SCI-FI HATERS watch Doctor Who "Blink" for the FIRST TIME
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- In this video, two of my friends watched the Doctor Who episode "Blink" for the FIRST TIME from David Tennant's series 3. Like, subscribe and comment if you want to see them watch more episodes of Doctor Who and let me know which ones!
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My favorite episodes are the Melody Malone 2 parter.
The best part of this episode is the idea that it is Slightly interactive. Fans noticed after the fact that there were several scenes where the Angels were in their statue form even though no character was staring at them. The only reason the characters were safe in that instance was because The Audience was staring at the Angels.
This is what I loved about them! Later incarnations just didnt have that!
@@The_Absolute_Dog It was only really the single time in Matt Smith's era that they broke that rule; after that, the Angels went back to freezing when the audience looked.
@@MattTOB618 those matt smith episodes shat all over the idea of the angels in mmy opinion, like youre telling me not a single soul in new york saw the GIANT ASS STATUE MOVING BRO?
@@brilymanthat’s just Doctor Who. What about when a titanic spaceship almost crashed into London? Or the time Daleks spawned en masse over London, or later on in the show when all the dead people turned into cybermen, it’s just a part of the logic of the show
@@iainwmacintosh no LMAO those all have some reasonable logic,, everyone was interacting with the ghosts and were terrified when they turned into murder robots, the dalekks flying over london WERE probably seen by all londoner's since well, the daleks were murdering the shit outta people.. for the titanic being crashed into london, it was all a revenge plot by somme guy who got rmoved from the company board. my issue with the statue of liberty moving around in NYC, is that well quite simply if ANYTHING looks at one, it cannot move. literally any living thing. that mmeans just one person in NYC needed to be awake and looking in that direction.... shit even birds would have sufficed, but nothing, not a living soul saw the weeping angel? but wait im not done, because thats just the most egregious, but there is more, like how you know how in this episode blink, the angels are defeated by looking them in a circle forced to look at each other for eternity? well lets talk about "The Time of Angels" where for some reason a shit with loads of weeeping angels all staring at each other didnt seem to give a shit about that anymore and just kinda did what they wanted, not to mention the weird ass, "watching an image of one CREATES ONE IN YOUR EYE BRO HURDURHURDUR"
I’m starting to think these people aren’t Sci fi haters at all
You might be ontro something
Sci-fi is such a broad church, there's bound to be something a "sci-fi hater" likes.
I don't like jazz. I like John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Go figure.
I don't like sci-fi but I like Doctor who.
Call them Cybermen because they’ve been converted and upgraded!
On a podcast I listen to there was this running joke where ‘Host A’ once said how much she hated sci-fi, and how the Matrix in particular just made her feel dumb. It was this big rant and she tried to explain the plot and it was clear for whatever reason, she just didn’t get that there was the ‘inside the matrix’ and ‘outside the matrix.’ Essentially this movie had confused her as a distracted teen when she first watched it, made her feel dumb, and then she’d decided “I hate sci fi.”
Host B then asked her to list her top 5 movies, which included Back to the Future at number 1, and Host B pointed out that two others on the list were pretty unambiguously sci-fi movies, with one of the other probably straddling that line of ‘soft sci-fi.’
Host B found this hilarious, and actually now when they discuss new movies and Host A is positive about them, Host B will always let them rave about the movie for an hour and then be like… “So you liked this movie right? Seems like one of the best you’ve seen in a while? Right… and would you agree it was set about 30 years in the future and all the characters had this mind implant device that was pretty central to the setting and the plot. Hmm, would you call that…. Sci-fi!?!?”
Steven Moffat said the inspiration for this episode came from an angel statue he passed once in a graveyard only for it to be gone the next time he walked the same path.
thats good scifi.... not a guy crying because of, whatever RTD is shit
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They both have their strenghts and weaknesses.
The only person crying right now is you@@andyf4292
@@andyf4292 modern who was built on the foundations of Russell, blasphemy
He apparently found out there were no records of the statue existing
"The wallpaper's trustworthy, actually. Always a good trait to have in a building." I ACTUALLY LAUGHED AUDIBLY
Nothing worse than untrustworthy wallpaper
donna noble has left the library
donna noble has been saved
Hey! Who turned out the lights?!
@@ninino86spoilers
Ice cream
I can't not throw on the suggestion for Waters of Mars. Iconic 10.
Timelord Victorious
It does seem a bit less self-contained compared to the other episodes so it might not be as fitting imo
It's a great one.
I think that one was more scary
The scene with Sally talking to the old man at the hospital was the moment I realized just how good an episode this really was.
Don’t get me wrong the time travel twists in this was superb.
That tragic moment where the guy is sitting there in the hospital, knowing full well when the rain stops he dies, it’s just so heartbreaking.
And you knew it was coming.
The moment Tennant says the phrase :
“I am sorry, I am so sorry.”
You knew it wasn’t going to be good for the guy.
"It was raining the day we met."
"... This is the same rain."
Wow.
This was a taunt from the weeping angels a cruel twisted taunt forcing a person to watch someone close die in front of you. The angels usually send people back at least 200 years so by the present day they would be dead so they can feed off the time energy of what would’ve been the persons future but this time they only sent him back to the 1960’s which this episode took place in the 2000’s so he would be still alive so the angels knew that this man was important to the woman and decided to taunt the woman by making her witness his death.
@@TheSpacePyro yeah that checks out.
Considering that the next episode to feature these creatures, they killed a person and then use that person‘s voice to taunt the doctor.
So them doing something like that sounds completely in character.
Hell yeah! We were overdue for this one. Ppl say Blink is the perfect intro to DW & that's how I brought my friend into the show.
I was hesitant to watch it with them too soon as it doesn't have all that much of the Doctor, but I thought now was the right time. Perfect for halloween too!
Personally I don't know if I'd use blink as a way to introduce someone to doctor who, I mean it doesn't really have the doctor in it that much and it's not really a normal doctor who episode. It's great but I'd personally go for a season opener instead
@@TripleJumpYTP Precisely. "Blink" is a terrific episode, but that's because it is so radically different from the typical DW episode. Taken by itself, it is a _terrible_ way to introduce someone to the show for the first time.
@@TripleJumpYTPyep. I’d probably go with ‘The 11th Hour’ or ‘Rose’.
@@TripleJumpYTP That's very true but I think it works well in showing how clever the show's writing can get & my friend was invested throughout.
Was actually kinda excited for Oxygen lol
Still on the wheel!
@@Justinfication BETTER BE x
13:50 Steven Moffat has said that the way you know you have a good Dr Who episode is that after you finish it, you say “well, I’ve blown that feature film idea.” So, you know, spot on
What I like most about this episode is that it is barely about the Doctor at all. He is only there to provide the timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly stuff of time travel that makes this episode work. He doesn't come in and save the day, he doesn't outsmart the bad guy or build a McMuffin, all he is really there to do is offer advice. He uses his TARDIS in the end to time lock the Angels, but he could have served his entire role in this story while on his way from one world shaking cayclism to another.
To Sally, this was a grand adventure. To the Doctor, it was Tuesday. 😂
I assume that’s an autocorrect rendition of McGuffin, but now I’d like an episode where the Doctor invents the McMuffin 😅
Same! I started watching Doctor Who when I saw that absorbolof episode. Loved the perspective from those on the side lines who are left behind after the chaos from his adventures passes.
justice for oxygen! glad to see blink finally get its time but we need them to watch a Capaldi ep soon fr.
It's a slightly more lore-heavy one tbf
Heaven sent is fantastic but might be too in depth so mummy on the orient express
@@DanielDiaz-um1xd oh yeah mummy, flatline or the ghost two-parter would be my picks.
Why Oxygen? It’s too lore heavy and really not the best example of Capaldi out there.
@@Gojirawars03absolutely agree with you!
I wanted them to finally experience Capaldi goddammit!
I’d vote for Listen, Mummy on the Orient Express or Thin Ice. I feel like Heaven Sent works better when you have at least some amount of context, so I’d avoid that for a while.
Yeah I accidentally watched heaven sent before watching the face the raven and was so confused.
I just watched a reaction to Listen, and I agree that it would be great on the wheel. It's a great standalone, although there's a tiny little context needed for the link to the 50th, but not much. Mummy is also a great episode for the Wheel.
I think Flatline could be interesting as well
@@raptor8867 Oh yeah, you’re right. Little lighter on Capaldi, but still. Especially that ending.
@@SeeJay81I know Listen is highly regarded but for me it just seemed bland and meandering. my recommendations would be Mummy on the Orient Express or Flatline
"Listen"
12 and Clara in banter heaven (plus its my favourite Doctor Who episode)
Doctor Who does this thing a lot very well, where a common thing, or maybe a childhood game, would be turned into your biggest nightmare, like a staring competition, the mimicking game, being scared of the dark, the floor is lava, or even just water.
lol which one is the floor is lava?
Y’all are actually crazyyyy with the amount of support y’all have shown for the series thank you so much! I am falling in love with this show with every episode we watch cant wait to watch more
I take it you're one of the guests. Would you still classify yourself as a scifi hater at this point?
Love showing you the episodes Fay makes me so happy
I don't know if 2-parters are of limits but I would give anything to see them watch "The Empty Child", they are by far my favourite Christopher Eccleston episodes. "Family of Blood" or "The Impossible Planet" would also be fun to see, mainly because of how confusing I could imagine them being to someone with no context.
Yes!! Gave me nightmares as a kid and I still randomly quote it
I completely forgot The Empty Child. That is probably Eccleston's best. (I started with him so his whole run kinda just blurs together for me lol)
Ooooh Family of Blood is soooooooooo good! And The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances may well be my favorite DW 2-parter of all time!!!
you guys should watch blink next
😂
@@TimYertle Yes, but while refusing to acknowledge that this time ever happened, like they've been sent back in time to before they'd watched the episode by the Weeping Angels.
@@TTRPGSarvis the video is the silence
maybe they misunderstood and thought the angels would get them if they stopped talking
@@raseli-sp7oc What video...?
Given the comments about time travel: Fires of Pompeii or Waters of Mars should be on the list
YES YES YES
I'd say, in that specific order. Cuz the Doctor references the events of Fires of Pompeii in the latter.
Girl in the fireplace
Should watch that Are You My Mummy episode first too, because Captain Jack mentions Volcano Day.
Series 1 - Dalek is an important one! I always love seeing reactions to it
Not sure if it’ll have as much impact without being in episode order but I think it’ll still be big!
Because I'm sadistic, I'd love to see the full, no-context spoiler-fest of "A Good Man Goes To War" added to the wheel.
In-Context, it's one of my favorite episodes. Out-Of-Context, I'm sure it's entirely incomprehensible.
which would be more incomprehensible do you think, A Good Man Goes to War or The Wedding of River Song?
Oh I understand, but think,
Let’s just… beg them to do the whole series
@@sarcasticbutsincere6661the wedding of River song is incomprehensible, even with context xD
Omg yes we need them to see some 11 and I may be bias but he’s my favourite interpretation of the doctor as a whole character and his seasons will always be my favourites
I'll say it again, at this point you should just have them watch the entire series. If they're not sold at this point there's no hope
"It was raining when we met"
"It's the same rain"
God I love the writing in this episode
Blink was my first ever episode as a child. The next several months, I would blink one eye at a time and would actively avoid every single statue, being sure to stare at it as long as I physically can
This was great to watch, reliving some of the best Doctor who episodes with fresh eyes is awesome. You have to get them to watch Dalek. One of the best episodes ever written, and it's the ultimate introduction to one of the most enduring scifi villains of all time, and it might show Fay why bringing a gun with you into these situations probably won't work out too well for you.
Also, I know it's just been single episodes so far, but please show them the Family of Blood two parter, it's my number one recommendation from the entire series. I could literally talk about it forever. Anyways, love the content, keen to see more ❤
This entire episode feels like a satisfying feature-length film
I love the concept of the angels, I actually enjoy how episodes with them are often “interactive” in the sense that even w/o characters looking, if the camera is on the angels typically they’re still frozen.
That being said, I also like when they’ve shown them move, & how they did that (bc there were some different ways, & I appreciated being able to see different takes on it) PLUS the episode where the angel ends up coming out of the recording & “poisons” Amy? Almost like a nod to the audience that would “freeze” the angels for characters in those “interactive” parts, that we aren’t immune just bc we’re on the other side of the screen… that definitely added more weight to them.
Overall tho, as someone from a typically humid area that works as a haunt actor… the angels don’t scare me. Decent weather & I can avoid blinking for up to a minute or so, plenty of time to get somewhere safer/switch off w someone occasionally, etc
Personally, I think the vashta Nerada, the gas mask infection, or perhaps the silence are my worst enemies. Vashta as opposition, not necessarily like “uh oh scary to die from” bc like… it seemed like it was practically instantaneous? So there’s that at least. But trying to avoid them seemed like a pain. The “mummy” infection… concerning? Like… stronger, more persistent zombies. But I also like zombies!
The silence tho…? Actually might be my big winner. I’m already forgetful. Plus their electrocution to death thing seemed horrid. So I could see one, try to get away, get cornered strategically & keep forgetting until they shock me, and I’d have had no idea how or why I died.
So yeah, I think in order it’s Silence, “mask/mummy” infection, and then vashta.
I know some folks are like “the daleks!” Which… I do agree, but also, easy answer. Same w cybermen.
Oooh but another one I found fun was the uh… the bank alien? That would liquify your brain if they sensed guilt? But also that one left far too many questions for me- is it specifically guilt surrounding theft from the bank? Or any guilt at all? If you felt bad for forgetting to return something you borrowed from a friend on time, even if you were gonna do it after this stop at the bank, do you still get juiced??
Honorable mention for Emojibots, I don’t beef w them tho bc if it’s all about appearances, my maternal family has me well trained since childhood on presenting happy 🤷♂️ I’m also fairly in tune with others, and content keeping less than favorable information to myself when necessary, so it would be all too easy to be like “oh, I think I forgot something, would you mind coming with me back to the tardis really quick? It’s a bit of a hike and you know I get kinda anxious sometimes on my own, or leaving you alone for that matter!” And we would go back, I would explain everything, we would come up w a game plan & have a quick class on smiling convincingly & behaving happy even when you’re not! Easy peasy.
So a few days after I first saw this episode, I am backing my car out of the garage and check my review mirror. The garage faces my next door neighbors yard and they had a new statue in it. I was so freaked out, I just sat there, frozen, staring at it for a full minute. Could never look at it after that without getting chills.
All of these years later... So many times rewatching blink and I never ONCE noticed david blinks in the video
The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances is also something amazing.
One very cool thing about this episode is that the audience is kind of participating. There are times where no characters are looking at an angel, but the camera is and it doesn't move. Meanwhile they never move while the camera can see them. It's only when the viewer looks away that they can move.
Truly the single best solo-episode to show people who aren't watching the whole series. Another fantastic episode for non-viewers IMO is the van gogh one.
Agree on Van Gogh but brilliant tho Blink undoubtedly is, you really need an episode with more Doctor!
The one with the mimic (“Midnight”) is my absolute favourite from any Who era, and is a fantastic standalone. The performances and writing are just so good!
@@allisonbergh4429 Yesss. Midnight is also a fantastic standalone. Kinda funny that the horror themed episodes are the best standalones
@ Some of the Christmas episodes also work pretty well alone, and they tend to be more fun, but I agree the short-form standalone horror is where the show really shines. And those episodes probably get a lot of “sci-fi haters” hooked!
I hadn't slept for 24 hours when I watched Blink for the first time, and I was so freaked out afterward that I crossed the street to avoid a statue that I would've had to walk next to
This terrified me as a kid, I was actually not able to sleep for a while, and thought they were watching me for years after.
Heaven sent would be so good, the "not an actual time loop" is a genius idea
If someone had never watched an episode of Doctor Who before, I'd start them with this one, and let them go back to the beginning.
It's so nice that they came up with the Weeping Angels for this one episode and let it be a stand-alone episode without feeling the need to bring this creature back time and time again. I mean imagine if they brought them back in multiple episodes over different show runners. I don't think it would be long before crazy lore was added to them that just sort of ruined them.
I didn't mind most of the other Weeping Angel episodes tbh. Angels Take Manhattan was a cool concept (but the Statue of Liberty Angel was pretty dumb) and the angels coming out of the snow in Time of the Doctor are sick.
Time of Angels/Flesh & Stone has always been meh to me. "The image of an angel becomes an angel" didn't make sense to me given the photos Sally had, and I HATE that they showed the angels moving in real time. One of my favorite parts of Blink is how the angels never move on screen because the audience is observing them.
IDK, the idea of being trapped or shipped wrecked on a planet of angels, not realizing they were WA to start and then have one , for example lets call it Bob, start talking to you through a highjacked body is both terrifying and hilarious .
Yeah I think it was overused a bit although I think Steven moffett is perfectly allowed to bring them back as they were his idea
The weeping angels were perfectly done in this episode as just creepy enough. The later episodes kept ramping up the stakes with the angels in an attempt to approach this same feeling, resulting in something that just diluted the creepiness.
This was my first episode of Doctor Who. I've been a huge fan ever since.
This just in, "SCI-FI HATERS miss the doctor....huuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh."
Gentlemen and female gentlemen, we've got them.
ALL of Doctor Who is a paradox unto itself. That's the beauty of this show.
If they like this, I think they'd like the effect where the eleventh doctor goes into Kazran's childhood video memories, and Kazran watches him change them in real time in the Christmas special
This episode is so special. Alien mystery, time travel craziness, spooky scenarios. And it pulls this all off while being a Doctor-lite _and_ Companion-lite episode.
The episode “Midnight” is one of my faves from any Who era (though I’m a Tennant girl and always will be, so I might be biased). The writing and especially performances are EXTRAORDINARY.
This was one of the Doctor Who "Lite" episodes they filmed intentionally using less of the main characters as a cost cutting measure. They did at least once a season for awhile. Sometimes, they used just one of the main characters like the Doctor in MIdnight and Donna mostly on Turn Left.
When our grandson was a toddler we where watching the episode with the snowmen. He kept laughing at the snowmen until I got out and inflated our Christmas snowman decoration. He went ballistic
There IS actually another episode where the doctor fights against the angels, which is actually a two parter called "The Time of The Angels" and "Flesh and Stone"
Highly suggest watching it, as it goes over the angels in much more detail, making them HUNDREDS of times scarier
heaven sent would be the perfect follow-up to blink, in regard to pizza's main qualm here
Give them Vincent And The Doctor, I wanna hear some people cry
It's fun to revisit these old episodes and remember how good the writing used to be.
The Weeping Angels, and the Gas Mask Mommy alien, are my favorite creepy Dr.Who villains.
Think we definitely need some capaldi and smith love but you guys should definitely watch Eccletons nost iconic episode a watch and the perfect introduction to Doctor who's most iconic villain.
Series 1, Episode 6: Dalek.
Also how would you guys handle 2 part stories? Just longer videos, i only recently started watching! Its really fun to see new people getting introduced to the franchise
Not gonna lie, this episode has had me low-key wary of statues ever since I first watched it
I love this idea! It lets me rewatch my fav episodes in a timely manner, WHILE having the added bonus of listening to first time viewers, which helps recapture that first time experience!!
Brilliant! Thank You guys, for making these! It’s so much fun!
My father had motor neurone disease, he was in a wheelchair when this episode came on, he found it distressing, he couldn't have run.
Theres a pretty cool video game sequel to this episode that involves hacking the cellphone of a someone who went missing.
You edited out the "Wibbly Wobbly" bit! Such an iconic line!
11:46 The problem is that if you hide under the blanket you can't see the angels
“Is he talking to us or like her like are we allowed to blink?”.
Yes.
"If you change history, are you actually changing history or were you always going to change history from the start?" is a question that is explored with surprising maturity in Transformers Beast Wars from way back in the day. There's a whole existential crisis in which Dinobot debates whether the existence of a record of the future negates free will. I believe his line of thinking is something to the effect of, "When we _choose,_ are we making the choices we were always destined to make? Do we truly have agency, or are we merely acting out a script that has already been written?" That show gets weirdly deep in its second season, to the point of actually being one of the better time travel stories out there (if you can make it past the godawful first season).
Listen or Heaven Sent next .. they need to see Capaldi in action!
This episode is by far my favorite one in all of dr who. There are other good ones but the level of family friendly horror and A+ writing in this one is always stunning
You know, genius scientist from Gallifrey, the human being can blink one eye at a time and you'd think you'd be smart enough to suggest it.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps this comment just changed everything for me
"Life is hot and you are short... Um... That sentence got away from me, yeah."
the golden year of doctor who well that and matt smith
YEEESSS MORE DAVID TENNANT ERA!!
THE GOAT!!!!!!
Let’s hope there’s some more of the other eras too :)
Blink works best for people already familiar with David Tennant’s Doctor Who. The multiple time paradoxes make it hard to follow, even for some hard-core fans.
The timeline goes something like this:
He met Billy before he met Sally, but she gave him the transcript from the DVD before he met Billy, who later placed the video of the Doctor reading from the transcript onto the 17 DVDs Sally owned at the time.
The last part seems to be a bit of a plot hole, because how could Billy in the 60s know about DVDs, or how many of them Sally would own half a century later?
No doubt the Doctor would eventually work it all out at some point in his personal future timeline.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that it is science-fiction: with fiction doing all the heavy lifting in Doctor Who from day one (November 23rd 1963) to the present.
my family and i went to a fricking wax museum the day after this episode aired💀
Fires of Pompeii was my first episode, Blink was the 2nd and the one that convinced me to fall in love with this series. (was wrapping gifts through Fires, the caught Blink without any idea what episode or show would be on on xmas day when I flipped to the sci-fi channel we had)
I feel like silence in the library would be a good episode to watch
i would love to see "listen" with capaldi, one of my favourite episodes, i loved whenever the doctor spoke to himself like he was speaking with the audience, also the ambiguity of weather or not there are creatures you cant ever look at.
You 100% need to do Under the Lake // Before the Flood at some point, it's so underrated but it's (imo) one of the most perfect spooky Who episodes
- It all takes place in a spooky isolated location
- The monster plays on common fears (literally ghosts)
- The monster also seems impossible to stop
- The episodes contain actual time travel (as opposed to the time travel just being a way to get from episode to episode location)
- The Doctor is morally grey for a lot of the episodes (this isn't to everyone's taste but I really enjoy episodes that force the Doctor to make hard decisions)
- The characters are all varied and interesting
- The episodes have a satisfying conclusion, both narratively and mechanically
- There's some incredibly tense scenes (the ghost guy dragging the axes behind him as he slowly creeps up in the deaf girl)
It's just such an incredible two parter and ranks on the same level as stuff like Midnight and Blink personally
Also the lack of Capaldi episodes so far is a CRIME lmao, Time Heist and Mummy on the Orient Express are like required viewing imo
@@Imperial_SquidI wouldn't go that far personally, series 8 doesn't really have that many standouts imo
@@WiloPolis03 series 8 isn't the only Capaldi series though...?
@@Imperial_Squid Yeah but I was specifically talking about you recommending Time Heist and Mummy on the Orient Express as essentials. Though I'll grant a lot of people seem to really love the latter (I like it, just don't see in it what many people do)
Weeping Angels are one of the scariest thing I've ever seen on any shows/films
Only one of the big 3 Doctor Who villains left, it’s time for Dalek!
we definitely need to do more of the old school dr who episodes, im definitely curious to see if you get to show them some of peter capaldis episodes and all of s4 but definitely also need to take them back to s1 of the modern era and show them the empty child!
This is one of those episodes where the Doctor and his companion don't appear much because the actors are doing principle shoots for one of the bigger episodes of the season. There's a similar episode in season 2, but it's been a while, I can't remember which of the other seasons have any.
Reviewers: “Statues don’t move!” Everyone who knows: “Ha!”
YES!!! I was one of the many people who wanted to see this. Commenting before I watch this but I'm sure they will LOVE it
what Pizza was saying at the end about time travel made me think about Fires of Pompeii... maybe that'd be a good episode to add to the wheel someday :)
It would have to come after they have seen episodes with Capaldi as the Doctor and with Karen Gillan as Amy Pond so it breaks their brain when they see them in that episode. They might think the writers were thinking far ahead or those are the Doctor and Amy in disguise in Pompeii from another episode.
Because of this episode and the mannequin one from the Eccleston era, I've always felt nauseous and uneasy around mannequins and statues
Same, but for me, the mannequin problem started when.I was a kid in the '70s. That's when the nestine and autons first appeared.
Moffitt straight up give a few million people a completely new and irrational fear for life bro...
Blink is one of those rare perfect episodes where if you have someone you want to start watching a series, and the first season or two are weak, you can just show them that showcase episode and get them hooked.
This and Midnight, hilariously both quite non-doctor whoish!
I'd _really_ love to see them watch Mummy on the Orient Express, as it's a brilliant episode that's light on the lore.
I forget if it's a 2 parter or not, but you have to have them watch "Army of Ghosts" simply for the conversation between the Daleks and Cybermen.
2:48 The amount of times I've thought this during Dr. Who 😂 I know the Doctor would disapprove but DAMN
I had nightmares from this episode for a week and legit couldnt watch anything with weeping angels in it
Quantum horror is how I'd explain the Angels. They're based on Quantum observation which in reality is probably even creepier than the Angels themselves. I mean, that crap has shown it can predict time too
Some episodes I think could be good to look at. Mostly for the speeches.
- Waters of Mars (4.16, Time Lord Victorious moment)
- The End of Time (4.17/4.18, I just love the whole war turned into hell speech)
- Zygon Inversion (S9E8)
- S4E8 and S4E9, start them off with river song.
I've been waiting for this one! Can't wait to see what you guys think!
Those are the monsters that scare me the most ( right before the empty child and the silence).
Are you my mummy - is possibly the sacredness I have been at 2 in the morning, S01
The first article of the SCP Foundation (SCP-173, aka the living statue, aka Peanut) seems to have been written at around the same time as the premiere of Blink, although the exact dates are a bit unclear.
This could mean that Blink inspired the gigantic writing project of the SCP Foundation, which is pretty cool.
I know it requires a bit of Doctor Who lore, but World Enough in Time has to be on there.
The combination of the opening scene with the ending! Just outstanding
id love to pitch demons of the Punjab as a great jodie episode as a standalone. i would have picked that over villa diodati tbh
Please add “Rose” to the list
Roseroserose!!
Long time Who fan here and this episode is arguably the BEST episode ever. When i saw this for the first time we lived at this house where you could change the brightness of the lights and we always dimmed them for the extra spookiness and well, we forgot that there is a 'sweet' spot where it will sometimes actually start to cause the lights to flicker randomly and ironically when stuff started to get really bad the lights in our house flickered a lot causing everyone to scream. Even my parents let out a little sceam 😂 And this is coming from my dad who went to see the predator movie when it came to cinemas and then had to ride back on a motorbike through a forested area at night and he compared it to that
Finally! I have been waiting for a while for this! I would love to see more Tennant and Smith episodes. Id be curious to see what they think of Heavent sent.
I can't wait for the wheel to pick Oxygen again.
The Empty Child, The Empty Child ... plz i beg you
This episode was partially filmed in my husband’s former record store. You can actually see his handwriting in the shop when she’s watching the Tv