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HHH I don't think this follows OFCOM guidelines for a sponsored video. You might want to check section 9 of TV, radio and On-demand for rules on advertising. You can be fined if you break these guidelines in the UK
YES! Sally is what current DW should be portraying the Doctor as. And, it'd make more sense if it WAS Sally when you consider that the Doctor seems to choose faces from his past to regenerate into (think Peter Capaldi in The Fires of Pompei). OMG imagine if they revealed that Sally was a Future Doctor keeping a low profile!
@@bethtargett9451 i dont think the portrayal of the doctor is that bad at the minute, the idea of having a more chaotic child like doctor, its the little things that make her portrayal alright, stuff like the way certain sounds are said. also, demons of the punjab's love speech... top notch! but it aint cool how theyre basically name dropping random celebrities every episode for no reason. lets hope season 12 is gonna not be as rushed as season 11 eh?
stanley boy No she wasn't. The companion of Series 4 was going to be a woman called Penny until Russell decided to bring Catherine Tate back instead. Carey Mulligan is also an Oscar winning actress so would have been way too busy to be a companion. She has said many times she would come back if asked.
@@justsomerandomguyonline1144 It really isn't, mate. Moffat had a lot of flaws, but for the most part he knew how to tell a story, he was a storyteller. Chibnall isn't, he fails at the most basic forms of storytelling and has turned Dr. Who into a shitty evening soap opera.
One thing I always liked about this episode is that the angels were stone when both the characters and the audience saw them, making the story even more engaging.
@ThrustyWuss UnderBoob yeah, the "walk like you can see" is pretty bad too. The whole point of Blink is that they know when you can see them and when you can't. Plus, at the end of Blink Sally gave him a picture of an Angel, but that episode introduces the image of an Angel becomes an Angel. Unless that picture explains how they are also in the past without the TARDIS...but then how does the doctor not know? It just makes too many plot holes. Not to mention the fact, the editing of episodes can totally ruin what is said in an episode. Amy can't open her eyes for more than a second, but then is looking at the crack in the wall for like a good 15 to 30 seconds.
My problem with the moving Angels in Series 5 is mostly just the fact that they didn't turn into aliens, they were just literal moving statues. They did move in a creepy way tho
Billy saying _"I have until the rain stops"_ and Sally staying with him the whole time just really broke my heart. Such a beautiful and incredibly sad moment.
We had a statue in the garden when i watched this (when i was 8), my mum had moved it during the day before i watched this as she was doing some gardening. I looked out of my bedroom window into the garden before i was going to bed after watching this and saw the statue in a different place, suffice to say i was absolutely terrified XD
The sad thing is: him gushing over ANY Dr Who episode is so rare. And to be fair, I can only think of a handful of Dr Who episodes that I LOVE. My ONLY knock on this episode is that the Dr wasn’t in it enough; but that’s such a small bit pick. And for a Dr Lite episode: it’s flawless.
It’s pretty weird how scary it is seeing as the weeping angels give the most painless deaths. Other villains kill directly but these ones just send them back and still let them live their lives
darkmafia666 No, they live off of Time energy. That is their food. Snapping of necks was a failed attempt to make them more scary. All it did was ruin the great monsters
darkmafia666 no they only snapped their necks because they were feeding on the time energy from the crack in the time, meaning that snapping their necks was a risk free way of killing them.
I knew this episode so well when I was a kid, when I rewatched it at 20odd years old I spotted that for the first time and I was terrified all over again 😂
I noticed the one on the left, but I didn't notice the one at the back until someone commented on it on another review, then I went back and had another look. I never noticed the clock jump at all.
For me the thing that gave me the most nightmares were the dolls from the episode “night terrors” from 11s run, still can’t watch that episode to this day, too much for me
What Moffat eventually did to the Angels really does a number on the Angels. They just became another Doctor Who adversary, not too different from the rest. Such a shame really.
Moffat's absolutely excellent when working on single self-contained episodes, hence having some good works like Blink and The Empty Child. When he's a showrunner and tries to make more longform stories however, he suuuuuuuucks!
@@LukasOfTheLight If you look back at forums from 2008 people were literally crying for Russel T Davies to leave the show because they thought he was terrible. They were wanting moffat. People always have to complain.
@@drd444 Oh yes, how I remember that. "Moffat gonna save it, he is so good!" and all that. Back then I found it ungrateful on RTD since he did revive Doctor Who, not Moffat. And I will take any RTD season finally above anything afterwards. Compared to stuff like Army of Ghosts/Doomsday or Stolen Earth/End of Journey they can all go cry in a corner, because they ALL suck. As much as I am fine with Matt Smith as a doctor, the writing for him was poor. And the less said about current Who the better.
This episode truly terrified me. My brother and I didn’t sleep that night - and it wasn’t just because of the jumpscare where you see the fangs for the first time (although that’s a jumpscare done RIGHT), it was because of the huge amount of unnerving build up right until that reveal. This episode of Doctor Who is unique because it’s the only one that feels like an episode of very well made Sci Fi Horror. Many horror films can and should notes from this episode on how to deliver a true scary experience. Of course Moffat had to somewhat ruin them by showing them move and milking them.
JustSomeRandomGuy Online dude stop being a troll; you are literally the only one who hates this episode; it’s virtually praised still today; I checked to verify :)
JustSomeRandomGuy Online so I guess everyone save like a couple thousand people is a Moffat fanboy; it’s recommended by all the websites and critics as one of the best to this day, and I looked it up; check every critic and you’ll see that both Blink and Heaven Sent were universally acclaimed. If you criticize it don’t say Moffat is terrible or it sucks, say your opinion, which you are free to have, but don’t act like it’s gospel. Also don’t go around saying it was her regret and that many people dislike it, because that is false I’m literally every way. One or two people agreeing with you on TH-cam is not many people
Interesting little fact: On the dvd versions of this episode, if you go to the chapter selection and find the scene with the doctor on the DVD player, press up and select the title and you get an easter egg which is just that monologue of the Doctor.
That's because it's based off of the fear of the unknown, you don't see what's causing the people to act this way nor do you fully understand why it's doing this. The angels are scary but after a while you get used to seeing them.
Really, the fact that the Doctor isn't there in person to assist really is a stroke of genius. It feels lonely and foreboding knowing that, this time, the protagonists don't have the usual super smart Time Lord running around to help out. It's up to them, and that's terrifying.
I remember being terrified of statues after this episode, especially at the end when they were showing different statues cause like 3 of the ones they showed were ones that are in the city centre of where I live
There is one major flaw for me with blink that no one else brings up. The weeping angels are infinitely more terrifying to me when they just have standard angelic faces rather than the "Spoopy Scary Demony Faces" that they give them at the end. When I see the blank, emotionless statue, I can put all my imagination into "what do they look like when we can't see them?" It's the perfect setup for a monster that can be on screen constantly, but that we're never able to see. All that unknown horror goes out the window when I see a statue with goofy fangs.
I was 7 when this came out and I was genuinely traumatised, I didn’t sleep for weeks, the only modern episode that deserves the hiding-behind-the-sofa name
Can we just appreciate the order the episode happens in. We didn't see this happen to The Doctor, the whole episode is how The Doctor gets out of this situation, but ends by implying how it happened Like, from The Doctor's perspective this episode happened back to front. GENIUS.
MetaBrownie no it isn’t it’s an appalling episode with terrible acting and terrible writing and is absolutely pointless in the series 3 story arch you can skip it and it wouldn’t make a difference
JustSomeRandomGuy Online only an idiot would hate on something and the spend the entirety of their short time in a basement constantly scrounging for videos that give it the slightest bit of praise in order to get over the fact they don’t have anything better to do.
i don’t like that the idea of the angel crawling inside amy’s eyes did not occur when Larry stared into an angel’s eyes but other than that this is my favourite episode of all time
Conversely I don't like the idea of Angels reproducing by the images of themselves and that they can gain sentience through the reflection in one's eyes. It's retroactively added to the powers of an Angel when we really did not need to know more about the Angels. They were scary the way they are in Blink.
16:35 I never noticed that picture she has of the angel before, shame we never revisited Sally as given "that which holds the image of an angel becomes an angel" we could have had an interesting direct blink sequel Shame they became another second rate villain in the end (imo)
Moffat really specialises in writing sole stories/two parters. He's really good at sowing seeds of potential in his stories without them being straight sequel bait.
6:49.There is also a slight movement from the weeping angel that sally takes the tardis key from, when she first goes upstairs, it has it's right hand over its face but when she looks at the other two behind her, it has its arm over its eyes and its hand is on the left shoulder.
The only cuestionable part of the Episode seems to be Billy remembering a girl that he just met after years, or maybe was because of the fear of the angels and he wanting to help the girl and others. Either way is emotions over logic.
First of all, he HAD to remember Sally because he spent his entire career carefully leaving messages for her. Second -- as an old person, I can tell you that you do vividly remember people who were only in your life for brief moments if you reminisce about them, which Billy was forced to do.
The thing that really brings the fear to life is the shots of statues with the doctors speech right at the end - that and the fact the camera acts like our eyes makes the whole thing chilling
I will admit Blink is one of the Greatest Doctor Who episodes of all time, but I don't think it's "The" Best. I think it just mainly stems from how often it gets recommend to people who want to get into the show, and while it does a great job as an episode, I think it's enjoyed best by people who've watched it up to that point.
OmegaChance27 this is true. As someone who’s watched the revival from the start Blink is amazing, however the best introduction to doctor who is, well...the doctor. Without the previous few seasons to explain who he is and what he does, it’s wasted on new viewers as to how he can arrange for these notes and DVDs to be left and how he can understand time as he does in this episode. Not to mention his understanding of the angels compared to everyone else in the episode. Without the previous episodes to establish how “brilliant” this man is what’s the point?
At the risk of sounding like an internet tough guy, the Weeping Angels didn't scare me as a child. Neither did the Vashta Nerada. But I did get scared by that dumb girl's messed up face in the simulated reality from the Vashta Nerada episode and the diseased clones from the episode where Cassandra dies. I was a weird kid.
BEST. EPISODE. EVER! I'm surprised you didn't notice that whenever the characters weren't looking at the angels while they were on screen, the camera was. In other words, we, the viewers were preventing them from moving any further in each scene they were in. Pure genius!
I dont think that was intentionally meta and to be honest thats always bothered me, i think they should have just framed it so that at any given point a character wasnt looking at them they were looking at each other instead, if the idea is that we as the audience are turning them to stone i think thats a bit silly
I haven’t watched Doctor Who for a very very long time, and I cannot remember much of what happens in the plot. Despite that, I remember everything about this one short story, it’s burrowed into my memory, and years later I am still terrified of this episode. I literally do not remember anything else that happened during this season.
Ya know what’s scary? I had just watched the blink episode and then the next day I had to go into work, (restoration) and I was at this house that had a lot of statues in it..... to say I was nervous/jumpy is an understatement.
Really loved the fact you touched upon the amazing attention to detail of the filmmaking during the scene where Sally gets the key off the angels in the beginning. It should be noted that there is a very subtle use of pretty meta subjective camera perspective as the perspective is not from a character but the audience, which is why the angels don't move in the background when Sally turns her back to grab the key of the angel in the foreground. It gives me chills!
Blink is still that episode of TV that still terrifies the daylights out of me even though I know what's going to happen. Everything just works here - the brilliant protagonists, the side characters, the Doctor and Companion not being there at all, the music, the camera work, the lighting, the Angles themselves...just all wow. Even the memory of this episode makes me double-check every statue to this day just to be sure. The only other episodes that make me feel as scared as Blink does are the Library episodes in Series 4.
when i was a kid and first watched this i always assumed the angles are from old who they felt so fleshed out and iconic but years later when im a teenager i find out that they were made for that episode was crazy to me
I loved that, while verbally they insinuated that the angels stay trapped there forever, fact is that at some point after Sally gives the Doctor the documents, he will get zapped into the past by the angel that got Billy, implying that something (perhaps even the Doctor on this very trip) will actually end up releasing the angels to roam free again.
This was the first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw. I've never looked back. I also show it to my students on Halloween. I love hearing children scream in terror.
i have an idea about the weeping angels trapped staring at each other. what if the person who buys the dilapitated mansion,finds the weeping angels, think it weird 4 creepy statues would be in a circle, has them removed. once they are not looking at each other, they just need someone to blink and theyre gone. your thoughts?
Watched this right before bed. I don't think I'm going to have a great night's sleep tonight... And I'm 22. This sure does bring back some childhood fear
The device that goes ding sounds just like something out of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, it's amazing how much influence Douglas Adams still has in spite of his death.
You forgot to mention when sally goes back into the police station after remembering she has the key... The music, the acting everything was perfect, so much so that I was almost yelling at the tv for sally not to go back inside when I watched it for the first time all those years ago
This was honestly the only Doctor Who episode I've seen that genuinely terrified me. Most good episodes just fall into the categories of either exciting or thought-provoking but this is the only one that I think is actually just plain *scary* to the point where I often feel uncomfortable at the thought of rewatching it because it was just that good at scaring me the first time. That montage of the actual statues at the end especially, I can remember that giving 12-year-old me nightmares for days afterwards. Even clicking on this review made me feel nervous...
5:45 I did not see the "clock jolt ever so slightly" even with the slow motion close-up, and even if it did may have been caused by the slammed door, either way it's most likely an accident and not the masterpiece of storytelling he's assuming it to be.
OK, I see now he was referring to the camera although I'm still not sure it wasn't accidental, but even if they deliberately dropped a frame or two to introduce that apparent movement then that technique failed because it's still only barely perceptible even in a slow-motion close-up, so the vast majority of the audience would've missed it even on a subconscious level.
JustSomeRandomGuy Online so virtually every doctor who fan isn’t a fan? Just shut up; this episode was critically acclaimed and still one of the most-loved episodes
When that lightbulb blows out there'll be 4 freed angels on the loose. Also if you take the angel 2 parter in S5 as cannon then the photos they have at the end will turn into angels
This episode is almost perfect. There are only 3 problems I have with this story: 1). It feels kind of selfish from the Doctor’s part that despite too being sent back in time like Billy, when he gets the TARDIS back, he doesn’t take Billy with him so that Billy can deliver the message and put the easter eggs on the DVDs. Surely the Doctor could have put the messages on the DVDs after escaping 1969. It feels like Billy is being used by the Doctor. 2). Surely, the message of “look at the list” could have been delivered in a number of other ways instead of sacrificing Billy’s life. Why not on the wall at the house or a letter to Sally. In fact she already had the list so she was bound to read it anyway so why sacrifice Billy? 3). What happens to the Angels after Sally and Larry leave the house? Yes they are looking at each other so they can’t move but they in a cellar of an abandoned house. The only light in that room is that one bulb (which shouldn’t even be on. What, do the Angels have trouble seeing in the dark) and when it does go out, which it will eventually, won’t they escape? Does the Doctor load them up in the TARDIS and then kick them into a black hole?
MetaPlanet 1). That is only supposing that all that stuff happened in 1969 to Billy and I find that highly doubtful and it’s not like the Doctor was going to take him if he didn’t meet anyone (and once again that is only supposing that it happens that quickly, which I doubt) as he openly says that he’s going to have to stay when they first meet. If all the stuff meeting Sally No. 2 and falling in love happened immediately in 1969 then the episode should have showed it through old Billy telling Sally so that is still a fault with the episode. 2). Yes, at that point in the episode, the list would have meant nothing to Sally but that still doesn’t mean that the Doctor couldn’t have found another way of telling Sally to look at the list and explain it through other means (like the message on the wall in the house or a letter to her through the post) 3). When the Weeping Angels are observed they turn to stone but that doesn’t mean they die. It only means they can not move. They don’t die. So surly the moment the light goes out and they can’t see each other, they should be able to move again and there is no evidence that the Angels can see each other in the dark.
WHAT I DIDN'T GET: - How did the Angels have the TARDIS key when Sally was at Wester Drumlins (after Kathy was zapped away)? - Why didn't the Angels open the TARDIS themselves? Aren't they able to do that? - When did the Doctor write that 'Duck'-message for Sally on the wall? - How did the Doctor let an Angel touch him? That happened after Sally gave him the information and the transcript, so he should have known about them. Did he not read it until he was in 1969? Or did he let himself being touched just for the sake of not creating numerous paradoxons? - That's how time travel by Angelsᵀᴹ works (explained by the Doctor): "Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and make you live to death. The rest of your life, used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had. All your stolen moments. They're creatures of the abstract, they live off potential energy." They feast off your 'leftover' energy. But doesn't it need energy to transport you back in time? Doesn't a life in the past require at least as much energy as your normal life in the time you were born in? You weren't born in the past. You're not supposed to be there. There is no space for you. It has to be created first. Hasn't it??? Where does that energy come from? Do the Angels steal it from somewhere else? Aren't those energy deficits a threat to the fabric of time?
You have now become my favorite reviewer. I could not agree more with your assessment and I appreciate so much the work and details you added into the story that I did not know or had not noticed. Now I do need to go since I have no choice but to immediately rewatch this stunning episode!
The musical instrument is a bassoon but played at the higher end of it's register. This puts the listener on edge but not really knowing why, Stravinsky does it beautifully in the opening of The Rite of Spring.
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Chew This. Raid sponsorships are big bucks, and as irritating as they are, if I was offered thousands of dollars just to read their shitty script, I’d do it, and just advise people off the record to skip the ads. The money is worth, even if the ads are monotonous.
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Raid may be free but its more like free garbage
Harry's Haunted House no
Sally Sparrow is a female protagonist in Doctor Who done right.
YES! Sally is what current DW should be portraying the Doctor as. And, it'd make more sense if it WAS Sally when you consider that the Doctor seems to choose faces from his past to regenerate into (think Peter Capaldi in The Fires of Pompei).
OMG imagine if they revealed that Sally was a Future Doctor keeping a low profile!
She was supposed to be the companion for Season 4 but the actress didn’t want to do it for some strange reason. At least we got Donna.
@@bethtargett9451 i dont think the portrayal of the doctor is that bad at the minute, the idea of having a more chaotic child like doctor, its the little things that make her portrayal alright, stuff like the way certain sounds are said. also, demons of the punjab's love speech... top notch!
but it aint cool how theyre basically name dropping random celebrities every episode for no reason. lets hope season 12 is gonna not be as rushed as season 11 eh?
stanley boy No she wasn't. The companion of Series 4 was going to be a woman called Penny until Russell decided to bring Catherine Tate back instead. Carey Mulligan is also an Oscar winning actress so would have been way too busy to be a companion. She has said many times she would come back if asked.
@@rollingon5566 I rewatched that love speech on the DW channel. It is so so so cringey! I guess we all like different things, but still.....
This episode caused fans to lose sleep. Now the only thing that causes fans to lose sleep is the writing of the newer series
Lose sleep? I gain so much more sleep when watching those episodes.
The current Series is much better than this dreadful episode
@@justsomerandomguyonline1144, haha not you again. Don't tell me. You prefer Chibnall's one series to all of Moffat's era?
Happy Industries it is. It’s not the quality of The RTD Era but it’s better than the Moffat era
@@justsomerandomguyonline1144 It really isn't, mate. Moffat had a lot of flaws, but for the most part he knew how to tell a story, he was a storyteller. Chibnall isn't, he fails at the most basic forms of storytelling and has turned Dr. Who into a shitty evening soap opera.
One thing I always liked about this episode is that the angels were stone when both the characters and the audience saw them, making the story even more engaging.
@ThrustyWuss UnderBoob yeah, the "walk like you can see" is pretty bad too. The whole point of Blink is that they know when you can see them and when you can't. Plus, at the end of Blink Sally gave him a picture of an Angel, but that episode introduces the image of an Angel becomes an Angel. Unless that picture explains how they are also in the past without the TARDIS...but then how does the doctor not know? It just makes too many plot holes. Not to mention the fact, the editing of episodes can totally ruin what is said in an episode. Amy can't open her eyes for more than a second, but then is looking at the crack in the wall for like a good 15 to 30 seconds.
My problem with the moving Angels in Series 5 is mostly just the fact that they didn't turn into aliens, they were just literal moving statues. They did move in a creepy way tho
Wilo Polis yea I always thought the stone angle state was separate from the state they moved in hence there crazy speed
Billy saying _"I have until the rain stops"_ and Sally staying with him the whole time just really broke my heart. Such a beautiful and incredibly sad moment.
We had a statue in the garden when i watched this (when i was 8), my mum had moved it during the day before i watched this as she was doing some gardening. I looked out of my bedroom window into the garden before i was going to bed after watching this and saw the statue in a different place, suffice to say i was absolutely terrified XD
Anyone else becoming a proffessional at skipping RAID SHADOW LEGENDS ads?
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@@maxthommesen9315 ive got a couple friends who play it. Apparently its pretty good, but the ads are pretty misleading about the actual gameplay
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7 taps every time
18 minutes of Harry gushing over this episode
Plus a Raid Shadow Legends sponsor
Can’t blame him. It’s perfection
The sad thing is: him gushing over ANY Dr Who episode is so rare. And to be fair, I can only think of a handful of Dr Who episodes that I LOVE.
My ONLY knock on this episode is that the Dr wasn’t in it enough; but that’s such a small bit pick. And for a Dr Lite episode: it’s flawless.
It’s pretty weird how scary it is seeing as the weeping angels give the most painless deaths.
Other villains kill directly but these ones just send them back and still let them live their lives
That's bad in itself, being forced to start your life again.
unless they are hungry....then they snap your neck
darkmafia666
No, they live off of Time energy. That is their food. Snapping of necks was a failed attempt to make them more scary. All it did was ruin the great monsters
darkmafia666 no they only snapped their necks because they were feeding on the time energy from the crack in the time, meaning that snapping their necks was a risk free way of killing them.
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I never noticed the small detail of the background angels moving when Sally took the key before, but that sent chills down my spine.
I noticed them but not the shadow of the one with the key, 12 years later and still seeing new things.
I actually noticed it when I re-watched it years ago, it still sends chills. Blink is an amazing episode
I knew this episode so well when I was a kid, when I rewatched it at 20odd years old I spotted that for the first time and I was terrified all over again 😂
I noticed the one on the left, but I didn't notice the one at the back until someone commented on it on another review, then I went back and had another look.
I never noticed the clock jump at all.
Music in most episodes: Big, booming and exciting
Music in blink. *SQUEAKY TYRES*
*exquisite*
Fantastic
Murray Gold, an orchestra and a Welsh choir vs a man with a wheel and a stick.
This sound still gives me creeps
When I was younger the Weeping Angels and the zombies with a salt disorder from Waters of Mars were the scariest things tbh
Shit, the Flood was creepy
For me the thing that gave me the most nightmares were the dolls from the episode “night terrors” from 11s run, still can’t watch that episode to this day, too much for me
@@ryanstone9224 Amen, I can't touch that episode with a 200 foot pole ever again.
@@welshieranger4697 Are you my Mummy?
same i was also scared of the empty child but im pretty sure that i got over that by the time i got to blink.
What Moffat eventually did to the Angels really does a number on the Angels. They just became another Doctor Who adversary, not too different from the rest. Such a shame really.
Moffat needed RTD, and RTD needed Moffat. They balanced each other out. Their seasons together are the best.
Moffat's absolutely excellent when working on single self-contained episodes, hence having some good works like Blink and The Empty Child.
When he's a showrunner and tries to make more longform stories however, he suuuuuuuucks!
@dave IsDave Oh I agree, they were fine in Time of the Angels.
He ruined them in the Angels Take Manhattan.
@@LukasOfTheLight If you look back at forums from 2008 people were literally crying for Russel T Davies to leave the show because they thought he was terrible. They were wanting moffat. People always have to complain.
@@drd444 Oh yes, how I remember that. "Moffat gonna save it, he is so good!" and all that. Back then I found it ungrateful on RTD since he did revive Doctor Who, not Moffat. And I will take any RTD season finally above anything afterwards. Compared to stuff like Army of Ghosts/Doomsday or Stolen Earth/End of Journey they can all go cry in a corner, because they ALL suck. As much as I am fine with Matt Smith as a doctor, the writing for him was poor. And the less said about current Who the better.
This episode truly terrified me. My brother and I didn’t sleep that night - and it wasn’t just because of the jumpscare where you see the fangs for the first time (although that’s a jumpscare done RIGHT), it was because of the huge amount of unnerving build up right until that reveal. This episode of Doctor Who is unique because it’s the only one that feels like an episode of very well made Sci Fi Horror. Many horror films can and should notes from this episode on how to deliver a true scary experience.
Of course Moffat had to somewhat ruin them by showing them move and milking them.
To me, the goofy monster fangs spoil an otherwise perfectly terrifying monster.
The iconic childhood trauma of the 2000’s. Carey Mulligan is marvellous in this episode.
Bet this episode is the biggest regret of her career
JustSomeRandomGuy Online dude stop being a troll; you are literally the only one who hates this episode; it’s virtually praised still today; I checked to verify :)
Tom Ball no I am not plenty of people hate it only Moffat fan boys like this rubbish
JustSomeRandomGuy Online so I guess everyone save like a couple thousand people is a Moffat fanboy; it’s recommended by all the websites and critics as one of the best to this day, and I looked it up; check every critic and you’ll see that both Blink and Heaven Sent were universally acclaimed. If you criticize it don’t say Moffat is terrible or it sucks, say your opinion, which you are free to have, but don’t act like it’s gospel. Also don’t go around saying it was her regret and that many people dislike it, because that is false I’m literally every way. One or two people agreeing with you on TH-cam is not many people
Interesting little fact: On the dvd versions of this episode, if you go to the chapter selection and find the scene with the doctor on the DVD player, press up and select the title and you get an easter egg which is just that monologue of the Doctor.
To slightly paraphrase the Doctor "Not every statue, but any statue"
Weeping Angels were my introduction to Doctor Who and are still by far my favourite monster.
Also god dammit Raid...
i'll be honest, midnight freaked me out more though they're both terrific
That's because it's based off of the fear of the unknown, you don't see what's causing the people to act this way nor do you fully understand why it's doing this.
The angels are scary but after a while you get used to seeing them.
Midnight wasn't scary at all
vol Rogue innit
@@volrogue I didn't think Midnight was scary, but definitely tense and anxiety inducing. Blink is the horror movie. Midnight is the thriller movie.
I will never understand why people found midnight scary...it’s just like bring stuck in traffic with a sibling copying you
Really, the fact that the Doctor isn't there in person to assist really is a stroke of genius. It feels lonely and foreboding knowing that, this time, the protagonists don't have the usual super smart Time Lord running around to help out. It's up to them, and that's terrifying.
I remember being terrified of statues after this episode, especially at the end when they were showing different statues cause like 3 of the ones they showed were ones that are in the city centre of where I live
There is one major flaw for me with blink that no one else brings up. The weeping angels are infinitely more terrifying to me when they just have standard angelic faces rather than the "Spoopy Scary Demony Faces" that they give them at the end. When I see the blank, emotionless statue, I can put all my imagination into "what do they look like when we can't see them?" It's the perfect setup for a monster that can be on screen constantly, but that we're never able to see. All that unknown horror goes out the window when I see a statue with goofy fangs.
I was 7 when this came out and I was genuinely traumatised, I didn’t sleep for weeks, the only modern episode that deserves the hiding-behind-the-sofa name
I remember my dad threatened to get a cardboard cutout in my room if i didnt behave lol
I'm still traumatised by those damn things, like just that sound effect alone sends chills up my spine
Can we just appreciate the order the episode happens in.
We didn't see this happen to The Doctor, the whole episode is how The Doctor gets out of this situation, but ends by implying how it happened
Like, from The Doctor's perspective this episode happened back to front. GENIUS.
The house in this episode is one road over from where I live
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If I had to walk past it, I'd be fucking sprinting
Hugh Janus how can you live there and not be terrified
@@jamesosborn1555 probably an adult now
Where is it?
My all-time favourite episode of Doctor Who. A cinematic masterpiece in 50 minutes.
Blink is an amazingly chilling episode, definitely one of Moffat's best
It’s a terrible episode and saying it’s Moffat’s best isn’t saying much
MetaBrownie no it isn’t it’s an appalling episode with terrible acting and terrible writing and is absolutely pointless in the series 3 story arch you can skip it and it wouldn’t make a difference
MetaBrownie how Could Human Nature/Family of blood be considered pointless if a fob watch is used in the 3 part finale to bring back the master
JustSomeRandomGuy Online only an idiot would hate on something and the spend the entirety of their short time in a basement constantly scrounging for videos that give it the slightest bit of praise in order to get over the fact they don’t have anything better to do.
Fraser James 👏 I don’t even have a basement considering I live in a flat
I have to be honest, the part where raid shadow legends came in really scared me, if it was around when I was a kid I don’t think I’d sleep at all
"I'm not good at weddings."
"STOP THIS WEDDING!"
Nice SJA reference.
I’d kill for Harry to talk about SJA
Liberation... I feel this
Harry got drawn by the raid shadow legends curse
Ma boi got taken
i don’t like that the idea of the angel crawling inside amy’s eyes did not occur when Larry stared into an angel’s eyes but other than that this is my favourite episode of all time
Conversely I don't like the idea of Angels reproducing by the images of themselves and that they can gain sentience through the reflection in one's eyes. It's retroactively added to the powers of an Angel when we really did not need to know more about the Angels. They were scary the way they are in Blink.
16:35 I never noticed that picture she has of the angel before, shame we never revisited Sally as given "that which holds the image of an angel becomes an angel" we could have had an interesting direct blink sequel
Shame they became another second rate villain in the end (imo)
I remember watching this at 14 when it aired, literally crying with fear but unable to look away. Still gives me shivers..
6:47 dank weeping angel right there
I watched this aged 9 and being mortified after that end montage because ALL of those statues were in my hometown of Cardiff.
6:16 low key think that’s a reference to daleks in Manhattan.
2:00 is when the review starts
Moffat really specialises in writing sole stories/two parters. He's really good at sowing seeds of potential in his stories without them being straight sequel bait.
6:49.There is also a slight movement from the weeping angel that sally takes the tardis key from, when she first goes upstairs, it has it's right hand over its face but when she looks at the other two behind her, it has its arm over its eyes and its hand is on the left shoulder.
The only cuestionable part of the Episode seems to be Billy remembering a girl that he just met after years, or maybe was because of the fear of the angels and he wanting to help the girl and others. Either way is emotions over logic.
First of all, he HAD to remember Sally because he spent his entire career carefully leaving messages for her. Second -- as an old person, I can tell you that you do vividly remember people who were only in your life for brief moments if you reminisce about them, which Billy was forced to do.
Even without the Doctor being the focus of the episode, this was still one of the best Doctor Who episodes to date.
Indeed also you’re a bit late
The instrument is a bassoon, wonderfully pointing out the melancholy and the soul in this episode!!!
The thing that really brings the fear to life is the shots of statues with the doctors speech right at the end - that and the fact the camera acts like our eyes makes the whole thing chilling
I will admit Blink is one of the Greatest Doctor Who episodes of all time, but I don't think it's "The" Best. I think it just mainly stems from how often it gets recommend to people who want to get into the show, and while it does a great job as an episode, I think it's enjoyed best by people who've watched it up to that point.
OmegaChance27 this is true. As someone who’s watched the revival from the start Blink is amazing, however the best introduction to doctor who is, well...the doctor. Without the previous few seasons to explain who he is and what he does, it’s wasted on new viewers as to how he can arrange for these notes and DVDs to be left and how he can understand time as he does in this episode. Not to mention his understanding of the angels compared to everyone else in the episode. Without the previous episodes to establish how “brilliant” this man is what’s the point?
I appreciate the fact you’ve updated your old thumbnails.
If I had a pound for every time I see a raid shadow legends advertisement I would have enough money to pay Harry’s rent
This was easily the scariest episode of Doctor Who. I remember I couldn't sleep after watching it.
Yup, totally agree on the losing sleep after. That angel after the video message was ingrained in my memory for about a year.
At the risk of sounding like an internet tough guy, the Weeping Angels didn't scare me as a child. Neither did the Vashta Nerada. But I did get scared by that dumb girl's messed up face in the simulated reality from the Vashta Nerada episode and the diseased clones from the episode where Cassandra dies. I was a weird kid.
This was the first episode I ever saw of Doctor Who, and it definitely left a mark on me
BEST. EPISODE. EVER! I'm surprised you didn't notice that whenever the characters weren't looking at the angels while they were on screen, the camera was. In other words, we, the viewers were preventing them from moving any further in each scene they were in. Pure genius!
I dont think that was intentionally meta and to be honest thats always bothered me, i think they should have just framed it so that at any given point a character wasnt looking at them they were looking at each other instead, if the idea is that we as the audience are turning them to stone i think thats a bit silly
I didn't notice until this video that Billy had a swallow emblem on his jacket shoulder.
"When I was eleven..." And now I feel ancient. Thanks for that. :D
I remember being absolutely shit scarred as a kid watching this episode! Glad you got to reviewing it!
for some reason i really like how you didn’t censor out what you said when you misspoke
Its funny, instead of being scared of the dark this episode made me scared of grey overcast lighting.
I've seen the episode a few times, but you brought up so many little things that I never noticed at all. Great breakdown!
That sequence where they talk to the doctor through the tv and suddenly mention they weren't looking at the angel gives me chills everytime
This episode was just perfect in every way
Ngl, I used to sleep either with my parents or the light had to be on after watching this episode
I haven’t watched Doctor Who for a very very long time, and I cannot remember much of what happens in the plot. Despite that, I remember everything about this one short story, it’s burrowed into my memory, and years later I am still terrified of this episode. I literally do not remember anything else that happened during this season.
I think I saw a making of and the angels are real people in makeup so they actually move when not filming it’s amazing
Ya know what’s scary? I had just watched the blink episode and then the next day I had to go into work, (restoration) and I was at this house that had a lot of statues in it..... to say I was nervous/jumpy is an understatement.
I was scared as shit of the angels and the astronaut when I was young.
Really loved the fact you touched upon the amazing attention to detail of the filmmaking during the scene where Sally gets the key off the angels in the beginning. It should be noted that there is a very subtle use of pretty meta subjective camera perspective as the perspective is not from a character but the audience, which is why the angels don't move in the background when Sally turns her back to grab the key of the angel in the foreground. It gives me chills!
0:40 Danm that’s a smooth Segway
Blink is still that episode of TV that still terrifies the daylights out of me even though I know what's going to happen. Everything just works here - the brilliant protagonists, the side characters, the Doctor and Companion not being there at all, the music, the camera work, the lighting, the Angles themselves...just all wow. Even the memory of this episode makes me double-check every statue to this day just to be sure. The only other episodes that make me feel as scared as Blink does are the Library episodes in Series 4.
Wow this was an intriguing and complex video, great work Harry!
when i was a kid and first watched this i always assumed the angles are from old who they felt so fleshed out and iconic but years later when im a teenager i find out that they were made for that episode was crazy to me
I loved that, while verbally they insinuated that the angels stay trapped there forever, fact is that at some point after Sally gives the Doctor the documents, he will get zapped into the past by the angel that got Billy, implying that something (perhaps even the Doctor on this very trip) will actually end up releasing the angels to roam free again.
I like to call Larry the proto-Rory.
1:58 to skip the crappy sponsor segment - Harry, you should honestly review things that mean something to you
This is my favourite episode and added to my list of things I’m still scared of even as an adult thanks to doctor who.
This was the first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw. I've never looked back.
I also show it to my students on Halloween. I love hearing children scream in terror.
i have an idea about the weeping angels trapped staring at each other. what if the person who buys the dilapitated mansion,finds the weeping angels, think it weird 4 creepy statues would be in a circle, has them removed. once they are not looking at each other, they just need someone to blink and theyre gone. your thoughts?
I was gutted you didn't mention the brillaint ITV dig when sally goes back to the house!
Watched this right before bed. I don't think I'm going to have a great night's sleep tonight... And I'm 22. This sure does bring back some childhood fear
The second before the credits start playing, the doctor blinks
The device that goes ding sounds just like something out of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, it's amazing how much influence Douglas Adams still has in spite of his death.
You forgot to mention when sally goes back into the police station after remembering she has the key...
The music, the acting everything was perfect, so much so that I was almost yelling at the tv for sally not to go back inside when I watched it for the first time all those years ago
That raid shadow legend sponser transition was slick
This was honestly the only Doctor Who episode I've seen that genuinely terrified me. Most good episodes just fall into the categories of either exciting or thought-provoking but this is the only one that I think is actually just plain *scary* to the point where I often feel uncomfortable at the thought of rewatching it because it was just that good at scaring me the first time. That montage of the actual statues at the end especially, I can remember that giving 12-year-old me nightmares for days afterwards. Even clicking on this review made me feel nervous...
5:45 I did not see the "clock jolt ever so slightly" even with the slow motion close-up, and even if it did may have been caused by the slammed door, either way it's most likely an accident and not the masterpiece of storytelling he's assuming it to be.
He's talking about the camera moving, pointing out the clock was to help people notice the slight camera jolt
OK, I see now he was referring to the camera although I'm still not sure it wasn't accidental, but even if they deliberately dropped a frame or two to introduce that apparent movement then that technique failed because it's still only barely perceptible even in a slow-motion close-up, so the vast majority of the audience would've missed it even on a subconscious level.
14:18 I thought that was a hint that you'd Channel 4's Utopia :,). I'm fine.
I felt like not even watching this because it said ‘blink did it suck’ we already know the answer.Great vid.😃
Really brought back some trauma by playing that 3 second audio of the rusty wheel turning
One of the best directed Who episodes ever, the angels don't move cos we the audience can see them it's so meta but I love it!
Isaac Whittaker-Dakin and then the Statue of Liberty was an Angel.
@@orangeapples Such a bad idea, it isn't even made of stone like the rest of them.
@@xenon8117 yeah it kinda goes against the Angel's wanting to blend in...
Poorly written, poorly acted, The Doctor is hardly in it, the worst episode of The RTD era anybody who likes this shit isn’t a real fan
JustSomeRandomGuy Online so virtually every doctor who fan isn’t a fan? Just shut up; this episode was critically acclaimed and still one of the most-loved episodes
I loved this episode, I hope watching this doesn't ruin the fond memory
Yet apparantly that which holds an image of an angel becomes itself an angel... YOU SENT ME BACK TO THE 1890S! THANKS A LOT!
When that lightbulb blows out there'll be 4 freed angels on the loose. Also if you take the angel 2 parter in S5 as cannon then the photos they have at the end will turn into angels
This episode is almost perfect. There are only 3 problems I have with this story:
1). It feels kind of selfish from the Doctor’s part that despite too being sent back in time like Billy, when he gets the TARDIS back, he doesn’t take Billy with him so that Billy can deliver the message and put the easter eggs on the DVDs. Surely the Doctor could have put the messages on the DVDs after escaping 1969. It feels like Billy is being used by the Doctor.
2). Surely, the message of “look at the list” could have been delivered in a number of other ways instead of sacrificing Billy’s life. Why not on the wall at the house or a letter to Sally. In fact she already had the list so she was bound to read it anyway so why sacrifice Billy?
3). What happens to the Angels after Sally and Larry leave the house? Yes they are looking at each other so they can’t move but they in a cellar of an abandoned house. The only light in that room is that one bulb (which shouldn’t even be on. What, do the Angels have trouble seeing in the dark) and when it does go out, which it will eventually, won’t they escape? Does the Doctor load them up in the TARDIS and then kick them into a black hole?
MetaPlanet
1). That is only supposing that all that stuff happened in 1969 to Billy and I find that highly doubtful and it’s not like the Doctor was going to take him if he didn’t meet anyone (and once again that is only supposing that it happens that quickly, which I doubt) as he openly says that he’s going to have to stay when they first meet. If all the stuff meeting Sally No. 2 and falling in love happened immediately in 1969 then the episode should have showed it through old Billy telling Sally so that is still a fault with the episode.
2). Yes, at that point in the episode, the list would have meant nothing to Sally but that still doesn’t mean that the Doctor couldn’t have found another way of telling Sally to look at the list and explain it through other means (like the message on the wall in the house or a letter to her through the post)
3). When the Weeping Angels are observed they turn to stone but that doesn’t mean they die. It only means they can not move. They don’t die. So surly the moment the light goes out and they can’t see each other, they should be able to move again and there is no evidence that the Angels can see each other in the dark.
am i living for the lil red dwarf reference hidden in the game advert? yes.
WHAT I DIDN'T GET:
- How did the Angels have the TARDIS key when Sally was at Wester Drumlins (after Kathy was zapped away)?
- Why didn't the Angels open the TARDIS themselves? Aren't they able to do that?
- When did the Doctor write that 'Duck'-message for Sally on the wall?
- How did the Doctor let an Angel touch him? That happened after Sally gave him the information and the transcript, so he should have known about them. Did he not read it until he was in 1969? Or did he let himself being touched just for the sake of not creating numerous paradoxons?
- That's how time travel by Angelsᵀᴹ works (explained by the Doctor):
"Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and make you live to death. The rest of your life, used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had. All your stolen moments. They're creatures of the abstract, they live off potential energy."
They feast off your 'leftover' energy. But doesn't it need energy to transport you back in time? Doesn't a life in the past require at least as much energy as your normal life in the time you were born in?
You weren't born in the past. You're not supposed to be there. There is no space for you. It has to be created first. Hasn't it??? Where does that energy come from?
Do the Angels steal it from somewhere else? Aren't those energy deficits a threat to the fabric of time?
You have now become my favorite reviewer. I could not agree more with your assessment and I appreciate so much the work and details you added into the story that I did not know or had not noticed. Now I do need to go since I have no choice but to immediately rewatch this stunning episode!
This was my first ever episode of Doctor Who
The musical instrument is a bassoon but played at the higher end of it's register. This puts the listener on edge but not really knowing why, Stravinsky does it beautifully in the opening of The Rite of Spring.
I thought the noise wasn’t a squeaky wheel but harsh violin sounds
Let’s hope that whoever comes to renovate that house doesn’t move the angels...
I still watch this every Halloween in the States. My favorite episode of Dr. Who.
can we please stop hearing about raid? its a shitty mobile game, even by mobile game standards, horrible pay to win and after a certain point its almost pay to play.
David Kernachan I mean if you were offered like $50,000 to advertise it..
Chew This. Raid sponsorships are big bucks, and as irritating as they are, if I was offered thousands of dollars just to read their shitty script, I’d do it, and just advise people off the record to skip the ads. The money is worth, even if the ads are monotonous.
Yeah but if you were offered a shit load of money for it, wouldn't you?