Blink | Escaping Kasterborous Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The one you've probably all been waiting for. Steven Moffat's magnum opus, arguably the greatest episode of Doctor Who- ever. We can talk about just how immaculate 'Blink' is, but we could also talk about its legacy and how the Weeping Angels were utilised going forward. Spoilers, they should've stayed in 'Blink.'
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Blink is arguably the most perfect episode of Doctor Who.
There are other masterpieces (like Heaven Sent) but they're ultimately still just episodes of Doctor Who. Blink though - if it wasn't a Doctor Who episode, it would still stand on it's own as one of the greatest short films ever made. Blink is an indie arty short film that somehow became a Doctor Who episode instead - TV has no business being that good. That's why I think it has the edge and is my personal pick for best Doctor Who episode; it is a work of art, from the low budget yet effective cinematography, acting, dialogue, smart plot, terrifying enemy, etc
Having said that - the bootstrap paradox in this episode bothers me! It doesn't make the story less good or anything, but:
Who came up with the plan to rescue The Doctor from 1969?
Sally Sparrow followed the plan as laid out by The Doctor - but it wasn't The Doctor's plan, he himself was given it by Sally Sparrow. So who's idea was it? Nobody came up with it, yet it exists...
Paradox! (Moffat missed that flaw; guess we'll just have to assume Doctor Who takes place in a Rick-and-Morty-like multiverse...)
I love listening to you both, but I was a bit disappointed with this episode of EK. You only spent maybe 5 minutes talking about Blink and the rest about how all other episodes ruined the Angels.
Love your podcasts. Blink is one of my favourite Dr who episodes
Just letting you know that I really enjoy these pocasts. I came across this series going through the WhoCulture podcasts (after I had learned from their RUclips episodes eluded to them), and wondered why you both didn't finish. I went searching, and found that you haven't given up, and are still putting these on. I'm currently doing my own rewatching, but starting with the Classic show (currently on "Kinda").
I wish you luck in completing the reviewing, and I hope you continue this after you finish the Whittaker/Chibnal era.
I didn’t think the cherubs in Angels Take Manhattan would be contentious as the montage at the end of Blink suggests that any statute could be an Angel.
I'm team ruminating over stewing 😆
It was so wonderful to see Wilf in The Wild Blue Yonder last week! ❤
To answer your question how come moffat can do both amazing episodes and crap one - I think that he's just limited. He can do short form, one episode or two. But when he needs to stretch himself he can't handle it (see the fluctuating quality of his run as show runner or the decreasing quality of Sherlock)
I think the scariest episode in the Moffat era is The God Complex because rather than being like here's a scary-looking monster (Angels, Silence, even the dolls), it created this oppressive atmosphere so for the runtime you are constantly unsettled. Letting your imagination fill in the blanks is always scarier and that episode gets you to imagine what might be your greatest fear. I find the thought of being trapped in an ever-changing hotel with no windows or doors and knowing you will eventually have to confront the worst thing you can imagine is far scarier than "here's a doll that's kind of creepy".
The Girl in the Fireplace is still my favourite episode, imagine it always will be, but this is a close second.
the music in blink is quite good
The angels zapped this episode forward in time
Since you know Sparrow already got the script to The Doctor, it's just if we were going to loss the boy too. Still tense episode!
My parents didn't let me and my Brother watch this episode when it came out because they thought it would be too scary (I was 6 at the time), but I had seen the next time trailer and it looked really good, so I spent years eagerly waiting to watch this episode. I think that's why I didn't find it that scary because of all the built up anticipation for it making it impossible to be as scary as I thought it would be. The worst part was that my older Brother was old enough to see it on release.
An expanded version of the question I posted on Spotify: have you ever considered the impact of the political chaos the Master caused on the Valiant BEFORE playing Voodoo Child and unleashing the Toclafane? Because that doesn't get fixed in Last of the Time Lords (if you're unsure what I'm referring to, listen to the transmission the Doctor hears immediately after time rewinds).
what a good episode and podcast
Absolutely agree Blink is the best episode of new who. I’m so excited for Russel T Davies to come back but do you think we romanticise his era of doctor who because we watched it when we were kids and that’s why we think it’s the best as we were younger and not as critical. Meaning when we go back and watch it as it gives us great memories so we don’t always notice some of the bad parts or just expect them more.
Love the podcast!
I love this episode today. Horror classic.
It's not possible to get enough Blink.