![]() Imagine how different “Daleks In Manhattan” and Series 3 as a whole would have been in that scenario. A fun fact about this episode is that Steven Moffat was originally supposed to write “ Daleks In Manhattan“, but he was busy with his own series, “Jekyll”, at the time, so he offered to write the season’s Doctor-lite episode instead, which became “Blink”. Like Steven’s previous contribution, “ The Girl In The Fireplace“, “Blink” has a very compact, efficient and fast-paced screenplay, telling a complete and satisfying story about a peculiar puzzle-box mystery within just forty-five minutes. Like “ Love And Monsters“, “Blink” is a Doctor-lite episode, an episode that’s deliberately designed to include David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in it as little as possible to give the actors a rest and make their filming schedules easier, and in that regard, it’s definitely a huge step up from “Love And Monsters”. In any case, “Blink” serves as one last breather episode in Series 3, letting the audience catch their breaths after the emotional intensity of “The Family Of Blood” before the insane developments of the three-part finale. I don’t know, maybe it’s just because “Blink” is sandwiched between “ The Family Of Blood” and “ Utopia“, both of which are stories that I really love, that it often feels overshadowed to me. If I’m being honest, I actually like “ The Time of Angels” more than it as a Weeping Angels story, which often gets slammed in the fandom for not living up to “Blink”. ![]() It’s easily one of the standout episodes of the RTD era (which is to be expected from a Steven Moffat story at this point), but I don’t think I would say it’s one of the top ten Doctor Who episodes of all time. ![]() Though I must confess, in much the same way that I like “ The Long Game” more than a lot of other people do, I also don’t feel the “Blink” hype quite as strongly as a lot of other fans do. “Blink”, written by Steven Moffat, is quite the fan favorite episode of Doctor Who, and for good reason, because it is a very strong, mystifying and memorable standalone story. ![]()
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