[27], "Blink" received universal critical acclaim, with many praising the acting, the script, the level of fear and the Weeping Angels themselves. And don't Blink. [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. But Sally is in 2007, and they won't meet until 2008. [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. [9] Billy mentions that the windows of the TARDIS are the wrong size for a real police box. "Don't Blink. [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. There's always something of the nursery about horror....Adults never quite grow out of their childhood fears. However, after withdrawing from the writing of series three's first two-part story—Helen Raynor took over these episodes, writing "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks"—Moffat volunteered to write the series' Doctor-lite episode and opted to use the Weeping Angels in what would become "Blink". [26] It was re-released as part of the complete series three DVD on 5 November 2007. The ship returns to the Doctor, while leaving Sally and Larry behind. [55], A line spoken by the Doctor, "The angels have the phone box",[56] is rhetorically repeated by Larry and prompts him to say "I've got that on a T-shirt". And, oh yes, "Don't turn your back. [25], A Region 2 DVD containing "Blink" together with the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" was released on 23 July 2007. [8] Mulligan later called the effects "so good" and "really creepy". The episode was directed by Hettie MacDonald and is the only episode in the 2007 series written by Steven Moffat. Title: [4], Originally, the producers considered having Michael Obiora play both the young and old version of Billy Shipton. Good Luck." 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. 94 of 100 people found this review helpful. [9] Moffat was very pleased with the results, and called them "fantastic". [38] They were also rated the third "baddie" in Doctor Who by The Daily Telegraph, behind the Nestene Consciousness and Daleks. Not if you are the Doctor. Both the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones, played by Freema Agyeman, have very little screen time in this episode, which allowed for another episode to be filmed simultaneously; "Blink" is consequently sometimes referred to by fans as a "Doctor-lite" episode. Moffat won the BAFTA Craft and BAFTA Cymru awards for Best Writer, and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; while for her single performance in the series, Mulligan won the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode. [15] Moffat stated that he felt relaxed when he was writing the script for "Blink", for if it proved to be unpopular, he could blame the "Doctor-lite" structure of the episode. She was initially concerned with the fact that Tennant would have little screen time, but after the episode aired was very pleased with the final result. "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. [8] To create the rigid structure of the angels' dresses, prosthetics supervisors Rob Mayor soaked fabric in fibreglass resin, which was then painted over. They've all just been blown out of the water.Moffatt had written probably the best episodes from the previous two series of the re-incarnated Doctor in "Girl In The Fireplace" and the scary "Empty Child", so I had great hopes of "Blink" when I saw he was the writer. [12] In Doctor Who Magazine's 2009 poll to find the greatest Doctor Who story ever, it came in second place after Peter Davison's final story, The Caves of Androzani. Prime Video has your Halloween movie picks covered.

Use the HTML below. [62] BBC America created a series of four specials prior to the seventh series premiere of Doctor Who, including one entitled "The Timey-Wimey Stuff of Doctor Who". The episode was seen by 6.62 million viewers in the United Kingdom.
And don't Blink. Add the first question. Don't look away. He fears they are seeking the vast reserves of time energy in the police box, which is his time machine the TARDIS. [4] The episode was the seventh most watched episode on BBC One for the week ending 10 June and was the lowest-rated episode of Doctor Who's third series. [16] Due to the show's tight schedule, "Blink" had only one script meeting.

It follows the "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" story arc, which was adapted by Paul Cornell from his 1995 novel Human Nature;[10] and "Dalek", which used the basic premise as well as several scenes and lines of dialogue adapted by Robert Shearman from his 2003 audio drama Jubilee.