretty cool, as was Heaven Sent amongst a few others). IMO what made him weaker is that it's just orders of magnitude harder to fill entire seasons with good ideas. Writing quirks that were clever and interesting once a season or so got stretched well past breaking point by the end of his run...
Davies has gone on record and said that the only scripts he didn't rewrite on his tenure are those written by other showrunners, which means he gave notes on Moffat's work but never actually changed any of the words to his own
i know you’ve had it for a couple weeks now, but stellar outfit 👌🏻
Question, was the fact that the figure of the Angel in the background is moving intentional or not?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Honestly, my biggest problem with bringing the weeping angels back was that they showed them move! A huge part of what made Blink really stick with you was the fridge horror of realizing that the angels didn't move... even when no one in-universe was watching them, just the audience...
Yes, that was a let down in later episodes when we saw them move. It felt like the director got lazy and couldn't be bothered to figure it out, or budget/time constraints didn't allow for it.
It was such a cool moment, when you question why they aren't getting closer as the characters aren't looking at them, only to realise that I was looking at them.
I want to make a T-shirt that says "The Angels Have the Phone Box".
those exist.
@@thatjedifromgallifrey6663 Do they? I'm going to get one, if you can in the UK.
@@jedisalsohere i'm from the US and i've seen kids in my school where them...perhaps online?
@@thatjedifromgallifrey6663 Yes, I found one on redbubble and ordered it.