10. July 2013
Blink is
one of my very favourite episodes! It’s not a typical Doctor Who episode,
simply because the Doctor doesn’t play the leading part ‘cause he’s stuck in
1969. The star of this episode is Sally Sparrow, played by Carey Mulligan. The
episode has a few scary moments in it and I really love that!
Sally Sparrow
is a young photographer who explores an old house in London. She finds a message on the wall which
calls her by name. By now we already see that it’s going to be a great scary
episode!
The message
warns her about the Weeping Angels. It also says “Sally Sparrow duck, now”. At
the first moment I thought of the animal duck! If I were Sally, the stone (or
whatever it was) would have hit me.
After that
Sally visits her friend Kathy to talk about that and meets her brother. And we
see the Doctor for the first time in this episode, but only on a TV screen.
He’s saying things like “Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead”. That really
creates tension, ‘cause at this moment we don’t know a thing about what’s going
on. Why did the Doctor write the message on the wall and how does he know Sally’s
name, why is he on the TV screen, and of course, where is he? There are so many
questions after not even 10 minutes! And it’s getting more exciting!
The next
day, Sally and Kathy visit the house again, “Sparrow & Nightingale” the
girl investigators. A friend and I also had an investigative agency. We solved some
difficult cases like “Who killed the hedgehog on the street?”. Yeah, we were
great!
So, back in
the house, Sally notices that the angel statue moved closer but thinks she’s
just mistaken. Then the doorbell rings and Sally goes to open the door, while
Kathy stays back. We see the Weeping Angel moves closer towards her. Then the
guy on the front door tells Sally that he got an old letter from Kathy for her.
Of course she thinks that’s impossible and looks after Kathy, but she’s already
gone. The Weeping Angel sent her back to the year 1920. But all in all it’s not
that bad, I think. Ok, it must be hard to, suddenly locate yourself in the
past, knowing that you’ll never see your friends and your family again, but
she’s still alive! Ok, and she knows she still got a world war ahead, that’s
not so nice. But she finds a husband starts a family and is happy. It’s very
cute that her husband is the guy she meets right after she was send back. She
doesn’t even want to talk to him and runs away, but he follows her.
I find it
very scary to see the Weeping Angels move without Sally noticing them. Really,
like in a horror movie, when you want to warn the people!
Then, Sally
goes to tell Kathy’s Brother Larry what happened to his sister. She finds him
in the back of the DVD shop where he works, watching the videos of the Doctor
again. But she just tells him that Kathy’s away for a while, ‘cause, who would
believe the truth?
Larry tells
Sally about the “Easter Eggs” he found on 17 different DVDs and gives her a
list. And it comes to the great wibbly wobbly timey wimey quote!
She goes to
the police station to report that there are strange things going on in the
house.
At this
moment we already (almost) got what the Weeping Angels are doing. But we’re
watching Doctor Who, we expect monsters and time travel, Sally still doesn’t
understand. She thinks she’s going mad when the Angels disappear in front of
her.
She meets
young police officer Billy, who shows her some old, left cars he found outside
the house. They also found the Tardis at the house. So, we’re still wondering
what happened to the Doctor. After Sally left, a group of Weeping Angels
appear. We see Billy blinks and know what will happen to him. Sally returns
because she remembers she found a key in the old house, which could fit to the
Police Box, but there’s no sign of Billy or the Tardis. He was send to the year
1969, where he meets the Doctor and Martha. The
Doctor finally explains why the Weeping Angels are sending people back in time.
Sally gets
a call from Billy and is asked to go to the hospital, where she meets the old version
of Billy. He lived there all along beside his younger self, he also wanted to
contact Sally before that day, but wasn’t allowed (it could destroy the
universe). The Doctor told him the day he will die. Nobody wants to know when
they die! How terrible! I think it was ok for Billy ‘cause he knew he would be
an old man then. Sally stays with him for a while, so he doesn’t die alone. That’s
very nice.
She calls
Larry to the house, because she found out that she is what the 17 DVDs have in
common. And now they’re in the old, scary house full of Weeping Angels, in the
middle of the night … That’s a real horror movie atmosphere! Sally starts to
talk to the video of the Doctor, like a real conversation. And it’s so cool
that Larry got a T-shirt with “The Angels have the Phone box” on it. He’s
totally obsessed with these Easter Eggs, and no one will even understand that
line! He’s just some kind of geek. Very cool.
When the
Doctor explains that the Angels only move when nobody’s looking at them, it’s
getting scarier, because now they know what they’re surrounded by. Oh my god, I
was horrified when the Angel suddenly was in front of them! With this evil
face. And they’re locked in and there are three more Angels in the house!
They find
the Tardis in the basement, surrounded by Angels. It gets really scary when the
light starts to flicker, and they enter the Tardis in the very last moment.
It’s so enthralling! And so, they send it back to the Doctor, the Weeping
Angels are defeated by looking at each other, and everything’s fine!
In the end,
we see both of them one year later. They’re running the DVD shop together. Sally
sees the Doctor and Martha outside and gives him the transcript and all the
other information. Sally and Larry aren’t together at this time, but after they’ve
solved the last mystery (how the Doctor got the transcript) she takes his hand
and they return to the shop. A cute little love story! That was great!
It's very paradox, isn't it? You know, they wrote down the conversation and handed it
to the Doctor, but they could only write it down because they heard him saying
it, but he said it because they wrote it down and so on. Very complicated! All
that timey wimey stuff…
Did you see
that? Now that I’m rewatching, I recognized it, Sally kept a photo of a Weeping
Angel. In “The Time of Angels” the Doctor says that the image of a Weeping
Angel IS a Weeping Angel. So, oh my god…
