![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pre-destination of the entire plot, while a nice touch, particularly the pre-recorded conversation, was a little too reminiscent of Back to the Future: Part III and Paycheck ( Ben Affleck movie based on a Philip K Dick story, in which the protagonist can see the future but before he has his memory wiped, leaves a packet of useful but mundane objects for his future self to use at pre-destined points in the plot) and the Easter eggs bit was a little Ring-ish. Yey!īut it doesn’t take more than a few seconds of adult thought before you realise they can be stopped by walking with your back up against a wall while wearing a pair of mirror sunglasses and carrying a torch the intrepid investigator could probably rig up an exciting shiny outfit covered in lights to allow greater freedom of movement. The ending, which implied that all statues are in fact weeping angels, should have kids terrified for weeks to come and probably traumatised for the rest of their lives. The blinking light scene was a piece of pure genius, both in its writing and its direction. A brilliant simple idea, massively scary, the kind of monsters that linger in the mind for days, weeks and even years after you first see them. In fact, of all the New Who monsters, the Weeping Angels are probably the first that could be called classics – monsters that you’d love to see again some time. The trouble is that once you start moving out of obvious kiddie territory (eg anything by RTD) and up the ladder towards young adult, my patented Helm of an ADHD Eight-Year Old gets thrown to one side, the quality bar starts getting raised, expectations start getting greater and things we could have excused in a jolly runround can’t get swept under the carpet so easily. It was scary, funny, cleverly plotted, with some good characterisation and dialogue served as the metaphorical icing on the cake. Now Blink, this year’s Doctor-lite episode, was a very good script. Even on his worst days, he writes at a level Chris Chibnall can only dream of. Steven Moffat’s always game for a good script. ![]()
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