Jeffery, Morgan (21 March 2012). " 'Doctor Who': Weeping Angels return for Amy and Rory exit". Digital Spy. Nat Mags . Retrieved 7 August 2012. The Top 10 Doctor Who stories of all time". Doctor Who Magazine. 21 June 2014. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019 . Retrieved 21 August 2014. Blink" received widespread praise, and is widely considered to be one of the best episodes of the show. Moffat won the BAFTA Craft and BAFTA Cymru awards for Best Writer, and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; while for her single performance in the series, Mulligan won the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode. In 2009 the episode was voted the second best Doctor Who story ever by readers of Doctor Who Magazine. Written by future showrunner Steven Moffat, “Blink” is widely regarded as the finest episode of Doctor Who, topping a BBC America poll and being praised by Neil Gaiman.

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LARRY: I'm writing in your bits. That way I've got a complete transcript of the whole conversation. Wait until this hits the net. This will explode the egg forums.

Moffat, Steven (2006). " 'What I Did on My Christmas Holidays' by Sally Sparrow". BBC . Retrieved 11 November 2020. Burk, Graeme; Robert Smith (2012). Who Is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who: the New Series. Toronto, Canada: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-984-4. Moffat joked that "since I was a kid, I've been thinking of Doctor Who monsters, just now when I do, it costs the art department […] a lot of money". [8] To create the rigid structure of the angels' dresses, prosthetics supervisors Rob Mayor soaked fabric in fibreglass resin, which was then painted over. [8] Although they are never shown moving on screen, all of the Weeping Angels were played by actresses Aga Blonska and Elen Thomas wearing makeup and prosthetics. [2] [8] The actresses wore two distinct masks: one that was more docile looking, and one with fangs bared. [8] Blonska later noted that "I'm partly painted, partly glued into the costume, but it's quite comfortable." [23] Although the actresses were slightly "wobbly" when they stood still, the producers used digital effects to, in essence, freeze the angels on film. [9] Moffat was very pleased with the results, and called them "fantastic". [8] Mulligan later called the effects "so good" and "really creepy". [8] Martin, Dan (27 August 2011). "Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler– series 32, episode 8". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 August 2012.

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DOCTOR [on screen]: What matters is, we can communicate. We have got big problems now. They have taken the blue box , haven't they? The angels have the phone box . In the episode, the Tenth Doctor—a time travelling alien played by David Tennant—is trapped in 1969 and tries to communicate with a young woman in 2007, Sally Sparrow ( Carey Mulligan), to prevent the statue-like Weeping Angels from taking control of the TARDIS. Sparrow and her best friend's brother, Larry Nightingale ( Finlay Robertson), must unravel a set of cryptic clues sent through time by the marooned Doctor, left in DVD Easter eggs.

LARRY: There's just one, right, there's just this one. We're okay if we just keep staring at this one statue. Everything's going to be fine. Muller, Louisa (25 July 2012). "New Doctor Who docs coming to BBC America". Den of Geek . Retrieved 23 August 2012. A Region 2 DVD containing "Blink" together with the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" was released on 23 July 2007. [26] It was re-released as part of the complete series three DVD on 5 November 2007. [27] Critical reception and accolades [ edit ] The wall with the Doctor's writing, as shown at the Doctor Who Experience. Both the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones, played by Freema Agyeman, have very little screen time in this episode, which let another episode be filmed simultaneously; "Blink" is consequently sometimes referred to by fans as a "Doctor-lite" episode. The scenes at Wester Drumlins were shot in a derelict house in Newport. To create the angels, two actresses wore makeup and prosthetics. The episode was seen by 6.62 million viewers in the United Kingdom.

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Rowe, Josiah (21 January 2008). " 'Blink' gets Nebula nod". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012 . Retrieved 21 January 2008. DOCTOR [on screen]: 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.Steven Moffat (writer), Hettie MacDonald (director), Phil Collinson (producer) (9 June 2007). "Blink". Doctor Who. Series 3. Episode 10. Event occurs at 31:18. BBC. BBC One.

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Sally and Larry return to the house and play the Easter egg on a portable DVD player. Sally discovers she can converse with the Doctor in 1969, as he possesses a copy of the complete transcript that Larry is currently compiling. The Doctor explains that aliens called Weeping Angels turn to stone statues when any living creature observes them. He fears they are seeking the vast reserves of time energy in the police box, which is his time machine the TARDIS. Blink" received the award for Best Story in the Doctor Who Magazine 2007 Survey. [12] In Doctor Who Magazine 's 2009 poll to find the greatest Doctor Who story ever, it came in second place after Peter Davison's final story, The Caves of Androzani. [47] In a 2007 poll conducted by the BBC, taking votes from 2,000 readers of the Doctor Who Adventures magazine, the Weeping Angels were voted the scariest monsters of 2007 with 55% of the vote; the Master and the Daleks took second and third place with 15% and 4% of the vote. [48] In a 2012 poll of over ten thousand respondents conducted by the Radio Times, the Weeping Angels were again voted the best Doctor Who monster with 49.4% of the vote. [49] In Doctor Who Magazine 's 2014 fan poll of the greatest episodes of all time, "Blink" again came in second, this time behind the 2013 episode " The Day of the Doctor". [50] Walesarts, Coal Exchange and Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay". BBC – Wales. BBC . Retrieved 30 May 2010. Monster Hit". BBC. 12 September 2007. Archived from the original on 1 March 2008 . Retrieved 7 August 2012. Jones, Paul (9 June 2012). "Doctor Who: Weeping Angels beat The Daleks to be voted fans' favourite ever monsters". Radio Times. Exponent . Retrieved 7 August 2012.Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 29 April 2012. Note: Information is in the section titled "w/e June 04–10, 2007", listed under BBC1 Moffat, Steven (12 June 2007). "Wester Drumlins". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 6 December 2007 . Retrieved 14 August 2012. (subscription required) Doctor Who – The Top Ten Baddies". The Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. 4 May 2011 . Retrieved 7 August 2012. Blink" is the third story of the revived series to be adapted for television by the same writer from a piece of their spin-off writing. It follows the " Human Nature" and " The Family of Blood" story arc, which was adapted by Paul Cornell from his 1995 novel Human Nature; [10] and " Dalek", which used the basic premise as well as several scenes and lines of dialogue adapted by Robert Shearman from his 2003 audio drama Jubilee. [11] "Blink" is referred to as a "Doctor-Lite" episode because the Doctor and his companion have very little screen time. [12] This allowed two episodes to be filmed simultaneously, [1] [3] [13] a process known as "double banking". [9] The practice began with the 2006 entry " Love & Monsters", and continued for episodes such as " Turn Left", " Midnight", [14] and " The Girl Who Waited". [15] Moffat stated that he felt relaxed when he was writing the script for "Blink", for if it proved to be unpopular, he could blame the "Doctor-lite" structure of the episode. [16] Due to the show's tight schedule, "Blink" had only one script meeting. [9] Filming [ edit ] Actress Carey Mulligan (seen here in 2009) appeared in the episode as Sally Sparrow.