Skip to content
TARDIS Guide

Overview

First aired

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Production Code

3.10

Written by

Steven Moffat

Directed by

Hettie MacDonald

Runtime

45 minutes

Story Type

Doctor-Lite

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Time Travel Pivotal

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, London

UK Viewers

6.62 million

Appreciation Index

87

Synopsis

In an abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. The only hope to stop them is a young woman named Sally Sparrow and her friend Larry Nightingale. The only catch: the Weeping Angels can move in the blink of an eye. To defeat the ruthless enemy — with only a half of a conversation from the Tenth Doctor as help — the one rule is this: don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink!

Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat

Characters

How to watch Blink:

Reviews

Add Review Edit Review

3 reviews

i hear martha about 1969 moon landing is brilliant but tenth doctor have solo visit the moon he wear a Sanctuary Base 6 space suit and he have moon landing tools a broom, a spade and a wireless radio a deckchair and a telescope and listen a radio 4 afternoon play and The Archers he ready to work for him moon landing list  He surveyed the crater He set to work he sweeping carefully on the floor of the crater he dig a message of the surface of the Moon to get the alien species to leave and he looked to the star With no trace of the aliens they left a Perfect time he get a deckchair to sit and listen The Archers he used a telescope to see and meet apollo 11 after The agents gone On the rim of the farthest crater tenth doctor happy and watched the astronauts for a moment neil first step on the moon He was glad before he leaves in the tardis As Armstrong planted the flag, he thought he heard a sound fading over his earpiece. A kind of wheezing, groaning noise. He felt a tiny breeze inside his space suit as the particles of the universe shifted ever so slightly.

The flag fluttered in his hand from doctor who blue moon


Blink is one of the most well-liked Doctor Who television stories and for good reason. It's gripping. It's well paced. The directing is excellent. There are multiple genuinely scary moments (not to mention the ending...). The characters are likeable. The plot feels interesting and clever. All of these and more work together to make Blink one of the best Doctor Who stories out there. The only thing holding me back from giving it a full 5 stars is that there are a number of plot holes and unexplained/nonsensical things which, when noticed, do detract from the immersion a little.


This review contains spoilers!

Blink is another high water mark for the series. A perfectly paced, beautifully acted piece of drama that proves that the show has no defined formula and can even survive without its lead actors! Carey Mulligan delivers one of the best (if not the best) guest cast performances of all time. She is perfect dream casting companion material. Finlay Robertson’s Larry is the perfect companion to her companion - a brilliant comic foil.

The Weeping Angels, in a single 45 minute story, solidify themselves as a top tier classic villain - and there are only three of those. One introduced in 1963, another in 1966, this one in 2007. Quite an achievement, further cementing “new” Doctor Who’s legitimacy - it is here to stay.

Even after watching this story at least 50 times since I was 14 I found myself engrossed. The line about The Doctor’s timey wimey machine cooking an egg at 30 paces genuinely made me laugh out loud. Don’t think I’ve ever properly appreciated that line before. All these years later, still new details to take in.


Open in new window

Statistics

AVG. Rating662 members
4.58 / 5

Trakt.tv

AVG. Rating1,773 votes
4.59 / 5

The Time Scales

AVG. Rating240 votes
4.65 / 5

Member Statistics

Watched

1316

Favourited

257

Reviewed

3

Saved

3

Skipped

0

Owned

11

Quotes

Add Quote

DOCTOR: They're coming. They're coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this. 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 don't blink. Good luck.

— Tenth Doctor, Blink

Open in new window

Transcript

[Wester Drumlin]

(On a dark wet night, a woman climbs over a lovely set of wrought iron gates with a notice on them:

Danger Keep Out
Unsafe Structure
London County Council

She goes up the gravel driveway to the big house. She breaks in through a boarded up window and takes photographs of the plastic covered chandeliers resting on the floors, and other pieces of furniture. Then she notices the letter B peeking from underneath a piece of peeling wallpaper. She pulls at it to reveal the words "Beware the weeping angel". Underneath that is "Oh, and duck! Really, duck! Sally Sparrow duck, now." So she ducks just before the window behind her is broken by a thrown pot, which bounces off the wall and breaks on the floor. The light of her torch reveals a statue outside, a winged angel with its hands covering its face. She goes back to the wall and pulls off more paper to reveal -
Love from the Doctor 1969)

[Hallway]


Open in new window