[2][8] The actresses wore two distinct masks: one that was more docile looking, and one with fangs bared. [9] Moffat was very pleased with the results, and called them "fantastic". [30] Ross Ruedinger of Slant Magazine believed that the episode was not just the best Doctor Who episode, but also a great episode of the science fiction and horror genre that could allow it to stand alone. [21] The BBC Fact File for the episode notes that 1969—the year Martha, the Doctor and Billy are sent to—is the first year Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Initially, Obiora played the role with a London accent; Mahoney, however, has a Gambian accent, and so Obiora had to re-dub his lines to match. It was first broadcast on 9 June 2007 on BBC One. Larry gives Sally a list of the DVDs. And don't Blink". Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Blink [8] To create the rigid structure of the angels' dresses, prosthetics supervisors Rob Mayor soaked fabric in fibreglass resin, which was then painted over. Don't turn your back. "[40], Writer Steven Moffat was awarded the 2008 BAFTA Craft and BAFTA Cymru awards for Best Writer for his work on this episode. Good Luck." [26] It was re-released as part of the complete series three DVD on 5 November 2007. Use the HTML below. Club's Best TV Episodes of the 2000's. [4], Originally, the producers considered having Michael Obiora play both the young and old version of Billy Shipton. The episode was directed by Hettie MacDonald and is the only episode in the 2007 series written by Steven Moffat. "Blink" is the tenth episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Sparrow and her best friend's brother, Larry Nightingale (Finlay Robertson), must unravel a set of cryptic clues sent through time by the marooned Doctor, left in DVD Easter eggs. Unusual? Sally visits Kathy's brother Larry at work to tell him Kathy loves him. [51] They also returned in "The Angels Take Manhattan" from the show's seventh series ,[52][53] featured in the mini-episode, "Good as Gold", written by children for a Blue Peter contest[54] and have made cameo appearances in the episodes "The God Complex", "The Time of the Doctor", "Hell Bent" and in the finale to the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off, Class. [8] Murray Gold, the composer for the series, later compared the creatures to the moving ghostly topiary animals in Stephen King's 1977 horror novel The Shining. [9] The practice began with the 2006 entry "Love & Monsters", and continued for episodes such as "Turn Left", "Midnight",[14] and "The Girl Who Waited". Monsters. [8][19] The house was already abandoned and falling into disrepair when the filming crews arrived. "Don't Blink. But Sally is in 2007, and they won't meet until 2008. These cryptic messages left on 17 DVD's leave Sally Sparrow on a journey to assist the Doctor and Martha Jones, who are trapped in 1969. Ever. But Sally is in 2007, and they won't meet until 2008. Don't look away. These cryptic messages left on 17 DVD's leave Sally Sparrow on a journey to assist the Doctor and Martha Jones, who are trapped in 1969. "Blink" received widespread critical acclaim, and is widely considered to be one of the best dramatic episodes of the show. [3], "Blink" was written by Steven Moffat. [9] British actress Carey Mulligan was chosen to play Sally Sparrow; Mulligan was reportedly ecstatic to have been cast in the series. Larry explains that he has been documenting an "Easter egg" in seventeen different DVDs containing a video message of a man having half of a conversation with the viewer. aired. In the episode, the Tenth Doctor—a time travelling alien played by David Tennant—is trapped in 1969 and tries to communicate with a young woman in 2007, Sally Sparrow (Carey Mulligan), to prevent the statue-like Weeping Angels from taking control of the TARDIS. The Weeping Angels standing around the TARDIS get tricked into looking at each other and are permanently frozen. As expected by Moffat and Gold,[9] this led online retailers such as ThinkGeek,[57] and Zazzle,[58] among others, to offer versions of such a product for sale. He also praised the fear-inducing concept of the Weeping Angels as well the "tenderness of the story and the characters" which were "quite intricate given how much is going on in these 45 minutes". Doctor Who Promo: Episode 6.10 "The Girl Who Waited", The A.V. Larry inserts a now-glowing DVD, which also functions as a control disk, in the console's DVD player. [6] Moffat was also inspired to write the episode based on the popular children's game Statues,[7] which he always found "frightening". Not if you are the Doctor. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. "Don't Blink. Don't turn your back. There's always something of the nursery about horror....Adults never quite grow out of their childhood fears. [41][42] "Blink" won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form,[43] and Carey Mulligan received the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode. [49] In Doctor Who Magazine's 2014 fan poll of the greatest episodes of all time, "Blink" again came in second, this time behind the 2013 episode "The Day of the Doctor". [36] The Weeping Angels came in at number three in Neil Gaiman's "Top Ten New Classic Monsters" in Entertainment Weekly,[37] while TV Squad named them the third scariest television characters. The Guardian's Stephen Brook called it a "wonderfully creepy episode" that "ultimately made sense" despite "barely featur[ing] the Doctor and Martha". [4] In its initial broadcast, a short clip of a card reading "One Year Later" was shown before the episode's denouement. Looking for something to watch? [9] Gold called the sequences "the heart of the Chinese puzzle". [12] This allowed two episodes to be filmed simultaneously,[1][3][13] a process known as "double banking". And don't Blink. [8], Location shooting for scenes set at the Police Station Garage took place at the Coal Exchange and Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay on 21 November 2006. Strange? IGN's Matt Wales named it the sixth best episode of Tennant's tenure,[33] while Sam McPherson of TVOvermind listed it as the second best Tenth Doctor episode. [47] In a 2007 poll conducted by the BBC, taking votes from 2,000 readers of the Doctor Who Adventures magazine, the Weeping Angels were voted the scariest monsters of 2007 with 55% of the vote; the Master and the Daleks took second and third place with 15% and 4% of the vote. [20] Larry describes the residence as "Scooby-Doo's house", a reference to the dilapidated mansions that the Scooby-Doo gang would usually visit. Add the first question. [48] In a 2012 poll of over ten thousand respondents conducted by the Radio Times, the Weeping Angels were again voted the best Doctor Who monster with 49.4% of the vote. The ship returns to the Doctor, while leaving Sally and Larry behind. [34] In 2011, before the second half of the sixth series, The Huffington Post labelled "Blink" as one of the five essential episodes for new viewers to watch. In 2004, when the first photographs of the new series' TARDIS prop were revealed, there was a vigorous discussion of the box's dimensions on the Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who discussion forum, in which some fans complained that the prop's windows were too big. Kathy is sent back in time to 1920 by a Weeping Angel statue. "Don't Blink. Strange? [8] The scene wherein the Doctor talks to Sally via a DVD extra was created by writing a conversation, removing Sally's lines, then having David Tennant record his lines. [59][60][61] The line was also referenced in the first episode of the fifth series, "The Eleventh Hour", when the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) scans the crack in young Amelia Pond's (Caitlin Blackwood) wall with his sonic screwdriver. The Doctor explains that aliens called Weeping Angels turn to stone statues when any living creature observes them. These cryptic messages left on 17 DVD's leave Sally Sparrow on a journey to assist the Doctor and Martha Jones, who are trapped in 1969. [24] It received an Appreciation Index of 87, considered "excellent". "What I Did" includes several elements that are reused in "Blink", including messages under the wallpaper and an ontological paradox involving a conversation between Sally and the Doctor, prerecorded on a video cassette, based on a written transcript—the essay itself; however, instead of the Weeping Angels, "What I Did" features the Doctor and the TARDIS inadvertently separated twenty years in time by a fault in the time machine, and the Doctor is able to instruct Sally how to bring it back to him in the past.
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