This is one of the best episodes of *Doctor Who*, not only according to fans and because it is genuinely very good, but also because critics rated it highly, and it was nominated for several awards, including winning a BAFTA.
6:47 non consensual peek a boo.😆 Words I never thought of putting together! Great episode for fans and newbies! Felt more like a Twilight Zone episode. Good timing in watching this, with Halloween nearby.
It is impressive how an episode written specifically to save money (Doctor lite, no big guest stars, no big set pieces or tricky shooting locations, monsters that never even move on camera) ended up being on of the greatest of the show, when so many sci-fi mishaps happen because the creators relied budget over creativity. This episode is the opposite.
At a Doctor Who con, Moffett gave a running commentary on a screening of the episode. In the hospital scene, in particular, he mentioned Hettie McDonald, the director, and expressed appreciation for how she had used the lighting to make an inexpensive scene look so cinematic.
I think Midnight (no spoilers) also achieve something similar, although I still think not to the scale of Blink. Still a great episode with mostly one setting and very traumatic storyline
@@n0body550 She wasn't at the time. This episode was aired in 2007, pretty early in her career. She'd had a few interesting roles but none as a lead yet. In fact I don't think she was credited as a lead for Blink either, even though she really deserved to be. She got her first lead role two years later, in 2009.
Love how in some scenes the angels are statues even though a character wouldnt be looking at them, and its because WE the audience are observing them so they get locked
@@cutthr0atjake except for the times we see one reaching out to touch Sally to send her through time or when they wouldn't have wanted her to take the key
"Does that apply to all of these things?" To paraphrase the Doctor - and Moffat - out of context, not every statue, but any statue. I already hate myself for saying that.
An outstanding episode with a great performance from Carey Mulligan in the leading role of this Doctor-lite installment. It came as no surprise to me that she broke into Hollywood a few years after this. They threw in some terrifying monsters and a dash of mystery and served up one of the finest ever episodes of the show.
Always remember this episode for name dropping my hometown Hull Such a fantastic episode, still one of Steven Moffats best This one terrified me as a kid
Mine too and I now live very close to the farm to which Kathy was transported. Which is nowhere near Hull but above Caerphilly, about 250 miles from Hull - as is Cardiff where most of the episode is shot.
In terms of the entire show, it probably wouldn't be in my top 5 but it might make it into my top 20. I'd say (no particular order): heaven sent, world enough and time/doctor falls, midnight, blink, human nature/family of blood, dot and bubble, oxygen, the happiness patrol, dalek, the empty child/the doctor dances, pyramids of mars, city of death, caves of androzani, evil of the daleks, genesis of the daleks, seeds of doom, the curse of peladon, robots of death, Vincent and the doctor, Amy's choice.
In an interview, Moffat said he got the idea for the Weeping Angels from an angel statue he saw in a cemetery. It stuck with him because when he walked by the same spot a few days later the statue was gone.
I went to a sci-fi convention where a 5-year-old girl was dressed as a weeping angel. Her mom said it was all she wanted to go as. She posed for a cool picture in the grabby, snarly pose!
yeah there were some really great fan designs that I saw as well that unfortunately I missed my chance to buy but you can see them in Google image results
This was my first Doctor Who episode. At the time these were coming out, the Sci Fi channel was airing them in the time slot just before Stargate SG1 and Atlantis. I'd catch bits and pieces of Doctor Who here and there as I was getting ready to watch my shows. It caught my interest enough that I decided to finally sit and watch a full episode, and it just happened to be this one. I was hooked! Once the season was over, I went back and got caught up on the revival series, and even watched a few classic episodes. I've been a fan ever since. I've been enjoying your reactions, and glad your liking the series!
When torrenting first started, I got to watch the classic episodes I grew up with. There was the first episode I actually remember bits of as a child and, although I didn't remember any of the previous adventure, it certainly explains the nightmares I had growing up!
Episodes like this remind you why Doctor Who is specifically known as a show to scare kids (sometimes) here in the UK. Even going back to the first appearance of the Daleks in the second story ever, which was known for making kids hide behind the sofa when it first aired.
I haven't read every comment, but quite a few, and have seen nobody mention this, so here are two cool bits of trivia: 1. In some scenes in this episode, the angels aren't moving, even though none of the characters are looking at them. That is, because they specifically ALSO don't move when the viewer is watching them. We are treated as part of the story in some fashion. 2.Steven Moffat, the writer of this episode, once came across a graveyard that had a statue of a crying angel with a sign "construction unsafe" (or similar) chained in front of it. Years later, when he walked past this place again, the sign and chains where still there, but the statue was gone. That's where he got the inspiration for the weeping angels.
The Doctor's "blink and you're dead" bit is an Easter Egg on the Series 3 DVD. So does that mean this was one of the 17 DVDs Sally owned? If so, she not only owns a tiny number by nerd standards, she hasn't even looked at them that closely... 😜
In theory, back in the 60s when the show was set, the TARDIS police box disguise was meant to be something that would blend in, just an ordinary thing off the street that no one would notice (then the Chameleon Circuit broke when they left and it got stuck that way), I've heard a story, don't know how true it is, that Verity Lambert was trying to decide what it'd look like and happened to spot a police box on a street corer from her window. In practice though, I think that that kind of Police Box was on it's way out by the time the show debuted (and the TARDIS was in a junkyard where it would be out of place anyway) indicating that, even before it was jammed, the circuit wasn't working all that well anyway. Also, for anyone interested, the TARDIS is specifically based on the Makenzie-Trench style of police box.
Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't... blink. Good luck.
This is what they call a "Doctor Light" episode. An episode that has very little of the Doctor and/or the companion. During the production of this, they were actually filming a different episode with the primary cast at the same time. This was done as a time saving measure. Another well-known one is the episode "Turn Left".
When the Angels send someone back in time, they become part of established events, they become a fixed point in time, something that always has to happen. So even once the Doctor has the Tardis, he can't just go back and prevent Billy and Kathy from being touched.
Stephen Moffat has said that, to write a good episode of Doctor Who, first you need an idea so good that it could be a movie in its own right. And with this episode, that's exactly what he did!
Because of this episode my daughter gets anxiety around statues. This is a well written episode, it had us all hoping that Sally Sparrow would be the next companion. Also, for the angels that weren't actors, some maintenance guys somewhere had to put them in a closet at the end of the day, and turn out the lights.
Obviously you are a bit more ahead than this episode but what a great time for this to drop just a couple of days before Halloween. Really creepy episode.
This is a great one for a total Who newbie. You don’t have to know anything about the doctor because you see him through Sally’s eyes. Writing direction, casting all came together. And there was a nod to the doctor who online forums of the 2000s with Larry and the guys. A big thing on the forums at that time was how the TARDIS windows were the wrong size. Steven Moffat wrote that bit as a wink to those discussions
Probably my favourite single episode in NuWho. Watched this as a child and can confirm that I still don't 100% trust statues nearly 20 years later. The fact that its not every statue, but any statue that could try to kill you.
Iconic episode and probably the best one where The Doctor hardly appears. Weeping Angels are top 3 DW monsters for me, other two being the OG Mondasian Cybermen (from the 1960s) and a monster introduced in Series 4
"if I had watched this when I was little this would make me scared of any statue" welcome to how Gen Z was raised 😂 terrified of gas masks, statues and plenty more 😂
Best timing for Halloween with this episode, Weeping Angel might be the most terrifying monster for Doctor Who. They give the Daleks a run for their money.
It kind of works that way. I know enough electronics to find "magic smoke" appropriate but my dad, who knew nothing, found it annoying. So I guess someone who understood time so well would have no problem with a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
This is one of the best episodes. It doesn't even have a ton of the Doctor. The story itself is just...really good. I know several people that are absolutely not DW fans that love this episode because of how creepy and imaginative it is. And Weeping Angels are absolutely TERRIFYING.
Just in time for Halloween! Not every statue, but any statue could be an Angel. The next step in Steven Moffat's quest to make everyone afraid of ordinary things. Also a really good story, but very timey-wimey.
One of the best and most iconic episodes of Doctor Who! Imagine being a child watching this and then at the end they're like hey every statue you've ever seen is evil.
Location report, the police station is the former National Westminster Bank on West Bute Street Butetown, Cardiff. The creepy house is in Newport - which is the next city to Cardiff.
My first few Doctor who episodes I did not see in order, but were the perfect first 2 to get me hooked. The Fires of Pompeii was the new(?) one running the night I saw it (random channel while wrapping gifts, dad threw on our sci-fi channel knowing I'd be entertained no matter what was on. Then Xmas day during a massive several-day long marathon of episodes, (dad asked me to entertain myself for a bit, he wanted to add a bit of a surprise to dinner) I flipped to sci-fi channel to be entertained for the hour and it was Blink. After dinner, I ran back to my room and binged whatever episodes were playing until the marathon ended XD
We've finally reached it - the intro to the Angels who Weep. 21:00 "I used to like those statues." There are two types of people - those who haven't seen Blink, and those who suspect every stone statue they encounter.
Amazing episode and reaction! A lot of people recommend this particular episode for new comers because you can follow it not knowing a single thing about the show! Also, the non consensual peek a boo bit was a classic Emme moment that made me laugh, so I appreciate this reaction even more because of that. I can't wait for what comes next!
Batman described time the same way as the Doctor in The Flash movie. The Doctor is everywhere. Oh and you can get that shirt. “ The Angels Have The Phone Box”..
One of my favorite episodes.... Love your reactions because they bring the episode back to life............. the same as when you hear a song and are transported back in time
One of the absolute greatest Who episodes ever - new and classic. A masterpiece on every level. Clever, a great script full of inventiveness, sadness, pathos, humour. Brilliantly cast (I mean, Carey Mulligan!) Just great. And what a run of stories this has been in the latter half of season 3
There are certain times that a show has an absolutely iconic episode that is so well done that it can epitimize the joy that fans have about the show and becomes The Episode every fan wants others to see. Blink was the episode for Dr. Who.
One amusing thing in filming this, they set up rain machines in West Bute Street for the rain scenes, and we had 3 days of real torrential rain! Making the rain machines redundant.
3:00 - Yes! The feline is back. It's always nice to see cats, they're so curious and cute. 5:38 - Hull is about 200 miles (≈ 320 km) north of London 21:06 - As someone who went through watching Blink while young (I was about 13 when I first saw it), I agree, it makes you scared of statues (It's what Steven Moffat does, finds relatively common objects and makes them creepy). I can never walk past a graveyard without checking that any Angel statues are still where they were last time I saw them. 22:03 - They're stuck looking at each other for as long as the room has light (e.g. until the light bulb burns out or until there's nobody paying the electricity bill for that house.). If the light stops shining then the angels won't be able to see each other and they'd be free. Add in that Weeping Angels have very long, possibly infinite, lifespans and Sally would need to ensure that people know about the Angels, keep paying the bill and keep changing the bulb every so often (I assume the first thing would be to add more light bulbs to the room so that one is on while another is changed) after she and Larry die. However an easy way to beat Weeping Angels is to lure them into a well lit Aquarium since fish physically can't blink (They don't have eyelids).
This episode never fails to make top ten lists, usually in the top five. And for damn good reason, as you now know. Great writing, a fantastic concept, and still makes top lists of Who episodes despite being super light on both Doctor and companion.
6:40 throughout this scene you can see the angels in the background moving position every time Sally passes over them and obscures the audiences view even though the camera or music don’t really draw attention to it. Nice little background detail
This episode is a masterpiece, but I’ll never get over how Steven Moffat came up with the idea for the Weeping Angels. He said in an interview that he was walking past a graveyard and saw a statue in the shape of an angel, he didn’t think much of it, but when he came walking back a few minutes or hours later (I can’t remember) THE STATUE WAS GONE!!! Happy Halloween emme 👻😼
This is one of, if not the most brilliantly written episodes of Dr. Who. The concept of being relocated in time only to die by living your life out while out of time, who thought that up. One thing that really makes this so great is how Sally (Carey Mulligan) is so very beautiful and hot. When Larry mentions the "egg people" on the net, he's referring to users that concentrate on Easter Eggs in videos that try to spot them and figure out their meanings.
One of the Very Best villians in all of Who. All you need is some paper mache, and several still shots, and its Even More Terrifying than the literal devil from the Satan Pit. Well over a decade since the episode first aired, and my mom still flinches if she sees angel statues in a museum.
Beyond being one of the best episodes, Blink also marks our next stop on the "Before they hit it big" guest stars of the Tennant Era (which is a veritable treasure trove of such actors) with Carey Mulligan.
Another double banking episode (filmed at the same time as another episode to keep to the production schedule) and a Doctor- and companion-lite episode.
The writer for this story was Steve Moffat he got the idea for this while on holiday him and his son walked pass a Church with a grave yard and they observed a statue and day later they went past again and the statue was in a different place.
Emme: "I kind of like these statues, though. I know Kathy said she wouldn't want it in her garden, but I kind of like the Weeping Angels." Me: "You're going to change your mind by the end of the episode." Later: Emme: "Creepy! I don't want those statues anymore." Me: "Called it!" This is probably my favorite Doctor Who episode of all time. The Weeping Angels are scary for two reasons. The whole "blink" thing is gimmicky, but in the best way possible. That alone is enough to make them terrifying. But what they do to you is so eerie and unsettling. It's not that they send you to another world; they send you to somewhere familiar but also very different. The worst part is that if you live long enough you might even catch up to your original time, but now it's no longer the world that's different; it's you. You've grown old. There's an underlying feeling of wrongness about the whole thing, and that's terrifying too. But the episode isn't content to just introduce some of the most iconic Doctor Who villains of all time. As if that wasn't enough to make the episode great, it also has that whole dialogue with the Doctor on the DVD. A great concept executed flawlessly. And as a cherry on top, I believe this is the first time the Doctor says one of his most memorable quotes ever: "wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff." I'm stunned that they can pack so much into one episode. (And yeah, I tried to keep from blinking the first time I watched it too. Everyone does it)
"Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck." First gas masks, then broken clocks and now stone statues. Thanks a lot Moffat, can't even look at them the same anymore. Definitely one of Doctor Who's best and scariest episode ever.
Seems like it lived up to the hype lol. Its among my top 10 but its hard to place is in there as well....no Doctor, but thats what makes it so good haha. As much as I love this episode, we getting ever closer to the finale. I have loved your reactions to my favorite show. and we are not very far into it yet ( the relaunch) so many episodes I can't wait to see you experience. For this episode its really cool and kinda annoying how one of the best episodes is Doctor-less.. They really made dimensional characters in this one episode. Its truly amazing. Also, Weeping Angels.....are anong top 5 material for creatures I am glad aren't real lol
This is one of the best episodes of *Doctor Who*, not only according to fans and because it is genuinely very good, but also because critics rated it highly, and it was nominated for several awards, including winning a BAFTA.
And of course, it has Carey Mulligan who has been nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars 3 times.
It's certainly one of my faves.
And the head writer of that episode went on to be the head writer in the Matt Smith Peter capaldi era
If I recall, they actually made a "The Angels Have the Phone Box" shirt in response to that episode.
My father has it!
thwy also have webbely wobbely shirt to or atleast they used to sell them
Sally was the best companion we never got.
Yes, its clear that Sally and Laurence were recast, renamed and emerged as Amy and Rory.
6:47 non consensual peek a boo.😆 Words I never thought of putting together!
Great episode for fans and newbies! Felt more like a Twilight Zone episode.
Good timing in watching this, with Halloween nearby.
It is impressive how an episode written specifically to save money (Doctor lite, no big guest stars, no big set pieces or tricky shooting locations, monsters that never even move on camera) ended up being on of the greatest of the show, when so many sci-fi mishaps happen because the creators relied budget over creativity. This episode is the opposite.
At a Doctor Who con, Moffett gave a running commentary on a screening of the episode. In the hospital scene, in particular, he mentioned Hettie McDonald, the director, and expressed appreciation for how she had used the lighting to make an inexpensive scene look so cinematic.
I think Midnight (no spoilers) also achieve something similar, although I still think not to the scale of Blink. Still a great episode with mostly one setting and very traumatic storyline
You’re saying Carey Mulligan wasn’t a big guest star?
@@n0body550 At the time, not especially. She was certainly recognisable to a British audience, but her profile wasn't quite as high
@@n0body550 She wasn't at the time. This episode was aired in 2007, pretty early in her career. She'd had a few interesting roles but none as a lead yet. In fact I don't think she was credited as a lead for Blink either, even though she really deserved to be. She got her first lead role two years later, in 2009.
Love how in some scenes the angels are statues even though a character wouldnt be looking at them, and its because WE the audience are observing them so they get locked
This. A bit of a spoiler…….
There is a moment I hate in a later episode where this breaks and I hated it.
@thedavidpearson Thats because this is purely a fan theory that was shown to be false.
@@cutthr0atjake except it's the only explanation to be made for why the angels are statues in some scenes when no character is looking at them
@luckypanda7707 ...or they have no reason to move.
@@cutthr0atjake except for the times we see one reaching out to touch Sally to send her through time or when they wouldn't have wanted her to take the key
I puzzled over "egg forums" for years, until it eventually dawned that what he meant was internet forums that discuss DVD easter eggs.
"Does that apply to all of these things?"
To paraphrase the Doctor - and Moffat - out of context, not every statue, but any statue.
I already hate myself for saying that.
If it helps, I kinda hate you for saying that too 🙂 🙃 😂😂😂❤
I hate you for saying it, but only because I was going to say it and you got to it first.
Don't blink, just run!
I use a similar line in work, "Work... The consentual prison sentence"
Brings a whole new meaning to "Hey! Who turned out the light?"
An outstanding episode with a great performance from Carey Mulligan in the leading role of this Doctor-lite installment. It came as no surprise to me that she broke into Hollywood a few years after this. They threw in some terrifying monsters and a dash of mystery and served up one of the finest ever episodes of the show.
Three time Oscar nominee for Best Actress - the first time just 3 years after this. She’ll get that gold statue one day.
2:00 "Who is Sally Sparrow?" The best companion the Doctor never had.
____ enters the chat.
Yep. 100%. Yep.
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@@flippstar09 She's four episodes ahead on Patreon so she's probably already watched it.
@@flippstar09 thanks. Edited.
The end is basically hinting that while not all statues are Angels any statue could potentially be an Angel.
Always remember this episode for name dropping my hometown Hull
Such a fantastic episode, still one of Steven Moffats best
This one terrified me as a kid
Mine too and I now live very close to the farm to which Kathy was transported. Which is nowhere near Hull but above Caerphilly, about 250 miles from Hull - as is Cardiff where most of the episode is shot.
Arguably the best doctor who episode at least the most recognizable
My favorite is The Family of Blood but yeah this one is my second favorite
I would go with one that takes a couple of years to show up but yeah blink is in the top 10 if not the top five.
In terms of the entire show, it probably wouldn't be in my top 5 but it might make it into my top 20.
I'd say (no particular order): heaven sent, world enough and time/doctor falls, midnight, blink, human nature/family of blood, dot and bubble, oxygen, the happiness patrol, dalek, the empty child/the doctor dances, pyramids of mars, city of death, caves of androzani, evil of the daleks, genesis of the daleks, seeds of doom, the curse of peladon, robots of death, Vincent and the doctor, Amy's choice.
In an interview, Moffat said he got the idea for the Weeping Angels from an angel statue he saw in a cemetery. It stuck with him because when he walked by the same spot a few days later the statue was gone.
You timed releasing this episode perfectly around Halloween
What’s crazier is that the Angels are actual actors in makeup 😮
I went to a sci-fi convention where a 5-year-old girl was dressed as a weeping angel. Her mom said it was all she wanted to go as. She posed for a cool picture in the grabby, snarly pose!
They actually made "the Angels have the phonebox" T-shirts.
I have one. 😁
yeah there were some really great fan designs that I saw as well that unfortunately I missed my chance to buy but you can see them in Google image results
Me too. It even has the “I’ve got that on a t-shirt” line on it too!
I just love the phrase "non-consensual peekaboo"...
This was my first Doctor Who episode. At the time these were coming out, the Sci Fi channel was airing them in the time slot just before Stargate SG1 and Atlantis. I'd catch bits and pieces of Doctor Who here and there as I was getting ready to watch my shows. It caught my interest enough that I decided to finally sit and watch a full episode, and it just happened to be this one. I was hooked! Once the season was over, I went back and got caught up on the revival series, and even watched a few classic episodes. I've been a fan ever since. I've been enjoying your reactions, and glad your liking the series!
Love Stargate
i see stargate i upvote
When torrenting first started, I got to watch the classic episodes I grew up with. There was the first episode I actually remember bits of as a child and, although I didn't remember any of the previous adventure, it certainly explains the nightmares I had growing up!
Episodes like this remind you why Doctor Who is specifically known as a show to scare kids (sometimes) here in the UK. Even going back to the first appearance of the Daleks in the second story ever, which was known for making kids hide behind the sofa when it first aired.
"You're not watching the angel!"
"Neither are you!"
Followed by screams from the friends we had watch it.
Angel statues are everywhere in big cities, watch them 👀
I also have "The Angels have the Phone Box" on a T-shirt. It is one of several Doctor Who shirts that I wear.
I haven't read every comment, but quite a few, and have seen nobody mention this, so here are two cool bits of trivia:
1. In some scenes in this episode, the angels aren't moving, even though none of the characters are looking at them. That is, because they specifically ALSO don't move when the viewer is watching them. We are treated as part of the story in some fashion.
2.Steven Moffat, the writer of this episode, once came across a graveyard that had a statue of a crying angel with a sign "construction unsafe" (or similar) chained in front of it. Years later, when he walked past this place again, the sign and chains where still there, but the statue was gone. That's where he got the inspiration for the weeping angels.
The Doctor's "blink and you're dead" bit is an Easter Egg on the Series 3 DVD. So does that mean this was one of the 17 DVDs Sally owned? If so, she not only owns a tiny number by nerd standards, she hasn't even looked at them that closely... 😜
Beat me to it. LOL
In theory, back in the 60s when the show was set, the TARDIS police box disguise was meant to be something that would blend in, just an ordinary thing off the street that no one would notice (then the Chameleon Circuit broke when they left and it got stuck that way), I've heard a story, don't know how true it is, that Verity Lambert was trying to decide what it'd look like and happened to spot a police box on a street corer from her window. In practice though, I think that that kind of Police Box was on it's way out by the time the show debuted (and the TARDIS was in a junkyard where it would be out of place anyway) indicating that, even before it was jammed, the circuit wasn't working all that well anyway.
Also, for anyone interested, the TARDIS is specifically based on the Makenzie-Trench style of police box.
One of the regular top ten episodes of Docwho
This was a great run of Who in its time, and still considered some of the best even today.
And remember, any statue can be a weeping angel…
Don't blink.
Don't even blink.
Blink and you're dead.
They are fast. Faster than you can believe.
Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't... blink.
Good luck.
Excellent quote - sums up the episode.
This is what they call a "Doctor Light" episode. An episode that has very little of the Doctor and/or the companion. During the production of this, they were actually filming a different episode with the primary cast at the same time. This was done as a time saving measure. Another well-known one is the episode "Turn Left".
When the Angels send someone back in time, they become part of established events, they become a fixed point in time, something that always has to happen. So even once the Doctor has the Tardis, he can't just go back and prevent Billy and Kathy from being touched.
Stephen Moffat has said that, to write a good episode of Doctor Who, first you need an idea so good that it could be a movie in its own right. And with this episode, that's exactly what he did!
Because of this episode my daughter gets anxiety around statues. This is a well written episode, it had us all hoping that Sally Sparrow would be the next companion. Also, for the angels that weren't actors, some maintenance guys somewhere had to put them in a closet at the end of the day, and turn out the lights.
Obviously you are a bit more ahead than this episode but what a great time for this to drop just a couple of days before Halloween. Really creepy episode.
This is a great one for a total Who newbie. You don’t have to know anything about the doctor because you see him through Sally’s eyes. Writing direction, casting all came together. And there was a nod to the doctor who online forums of the 2000s with Larry and the guys. A big thing on the forums at that time was how the TARDIS windows were the wrong size. Steven Moffat wrote that bit as a wink to those discussions
It took a long time after this episode to go passed a statue without having to check it wasn't a weeping angel (still sometimes do)
Probably my favourite single episode in NuWho. Watched this as a child and can confirm that I still don't 100% trust statues nearly 20 years later. The fact that its not every statue, but any statue that could try to kill you.
The end half of this season is sooo good, such a strong run of episodes from the Family of Blood 2-parter onwards 😊
just the perfect episode for halloween
This episode is so cleverly filmed, the Angels never move, as long as the camera is watching them, cos then someone (us) is watching them :D
Iconic episode and probably the best one where The Doctor hardly appears.
Weeping Angels are top 3 DW monsters for me, other two being the OG Mondasian Cybermen (from the 1960s) and a monster introduced in Series 4
One of the best episodes, such simple concept - yet it works so well :)
3:35 And I've just been watching the special edition of The Happiness Patrol.
"if I had watched this when I was little this would make me scared of any statue" welcome to how Gen Z was raised 😂 terrified of gas masks, statues and plenty more 😂
You're almost at my favourite Doctor Who Episode! Can't wait!!!
One of my favourite all time episodes of Doctor Who! Damn scary and well written !
Fun fact about the creepypasta vibes, this episode directly inspired the first ever SCP (which was essentially just an edgier version of this)
Best timing for Halloween with this episode, Weeping Angel might be the most terrifying monster for Doctor Who. They give the Daleks a run for their money.
It is really perfect that you got this video out just in time for Halloween.
not all statues but any statue; blink is scary
Don't blink; run, just run!!
Wibbly-wobbly. Timey-Whimey.
I don't know where he gets all that stuff. ;)
I was there for one of those weddings. Not the one to Marilyn, sorry. To someone else.
It was beautiful. I cried. :)
It kind of works that way. I know enough electronics to find "magic smoke" appropriate but my dad, who knew nothing, found it annoying. So I guess someone who understood time so well would have no problem with a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
And now you'll always be suspicious of statutes, for the rest of your life! Welcome to the club!
This is one of the best episodes. It doesn't even have a ton of the Doctor. The story itself is just...really good. I know several people that are absolutely not DW fans that love this episode because of how creepy and imaginative it is. And Weeping Angels are absolutely TERRIFYING.
Been having a bad day so stoked to see this upload! This episode is one of if not the most iconic dr who episode and for good reason
Just in time for Halloween! Not every statue, but any statue could be an Angel. The next step in Steven Moffat's quest to make everyone afraid of ordinary things. Also a really good story, but very timey-wimey.
17:16 "Now wait a minute -- _I_ want that on a T-shirt." There are several versions available online to choose from! 😆
In the opinion of many the greatest single ep of Dr Who ever. Anyone else think Sally Sparrow looks like Supergirl?
Pretty cool episode for a "doctor-less" episode
One of the best and most iconic episodes of Doctor Who! Imagine being a child watching this and then at the end they're like hey every statue you've ever seen is evil.
Location report, the police station is the former National Westminster Bank on West Bute Street Butetown, Cardiff. The creepy house is in Newport - which is the next city to Cardiff.
My first few Doctor who episodes I did not see in order, but were the perfect first 2 to get me hooked. The Fires of Pompeii was the new(?) one running the night I saw it (random channel while wrapping gifts, dad threw on our sci-fi channel knowing I'd be entertained no matter what was on. Then Xmas day during a massive several-day long marathon of episodes, (dad asked me to entertain myself for a bit, he wanted to add a bit of a surprise to dinner) I flipped to sci-fi channel to be entertained for the hour and it was Blink. After dinner, I ran back to my room and binged whatever episodes were playing until the marathon ended XD
"never considered what a police box was"...not only did the show tell you before, but you reacted and acknowledged it 😅😂
We've finally reached it - the intro to the Angels who Weep.
21:00 "I used to like those statues." There are two types of people - those who haven't seen Blink, and those who suspect every stone statue they encounter.
Remember the ending... not just STONE statues.
Amazing episode and reaction! A lot of people recommend this particular episode for new comers because you can follow it not knowing a single thing about the show!
Also, the non consensual peek a boo bit was a classic Emme moment that made me laugh, so I appreciate this reaction even more because of that. I can't wait for what comes next!
Batman described time the same way as the Doctor in The Flash movie. The Doctor is everywhere. Oh and you can get that shirt. “ The Angels Have The Phone Box”..
One of my favorite episodes.... Love your reactions because they bring the episode back to life............. the same as when you hear a song and are transported back in time
One of the absolute greatest Who episodes ever - new and classic. A masterpiece on every level. Clever, a great script full of inventiveness, sadness, pathos, humour. Brilliantly cast (I mean, Carey Mulligan!)
Just great. And what a run of stories this has been in the latter half of season 3
There are certain times that a show has an absolutely iconic episode that is so well done that it can epitimize the joy that fans have about the show and becomes The Episode every fan wants others to see. Blink was the episode for Dr. Who.
One amusing thing in filming this, they set up rain machines in West Bute Street for the rain scenes, and we had 3 days of real torrential rain! Making the rain machines redundant.
3:00 - Yes! The feline is back. It's always nice to see cats, they're so curious and cute.
5:38 - Hull is about 200 miles (≈ 320 km) north of London
21:06 - As someone who went through watching Blink while young (I was about 13 when I first saw it), I agree, it makes you scared of statues (It's what Steven Moffat does, finds relatively common objects and makes them creepy). I can never walk past a graveyard without checking that any Angel statues are still where they were last time I saw them.
22:03 - They're stuck looking at each other for as long as the room has light (e.g. until the light bulb burns out or until there's nobody paying the electricity bill for that house.). If the light stops shining then the angels won't be able to see each other and they'd be free. Add in that Weeping Angels have very long, possibly infinite, lifespans and Sally would need to ensure that people know about the Angels, keep paying the bill and keep changing the bulb every so often (I assume the first thing would be to add more light bulbs to the room so that one is on while another is changed) after she and Larry die.
However an easy way to beat Weeping Angels is to lure them into a well lit Aquarium since fish physically can't blink (They don't have eyelids).
"The egg forums" is just online forums about the easter eggs on the dvds.
I am pretty sure that this three story set (Human Nature, Family of Blood and Blink) is the best three-in-a-row in all of Who
I'd agree to this but I'd say that there is a best five in a row in a future series.
This episode never fails to make top ten lists, usually in the top five. And for damn good reason, as you now know. Great writing, a fantastic concept, and still makes top lists of Who episodes despite being super light on both Doctor and companion.
Very simple solution, close each eye in turn, keep left eye open, close right and vice versa, you're still looking AND blinking.
still hard to block the involuntary reflex.
And a nice selection of statues from around Queen Street and the Civic Centre in Cardiff.
It's not every statue, but it could be *any* statue...good luck
Fantastic reaction! My favourite of the season, and my 6th favourite episode overall.
Not every statue, but any statue!
The actress that plays Sally Sparrow, is in the movie Drive with Ryan Gosling.
6:40 throughout this scene you can see the angels in the background moving position every time Sally passes over them and obscures the audiences view even though the camera or music don’t really draw attention to it. Nice little background detail
Just in time for Halloween!
My favorite episode, it completely covers the whole idea of the Doctor.
So fitting that this is hitting YT right before Halloween.
the Weeping Angels remains the scariest thing ever for me. just the idea of it haunts me lol
"Non consensual peekaboo" I am screaming 😂
This along with 4x10 are the two scariest episodes imo, phenomenal stuff.
"I like the weeping angels." That will change
The best Doctor-lite episode! The last one you saw like this was Love And Mosters (with the Absorbaloff)
This episode is a masterpiece, but I’ll never get over how Steven Moffat came up with the idea for the Weeping Angels. He said in an interview that he was walking past a graveyard and saw a statue in the shape of an angel, he didn’t think much of it, but when he came walking back a few minutes or hours later (I can’t remember) THE STATUE WAS GONE!!!
Happy Halloween emme 👻😼
This is one of, if not the most brilliantly written episodes of Dr. Who. The concept of being relocated in time only to die by living your life out while out of time, who thought that up. One thing that really makes this so great is how Sally (Carey Mulligan) is so very beautiful and hot. When Larry mentions the "egg people" on the net, he's referring to users that concentrate on Easter Eggs in videos that try to spot them and figure out their meanings.
Hull, full name Kingston Upon Hull, is in the North East of England, about 190 miles north of London.
One of the Very Best villians in all of Who. All you need is some paper mache, and several still shots, and its Even More Terrifying than the literal devil from the Satan Pit.
Well over a decade since the episode first aired, and my mom still flinches if she sees angel statues in a museum.
"Non consensual peek-a-boo". I love it. ❤
Beyond being one of the best episodes, Blink also marks our next stop on the "Before they hit it big" guest stars of the Tennant Era (which is a veritable treasure trove of such actors) with Carey Mulligan.
Another double banking episode (filmed at the same time as another episode to keep to the production schedule) and a Doctor- and companion-lite episode.
The writer for this story was Steve Moffat he got the idea for this while on holiday him and his son walked pass a Church with a grave yard and they observed a statue and day later they went past again and the statue was in a different place.
Emme: "I kind of like these statues, though. I know Kathy said she wouldn't want it in her garden, but I kind of like the Weeping Angels."
Me: "You're going to change your mind by the end of the episode."
Later:
Emme: "Creepy! I don't want those statues anymore."
Me: "Called it!"
This is probably my favorite Doctor Who episode of all time. The Weeping Angels are scary for two reasons. The whole "blink" thing is gimmicky, but in the best way possible. That alone is enough to make them terrifying.
But what they do to you is so eerie and unsettling. It's not that they send you to another world; they send you to somewhere familiar but also very different. The worst part is that if you live long enough you might even catch up to your original time, but now it's no longer the world that's different; it's you. You've grown old. There's an underlying feeling of wrongness about the whole thing, and that's terrifying too.
But the episode isn't content to just introduce some of the most iconic Doctor Who villains of all time. As if that wasn't enough to make the episode great, it also has that whole dialogue with the Doctor on the DVD. A great concept executed flawlessly.
And as a cherry on top, I believe this is the first time the Doctor says one of his most memorable quotes ever: "wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff."
I'm stunned that they can pack so much into one episode.
(And yeah, I tried to keep from blinking the first time I watched it too. Everyone does it)
OK. Question: do downloadable movies on stream services have extra features, or is it Optical Media only?
"Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."
First gas masks, then broken clocks and now stone statues. Thanks a lot Moffat, can't even look at them the same anymore.
Definitely one of Doctor Who's best and scariest episode ever.
And yet, there is still another even more scary one to come. Just run.
Seems like it lived up to the hype lol. Its among my top 10 but its hard to place is in there as well....no Doctor, but thats what makes it so good haha.
As much as I love this episode, we getting ever closer to the finale.
I have loved your reactions to my favorite show. and we are not very far into it yet ( the relaunch)
so many episodes I can't wait to see you experience.
For this episode its really cool and kinda annoying how one of the best episodes is Doctor-less.. They really made dimensional characters in this one episode. Its truly amazing.
Also, Weeping Angels.....are anong top 5 material for creatures I am glad aren't real lol