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
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.
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.
Was actually kinda excited for Oxygen lol
Still on the wheel!
@@Justinfication BETTER BE x
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!
you guys should watch blink next
😂
@@pizzaisfood 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...?
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
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.
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
"Listen"
12 and Clara in banter heaven (plus its my favourite Doctor Who episode)
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
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!!!
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
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
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?
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
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!
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.
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.
This entire episode feels like a satisfying feature-length film
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!
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.
The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances is also something amazing.
Give them Vincent And The Doctor, I wanna hear some people cry
Heaven sent would be so good, the "not an actual time loop" is a genius idea
Can't wait to watch your channel rise!! :D
I appreciate that, thanks for being along for the ride!
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!
ALL of Doctor Who is a paradox unto itself. That's the beauty of this show.
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
heaven sent would be the perfect follow-up to blink, in regard to pizza's main qualm here
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.
YEEESSS MORE DAVID TENNANT ERA!!
THE GOAT!!!!!!
Let’s hope there’s some more of the other eras too :)
Please add “Rose” to the list
Roseroserose!!
Listen or Heaven Sent next .. they need to see Capaldi in action!
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
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!
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.
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)
I've been waiting for this one! Can't wait to see what you guys think!
“Is he talking to us or like her like are we allowed to blink?”.
Yes.
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.
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
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.
I feel like silence in the library would be a good episode to watch
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.
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.
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.
Only one of the big 3 Doctor Who villains left, it’s time for Dalek!
Agai, still think The Doctor's Wife would be a great 11th Doctor episode
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
3:43 Ladies and gentlemen, the American education system.
💀
This episode is genuinely so good - what a shame that every time the angels appear they get less scary
Literally. This was so good though. I'll take a hundred more shitty angel episodes, for another blink. Dot and Bubble and 73 Yards gave me the same chill, soooo good.
@ Dot and Bubble didn’t come close to this in my opinion (it was alright!) and 73 yards was a good episode, but I liked the Donna alternate universe episode much more, so I also can’t put it on the same pedestal as Blink. Both are fun episodes though!
@@Anna-zi7sx turn left was amazing, no argument there!
@@littlemissmello yeah. Midnight, Blink, Turn Left and the girl in the fireplace are def some of the best doctor who standalone episodes.
None of the ones I’m following eras come quite close to them for me, though I enjoyed most of them plenty.
@@Anna-zi7sx I would agree for the most part EXCEPT that dot and Bubble and 73 yards hit in the same way for me. Maybe even wild blue yonder. This new new reboot has been a blast for me. Time will tell about the longevity, like time told about RTD1 but so far it's looking up I would say.
The wheel has decided. Oxygen has to be next now.
No the post clara Capaldi era can't be their introduction to 12 he didn't fall flat after clara but there was no better era to the show than the Capaldi-Coleman era
@dempshie Which episode would you suggest then?
@SirStrangefolk if they'd do a 3 episode in one marathon id suggest face the raven to hell bent because I honestly think those are the absolute best story in the show as a whole from 1963 to the modern who. But if they wouldn't then there's the caretaker, kill the moon, mummy on the orientation express, husband's of river song. Oxygen isn't bad, it's just nowhere near top teir for Capaldis era
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.
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.
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
new to your channel, and just finished this series, keep up the good content.
definitely recommend The Doctor Falls, season 10 episode 12.
been rewatching the classics recently so i'm a bit conflicted on my favorite doctor lol, but i still can't get over how well Peter Capaldi played his role as the doctor here with so much emotion packed into a single episode.
Heaven Sent is THE Capaldi episode, but definitely watch it after another Capaldi ep. It deserves a runway.
"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).
I can't wait for the wheel to pick Oxygen again.
David Tennents monologue at the end always gives me chills
All of these years later... So many times rewatching blink and I never ONCE noticed david blinks in the video
Genuinely love these videos, keep it up!
Anything with River or Missy in it is good!!
It's in the contract all the main actors on Doctor Who that they get to have one episode off during the season They either write the character out or they film a few scenes during a previous episode to stick them in. This episode both main actors got to take the time off, and they let other actors take over the show .
No this was filmed simultaneously with another episode. For series 4 you had Turn Left and Midnight filmed at the same time.
"It was raining when we met"
"It's the same rain"
God I love the writing in this episode
I’ve seen a few comments mentioning these and I’m just here to support their ideas. PLEASE put “Listen” and “Waters of Mars” on the wheel!!!
I've just binged this whole playlist, these videos are so much fun!
It reminded me of being a kid watching classic who episodes when I could find them at my local library, I never had access to full seasons or anything, just 4 episodes here and there covering one or two stories, I had completely forgotten that drop in, drop out feeling I had about the show back then, that I could watch any episodes at any point without needing the rest of the season to explain the plot.
I think the modern series have lost a little of that, since we live in a very different age of television, but there are still a good number of one-off or double feature episodes that don't need you to watch the entire show to fully enjoy them, you could probably make 20 more of these videos just focusing on those stories :D
I'll throw my hat in the ring and suggest "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead" for a potential double feature on the wheel, it's a self-contained story that introduces a fascinating character and it satisfies Fay's desire for a feature-length story!
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
HOW DARE YOU SKIP THE BEST PART. “A big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff”
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)
Maybe the episode 'Fathers day' next. Then the Xmas special 'a Christmas carol'.
You gotta do a big old binge in one sitting with "face the raven" "heaven sent" and "hell bent" it's one big multi part story with the doctor I belive to be the best the objectively best companion and an absolute banger of a triple threat story. I think it's the best in the whole show. If you do end up.on heaven sent or hell bent you absolutely have to.make sure you've all watched face the raven first so you can have full context and really enjoy and understand the story
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.
You edited out the "Wibbly Wobbly" bit! Such an iconic line!
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
I watched Blink for Halloween today, and a few hours later I watched people watch it xD 10/10 experience
Hi yes hello I'd like to make the humble request that you make this your sole mode of content and release 2000000 more of these. They're so good
Keep on creating; you’re doing an excellent job!
@@lightlegion_ thank you that means a lot 🙏❤️
Wait until these two find out that Matt Smith's entire run is like this.
(Specifically I'm referring to the time shenanigans)
Edit: Crazy how I *specifically clarified* what I was talking about and people are still complaining at me as if I'd dared to compare the quality. Can't win...
I love Matt and feel fondly about the era, but his time-shenanigan episodes are hardly this well written
Lol, none of the Moffat showrunner era lived up to this. Most of it was messy as hell
The way blink works and all later reuses of the angels doesn’t is the subtle breach of the 4th wall. As the audience you are pulled into this as you never see the monsters move, not just it being the characters that don’t. There’s one scene where the camera is focussed on a statue in the distance and as the character walks across the front of the shot, the statue has moved after they have passed by. The moment they showed them move on camera, that’s when they lost all impact….
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
I highly recommend:
The Empty Child
Season 1, Episode 9
And
Silence in the Library
Season 4, Episode 8
It's fun to revisit these old episodes and remember how good the writing used to be.
Another episode I'd highly recommend is Heaven Sent. While it is part two of a three part season finale, it works surprisingly well as a standalone episode.
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
massive W video, you're cooking my friend keep it up we're all cheering you on!
Appreciate it mate 🐐❤️
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.
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
I'm just going to write a few episodes to recommend from each season which, I believe, doesn't have much context needed and encapsulates the doctor in that season (Up to Capaldi):
Season 1:
- The End of the World
- The Empty Child (For obvious reasons)
Season 2:
- The Girl in the Fireplace
Season 3:
- The Family of Blood
- The Lazarus Experiment (Just to show the CGI)
Season 4:
- The Fires of Pompeii
- Silence in the Library
Season 5:
- The Beast Below
- Vincent & The Doctor
Season 6:
- The Doctor's Wife
- The God Complex
Season 7:
- The Angels Take Manhattan
- The Rings of Akhaten
Season 8:
- Mummy on the Orient Express
Season 9:
Hard to recommend anything from this season as they are mostly double episodes or rely on previous episodes (with Sleep No More being the only real exception, and I didn't find it great). Obviously I would like to recommend Heaven Sent but, without Face the Raven, you lose a lot of context which made it great.
Season 10:
- The Pilot
- Oxygen
Vincent and The Doctor and Knock, Knock please!
Reviewers: “Statues don’t move!” Everyone who knows: “Ha!”
Listen would be a good scary episode for you all to do!