6/9/2023 0 Comments Review blink lite![]() We’re watching it in 2013, but it is a piece of far older history. However, there’s also a sense that Moffat is playing with the strange piece of time travel that occurs every time that a fan sticks on a classic DVD, re-watching and re-engaging with a story that is decades old. Blink is itself a rather cleverly constructed time-travel narrative, with all the elements moving in something of a loop, with the final scene tying up all necessary loose ends by having Sally give the Doctor all the necessary information before he encounters the Weeping Angels in the first place. There’s no denying that his work on Doctor Who makes great use of the show’s central time travel set-up. ![]() Moffat is a writer best known for his “timey wimey” scripts. While the classic Doctor Who DVD line was still being released in 2007 when Blink broadcast, we were definitely moving towards a word where Doctor Who was readily available to everybody and anybody to pour over. It wasn’t always readily available in colour, but everything from Jon Pertwee’s first season and onwards is available to fans in one way or another. After that, every broadcast serial was recorded and preserved and maintained. ![]() It was the last year with any completely missing Doctor Who material. While Love and Monsters is about how Doctor Who fandom tends to serve to unite diverse people beyond an interest in Doctor Who itself, forming bonds that become more significant and important than the interest in the show, Blink is very much a story about trying to make sense of the show itself.Īfter all, it’s telling that the Doctor is sent back to 1969. Here, the fans trying to find their own meaning in the show are the anonymous net-izens on forums and fan sites, rather than a friendly group of eccentric individuals enriched by contact with one another. Granted, Steven Moffat’s script doesn’t engage with fandom as directly as Russell T. Also like Love and Monsters, Blink is an episode of Doctor Who that is about Doctor Who. Like Love and Monsters, Blink is a “Doctor-lite” episode, an effective time- and money-saving measure from the show’s production staff, built around filming an episode that requires the minimal involvement from the lead actors. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, I’ll be taking weekly looks at some of my own personal favourite stories and arcs, from the old and new series, with a view to encapsulating the sublime, the clever and the fiendishly odd of the BBC’s Doctor Who.īut listen, your life could depend on this.
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