Don't blink
| Episode of the Doctor Who series | |||
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| title | Don't blink | ||
| Original title | Blink | ||
| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 45 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 3, episode 10 new series: 38th episode in total, including classic series: 734th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | June 9, 2007 on BBC One | ||
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October 17th, 2012 on FOX Channel | ||
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| Director | Hettie MacDonald | ||
| script | Steven Moffat | ||
| production | Phil Collinson | ||
| music | Murray Gold | ||
| camera | Ernest Vincze | ||
| cut | Jamie McCoan | ||
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Do not blink (English title. Blink ) is the tenth episode of the third season of the British science fiction - television series Doctor Who . It first aired on June 9, 2007 on BBC One . The episode was written by Steven Moffat ; Directed by Hettie MacDonald.
The story follows young Sally Sparrow ( Carey Mulligan ), who has to help a time traveler recover his time machine . You will encounter dangerous statues that can move as soon as no one is watching them. In contrast to most of the episodes in this series, the actual leading actors, David Tennant as the Doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones , have very small roles.
The episode was rated very positively by critics. Screenwriter Steven Moffat received a BAFTA Craft Award and a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter for Blink . The episode also won a Hugo Award .
action
A young woman, Sally Sparrow ( Carey Mulligan ), enters an old abandoned property to take photos. Under an old, down leafing wallpaper they discovered a written message on the wall, which is addressed to them and in front of weeping angels ( weeping angels warns). It is signed "The Doctor (1969)". The next day, Sparrow and her friend Kathy Nightingale ( Lucy Gaskell ) return to the house. Surprisingly, a man rings the doorbell who is about to hand over an old letter to Sally Sparrow. Unnoticed by Sally, Kathy suddenly disappears and finds herself in a meadow in 1920. The yellowed letter for Sally is from Kathy, and it turns out the man delivering it is Kathy's grandson. In her letter, Kathy describes her continued, very fulfilling life in the 20th century and instructs Sally to inform her brother Larry of her disappearance. In the hands of an angel statue in the house, Sally discovers a key, which she takes.
Sally visits Larry in a DVD store. This one is currently dealing with mysterious hidden messages that are scattered over a number of DVDs. In everyone you can see a man who calls himself “ the doctor ” and who seems to be having a conversation with someone who is not visible or audible. Larry gives her a list of the DVDs that contain these " Easter Eggs ". At a loss, Sally goes to the local police station, where she meets the young police officer Billy Shipton. He explains to her that a number of people have already disappeared without a trace in or near this property. He leads them into an underground car park, where next to the vehicles of the disappeared there is also an old-fashioned blue police cell , which is locked. She leaves the police station but turns back immediately after remembering the key in her pocket. The underground car park is empty, however, and Billy and the police cell have disappeared.
Immediately afterwards she receives a call from Billy who calls her to the hospital. There it turns out to their surprise that 40 years have passed for Billy and that he will die that day. Billy tells her how he discovered that the angels were trying to steal the police cell and he suddenly found himself in 1969. There he met the doctor who asked him to give Sally a message in the presence. Billy got into the video production business over the next several decades and was ultimately responsible for smuggling the Doctor's video messages onto the DVDs. Sally spends the last few hours in the hospital with the terminally ill Billy. Before he dies, he gives her the doctor's message: She should look at the list of DVDs. Sally discovers that the list is made up of the exact DVDs she has in her own DVD collection. The video messages are meant for them.
Together with Larry and a portable DVD player, Sally returns to the abandoned property and plays the video messages. She discovers that she can communicate with the doctor in this way. Since he has an exact transcript of your conversation in the past (which Larry is currently making based on the conversation), he can answer your questions. He explains that the weeping angels are an alien species. They feed on the potential time energy of other beings by touching people to send them into the past, where they eventually die a natural death. The doctor and his companion Martha were also sent back in time, where they are now stuck in 1969 without their time machine. The angels have a unique defense mechanism (see Quantum Zeno Effect ): As long as another living being is watching them, they are immobile stone statues. However, as soon as the person looks away or even blinks, the angels can move freely. The doctor warns them not to take their eyes off the statues, not even to blink if they don't want to die. He instructs her to look for his time machine, the TARDIS - the blue police cell Sally saw in the underground car park. When the video ends, they discover that one of the angel statues has already entered the room and is getting closer as soon as it is not observed. They quickly escape into the cellar, where they discover three other angels and the TARDIS. While the light begins to flicker and the angels come closer and closer during the brief light outages, Sally finally manages to unlock the TARDIS and both of them take refuge in it. There she instructs a hologram from the doctor to activate the time machine with the DVD she has brought with her. The time machine surrounded by angels then jumps through time to the year 1969, but leaves Sally and Larry in the basement, surrounded by the motionless angel statues. Larry realizes that the angels have been outwitted. Since the four angels now look at each other incessantly, they are forever changed to stone.
A year later, Sally and Larry opened a DVD and book store together. Sally, unlike Larry, does not let go of her experiences, she still worries about how the doctor got all the necessary information in the past. She keeps a folder in which she has put together photos, the DVD list and other information for the doctor. When Larry leaves the shop for an errand, Sally accidentally sees the doctor and Martha get out of his taxi. The two of them, armed with bows and arrows, are in a great hurry. When Sally speaks to her, she is not recognized because (as Sally now recognizes) the previous events for these two are still in the future. She hands the doctor her stapler and warns him that he will need this information in the future, which closes the time loop . The episode ends with the doctor warning the angels not to blink or look away. This time, however, it is directed at the audience, underlaid with images of well-known bronze and stone statues in public spaces.
production
“You have to remember that being scared of the dark and being scared of monsters is basically a childish impulse. There's always something of the nursery about horror .... Adults never quite grow out of their childhood fears. They just belong in a different part of our heads. Doctor Who isn't a childish program, but it is childlike: it's a program for children. And many, many adults who watch and love it watch it as that: as something like Harry Potter . "
“You have to remember that fear of the dark and monsters is basically a childish impulse. Horror always contains elements from the children's room […]. Adults never really grow out of their childhood fears. They're just anchored in a different area of our brain. Doctor Who is not a childish program, it is childlike : it is a program for children. And many, many adults who see and love them see them exactly that way: as something like Harry Potter . "
The script was written by the consequence Steven Moffat , who previously three award-winning effects on since 2005 retransmitted series wrote the two-parter The Empty Child ( The Empty Child ) / The Doctor Dances ( The Doctor Dances ) of the first season and the girls in the fireplace ( The Girl in the Fireplace ) from the second season. After Moffat had to postpone his work on this season of Doctor Who several times due to his work on the drama series Jekyll , he offered to take over the "doctor-lite" episode of the current season, an episode in which the main actors are production-related only have short appearances.
The plot of Blink is based on the short story 'What I Did on My Christmas Holidays' by Sally Sparrow by Steven Moffat, which was originally published in The Doctor Who Annual 2006 . The story differs in many details from the filmed version, among other things the main character Sally Sparrow is only 13 years old and the doctor and his companion end up in the 80s. The short story is also about the ninth doctor (portrayed by Christopher Eccleston in the series ).
David Tennant as the (tenth) doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones have only very brief appearances in this episode, as the production team was able to shoot two episodes of the series at the same time. Lead actress Carey Mulligan had previously auditioned for other Doctor Who roles.
The angel statues were played by actors in elaborate costumes. There was also an immobile statue for various shots. During the production, the production of a large number of different statues in different poses was initially considered, which should have been animated using digital technology during some scenes. However, this idea was discarded in favor of the costumed performers.
The filming of Blink took place in Cardiff , Newport and Caerphilly . The scenes in the underground police car park were filmed in the Coal Exchange building in Cardiff, the scenes in the police station were filmed in the Old Natwest Bank. For the abandoned Wester Drumlins House, the then vacant Fields House in Newport served as a backdrop.
Some glimpses behind the scenes of this episode and short interviews with the actors can be found in the companion series Doctor Who Confidential (Season 3, Episode 10: Do You Remember the First Time? ).
After Moffat with Season 5 Russell T. Davies replaced as producer of the series, in 2010 returned the Weeping Angels in the written Moffat two-parter of Angels Time / Heart of Stone ( The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone ), 2012. The Angels Take Manhattan , and back in 2013 in The Time of the Doctor . The Weeping Angels also appeared in various spin-off media, including the Class series .
Charisma
Blink first aired on BBC One on Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:10 pm . In July 2007 the DVD Doctor Who - Series 3 Vol. 3 was released, which contains Blink and the two previous episodes Human Nature and The Family of Blood . A box with all episodes of the third season was released in November 2007. The DVDs contain an Easter egg . It shows the sequence that was hidden in the story on Sally's various DVDs as an Easter Egg (see section #History ).
reception
The episode was first broadcast by 6.62 million viewers, making it the 7th most watched program of the week. Such a high market share is not atypical for the series. Audience numbers for even the most successful television series usually drop steadily over the duration of a season and only rise again at the season finale. For this reason, the build showrunner of Doctor Who regularly just particularly complex and extraordinary stories into the middle of the season or just before the start of the season finale, which paid off so far in many cases - as in this case. Despite the successful broadcast, Blink remained the episode with the fewest viewers during the course of the third season.
In the episode, the otherwise eloquent doctor comes to a standstill when trying to explain the structure of time to Sally: “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 ... time-y wimey ... stuff. - It got away from me, yeah. ”Later he introduces his self-made“ Timey-Wimey-Detector ”with the words:“ Goes 'thing!' when there's stuff. “ Timey-Wimey became one of the most popular sayings of the series (completely unexpectedly for Moffat), has appeared on countless merchandise articles since then and was repeatedly used in the scripts in later seasons.
Reviews
Dan Martin ( The Guardian ) calls Blink the most beloved episode of the whole series [since 1963] (“most adored Who story ever”); He describes the use of the weeping angels as "brilliantly effective in this claustrophobic haunted house".
IGN's Travis Fickett praises the concept of the Weeping Angels and the cast, most notably Carey Mulligan's portrayal of Sally Sparrow. According to Fickett, Blink also functions independently of the rest of the series as an “excellent” stand-alone story. He awarded 9.1 out of 10 possible points.
The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph listed Blink as one of the top 10 Doctor Who episodes of all time. Author Neil Gaiman listed the crying angels at number 3 in his top 10 classic monsters.
Awards
BAFTA Television Craft
- 2008: Best Writer , for Steven Moffat
BAFTA Cymru Awards
- 2008: Best Screenwriter , for Steven Moffat
- 2008: Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
Constellation Awards
- 2008: Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode , for Carey Mulligan
- 2007: Steven Moffat was nominated in the Best Script category - the award went to Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth
Web links
- Blink on the official Doctor Who website
- Flashing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "What I Did in My Christmas Holidays," by Sally Sparrow , short story on which the script is based
- Filming locations for Blink (English)
- Blink on stevenmoffat.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don't blink (Blink) on Wishlist.de, accessed on September 4, 2015.
- ^ A b Steven Moffat interview 2007. In: Radio Times. June 2007, archived from the original on May 24, 2011 ; accessed on May 21, 2011 .
- ^ A b c Benjamin Cook: Favorite Worst Nightmares . In: Doctor Who Magazine . No. 384 , July 25, 2007, ISSN 0957-9818 , p. 44-50 .
- ^ Steven Moffat : What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow . BBC website, accessed May 21, 2011.
- ↑ a b Blink - Story Locations. In: The Location Guide to Doctor Who. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ^ Coal Exchange and Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay. In: BBC Wales Arts. BBC Wales, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ BBC One Programs - Doctor Who, Series 3, Blink. In: bbc.co.uk. BBC , accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Weekly Top 30 Programs. (No longer available online.) In: www.barb.co.uk. Broadcasters' Audience Research Board , archived from the original on May 11, 2011 ; Retrieved May 22, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ In the German dubbing: " Mankind believes that time is a strict sequence of cause and effect, but in truth, viewed from the non-linear, non-subjective point, it is more like a big ball of schnibbedi-schnick, wibbelig- wobbly stuff. - Yeah, I kind of lost the thread. "
- ^ Dan Martin: Doctor Who: The Time Of Angels - series 31, episode four. In: Television & Radio blog, guardian.co.uk. April 24, 2010, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Travis Fickett: Doctor Who "Blink" Review. In: ign.com . September 17, 2007, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ^ The 10 greatest episodes of Doctor Who ever. In: www.telegraph.co.uk . July 2, 2008, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ My Top 10: Neil Gaiman. In: ew.com . June 18, 2008, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ^ Past Winners and Nominees - Television Craft Awards. In: www.bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts , accessed September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Bafta glory for Channel 4's Boy A. In: BBC News . May 12, 2008, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ 2008 Hugo Award Results Announced. In: www.thehugoawards.org. August 9, 2008, accessed May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Looking Back At ... The 2008 Constellation Awards. In: constellations.tcon.ca. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ 2007 Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot. In: sfwa.org. January 14, 2008, accessed September 25, 2017 .
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