I had a shirt that has a picture of the tardis and said "The angels have the phone box", loved when it would spark conversation with a fellow Whovian :D
A bit over 3 years ago I binge watched all of dr who from 2005 up to that point ( not counting the specials) in just a couple months. The angles scared the heck out of me for quite a while afterwards. I was 37 when I finished watching them.
They are horrifying monsters, stone statues that snap your neck or send you back in time, but I think the Midnight Entity is the most terrifying. We never got to see it yet, even now, I have trouble sleeping after watching the episode.
This is one of the best episodes ever written. It's a shame the Angles got less scary with each episode to the point where they literally just stopped trying to make sense.
@@Godzirra-San I want to know how much cocaine was snorted at the BBC when they wrote Angels in Manhattan. *SNORT* "What if the statue of Liberty was an Angel?" *SNORT* "That's a fantastic idea!" "wait guys, how would that work? First of all, Angels aren't statues that come alive, they're Aliens that freeze into stone. The Statue of Liberty isn't really a Statue. It a building, with plumbing and lifts and stairs and..." *SNORT* "Shut the fuck up Carl!" "Also, by the Angel's OWN RUELS, in the city that never sleeps, a population of 8 million, no one saw their most famous landmarks move as it walked down the streets? Not even the people INSIDE her?" *SNORT* "Carl, it's a show for children. No one needs to think too hard about logic."
even just the next angel episode(s. it's a two-parter) is one of my least favorite episodes, purely because it does a huge disservice to the angels. the angels were an incredible monster, with one of the most horrifying parts being that we could never see them move. and then the time of angels happened. time of angels also set up a bunch of weird extra powers of the weeping angels. you cant look into their eyes... for some reason? seriously why? what actually happened? she had like... an angel in her eye... why is that bad exactly? you have angels all around you, a new one couldn't hurt much, and if you can see it it cant hurt you, so if you dye because it's in your eye, why does closing your eyes help? your eyes dont turn off when you close your eyes, you still see the color black. it's very confusing and doesn't make any sense. anyway, you cant look in their eyes, images of the weeping become weeping angels (and even that is gone back on in future episodes. in the god complex, their are statues of weeping angels in one of the rooms. the doctor says that they are fake which, ok, fair. but... they would become not fake anymore right? they would become real weeping angels.). the weeping angels get to complicated and make no sense when they return past blink. blink was a masterpiece, and now weeping angels suck.
@@Godzirra-San it’s because the second episode they are in you see them move and hear them laugh. Their gimmick slowly melted away for plot convenience as Amy couldn’t see yet the angels were still stone.
@@lightningjet9444 the idea that they were in their defensive mode because they thought she could see... wait as I was typing this something sort of made some sense to me she has an image of an angel burned into her eye, so the other angels wouldn't be able to look into her eye or they would also be burned with the image of an angel, which would mean they could never move again, due to the fact if they look at one another they're observing each other... So they had to figure out her eyes were closed without being able to see whether or not she had them open, or risk the same death as those from the end of Blink. That all said circling back to the point I was originally going to make, the quantum lock thing doesn't really make all that much sense either. ANY living thing? What about insects and microbes that are affected by them? Conscious observation isn't what matters in quantum physics, to my limited understanding, it's any "observation," or external force on the quantum object. Also eyesight is affected by external forces and do not emit any information outward, only internally to the being processing the visual information, so do angels work by reading the minds of creatures, from the past so that their defense mechanism can turn them to stone before being seen? Point is if you think about it for any length of time some of it starts falling apart. "Wibbly wobbly." Just enjoy the show. I forget what happens in their third appearance after a whole bunch of them got erased from time which meant the images of those original angels were no longer images of angels because the original angels never existed therefore the images and Amy's memory of her angel's image meant absolutely nothing, which means those must have been all the angels because even if the particular angel no longer exists, wasn't the reason there wasn't even any drawings of angels because ANY image of an angel becomes an angel? So even if it's an image of a particular angel doesn't the fact it's AN image of AN angel make it a NEW angel? Again that *could* explain the whole not wanting to risk looking at Amy and seeing the angel that was IN HER EYE killing themself and that separate angel?
Now that you mention it they could have maybe used her in Smith's era instead of Amy and Rory. You could have had her and the guy, I liked the two of them. PLUS Moffat wrote this episode and became lead writer for Smith's era... the more I think about it the more I think it should have happened. Although I still like Amy and Rory.
best companion ? SHE should have been the first female Doctor ! I would like to hear someday what chain of events got this incredible woman in this episode-what in the universe aligned for all this to come together,this perfection.
The angels must really hate when a bird comes along "C'mon man move just move there's nothing here just move I got a football game i wanna watch move MOVE"
+Cryer24597 Six months ago... Throwing in my bit anyway. I'd like to think the Angels' defense mechanism only applies to creatures they could feed from, which I guess is anything larger than the average human fist. Any sentient being that 'understands' a statue is a statue. To any insect or bacteria it is just yet another galaxy/planet-sized oddity moving.
kelly wilson whitehead Fun fact! I couldn't sleep alone without having a panic attack, and horrific nightmares for a year after this episode! I stopped being scared of them when you see them move in Series 5.
If u look, when the Doctor says that don't blink part, he doesnt blink! That means he was hoping that by him not blinking and just staring, he saved them for as long as he could. Amazing actor!
When I put up pegboard in my basement, I wrote the message from this episode on the wall behind it on the REALLY rare chance they're a Doctor Who fan. It probably won't pay off, but if it does, it will blow someone's mind in like 60 years.
D - I’m a time traveler, or.. I was, I´m stuck, in 1969. M - We’re stuck, all this space and time he promissed me and now I’ve got a job in a shop I’ve got to support him! D - Martha! M - Sorry. S - I’ve seen this bit before. D - Quite possibly. S - 1969 that’s where you’re talking from? D - ‘fraid so. S - But you’re replying to me! You can’t know exactly what I’m gonna say 40 years before I say it! D - 38! L - I’m getting this down, I’m writing in your bits. S - How? How is this possible? Tell me. L - Not so fast! D - Yeahh, people don’t understand time, it’s not what you think it is. S - Then what is it? D - Complicated. S - Tell me. D - Very complicated. S - I’m clever and I’m listening, and don’t patronize me because people have died and I’m not happy. Tell me. D - People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. S - Yeah, I’ve seen this bit before, you said that sentence got away from you. D - It, got away from me yeah. S - Next thing you’re gonna say is “well I can hear you”. D - Well I can hear you. S - This is impossible! L - No, it’s brilliant! D - Well not hear you exactly, but I know everything you’re gonna say. L - Always give me the shivers that bit. S - How can you know what I’m gonna say? D - Look to your left. L - What does he mean by “look to your left”, I’ve written tons about that on the forums, I think it’s a political statement. S - He means you, what are you doing? L - I’m writing in your bits, that way I’ve got a complete transcript of the whole conversation. Wait until this hits the net, this will explode the egg forums. D - I’ve got a copy of the finished transcript, it’s on my autocue. S - How could you have a copy of the finished transcript? It’s still being written! D - I told you, I’m a time traveler, I got it in the future. S - Ok, let me get my head around this, you’re reading aloud from a transcript of a conversation you’re still having? D - yeh, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.. S - Ugh, nevermind that, you can do short hand. L - So? D - What matters is we can communicate, we’ve got big problems now. They have taken the blue box haven’t they? The angels have the phone box. L - “The angels have the phone box”, that’s my favorite, I’ve got that on a t-shirt. S - What do you mean angels? You mean those statue things? D - Creatures from another world. S - But they are just statues. D - Only when you see them. S - What does that mean? D - Lonely assasins they used to be called, no one quite knows where they came from but they’re as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are quantum locked, they don’t exist when they’re being observed, the moment they are seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock. No choice it’s a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literaly turn to stone. And you can’t kill a stone. Course, a stone can’t kill you either, but then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can. S - Don’t take your eyes of that. D - That’s why they cover their eyes, they’re not weeping, they can’t risk looking at each other. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. They can never be seen. Loneliest creatures of the universe, and I’m Sorry, I am very very sorry, it’s up to you now. S - What am I supposed to do? D - The blue box, it’s my time machine, there is a world of time energy in there, they could feast on forever but the damage they can do could switch off the sun. You have got to send it back to me. S - How, how? D - Aaand, that’s it, I’m afraid. There’s no more from you on the transcript, that’s the last I’ve got. I don’t know what stopped you talking, but I can guess. They’re coming, the angels are coming for you but listen, your life could depend on this: Don’t blink, don’t even blink, blink and you’re dead, they’re fast, faster than you could believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away and don’t blink. Good Luck.
Sommerelb it could move while still covering its eyes, and the mirror would created another Angel that would still be covering its own eyes, it would be theoretically possible to infinity create angels that way
What amazes me is this scene from larry's perspective. He has seen the doctor's part of the video before, and it never really made sense to him. So when he looked up and saw an angel statue, the rest of it all clicked in his head and he realized how unbelievably terrifying the reality of the situation was. It went from creepy pasta to horror film incarnate in .5 seconds
this was really damn impressive. the absence of the doctor felt a bit nervous, and talking through a video was just so creative. later even showing her handing the doctor the transcript.
This episode still freaks me out. One of the best I've seen. I stopped watching after he regenerated, so I don't know about the rest of the show, but man creeped out for ages
Yogscast OWEN If you have the opportunity to go to "The Doctor Who Experience" in Cardiff, you really going to shit yourself on your freaking pants with the Weeping Angels!! (and all the magnificant villains!! xD)
Totally Agree. I watched the episode a little while ago and it still creeps me out. The Angels would definitely top a list of Sci-Fi's creepiest aliens
Grandfather Paradox state's that person builds time travel machine. Uses time travel machine to travel back in time. Person kills his younger grandfather before younger grandfather meets younger grandmother.
I think what made Blink arguably the scariest Angel episode is that it had the balls to remove what would be a major security blanket for audiences - the Doctor himself. For the vast majority of the episode, the Doctor isn't physically there until the end and makes very few appearances, so the audience's sense of people being saved by the antagonistic forces is challenged. Martha Jones is also away as well so the episode's protagonists aren't even people that are used to aliens and sci-fi shenanigans - it's just a couple of random people that are left to their own wits to survive.
And to think this format only came about due to scheduling issues meaning they couldn't get the main cast in long enough to film a regular episode. Sometimes we do more when we are given less.
yeah wait wtf that basically makes them invincible edit: I should clarify, it would make the ANGELS invincible. since people seem to not be able to use common sense...
@@sheeshkabob because if you close your eyes or can't see them, they kill you. and if you have one of these conditions, not blinking or keeping your eyes on them is impossible...?
He and Matt were the best doctors for me. The kind of emotion that David brought to the role, is what you would expect from a lonely universe saving alien.
Hard agree. It’s still in my top 5 for sure. I really liked Midnight as well, I think it was called? The one with the passenger thing on the crystal planet. The sheer idea of that episode’s creature, whatever it was, was pretty terrifying too.
@@elisvideobazaar5299 Translation: I'm a misogynist who can't cope with the idea of a female doctor so I'm going to complain about the new series every chance I get. (Though to be honest every regeneration there's always Who fans who complain about *their* Doctor regenerating, it's just got a much nastier tone now)
The best episode of the best Doctor. The weeping angels idea, the scenario, Tennant's acting, everything was brilliant. It was peak of the series. It's sad that it's never come close since.
It's the perfect standalone episode. Even if you've never watched Doctor Who, it's almost the perfect introduction to the series. Imagine this being your first episode. Then when this is over, you're through the looking glass and get to ride along with the character that's BARELY even in this episode.
I still love the little 4th wall breaking aspect of the angels where even if it’s only one character in a room of them and the person has their back turned to them they are still stone because we the audience are currently looking at them.
We'll also the cameraman... But if it is recorded, (something I just realised), can't they kill the audience? As Matt Smith explained, the image of an angel _is_ and angel.
oh god if they ever teamed up that'd be a nightmare. honestly someone should make a horror game of those both, but you are just a regular human person. Also, I would like to see the cybermen or daleks try to deal with those things so far only universe cracks have been able to actually make the angels scared. I think just having to deal with them might actually force fear back into their metal bodies
@@GothicgirlscoutOK, but imagine this: What if the weeping angels, the Vashta Nerada, the Silence, and whatever was the creature from the episode Listen all teamed up?
@@sheersternfeld1914the shadows would defeat the Angels by moving around like a playful dog and make sure the angels are in a circle or facing each other.
The one thing that this scene showed perfectly is that even though Tennants doctor was cocky, and confident, he also knew when things were serious. The way he describes the angels and how dangerous they are gave me chills as a kid. You could hear the fear in The Doctor’s voice, and when The Doctor is scared, you know you’re about to meet a truly gruesome enemy.
I was rewatching this and there's such a clever little bit of writing. The Doctor very subtly breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that Sally and Larry are going to be just fine and succeed: after all, without their success, how would the Doctor be able to get their transcript from the future? It subverts it's own horror if you paid attention to that little detail, and still manages to be utterly tense and terrifying afterwards as a result. Masterclass in storytelling and horror, this episode.
Yeah, I loved how everything revolves around the actions and the reactions of the Doctor, that there is something far more eviler than anything out there wanting the Tardis. That the Doctor has no other choice but to rely on other people who aren’t related to anything, get involved the moment they see the Doctor, he is both a blessing and a curse.
They hired actors and writers based on skills back then... Today they hire based on what you got between your legs, on what you use it and what colour it is... No wonder writing and acting has gone to shit.
It's actually a great defensive measure, might even be perfect. You can't kill a stone because a stone is technically not even alive. Only a material, or something along those lines So even if the weeping angels were to be destroyed by explosive, they probably have some sort of ability to reform the same material that they possess
Technically it's not stone, something way harder. Depending on what he meant by 'quantum locked' those statutes could be frozen in a single point in time. That would make them indestructible to all but Temporal based attacks, like the rip in time space or poisoned by a time paradox. Actually since they have control over time. E.g. spending people back in time, feeding off time energy, the frozen moment theory sounds most applausable.
@@matthewallen2273 That actually makes sense, despite how durable a stone may be, it's still susceptible to conventional weaponry And since the angels are practically almost the same age as the universe, that might explain why the angels were able to survive for such a long time
@@zeroframe7002 As the Doctor said it's the perfect defence mechanism. This along with the fact that they can easily feed off any living thing or just by soaking up energy from a strong enough power source and go long periods without sustenance. Would made them an enduring species as a whole. I question how they managed to get off their home planet since we never see them using their own technology. But they may have been introduced to that technology my other aliens who thought they were the artworks of a dead race. They could simply let these first explorers take a portion of their fellow angels back with them to new planets/feeding grounds and they then spread throughout the early colonised universe unprepared for such a unique threat.
"They don't exist when observed" is the clue. The way I see it, the stone statue is not really them, just something that occupies their place when they're not present in reality.
Joe Scirrotto true, but in that one episode with the 11th doctor, we did see a whole army of angels regrow their wings and dresses, so i think they can regenerate
@@RubenAssassinRose tbh, I've never seen this show. I somehow got this clip in my recommended and just rolled with it. If that is the case, then it's possible that only shattering the head would do the job
@@fireblast8972 Sadly, no. Many Weeping Angels were apperantly missing their heads on that Episode as well, but they were still following around. So literally, either trick them into looking at each other, or the only other option is to *pulverize them* completely, up until the last atom. Their biology is weird.
@Sir Soy Gato the Second True, although most people would probably either freak out too much in that situation to think of that or just not know what was going on in the first place.
How else do you explain something complicated to someone who has no hope of actually understanding, yet insists that they will and demands that they be given an explanation? You confuse them with meaningless babble and then move on. It's a pretty clever way of dealing with humans, actually.
This episode is just phenomenal. Like it actually sends chills up your spine with how well they contextualize and mystify the angels. They seem unstoppable.
@@conlooka9356 Actually, if I'm not mistaken, their touch only sends you back if they aren't being actively observed while you're in contact with them. Or at least, there's no indication that they are anything other than a stone statue while being observed, including no indication that their ability is active when observed
I think few people recognize one small detail that the writers realized: When he was explaining the Angels, Sally Sparrow told the guy "Keep your eyes on that", so he couldn't write anymore. So, at the end of his speech, he says, "That's all I've got from you on the transcript". Kudos to them!
and since their eyes are on the side of their head they're able to see in front of them and behind them at the same time so no matter which way the fish is facing it'll be looking at the weeping angels
@@mortenv15 Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! ............................................................................................................................................
Strongest and scariest lol, well imo at least, can watch it much better nowadays as I was nearly 9 when it was originally broadcast, and aren't nearly as scary as FO4's Super Mutants or Racnoss or The Beast.
David's acting is incredible here. He's the only actor who could deliver these lines and act this part and get it right. His expression, tone, eye contact.... Amazing acting and makes this scene so creepy.
Bro I got chills watching it again after it scared me when i was about 10 or 13 Now I'm 24 rewatched it today and his acting is insanely good imo so I agree the way he explains them gave me chills literally watching it lol
The fact that this one episode made me afraid to blink for two weeks and has given me a fear of angels and statues that has lasted 14 years (as of yet) is incredible. The writing of this episode was absolutely phenomenal!
My dad is a huge Doctor Who fan. When I was little, he wanted to share it with me, get me hooked. THIS was the first episode he showed me. Needless to say, after a week or so of nightmares, I never got into the show. Still don't know what my dad was thinking showing me THIS ONE first?!?!
my parents have been fans since THEY were kids so I was brought up watching along with Dr Who as it came out post-2005. I was about 8 years old when this episode came out. TERRIFIED. even my parents were scared of this one!
haha, my very first doctor who episode was Silence in the Library, i was already a horror fan at way to young of an age, that episode got me hooked, i watched for about another decade before dropping it
Supertecnoboff Lets just tell ourselves that, in a parallel universe somewhere,Tennant ended up staying after season 4 and beat Tom Bakers record as longest serving Doctor 😊👍
"They're as old as the universe, or nearly." I like how there was a passing reference to this fact in "End of Time," when Lord Rassilon, leading a civilization with "a billion years of history on our backs," makes mention of the Weeping Angels "of old."
Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And most of all, don't blink. Good Luck.
David Tennant's acting in this part makes we shiver, he looks so genuine like he really is locked in the past reading from a transcript; Like he really worried they would die; Like he is Doctor Who and not just an actor playing there part-
Scared me shitless when I was 10 or 13 and watched it for the first time lol I couldn't sleep for 2 to 4 hours at night after all my friends did at my friends house I'm 24 now and still creepy but nowhere near as much cause I'm older
its amazing how this show can turn normal things into near nightmares. theres "dont blink" which was cool but what really got me was "stay out of the shadows" that episode freaked me out.
I love how the cartoony, comedic music playing in the background just STOPS the moment the Doctor starts describing what the Weeping Angels are. And then the eerie, thrilling music starts playing. It points perfectly to which point the conversation changed tone. 👌
@@wyvern5890 A dimensional being of a lower state can only slightly speculate on higher dimensions. We understand distance and depth because we have senses that support them. We can only understand time in a linear fashion because we observe time in a linear fashion and even then only conceptually. The best way I can explain our existence is that we are tangled worms. We could very well exist cyclically
The Empty Child: DON'T TOUCH The Weeping Angels: DON’T BLINK The Silence: DON’T FORGET The Cyborg From The Restaurant: DON’T BREATHE Listen: DON’T LOOK The Telepathic Alien From The Bank: DON’T THINK The Doctor: WHAT CAN I DO!?!?!?!?!!?!??!!?!!?
I love the subtle detail of how the doctor's transcript stops the moment Sally tells Larry to not take his eyes off the angel
because he cant write what sally is saying anymore because he has to look at the statue
You mean brilliant writing...
Holy fuck I just now noticed that. I always wondered why the transcript suddenly stops.
But the doctor replies when Sally asks what she's supposed to do
He just assumes she doesn't know because he hasn't said anything about that yet@@Klick404
" The angels have the phone box!" That's my favorite. I've got that on a t-shirt.
Me: *I want that T-shirt*
I have that T-shirt hahaha
holy shit its a real shirt
I've got a shirt and poster that says "Keep calm and Don't Blink"
I had a shirt that has a picture of the tardis and said "The angels have the phone box", loved when it would spark conversation with a fellow Whovian :D
as with many fictional items, it's been be defictionalized by multiple T-shirt makers. A quick Google search should be all you need
"Can you summarise Doctor Who in less than 10 seconds?"
*WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY STUff*
David tennant as Doctor in a line
Lonely assassins they used to be called...
Creatures from another world
@@clairtaylor5845 Yeah we watched the vid thanks
DenierDev blink and your dead
People who are actual gods at staring contests: I've been training my whole life for this
You are everywhere. Are you magical? Serious question.
so many Justin Y now
what happened to your mustache?!
@@prizma45 So he can manipulate time? It all makes sense now.
@@annoyingcat5328 dude at this point I believe his moustache is what powers the fucking tardis
When I was younger, these scared the hell out of me. I thought these were the scariest villains lol
They still are though
A bit over 3 years ago I binge watched all of dr who from 2005 up to that point ( not counting the specials) in just a couple months. The angles scared the heck out of me for quite a while afterwards. I was 37 when I finished watching them.
They are horrifying monsters, stone statues that snap your neck or send you back in time, but I think the Midnight Entity is the most terrifying. We never got to see it yet, even now, I have trouble sleeping after watching the episode.
These are the scariest ones for me😂 just the fact you have to keep looking at them etc terrified me
I the empty child is the scariest in my opinion
This is one of the best episodes ever written.
It's a shame the Angles got less scary with each episode to the point where they literally just stopped trying to make sense.
I've always thought this and I think most fans would agree - Every time we met the angels in an episode the became much less scary
@@Godzirra-San I want to know how much cocaine was snorted at the BBC when they wrote Angels in Manhattan.
*SNORT*
"What if the statue of Liberty was an Angel?"
*SNORT*
"That's a fantastic idea!"
"wait guys, how would that work? First of all, Angels aren't statues that come alive, they're Aliens that freeze into stone. The Statue of Liberty isn't really a Statue. It a building, with plumbing and lifts and stairs and..."
*SNORT*
"Shut the fuck up Carl!"
"Also, by the Angel's OWN RUELS, in the city that never sleeps, a population of 8 million, no one saw their most famous landmarks move as it walked down the streets? Not even the people INSIDE her?"
*SNORT*
"Carl, it's a show for children. No one needs to think too hard about logic."
even just the next angel episode(s. it's a two-parter) is one of my least favorite episodes, purely because it does a huge disservice to the angels. the angels were an incredible monster, with one of the most horrifying parts being that we could never see them move. and then the time of angels happened. time of angels also set up a bunch of weird extra powers of the weeping angels. you cant look into their eyes... for some reason? seriously why? what actually happened? she had like... an angel in her eye... why is that bad exactly? you have angels all around you, a new one couldn't hurt much, and if you can see it it cant hurt you, so if you dye because it's in your eye, why does closing your eyes help? your eyes dont turn off when you close your eyes, you still see the color black. it's very confusing and doesn't make any sense. anyway, you cant look in their eyes, images of the weeping become weeping angels (and even that is gone back on in future episodes. in the god complex, their are statues of weeping angels in one of the rooms. the doctor says that they are fake which, ok, fair. but... they would become not fake anymore right? they would become real weeping angels.). the weeping angels get to complicated and make no sense when they return past blink. blink was a masterpiece, and now weeping angels suck.
@@Godzirra-San it’s because the second episode they are in you see them move and hear them laugh. Their gimmick slowly melted away for plot convenience as Amy couldn’t see yet the angels were still stone.
@@lightningjet9444 the idea that they were in their defensive mode because they thought she could see... wait as I was typing this something sort of made some sense to me she has an image of an angel burned into her eye, so the other angels wouldn't be able to look into her eye or they would also be burned with the image of an angel, which would mean they could never move again, due to the fact if they look at one another they're observing each other...
So they had to figure out her eyes were closed without being able to see whether or not she had them open, or risk the same death as those from the end of Blink.
That all said circling back to the point I was originally going to make, the quantum lock thing doesn't really make all that much sense either. ANY living thing? What about insects and microbes that are affected by them? Conscious observation isn't what matters in quantum physics, to my limited understanding, it's any "observation," or external force on the quantum object. Also eyesight is affected by external forces and do not emit any information outward, only internally to the being processing the visual information, so do angels work by reading the minds of creatures, from the past so that their defense mechanism can turn them to stone before being seen?
Point is if you think about it for any length of time some of it starts falling apart. "Wibbly wobbly." Just enjoy the show.
I forget what happens in their third appearance after a whole bunch of them got erased from time which meant the images of those original angels were no longer images of angels because the original angels never existed therefore the images and Amy's memory of her angel's image meant absolutely nothing, which means those must have been all the angels because even if the particular angel no longer exists, wasn't the reason there wasn't even any drawings of angels because ANY image of an angel becomes an angel? So even if it's an image of a particular angel doesn't the fact it's AN image of AN angel make it a NEW angel? Again that *could* explain the whole not wanting to risk looking at Amy and seeing the angel that was IN HER EYE killing themself and that separate angel?
Sally would have been the best companion.
Now that you mention it they could have maybe used her in Smith's era instead of Amy and Rory. You could have had her and the guy, I liked the two of them. PLUS Moffat wrote this episode and became lead writer for Smith's era... the more I think about it the more I think it should have happened. Although I still like Amy and Rory.
William DeMarco the other guys name is Larry.
sanam after rose of course
@@sjhddhdhs If you're not as good as Rose that means you replace her as the worst companion though
best companion ? SHE should have been the first female Doctor ! I would like to hear someday what chain of events got this incredible woman in this episode-what in the universe aligned for all this to come together,this perfection.
The angels must really hate when a bird comes along
"C'mon man move just move there's nothing here just move
I got a football game i wanna watch move MOVE"
Cryer24597 "when ever they Being Observed by any living creature they turn to stone" that's what he basically said
Okay i was just making a joke and quoting the doctor but you really deep about this
Cryer24597 Yep
+Cryer24597 Six months ago...
Throwing in my bit anyway. I'd like to think the Angels' defense mechanism only applies to creatures they could feed from, which I guess is anything larger than the average human fist. Any sentient being that 'understands' a statue is a statue. To any insect or bacteria it is just yet another galaxy/planet-sized oddity moving.
+Lewis Murphy although he did say seen by any other living creature and besides once the bug looks away it dies
And that's how I got a "The Angels Have The Phone Box" shirt
Brione me too
I’m getting one for Christmas.
Hopefully.
"After the doctors speech"
O_o whelp I didn't need sleep anyway
O.O IM WITH YA
Sleeps just a waste of time anyway.
kelly wilson whitehead Fun fact! I couldn't sleep alone without having a panic attack, and horrific nightmares for a year after this episode! I stopped being scared of them when you see them move in Series 5.
Don't sleep
Are you ill or something?
This episode is one of Moffat's bests.
Without a doubt, along side The Empty Child
are you my mommy :O
That's not one of Moffat's.
Toby Martin i guess I'm wrong after all
gianco armando It was a good episode though.
This is easily my favorite episode out of the whole show. I can still remember watching it on tv when it came out.
If u look, when the Doctor says that don't blink part, he doesnt blink! That means he was hoping that by him not blinking and just staring, he saved them for as long as he could. Amazing actor!
"People don't understand time, it's not what you think it is"
"Than what is it?"
"Complicated"
"Tell me"
"Very complicated"
Pokemaniac_101 sounds like my love life
"Wibbley-wobbley timey-wimmey... stuff."
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
When I put up pegboard in my basement, I wrote the message from this episode on the wall behind it on the REALLY rare chance they're a Doctor Who fan. It probably won't pay off, but if it does, it will blow someone's mind in like 60 years.
Man, this is one of my favorite Doctor Who moments. It's such good writing conceptually.
Don't look away or they'll talk about you behind your back
D - I’m a time traveler, or.. I was, I´m stuck, in 1969.
M - We’re stuck, all this space and time he promissed me and now I’ve got a job in a shop I’ve got to support him!
D - Martha!
M - Sorry.
S - I’ve seen this bit before.
D - Quite possibly.
S - 1969 that’s where you’re talking from?
D - ‘fraid so.
S - But you’re replying to me! You can’t know exactly what I’m gonna say 40 years before I say it!
D - 38!
L - I’m getting this down, I’m writing in your bits.
S - How? How is this possible? Tell me.
L - Not so fast!
D - Yeahh, people don’t understand time, it’s not what you think it is.
S - Then what is it?
D - Complicated.
S - Tell me.
D - Very complicated.
S - I’m clever and I’m listening, and don’t patronize me because people have died and I’m not happy. Tell me.
D - People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
S - Yeah, I’ve seen this bit before, you said that sentence got away from you.
D - It, got away from me yeah.
S - Next thing you’re gonna say is “well I can hear you”.
D - Well I can hear you.
S - This is impossible!
L - No, it’s brilliant!
D - Well not hear you exactly, but I know everything you’re gonna say.
L - Always give me the shivers that bit.
S - How can you know what I’m gonna say?
D - Look to your left.
L - What does he mean by “look to your left”, I’ve written tons about that on the forums, I think it’s a political statement.
S - He means you, what are you doing?
L - I’m writing in your bits, that way I’ve got a complete transcript of the whole conversation. Wait until this hits the net, this will explode the egg forums.
D - I’ve got a copy of the finished transcript, it’s on my autocue.
S - How could you have a copy of the finished transcript? It’s still being written!
D - I told you, I’m a time traveler, I got it in the future.
S - Ok, let me get my head around this, you’re reading aloud from a transcript of a conversation you’re still having?
D - yeh, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey..
S - Ugh, nevermind that, you can do short hand.
L - So?
D - What matters is we can communicate, we’ve got big problems now. They have taken the blue box haven’t they? The angels have the phone box.
L - “The angels have the phone box”, that’s my favorite, I’ve got that on a t-shirt.
S - What do you mean angels? You mean those statue things?
D - Creatures from another world.
S - But they are just statues.
D - Only when you see them.
S - What does that mean?
D - Lonely assasins they used to be called, no one quite knows where they came from but they’re as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are quantum locked, they don’t exist when they’re being observed, the moment they are seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock. No choice it’s a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literaly turn to stone. And you can’t kill a stone. Course, a stone can’t kill you either, but then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can.
S - Don’t take your eyes of that.
D - That’s why they cover their eyes, they’re not weeping, they can’t risk looking at each other. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. They can never be seen. Loneliest creatures of the universe, and I’m Sorry, I am very very sorry, it’s up to you now.
S - What am I supposed to do?
D - The blue box, it’s my time machine, there is a world of time energy in there, they could feast on forever but the damage they can do could switch off the sun. You have got to send it back to me.
S - How, how?
D - Aaand, that’s it, I’m afraid. There’s no more from you on the transcript, that’s the last I’ve got. I don’t know what stopped you talking, but I can guess. They’re coming, the angels are coming for you but listen, your life could depend on this: Don’t blink, don’t even blink, blink and you’re dead, they’re fast, faster than you could believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away and don’t blink. Good Luck.
+Betina Chiminacio Good job! :D
+Betina Chiminacio haha thought I was only one!
Betina Chiminacio *Thanks for that because I barely can understand speaking english. And I'm replying to 2 years old comment instead of studying.*
I think I'm actually gonna use this once in my theatre study! :) Thank you!
rez
My favourite doctor
he's the best, nobody will ever come close to tennant
Just put a mirror in front of an angel, next time, he wants to move, he will look at himself and thats it!
+Sommerelb An image of the Weeping Angel becomes a Weeping Angel
So? Then we would have two weeping angels staring at each other, that's good enough for me!
There's just one problem. The Angels usually come in groups.
Bainbow surround yourself in mirrors
Sommerelb it could move while still covering its eyes, and the mirror would created another Angel that would still be covering its own eyes, it would be theoretically possible to infinity create angels that way
Gives me chills every time, I remember seeing it when it first came out on tv and it's still just as creepy even now.
What amazes me is this scene from larry's perspective. He has seen the doctor's part of the video before, and it never really made sense to him. So when he looked up and saw an angel statue, the rest of it all clicked in his head and he realized how unbelievably terrifying the reality of the situation was. It went from creepy pasta to horror film incarnate in .5 seconds
this was really damn impressive. the absence of the doctor felt a bit nervous, and talking through a video was just so creative. later even showing her handing the doctor the transcript.
I fall asleep to horror films. It comforts me. I live horror so I don’t usually scare. But those weeping angels freak the bejesus out of me.
"Don't blink. Blink and you're dead"
{Turns head round for 1 full second}
'Whoah nearly got me'
Well, if you blink one eye and then the other... you're still looking at it.
Let's pretend that I don't k ow how to "blibk"
*blink*
+MK3424 that's called winking
Well Amy Did That....
+MK3424 Exactly, that's kind of a loophole that can be somewhat overlooked if you don't think into it too much.
One of the creepiest scenes in the history of TV
this episode terrifies me to this day
This was one of the absolute best eps I've ever watched the tension the story and an ep not from the doctors perspective just loved every moment of it
This episode is in my best top 4 episodes of DW 100% !! Anyone agree??
Without doubt this is perfect Who. This still gives me a chill.
Such amazing writing. One of my favorite episodes.
This episode still freaks me out. One of the best I've seen.
I stopped watching after he regenerated, so I don't know about the rest of the show, but man creeped out for ages
0:14 The way the look on his face switches when he answers 😆
“The damage they could do could switch of the sun.”
Honestly a scarier line than “don’t blink”.
Note to self: don't watch Doctor Who at 4:32 AM! Just thinking of the angels makes me want to shit myself!
Yogscast OWEN
If you have the opportunity to go to "The Doctor Who Experience" in Cardiff, you really going to shit yourself on your freaking pants with the Weeping Angels!! (and all the magnificant villains!! xD)
Totally Agree. I watched the episode a little while ago and it still creeps me out. The Angels would definitely top a list of Sci-Fi's creepiest aliens
I stayed awake just about the whole night after I saw this episode. Which I will admit impressed me; hardly anything I watch scares me THAT much!
Even I was watching this at 3 in the morning...still gives me shivers
Almas Hashmi What drove you to do such madness?!?!
1:06 Unexpected JoJo
XDDDD
This was one of the best episodes ever along with the family of blood
It's kinda like Red Light, Green Life but with your life!
Or Mario and Big Boo!
well not your life, but your life as you know it (assuming they choose to send you back and not just snap your neck like SCP-173)
Imagine seeing that in real life and having no context like they did in the show that is a terrifying half of a conversation to hear
Stuff like this is i think the coolest part of time travel stories.
Sally Sparrow...the best Doctor Who companion that never was
duct tape your eyes, and blinking problem will be fixed
Grandfather Paradox state's that person builds time travel machine. Uses time travel machine to travel back in time. Person kills his younger grandfather before younger grandfather meets younger grandmother.
Probably the greatest Doctor Who story ever.
Don't mind me, I'm just here to show my respects where it all started.
This is the RUclips video that got me watching Doctor who.
This is still the scriest episode for me
I think what made Blink arguably the scariest Angel episode is that it had the balls to remove what would be a major security blanket for audiences - the Doctor himself. For the vast majority of the episode, the Doctor isn't physically there until the end and makes very few appearances, so the audience's sense of people being saved by the antagonistic forces is challenged. Martha Jones is also away as well so the episode's protagonists aren't even people that are used to aliens and sci-fi shenanigans - it's just a couple of random people that are left to their own wits to survive.
I thought ‘Hohoho I was right! You can do the one eye thing Amy does!’ I was so caught up in being right, I forgot I can’t see out my right eye
And to think this format only came about due to scheduling issues meaning they couldn't get the main cast in long enough to film a regular episode. Sometimes we do more when we are given less.
What episode this is?
That’s what made it boring af
@@lllchildmoon9831 Blink
One thing I love is how the music kicks in when the doctor says "creature from another word" immediately signaling danger
It really starts to get tense when he says "Lonely Assassins" and then it gets worse when he says "But then you turn your heads"
Doctor: "Don't blink."
People with astigmatisms, dry eyes, blindness, and no eyes: "Welp."
Yep
yeah wait wtf that basically makes them invincible
edit: I should clarify, it would make the ANGELS invincible. since people seem to not be able to use common sense...
@@Hotpink51 how?
@@sheeshkabob because if you close your eyes or can't see them, they kill you. and if you have one of these conditions, not blinking or keeping your eyes on them is impossible...?
@@Hotpink51 If you have dry eyes (a condition I have), you can't help *but to blink*
“You can’t kill stone”
Paper: “hold my beer”
You ruined it with the laughing emoji
Why the emoji? F for the good joke.
Magic
@@lukasbarnes alright, you can take my like now.
Yay u got rid of the emoji
David Tennant defined Dr. Who for a generation.
Replying to show you how many likes you have
still does for me to be honest, none will compare to his depiction of the Doctor
David be always my Doctor.
@ still hope I ll see tom elise as doctor,he would be great
He and Matt were the best doctors for me. The kind of emotion that David brought to the role, is what you would expect from a lonely universe saving alien.
Arguably one of the greatest dr. Who episodes.. Fantastic acting.. Great story. Clever. Witty. Engrossing.
This one is really very special.
Totally agree.
It’s arguable whether it’s THE greatest episode but it’s not arguable that it’s one of them.
It's the highest-rated episode on IMDB with a rating of 9.8/10.
It was incredibly clever. Everyone has to admire the brilliant writing.
Hard agree. It’s still in my top 5 for sure. I really liked Midnight as well, I think it was called? The one with the passenger thing on the crystal planet. The sheer idea of that episode’s creature, whatever it was, was pretty terrifying too.
I just adore how the writing in this show can turn from: comedy, to sci-fi, to horror...and all on the same dime.
I completely agree with you it’s so cool!
@Adolf Schinkler I agree, you could never know what to expect except amazing but now we're lucky to get a medeocor episode.
well it used to be able to at least
@@elisvideobazaar5299 Translation: I'm a misogynist who can't cope with the idea of a female doctor so I'm going to complain about the new series every chance I get. (Though to be honest every regeneration there's always Who fans who complain about *their* Doctor regenerating, it's just got a much nastier tone now)
Except the recent episodes the writing is awful
"It's very complicated"
"BIG BALL OF WIBLY WOBLY TIMIE WHIMIE"
"...STUFF!"
Timey wimey
I have no idea where he picks that stuff up.
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Whimey
Wibbley WHAT? What makes you so ashamed to be a grown-up?
This was the episode and the scene that got me back into Doctor Who. Still shivers.
the bloody man himself
My first episode and it gave me nightmares.
Same for me. Brilliant episode.
Always gives me shivers that bit
Hey it's GGGmanlives! Love your reviews.
The best episode of the best Doctor. The weeping angels idea, the scenario, Tennant's acting, everything was brilliant. It was peak of the series.
It's sad that it's never come close since.
Yes. Just yes. Everything about this still screams Classic! 😀
Totally agree. It was so good that all subsequent episodes have disappointed me.
No doubt about it. So good, so smart, so much pathos, so much to say about aging and how quickly life passes by. It towers above all the other Whos.
It's the perfect standalone episode. Even if you've never watched Doctor Who, it's almost the perfect introduction to the series. Imagine this being your first episode. Then when this is over, you're through the looking glass and get to ride along with the character that's BARELY even in this episode.
@@robot_spideri remember that i was so scared that i had difficulty sleeping for several weeks
"They're as old as the universe."
Hmm. Like a crack in the wall.
I see what you did there. :)
We see what you did there
I don’t get it sorry
@@aceblackrose9155 you gotta watch the series to get it. :) It's a reference to another episode.
Why did I read that part as if it was a pink floyd song lol. "Like a crack in the wall!!"
I still love the little 4th wall breaking aspect of the angels where even if it’s only one character in a room of them and the person has their back turned to them they are still stone because we the audience are currently looking at them.
I never thought of that, that is brilliant!
We'll also the cameraman... But if it is recorded, (something I just realised), can't they kill the audience? As Matt Smith explained, the image of an angel _is_ and angel.
And then in the next story they were in we saw them move-
My headcanon is that there are no weeping angels stories except blink.
@@rishabhmittal9552 wasn't there an episode where an angel came out of a screen?
This + Vashta Nerada = *Never shutting the lights off again*
oh god if they ever teamed up that'd be a nightmare. honestly someone should make a horror game of those both, but you are just a regular human person. Also, I would like to see the cybermen or daleks try to deal with those things so far only universe cracks have been able to actually make the angels scared. I think just having to deal with them might actually force fear back into their metal bodies
@@GothicgirlscoutOK, but imagine this:
What if the weeping angels, the Vashta Nerada, the Silence, and whatever was the creature from the episode Listen all teamed up?
@@sheersternfeld1914the shadows would defeat the Angels by moving around like a playful dog and make sure the angels are in a circle or facing each other.
@@BarryLetts379 yes, if they worked against each other, but what if they worked together for some reason?
Oh
The one thing that this scene showed perfectly is that even though Tennants doctor was cocky, and confident, he also knew when things were serious. The way he describes the angels and how dangerous they are gave me chills as a kid. You could hear the fear in The Doctor’s voice, and when The Doctor is scared, you know you’re about to meet a truly gruesome enemy.
Genius.
I mean ya, they beat him. for the first time in a long time the doctor lost.
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@@insidiosity no
@@iamasalad9080 Yes
I think it's the best scene to introduce Doctor Who to someone...
Cryer24597 It'll atleast create motivation...
Sachin Shekhar Agree. It is a great episode and will get people interested. Then they can watch more.
+Sachin Shekhar This episode was how my mother's fiance got her into Doctor Who after two years of me trying. Now it's one of her favorite tv shows.
+Scottlp2 cool bot Slender
+Sachin Shekhar My friend introduced me to Doctor with this scene.
Now I really need "The angels have the phone box" on my t-shirt
Ellie Raven can’t believe with all the crap the BBC have released they never released that shirt 😂😂
Actually that shirt is a real thing
Pretty sure there are some online shops which customises clothing
Same
Idc if I have to get a blank shirt and write it myself
same
I was rewatching this and there's such a clever little bit of writing. The Doctor very subtly breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that Sally and Larry are going to be just fine and succeed: after all, without their success, how would the Doctor be able to get their transcript from the future? It subverts it's own horror if you paid attention to that little detail, and still manages to be utterly tense and terrifying afterwards as a result.
Masterclass in storytelling and horror, this episode.
Well, wouldnt be the first time that people dying in a horror movie leave something behind
Time can be rewritten
Fourth wall remains intact but otherwise yes.
@@FabioVolo672 unless it's a fixed point. As when a Weeping Angel does their thing to a person that person's disappearance becomes a fixed point.
@@williamkim9861 ahh i forgot that but you are right
the doctor: stuck in 1969
the video: 4:20 minutes long
me: nice
also me: nice
also ALSO me: nice
nice
Nice
Just liked this comment and now it has 69 likes, nice
Edit: welp too bad
I would love to see a universe where sally became a companion. She had brilliant chemistry with tennant even through a laptop screen
Could potentially happen with The Big Finish.
She was meant to be. But she chose to go to Hollywood because she got a lot of publicity from this episode and rightly so. She was amazing.
One of the best episodes written, and it barely even had the Doctor in it.
Yea that's really weird huh. 2 side nobodies cared one if the best episode. Its funny
Yeah, I loved how everything revolves around the actions and the reactions of the Doctor, that there is something far more eviler than anything out there wanting the Tardis. That the Doctor has no other choice but to rely on other people who aren’t related to anything, get involved the moment they see the Doctor, he is both a blessing and a curse.
Agreed, The writing/plot here was just sublime. This along with Midnight and The Library are my picks.
facts
They hired actors and writers based on skills back then...
Today they hire based on what you got between your legs, on what you use it and what colour it is...
No wonder writing and acting has gone to shit.
doctor: "you can't kill stone"
*iron pickaxe has entered the chat*
You make smaller stones, that's all
@@Awelbeckk
*TnT has entered the chat*
*Creeper Has entered The Chat*
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@@Jyappino1010
You make smaller stones, that's all
You make smaller stones, that's all
You just move stones, that's all
@@Awelbeckk Worse, you make multiple stones. Try not looking at all of them at once.
/setblock stone air has entered the chat
It's actually a great defensive measure, might even be perfect. You can't kill a stone because a stone is technically not even alive. Only a material, or something along those lines
So even if the weeping angels were to be destroyed by explosive, they probably have some sort of ability to reform the same material that they possess
If.
Technically it's not stone, something way harder. Depending on what he meant by 'quantum locked' those statutes could be frozen in a single point in time. That would make them indestructible to all but Temporal based attacks, like the rip in time space or poisoned by a time paradox.
Actually since they have control over time. E.g. spending people back in time, feeding off time energy, the frozen moment theory sounds most applausable.
@@matthewallen2273 That actually makes sense, despite how durable a stone may be, it's still susceptible to conventional weaponry
And since the angels are practically almost the same age as the universe, that might explain why the angels were able to survive for such a long time
@@zeroframe7002 As the Doctor said it's the perfect defence mechanism. This along with the fact that they can easily feed off any living thing or just by soaking up energy from a strong enough power source and go long periods without sustenance. Would made them an enduring species as a whole.
I question how they managed to get off their home planet since we never see them using their own technology. But they may have been introduced to that technology my other aliens who thought they were the artworks of a dead race. They could simply let these first explorers take a portion of their fellow angels back with them to new planets/feeding grounds and they then spread throughout the early colonised universe unprepared for such a unique threat.
"They don't exist when observed" is the clue. The way I see it, the stone statue is not really them, just something that occupies their place when they're not present in reality.
"You can't kill stone"
Sledgehammer: "Am I a joke to you?"
Joe Scirrotto true, but in that one episode with the 11th doctor, we did see a whole army of angels regrow their wings and dresses, so i think they can regenerate
@@RubenAssassinRose tbh, I've never seen this show. I somehow got this clip in my recommended and just rolled with it.
If that is the case, then it's possible that only shattering the head would do the job
@@RubenAssassinRose dude they need THEIR FOOKING HEADS SMACK EM OFF YA DUMBO
@@phitthawatinthavong8401 except in the same episode, there were loads of status with missing heads too, so no, im no 'DUMBO'
@@fireblast8972 Sadly, no. Many Weeping Angels were apperantly missing their heads on that Episode as well, but they were still following around.
So literally, either trick them into looking at each other, or the only other option is to *pulverize them* completely, up until the last atom.
Their biology is weird.
Me as an intellectual: Blinks one eye at a time
Lol.. nice one 🤣👌
I wonder if that would actually work...
@@noneofyourbusiness27 don't see why not
@Sir Soy Gato the Second oh...idk then
@Sir Soy Gato the Second True, although most people would probably either freak out too much in that situation to think of that or just not know what was going on in the first place.
"Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey"
Well that's a great way to explain 900 years of knowledge
What a way to describe a causal loop.
In nine more it'll be genius.
How else do you explain something complicated to someone who has no hope of actually understanding, yet insists that they will and demands that they be given an explanation? You confuse them with meaningless babble and then move on.
It's a pretty clever way of dealing with humans, actually.
My plan:
1. Move to England.
2. Become an Ophthalmologist.
3. Tell my patient "Don't blink".
Just hold 1 eye open and blink with the other then switch and keep doing that.
+Christian Birdhat thats what i was thinking
+Cheerio Orange IKR
My plan:
1. Move to England.
2. Become an Ophthalmologist.
3. Dress like Emperor Palpatine.
4. Tell my patient "You will pay for your lack of vision".
Well I'll see you here then
Who else had dry eyes after that episode?
Yep, I did.
I can't remember the the last time I blinked! xD
Georgina Smith I don't know what that is anymore!
Michael Clavelli What are you talking about?
Watch the episode.
This episode is just phenomenal. Like it actually sends chills up your spine with how well they contextualize and mystify the angels. They seem unstoppable.
"the moment they are seen by any other living creature"
so you just need to bring a bucket full of insects and throw them on the statue to win?
genius
They'd likely touch the stone and get sent back to like, the prehistoric era.
@@conlooka9356 Oh, so you can't even touch them?
@@jimmythegrunt7371 well, yeah. That's kinda how they work.
@@conlooka9356 Actually, if I'm not mistaken, their touch only sends you back if they aren't being actively observed while you're in contact with them. Or at least, there's no indication that they are anything other than a stone statue while being observed, including no indication that their ability is active when observed
The Doctor: Don't blink
Me: *blinks*
Luke Berry
Angel: *Hello there!*
@@CatAdvantage
General Kenobi
Darth Vader you are a bold one
CatAdvantage Doctor: *Am I a joke to you?*
Welp, it was nice knowing you!
I think few people recognize one small detail that the writers realized: When he was explaining the Angels, Sally Sparrow told the guy "Keep your eyes on that", so he couldn't write anymore. So, at the end of his speech, he says, "That's all I've got from you on the transcript". Kudos to them!
Ahhhhhh, I just realized that now as well. Man, other people's comments can do wonders for knowledge.
+Pvt. Church They usually aren't good for self-esteem, though.
+Leighton Petty The only thing is there was nothing stopping them from filling in any missed spots in the transcript later.
But didn't 10 wait with his orders until Sally asked what she was supposed to do, which was after the guy stopped writing?
Andrew Joseph True.
This went from being hilarious to being terrifying in a matter of four minutes.
Stolen:
Fish don't blink. Just point a fish at them.
and since their eyes are on the side of their head they're able to see in front of them and behind them at the same time so no matter which way the fish is facing it'll be looking at the weeping angels
If it's that easy then just get a bunch of flies...or some pigeons. 😂
"just point a fish at them" is my new favourite solution
The perfect evolutionary form and best defence against stone time demons: the fish
How would you get one to stare at an Angel tho?
I love Blink. I think it's one of the strongest episodes they ever made
One of Moffat's best scripts I'd say. It's my second place very closely behind Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead. :)
@@mortenv15 Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! ............................................................................................................................................
Strongest and scariest lol, well imo at least, can watch it much better nowadays as I was nearly 9 when it was originally broadcast, and aren't nearly as scary as FO4's Super Mutants or Racnoss or The Beast.
Literally the best. I was afraid to go to bed after I saw it as a kid but it was worth it.
@@leighwakeham3735 I was six when Blink came out first. Didn't sleep for three nights. 😂😂
David's acting is incredible here. He's the only actor who could deliver these lines and act this part and get it right. His expression, tone, eye contact.... Amazing acting and makes this scene so creepy.
Bro I got chills watching it again after it scared me when i was about 10 or 13
Now I'm 24 rewatched it today and his acting is insanely good imo so I agree the way he explains them gave me chills literally watching it lol
Doctor Who 2020 Edition:
Don’t go outside.
Don’t even go outside.
Go outside and you are dead
Covid-19's Fast!
Faster then you can believe
wash packaged things comes outside STAY AT HOME. Do NOT EVEN OPEN THE DOOR.Its faster and DEADLIER than you think.Dont go outside.Good Luck
@@thatguy333 and i made it 70
Everyone in this threat is too bored for their own good
Doctor: "Don't even blink!"
Everyone: *eyes start twitching*
That's So True....
Also, I Need Help...
@@waylonpark2340 need help with what?
Why can't we blink one eye at a time?
search up on youtube "dont blink im human" way more messed up than this.
The fact that this one episode made me afraid to blink for two weeks and has given me a fear of angels and statues that has lasted 14 years (as of yet) is incredible. The writing of this episode was absolutely phenomenal!
Is it 15 now?
Sounds like skill issue
Same here, haha!
My dad is a huge Doctor Who fan. When I was little, he wanted to share it with me, get me hooked. THIS was the first episode he showed me.
Needless to say, after a week or so of nightmares, I never got into the show. Still don't know what my dad was thinking showing me THIS ONE first?!?!
my parents have been fans since THEY were kids so I was brought up watching along with Dr Who as it came out post-2005. I was about 8 years old when this episode came out. TERRIFIED. even my parents were scared of this one!
This one seems like a better "first" one than Midnight.
Same with me :D
I was eight when I watched it for the first time, and I didn’t get any nightmares from them but I did with the silence
haha, my very first doctor who episode was Silence in the Library, i was already a horror fan at way to young of an age, that episode got me hooked, i watched for about another decade before dropping it
I wish David Tenant could just be the doctor for ever. He's brilliant.
I agree
Supertecnoboff me too
Supertecnoboff same
he is a great actor and had great writing, if only Capaldi had great writing he would be one of the best doctors
Supertecnoboff Lets just tell ourselves that, in a parallel universe somewhere,Tennant ended up staying after season 4 and beat Tom Bakers record as longest serving Doctor 😊👍
"They're as old as the universe, or nearly."
I like how there was a passing reference to this fact in "End of Time," when Lord Rassilon, leading a civilization with "a billion years of history on our backs," makes mention of the Weeping Angels "of old."
Oddly enough, this speech applies to toddlers as well.
+Wedge Antilles Indeed? how?
Turn your back on a 2 year old and see what happens, mayhem.
Aah.
+Wedge Antilles I think you meant to say: Ooddly enough ;)
+Elizabeth Lingurar "...They are fast, faster then you could believe, don't turn your back, don't look away..."
Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And most of all, don't blink. Good Luck.
David Tennant's acting in this part makes we shiver, he looks so genuine like he really is locked in the past reading from a transcript; Like he really worried they would die; Like he is Doctor Who and not just an actor playing there part-
Yea david is the only doctor that feels weird to me when hes human and offf set lol
thats why he was seen as the best
We? Who's we?
@@no_social_skill1369 Pardon my spelling mistake. Me*
I feel ya!
Still after 3 years this episode gives me nightmares!!!
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Person: *Blinks*
Weeping Angels: “Tell em to bring me my money”
Or else I’ll send them back to stone ages!
“Don’t turn you back, Don’t look away, and DONT blink. goodluck”
that’s the part that always scares me !!
Scared me shitless when I was 10 or 13 and watched it for the first time lol
I couldn't sleep for 2 to 4 hours at night after all my friends did at my friends house
I'm 24 now and still creepy but nowhere near as much cause I'm older
SCP-173 has breached containment
Lel
Fuck like half of all doctor who villains could be SCPs.
Basically Peanut!
Fun fact: SCP-173 was written before this episode aired
@@Nooblolftw I was wondering about that. When was SCP-173 created?
So if the Doctor is reading from an entire transcript, then that means he isn’t even replying to them. He’s reading his own lines from the script...
Yup, who came up with the original text when the Doctor was just saying what the guy wrote and when the guy was just writing what the Doctor said?
@@Fragenzeichenplatte Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
**Beethoven’s 5th plays in electric guitar**
Fragenzeichenplatte bootstrap Paradox
@@ElainaLycan google it
its amazing how this show can turn normal things into near nightmares. theres "dont blink" which was cool but what really got me was "stay out of the shadows" that episode freaked me out.
The one that freaked the most people out was the boy with the gas mask face "Are you my mummy"
Kid me couldn't have guessed in his life that he'd be scared shitless by a chicken bone
I love how the cartoony, comedic music playing in the background just STOPS the moment the Doctor starts describing what the Weeping Angels are. And then the eerie, thrilling music starts playing. It points perfectly to which point the conversation changed tone. 👌
search up on youtube "dont blink im human" way more messed up than this.
@@charlottedillon2467 I saw the thumbnail and said nope out loud I’m not clicking it
The Doctor: *Trapped In 1969.*
Me: “Nice.”
@oldedude51 Oh, Austin, behave!
Have you realized the video is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long ?
*Nice.*
*N O I C E*
*N i c e .*
Judging by the Doctor’s stalling, and his odd definition, I think not even he knows what Time is.
He probably understands it but finds it impossible to explain
@@wyvern5890 Probably there's a concept in Gallifreyan but he can't put it into English
@@auberginemanproductions1608 that's gonna be a lot of circles
@@rattles8789 yep
@@wyvern5890 A dimensional being of a lower state can only slightly speculate on higher dimensions. We understand distance and depth because we have senses that support them. We can only understand time in a linear fashion because we observe time in a linear fashion and even then only conceptually. The best way I can explain our existence is that we are tangled worms. We could very well exist cyclically
The Empty Child: DON'T TOUCH
The Weeping Angels: DON’T BLINK
The Silence: DON’T FORGET
The Cyborg From The Restaurant: DON’T BREATHE
Listen: DON’T LOOK
The Telepathic Alien From The Bank: DON’T THINK
The Doctor: WHAT CAN I DO!?!?!?!?!!?!??!!?!!?
Run
Lick
Dont Think
Dont look and dont blink
Thats Good one
12: smile!
(oldie but goodie)