Doctor Who: Blink

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Saw. Anyone else unreasonably love seen those movies? Cause that's what I thought when I saw the trailer. Omg! The Doctor is Jigsaw! Noes! (Note: when told "of course there's no gore" by guy you know full well adores gory horror and is dragging you to a horror movie, do not trust, hrrm.)

Anyways, words! In bulletpoints!

• Weeping angels, covering faces, that's one incredibly fabulous image, yes. And cheap horror! Oh, god, I love cheap British horror. A shot, a shot, a shot, of different angels
  
  
• Boo, I thought it said '63 at first, which would have been wonderful and made me happy in A Very Cheap Way, still Troughton!time, yay!
  
  
• Oh, I love that Sally has a friend she can wake-up at one in the morning and break into her house and phone her and make her coffee and she goes along with that and it makes me v v happy, yes. Oh, god, Katthy! Poor Kathy, but how wonderful is she? How brave and clever and marvellous is she? Quite a lot, I thinks, yes.
  
  
• Ee! Thievin' from Back to the Future, heh. Oh, and making it horrible and twisted and she has a provisional driving licence.
  
  
• It's like a magical puzzle-box thing, this plot. It is a a beautiful, wonderful, marvellous thing indeed. Like, modern, clever, slightly higher budger Hammer. *SO MUCH LOVE*
  
  
• "You told him you were eighteen, you lying cow." Oh, Kathy/Sally FTW!
  
  
• "When you say 'with the guys' you mean the Internet, don't you?" Heee! :D
  
  
• Feck, angels trying to get into the TARDIS, now that is scary, man. (And, naively, at this point, I believe *this* was going to be the scary bit.)
  
  
• "No mess, no fuss, just zap you into the past and let you live to death." Cool! I quite love the villain!concept here, and how it is all new and shiny and such and that is always crazy!difficult nowadays, yes.
  
  
• And, really, barely even noticed the absence of Martha and the Doctor. For *this* is how to make me love characters in five minutes flat and care and support and cheer. (I'm looking at you, 42.)
  
  
• And time travel! A proper time travel plot! DW hardly ever goes with these, despite the nature of the show and here we have the perfect example of the Sheer Awesomeness possible with the concept.
  
  
• And Perfect Timing - this story was beautifully paced, and that's a rarity for the New Series, me feels.
  
  
• "I'm clever and I'm listening and don't patronise me because people have died, now tell me." Why, yes, Sally, I love you.
  
  
• And the Weeping Angels are as old as the universe. What a surprise! I suppose we should just be grateful they're not from the Dawn of Time. And they're "the loneliest creatures in the universe," omg! Lonelier than the Doctor, dude! He!
  
  
• You're not looking at the statues, dudes! OH MY GOD OH OH. nerdcakes and I may have screamed, quite a lot, quite loudly. I have never actually screamed at Doctor Who before. I have shrieked, once or twice, but never an actual scream.
  
  
• AND AGAIN! OH GOD THIS IS TERRIFYING!
  
  
• GET IN THE TARDIS OMG! (Oh, the cakesy one and I might be Quite Traumatised by this point. Oh dear god.)
  
  
• SURROUNDED WHY DOCTOR WHY YOU DO THAT??
  
  
• Oh. Oh, that's quite clever. Well done Doctor. That's the sort of trickery I can get behind. That's my Doctor, man. Yes. Very much.
  
  
• So, to conclude, the scariest Doctor Who episode ever. if only Mary Whitehouse was alive! Any chance of this coming up in House of COmmons questions? Cause if my little cousins were freaked by thr scarecrows, goodness knows what they made of this, heh.
  

To conclude, brilliant, utterly.

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...and I thought nothing could be better than HN/FoB...I've awarded the two (three?) stories a joint third place in my personal ranking, hee.

Moffat is the best. Thing. EVAH.

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Er, I meant first place in my personal ranking. Whoops.