Rate "Blink"

[Claire Voyant]

I finally saw this one on the Internet. At first, I thought it was going to be this year's version of the Absorbaloff story, and had very low expectations.

It was better than I expected. I thought Sally Sparrow was a lovely character. When I saw the grandson with the letter, I thought it was a ripoff of Back to the Future 2/3.

But the DVD part was pretty cool.

[Oldmankrondas]

Loved it, I've heard tales of genuinely scared children, which is ace. And I thought it was all very clever with its self creating paradoxes and whatnot. Steven Moffat to take over Who!

[John Darnacan]

It was alot better than "Love & Monsters", the other episode where the Doctor bearly appears. This one had some very touching moments. I also enjoyed the time travel/causeand effect aspect of it.

The part with the Easter Eggs on the DVDs was a little bit of genius.

[Meddling Monkey]

It was an acceptable episode, not the strongest IMHO. I thought the Doctor getting tongue-tied on the temporal concepts (Timey whimbley-wombley) was not appropriate for a time lord.

[armadillozenith]

monk said:

It was an acceptable episode, not the strongest IMHO. I thought the Doctor getting tongue-tied on the temporal concepts (Timey whimbley-wombley) was not appropriate for a time lord.

I thought it an excellent, quite moving and philosophical, well-acted and scripted episode with serious and comedic aspects, suspense, pathos and just the right amount of explanation/background with other things appropriately unsaid.
Full marks from me... and I recognised the 'Sally Sparrow' character from an earlier Annual so that was a neat tie-in, (first time it's ever happened that way round?)

The "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey" comments I thought were apt and amusing, not that the Doctor himself was confused but that he was struggling to express things at Timelord level of comprehension into a human-comprehensible format (and possibly being careful not to impart dangerously inappropriate temporal knowledge into a less-sophisticated era, so being wilfully vague and wryly obscure in his terminology).

Also it avoids the scriptwriter getting into deep waters of temporal physics that the scientifically-minded and pedantic could pick holes in, and avoids unnecessary over-elaboration of background concepts that could prove to be a continuity-trap for future scriptwriters!!

The stone assassins I found not at all scary to my surprise. That's no criticism by the way- they were superbly crafted/acted, and I could see how it was calculated to chill and spook. Very clever! But it had no unwelcome emotional grip on me. I think I actually enjoyed it more that way.

And I'm glad the temporally-displaced people lived satisfying lives. That was a nice touch - having the humans be resilient and resourceful and even thankful for how things had turned out, (though poignantly wronged), not just be 'victims'.

:-) Graham

[Slagathor]

I thought this was a superb piece of scriptwriting, (Obviously not RTD). It was tightly written and didn't use any of RTD's "magical" science; what I mean is it was logical. It also demonstrates how good a story can be if it doesn't rely on special effects. (I don't recall one.) It engaged the mind instead of trying to overpower it.