Don’t Blink

Doctor Who – Blink

[usual spoiler warning]

An episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor hardly appears – how odd (see last year’s Love and Monsters for a similar thing)

Despite this, the episode was hugely enjoyable and very scary. The story concerned Sally Sparrow who kept discovering messages from the Doctor, as she was the only person who could rescue him and Martha. They, and several other people had been transported back in time by the Weeping Angels. These appear to be statues which can move, but only when no one’s looking at them. It’s a bit like the childhood game of grandmother’s footsteps – with the Angels creeping up behind their ‘victim’ until the person turns around. This was a highly frightening concept for me as an adult, let alone the children who would be watching.

There were some lovely moments for the adults and fans – when the detective is explaining to Sally what a police box is he comments that the Doctor’s TARDIS is a replica because “the windows are the wrong size”. And Sally takes the hint from the bloke watching and shouting at a film in the video shop how says “go to the police! Why do they never go to the police”. And then there was the comment made by the obsessive geek about having a certain line from the DVD Easter Eggs on a t-shirt – perhaps the writer, Steven Moffat, was commenting on the t-shirts whhich someone made after his first Doctor Who story with ‘Are you my mummy?’ on them??