I'd wager this isn't true coz I spent half of it seeing how long I could keep my eyes open :)

May I say I hate blink

I feel blink is a decent introduction to a villain that shouldn't of return in doctor who the angels stand on their own as a great monster but let's face it, the 2 parter added too much on a simple premise, things that shouldn't of been added angels in Manhatten spits in their face especially when you consider the angel of liberty, a statue that size couldn't move an inch in this city, especially when you consider people would be in it, and then if it didn't have people in it, their is no way the moment it move people would see it but I digress when you consider another point IT NOT STONE ITS METAL but if these 2 hadn't been follow ups believe it or not the episode blink would of been the best introduction but then there's something else you may miss here, class the spinoff would of had a reason to draw more people to it spoilers for those wh haven't seen it class finale reintroduces them, and because angel fatigue hadn't enter people thoughts and the angels didn't become a joke the final moments of the episode would of had fans flocking to it just so they could get more angels, then there's the fact that the planned second season ideas could of been changed sorry im going off here

I pulled this video up to go to sleep and only opened my eyes halfway through, are you sure?

You called?

It's just wibbly wobbly timeywimey stuff I guess

just remember, 12 was teaching at the university during this time too, since he taught there for 70+ years. very “timey wimey”

@@taladavidson5400 wowee you’re right!

Headconnon: The doctor and companions end up being about 1% of the total world population at all times

Well as they mentioned when talking to Billy the Moon Landing hadn't happened yet in that scene at least

Honestly, I really don't understand this, how is it chilling?

@@persononinternet7868 rain is cold

@@persononinternet7868 it puts emphasis on the fact that Billy has lived an entire lifetime since him and Sally met less than an hour ago. The fact that so much time has passed that he's on death's door because of the angels while the clouds above have barely even shifted is what brought many viewer's(myself included) attention to the true terror of the angels by forcing you to acknowledge what they've done.

@@persononinternet7868 it’s not really chilling it’s just more emotionally poetic. The way the music frames the scene it’s definitely not supposed to be seen as this terrifying line of dialogue

@@obiwankenobi687 It can be however it makes a person feel. It's subjective.

Best run of episodes in the shows history

@@richardfitzmaurice1282 Hmm I'd argue Silence I'm the Library two partner - Midnight - Turn Left - Two part series 4 finale is better. But both are amazing.

@@kbg12ila Dunno that finale wasn't that great and blink and utopia are two of the best

@@kbg12ila Hmm yeah both S3 and S4 had incredible runs and finished on strong notes. My favourite seasons in terms of overall-season quality.

Absolutely agree.. Three consecutively awesome episodes in a row...

they do move on camera tho?

@@adamlouis3725 You mean the scene where Amy can't open her eyes, and has to walk through the wood, right? That's not in Blink, that's a later episode - and honestly kind of ruined the Angel's whole gimmick, for exactly the reason I mentioned.

The image of an angel becomes an angel!

That is one of my very favorite things about the episode: that chilling moment when you realize why Sally's back is still protected; because we can see them. It's so elegant, clever, and creepy.

⁠@@LadyDoomsingerSomebody has a theory(pretty sure it gets discredited in later episodes, but whatever) that it’s not that they don’t know how human eyesight works, it’s that their trying to figure out why their stone, aka us looking at them. Their such a brief blink between the film reels, but it’s enough to allow them their quick movement. Causing them to look like their moving to our eyes, but it’s more like stop motion. That’s why it takes so long to attack Amy, because they eventually just give up/think it’s Amy and go in for the kill.

"The angels have the phone box." That's one of my favorites.

@@karenhall4645 "I've got that on a tshirt"

@@matthewlacey4198 I'm still trying to find that t-shirt. 😃

'people assume that time is a straight in but actually from a non-linear non-subjective viewpoint, it's more a big ball of Wibbey wobbly, times wimey stuff' I've legit memorised that quote.Girl in the fireplace has some great quotes too

The "life is long and you're hot" line always chokes me up no matter how many times i watch it

I've honestly never found blood and violence scary, it's always creepy that scares me most

@@djb1317 Yeah, me too. Like the first Alien movie! Still haven't seen the whole damn thing because it was too creepy the second time I watched it. The first time was when I was about 11. I saw the title and thought: "Great, an episode with aliens!" Little did I know...after the Chestburster scene (now THAT'S scary blood horror!) I turned it off.

@@Lia-uf1ir haha, I was gonna say the 2 things I find scariest are aliens and ghosts in a less is more creepy way (there's a 90s movie called Haunted, Kate Beckinsale is on it, it's dated a bit now, but that terrified me as a kid, it's still plenty creepy) I am embarrassed to admit the only alien I have watched all the way through is alien 3 for the exact same reason as you haha

@@djb1317 Nice! Haven't even seen the other Alien films save the Prometheus films. If only the second half of the first Prometheus film was as good as its first. The first started so well with a new take on the ancient alien theory. As far as I know, no one tried to search for ancient aliens yet.

Blink is the only thing I've seen that truly horrified me, sure I've seen scary jumpscares and things that kept me up, but nothing has ever truly horrified me like the angels

😂😂😂

This comment didn't particularly help. I haven't got to that bit yet, but now I'm doing it anyway.

He's a detective inspector on duty, with a scared member of the public who's reporting a missing friend. It's definitely inappropriate and problematic.

@@robinbull6348 Not on duty, he clocked out if you remember. Also, it wasn’t aggressive, it was playful. And ultimately, it didn’t create a problem, it cheered Sally up. Problematic is only problematic if it creates a problem. It’s not like he was doing something morally corrupt here, he was just flirting with her. If Sally had been upset and walked off telling him to never talk to her again then I’d understand. The most you can say is that is inappropriate but Sally wasn’t complaining. Unless Billy does this to every woman who comes to the police station than what exactly is the problem?

@@robinbull6348 I dont think you know what problematic means

Sadly, it's called 2020.....

@@putridmoldyman306 So I read your comment thinking you were talking to me and did some research only to come back and realise it wasn’t me you were talking to. That said I’ll still present what I found. Even though I knew what problematic meant, I’d never actually looked up it’s definition before. Here it is. Problematic 1. adjective constituting or presenting a problem. 2. noun a thing that constitutes a problem.

I have seen that theory used as to why the angels are slow and jittery around Amy in Flesh and Stone.

@@xenon8117 If this theory is true they should not be moving on-sreen at all. Personally I hate this scene. And I think it had some potential to be Big Fourth Wall breaking, somethink along the lines "Amy, just come to us" and then turning to us "Watch her". I don;t really know if this would work and be liked, but I think it would be still better than what we have got.

Yes. Personally I think showing the Angels moving onscreen (even if none of the characters are looking) kinda ruins their appeal

I believe in those scenes one of the angels was looking at the others, that’s why it turned the light out in the basement, so they couldn’t see each other either

@@mathuraphael9196 video cameras don't view the world like our eyes as a continuous stream of light, they take multiple pictures a second, the angels could be moving in between frames

Love and monsters slowly suffocated in mud.....

Love and Monsters shattered its shins so Blink could run

Love and monsters flew so Blink could fall

Then I guess Blink ran so Turn Left could defy gravity and levitate across the room. (Not knocking Blink - I love Blink - I just love Turn Left a lot more)

Love and Monsters is a bad episode but I'd watch it any time before I'd watch Fear Her. That was the worst episode of NuWho before Chinball took over. Now it's ahead of all his episodes.

I think that's good that she just got that one episode- it makes it more special

Oh, okay then; I'll just be here weeping over what could've been. :P

Well it is set in England

I think you mean Sparrow and Nightingale

Well Lawrence is back in a new game by the people who made simulacra and Sara is Missing.

ye, they could have had a big finish audio or their own spin-off even if it was just one episode or like a mini series

Nah, that was when Doctor Who had good writers and could write about injustices and yes, liberal agenda but it wasn't shoved down someone's throat. Doctor Who has always leaned to the left, that cannot be denied. The difference between then and now is that the writers before could take their agenda and put it in a good scifi story. Whereas today Chinball and group just say, if you disagree with me and my message, you are EVIL!!!!

@@jagswinjagswin Fucking tinfoil hat over here

@@littlemoth4956 enjoy your hat!

@@jagswinjagswin dude, chibnalls era is by far the most politically Conservative the modern show has ever been. Literally the season before chibnall came on they had oxygen, which had an extremely blatant anti-capitalism message. Compare that to chibnalls first season where you've got the 13th doctor simping for space amazon. Actually watch the show.

But a one second look at the scene shows what it actually means, it's just boringly literal.

Maybe you're right, but if this episode was my introduction to Doctor Who, I would have loved it anyway and get instantly hooked, but that's just me, I'm obsessed with time travel stories.

Yeah. I always said it was a good intro because it doesn’t have a lot of the trippy doctor stuff that makes it unapproachable, but it also doesn’t really teach you anything about how to handle the Doctors weirdness. Only the first episode of any season can do that.

Perhaps, but this is the first episode I watched of Doctor Who, and I thought it was amazing. Intrigued me to watch more.

This episode is a fantastic introduction to Doctor Who. The fact that it also works even for longtime fans is only one of the reasons why it's a masterpiece

I know she's too famous now, but I wish we got her as The Doctor instead, she's a fantastic actress and has charisma. In my opinion though, The Doctor should always be male, but if they want a woman in the role so badly, at least hire someone likeable.

Haha, goddamn that sounds like quite a nightmarish bunch of events

Which one was that?

@@stevenhale2935 midnight paired with turn left :)

@@jdg9825 ahhh good point, gotcha

Why do you implie that they didn't realise it before ?

@@hothemeep1219 because the absorbalof exists

I just noticed that too! That's honestly a really creepy visual.

Why everybody is trolling 🤣

Moffat will always be better at writing singular episodes than drawn out convoluted and unimaginative entire seasons

@@frankegordon326 S9 was quality though

@@richardfitzmaurice1282 yeah that's fair tbh. Therea still a lot to enjoy in Moffats run

@@frankegordon326 Idk I thought series 5 was pretty great

I've always wondered that as well.

Good point i have never even thought about that before it makes no sense

She likes old and creepy.

I’m guessing Sally didn’t realise the danger they’d be in, since neither Kathy or Billy told her the Angels did it (I’m not sure Kathy even knew), and she wanted to solve the mystery where it started

I kinda disagree the ambiguity helped yes, but it was not really what made them scary to me. In fact, blink never scared me all that much. TTOA & F&S did, however, because it added more but still kept questions on your mind and increased the threat with the doctor ACTUALLY facing them and how scared he got that he may lose Amy.

@@SamhainRegen666 I get that but the thing is while trying to add more to them they massively fuck up the lore. It just got more convoluted. Amy and Rory's death hurt me too, but they literally could've used any other monster and it could've worked. Also the statue of liberty being an angel was just bullshit. It just seemed that in order to give Amy and Rory this big send off, the angels paid the prize and they went from these interesting villains to just generic Doctor Who big bad of the week.

@@iusedtowrite6667 (just saying that TTOA & F&S means the time of angels and flesh and stone) but yeah I get that TATM didn't do anything with the angels really they were just there to be there are just like they were in the time of the doctor it's honestly kind of annoying especially considering how well he played off this concept originally. Still, it doesn't really destroy my love for the monsters I do think they can probably come back even scarier at some point I just think that no writer wants to tackle this because they're too afraid to touch something that Steven Moffat spent so much time in building if I write it does every want to tackle the Weeping Angels again I hope it's Neil Gaiman.

@@SamhainRegen666 I think they can be done again, just in a more restrained way. This villains are better for a mystery episode rather than an action packed one.

@@iusedtowrite6667 i feel like i am the only one who liked the statue of liberty being an angel. it definitely adds some more questions to what there abilities are. and it was definitely a big surprise.

It reminds me of The Flood theme in Halo: Combat Evolved. I love it.

They should also use Heaven Sent... which imo is utter Storytelling Perfection

That would be unsatisfied as hell

Nah man, they’ll obviously say The Krotons

I don't know, I like to think they'll say Kandyman, who obviously are one of the best Who villains to date.

This is the best Dr. Who conversation I have EVER seen lmao.

come on let’s be realistic, they would say the chumblies

@@SamhainRegen666 It really is

The one where Rory and Amy get taken made me tear up a little. And I’m not much of a cryer.

@@mangot589 Yeah, but then you've got to live with "Statue of Liberty is a giant Weeping Angel that managed to move across the city without a *single* person looking at them to make them freeze before they got to the hotel" stupidity, so... I prefer the tears from Blink, before Moffat ruined his own creation.

@@ms_scribbles I agree with the giant weeping angel, for sure. It’s like🙄. But it was sad at the end.

@@ms_scribbles I do like Angels but it is full of issues that bug the hell out of me. Blink is followed by Time of Angels then Flesh and Stone. F&S is let down by the scene of them moving.

Wholeheartedly agreed. I'm also one of the few people who likes Hell Bent, even if not as much as heaven sent

@@atharvadeshpande6907 It grew on me yeah..once I rewatched it, it felt only natural progression of this incarnation of the character and clara

@@atharvadeshpande6907 I like Hell Bent more than Heaven Sent. Heaven Sent is objectively a better episode but it's pretty depressing. Hell Bent manages to balance between being both uplifting and heartbreaking. People complain about Moffat constantly bringing characters back from the dead but I would have been miserable if Clara hadn't survived. My only real complaint about Hell Bent is Rassilon. Donald Sumpter was just a pathetic old man while Timothy Dalton carried a genuine sense of power and menace. Peter Capaldi's "Get off my planet" would have carried a lot more weight if he was squaring off against Dalton and also would have shown how far the Doctor has come since David Tennant's era. Back then, he was so scared of Rassilon that he took Wilfred's gun with him. Now he calmly waits for Rassilon to descend from on high to face him and simply tells him to piss off. Unfortunately, Sumpter lacks the gravitas of Dalton so that potentially awesome moment doesn't work nearly as well as it should have.

@@tomnorton4277 you, sir, are brave to type that! Although I agree with the bit about Rassilon.... the actor who played him in Hell Bent just didn't bring that menacing presence and gravitas to the show. Would have been so epic if The Doctor had said "Get off my planet!" To Dalton himself.

@@atharvadeshpande6907 It's not bravery, it's just honesty. Heaven Sent might technically be a masterpiece but Hell Bent was a once in a lifetime experience for me. I actually had an emotional breakdown after watching the episode because after initially being happy that Clara was alive, I remembered that she wasn't coming back.

yes! I thought the 'time farm' idea was so clever, and it made sense for Rory to jump

Its such a good episode for the characters but a terrible episode for the angels

@@emmiannon1266 gotta disagree with you there - other than the statue of liberty thing which didn't make much sense, I liked the angels in it. the angel babies that displace in space but not time were a fun idea, and although the angels aren't really scary anymore I was still pretty creeped out the whole time (some credit for that has to go to the music). I'm quite easily pleased, but I can see why people would disagree

Yes

@@frances7575 agree

I hate "timey wimey", it was used as a cop out too much.

I don't think they necessarily should've been a one and done. They should definitely be used sparingly and more importantly, used correctly. Outside of Blink, my favourite appearance of theirs was the brief attack on the Doctor and Clara in Time of the Doctor, when the snow was making it even more difficult not to blink.

@@Shay96 it doesn’t really make sense tho, what do the weeping angels get by stopping the TimeLords from being freed. If anything they’d support it to manifest time food

@@itzimperiumxvi2620 The story involves cracks in time. Maybe they came through a crack in time and just wound up there, since not all of them seem to completely erase something from reality and "what can be remembered can be brought back". I don't necessarily think the Angels were there to prevent the return of the Timelords, so much as it being happenstance. But even so, I feel they were well utilised in that small segment, aside from the whole Mirror gag later on.

Oh heck yeah - same.

And then flesh and stone made that lethal

Maybe the angels just have really good eyesight and can see in the dark?

They were pointing to the light when that happened, when they were stuck their hand were extended down. They can’t move to turn off the light now.

Best thing I can say about the first point is I’m assuming the angel was attempting to knock out sally so it can get to her easier as she would be unconscious therefore wouldn’t be able to lay her eyes on it.

“From now on, we’re only going to be using stars to top a Christmas tree. I don’t want to see angels for a long time.”

Well we did have the "Host" in Voyage of the Damned.

Time of the doctor

Amy tried that

He might have looked at the information AFTER falling victim. From what can tell, they were in a hurry to get somewhere.

@@JoshuaRieth She told him when they met at the end of the episode. He will be stuck in 69 and he will need that. Also, the TARDIS key was placed for her like that. Everything she experienced she wrote everything down, you could see at the end , that it was lots of papers . He placed the key and everything the way she wrote it for him. That the TARDIS was in the basement, she wrote all of this down, he placed everything there, also the writing on the wall. He has all the info from her. Imagine, everything you and she saw during that episode, she wrote it all down, all that she experienced, everything, + photos and shit. The Doctor is curious, so i dont think so that he fell victim, he surely taked a look before going there and if he doesnt take a look before, how can he know that he has to go to Drumlins ?? You dont make any sense, you should watch Sesame Street !! i dont think that Wester Drumlins was coincidently 1 of his things he wanted to solve when they met Sally. BIG COINCIDENCE , never !! They were led to Drumlins by Sally and the infos she gave them.

I know, the logic of the angels is a little dodgy. There is also moments where the angels move way faster than they do in the finale, but other than that I still really enjoy this episode

I can't believe I wrote this a few days ago and the original script for Blink just leaked, revealing Sally wasn't going to end up with Larry originally and was actually hinted to end up with a woman! Apparently RTD really liked this ending as it was "more lesbian", but Moffat himself "hated it" and sent in a new one just a day later. Hmm.

I disagree. Especially about Kathy, her getting sent back into time caused Sally to do the investigation in the first place. If Larry would’ve gotten sent back I doubt sally would care. Kathy created an emotional impact for sally when her grandson told her what had happened to Kathy.

Also the continuing story of River Song never lived up to the first episode in the Library.

I never noticed that before but yeah I think they might be the same house

@@vickyotters9207 so some advice to anyone who finds themselves in the Doctor Who universe: if you see that house, just run.

@dr103 ha that’s either cool or lazy.

I agree that the later episodes aren't great, but I still reckon they should have been brought back in some capacity. The Doctor Who revival has an issue with their stories containing new monsters being plot-based, instead of creature based. The creature in the story is often based around the plot, instead of making a creature that can be used for multiple different stories. While each episode may be more better than if they were based around the creature, it means that the creature can rarely be reused. Take, for example, the Empty Child. It's an excellent episode, and one of the best of the revival. However, you can never reuse the empty children, since they were a direct product of the situation, and not the situation being a product of them. Similarly, the Midnight Entity, from Midnight, can't be reused, as there is no way to do a different story featuring that creature. Other examples include the Vashta Nerada in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead and the Family of Blood from Human Nature/Family of Blood, since I don't think there's a way to incorporate them without rehashing major elements from the original episodes. Most creatures in the revival are either unable to be reused because of the above reasons, or are from the original series. The few that are able to be reused are: Slitheen, Silence, Ood, Atraxi, most of whom have already been reused a few times (There are probably a few more but I can't be bothered looking through all of the episodes. Basically, the Weeping Angels are one of the few creatures introduced in the revival that are able to be used without rehashing too many aspects of the original plot, since they are themselves incredibly interesting creatures. It's a shame that the later episodes weren't fantastic, but I also think it would have been a shame to never use them again.

@@quantummidget Agreed. Time of the Doctor was the best use of them outside of Blink, imo. From hearing that chilling theme, having Clara casually remark about how it's a statue, to having them trying to stare at all the angels converging on them, without blinking from the snow going into their eyes.

@@quantummidget I love those enemies but we do really need some new ones that can get a bit of repetition.

Yeah moffat wrote that as well. Blink is based on his own short story

Yeah I remember that. I don't know if I still have the album or not though to look at it again. Thinking about it brings me back though and I have to say little else does that like Doctor Who.

In french this episode is called "The weeping angels"