Quotes
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"To take one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920 is a strange way to start a new life." ~ Kathy
"Don't get up. Time travel without a capsule. Nasty. Catch your breath, don't go swimming for half an hour." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Tracked you down with this. This is my Timey-Wimey detector. Goes ding when there's stuff." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Fascinating race, the weeping angels. The only psychopaths in the Universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss. They just zap you into the past and let you live to death." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"The loney assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe. Or very nearly. And they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are Quantum Locked. They don't exist when they are being observed. The moment they are seen by any living creature they freeze into rock. No choice, it's a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. And you can't kill a stone. Of course, a stone can't kill you either, but then you turn your head away. Then you blink. And oh yes, it can." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"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." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Look, sorry. I've got a bit of a complex life. Things don't always happen to me in quite the right order. Gets a bit confusing at times. Especially at weddings. I'm rubbish at weddings. Especially my own." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Yeah, listen, listen, got to dash. Things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." ~ The 10th Doctor
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Trivia
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In 2009, Doctor Who Magazine conducted a reader poll to rank the first 200 Doctor Who stories in order of preference. Blink ranked 2nd, surpassed only by the 1984 story TV: The Caves of Androzani.
This is the first episode to be directed by a woman after a twenty-two year interval. The previous one was The Mark of the Rani.
The plot of this episode was based upon a short story Steven Moffat wrote for the Doctor Who Annual 2006 called What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow. The story involves Sally Sparrow (who is a child in the story as opposed to a young woman in the episode) writing her school assignment about being contacted by the Ninth Doctor through photographs and a videotape (like the episode, there is a sequence in which Sally has a conversation with the Doctor through a television) in which he gives her instructions to allow her to return the TARDIS to him (the Weeping Angels aren't present in the story; the Doctor being separated from the TARDIS was due to a 'hic-cough'), knowing what to do thanks to an adult Sally (who is a beautiful spy who saves the Doctor's life) giving him the story which details the experience.
The story is ultimately an ontological paradox: the Doctor has all the information (the transcript of the conversation, the contents of the message behind the wallpaper, etc.) because Sally gives him that information at the end of the story - but Sally gets that information from seeing the wall the Doctor wrote, watching the DVD the Doctor made and so on. The information never really "starts" anywhere - the Doctor knows what to say in the conversation because he's reading Larry's transcript, which Larry made thirty-eight years later by watching the conversation. The information is in an endless loop.
Despite only appearing in cameos, David Tennant and Freema Agyeman are still credited as the main stars rather than Carey Mulligan in the episode's main role of Sally Sparrow.
When Larry brings Sally the list of DVDs, a vintage White Star Line sticker can be seen stuck to the back of the folder; Titanic, the most famous White Star vessel, would later inspire the setting for Voyage of the Damned.
Kathy's daughter and Billy's wife are both named Sally. It has been speculated that they could be the same person but nothing is ever said about it. The timing of events makes it unlikely that Billy in 1969 would marry a "hot" girl born in the 1920s. If Kathy had her third child, Sally, around age 40, Billy could have met Sally at around age 19 in 1969.
At the end, when Sally is creating the package to give to the Doctor, a picture of a Weeping Angel can be seen. According to The Time of Angels, pictures of angels become angels themselves. It is possible that seeing as the "main" angel is stuck in a quantum lock, the picture angels cannot move either. The angel in The Time of Angels was not being observed, the projection was. It is also possible that seeing as the ones in Blink are scavengers and barely surviving, they have not got the strength to do this or enter the vision centres of the brain, as in The Time of Angels. It is also possible that the angel seen in the photograph is the first angel seen in The Time of Angels. It is also possible that, in keeping with the ontological paradox underlying the story, the picture in the package becomes the Angel that sends the Doctor and Martha back to 1969 in the first place.
Billy can be seen in the police station with a patch on his jacket depicting a sparrow, a possible joke on the main character's last name.
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Trailer
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