Possibly one of the greatest episode of a science fiction television show ever.
A lot of it just came together for Blink which probably owes more to serendipity. A one off companion who takes the lead and a few years later became a Best Actress Oscar nominee.
Sally Sparrow (Carey Mulligan) in 2007 goes to a creepy old house to take photographs and sees a mysterious message on the wall asking her to duck. It is from the Doctor.
Later on a her friend Kathy disappears and Kathy immediately discovers that she has been sent back to the past and the mysterious statues are responsible for it.
Sally with some cryptic messages on the DVD extras needs to rescue the Doctor and Martha who are stuck in 1969. All she has to do is not blink in front of the Weeping Angels.
In a re-watch of this episode, I actually closed my eyes and just listened to the soundtrack which is filled with homages to the music of Hitchcock films from composer Murray Gold.
It is wonderfully filmed, director Hettie MacDonald should rightly share the plaudits with writer Steven Moffat, who not only writes a clever time travel tale with nods to Back to the Future films. He also introduces the term 'timey-wimey' and even has a dig at ITV detective shows.
A lot of it just came together for Blink which probably owes more to serendipity. A one off companion who takes the lead and a few years later became a Best Actress Oscar nominee.
Sally Sparrow (Carey Mulligan) in 2007 goes to a creepy old house to take photographs and sees a mysterious message on the wall asking her to duck. It is from the Doctor.
Later on a her friend Kathy disappears and Kathy immediately discovers that she has been sent back to the past and the mysterious statues are responsible for it.
Sally with some cryptic messages on the DVD extras needs to rescue the Doctor and Martha who are stuck in 1969. All she has to do is not blink in front of the Weeping Angels.
In a re-watch of this episode, I actually closed my eyes and just listened to the soundtrack which is filled with homages to the music of Hitchcock films from composer Murray Gold.
It is wonderfully filmed, director Hettie MacDonald should rightly share the plaudits with writer Steven Moffat, who not only writes a clever time travel tale with nods to Back to the Future films. He also introduces the term 'timey-wimey' and even has a dig at ITV detective shows.