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OK, I've missed Who for the last three weeks, so I've just watched them all back to back, and fuck me if they weren't some of the best episodes ever.
I nearly saved Blink for tomorrow (won't get to see tonight's until I can Torrent it) because I wanted to keep the memory of Family Of Blood untainted in case it was an average one... but fuck.
The two-parter was quite possibly even better than The Empty Child, which was my favourite New Who so far. It had real heart to it, as well as spooky scarecrows and some cool fucking-with-time shit. I liked how, just as it's only by becoming human that we get a real glimpse of what the Doctor actually IS, it was only by fucking with the established formula that we got a story that did Who perfectly. I like these glimpses we're getting of how the Doctor is from others' POVs... that he really is this unknowable force of nature or insane God, and when we're not right there with him seeing things the way he and his friends do, he can be pretty fucking weird shit to deal with.
Which brings me neatly onto Blink- fucking killer. The statues were genius monsters for all the reasons described by other posters- supremely creepy and guaranteed to scare the shit out of adults and children alike. Also as someone's said, a perfect closed-loop time paradox... the only thing I didn't get (but there are a myriad ways in which one could No-Prize one's way out of it) was something complicated about Laws of Thermodynamics and energy which I can't quite get my head around. If they feed off the potential lives, doesn't that mean extra energy has been created in allowing their victims to live lives elsewhen? Where does that come from? I'm guessing there's some sort of quantum probability answer to this which I also wouldn't understand.
Also a little puzzled by the copper living past the moment when he was taken (and therefore still living his life in the present rather than "dying in the past", as the Doctor puts it), but that's probably got more to do with how I'd LIKE it to work than how it actually does.
Loved, loved, fucking loved it. Loved the bow and arrow, and the "four things. And a lizard". Loved the "it goes ping when there's stuff".
Reminded me a little bit of one of the old Alan Moore future shocks about the time detectives, where they keep crossing their own paths. Or a PKD with the cynicism levels turned way down.
Fucking quality. Bring on the final rush! |
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