Steven Moffat is my hero

[locker_monster]

Wow, I think this is the first time I've been away for a weekend and had to watch Doctor Who a day later. I wasn't too concerned when I found out this week was the double bank episode, but after watching Blink, I'm damned impressed and I kind of wished I could have gone squee! with everyone else at the same time. :-D Also, Steven Moffat is like my favourite Doctor Who writer ever now.

Last year's double bank episode was all right. I suppose by having your two main actors stuck filming another episode but you have to have another episode ready without them it forces you to come up with interesting story lines. I was so very glad when I found out that Steven Moffat was writing this year's double bank episode. No, actually, first I was kind of disappointed they were wasting his writing talents on a Doctor lite episode, but then I realized that his awesome writing skills might make the episode really good. And boy, it was a good for an episode with like five minutes of the Doctor. EDIT: Okay, so it turns out that Blink is based on a short story Steven Moffat wrote for the Doctor Who Annual. Huh. Are they running out of story lines or suddenly realizing the writers have written previously awesome stories?

Restrictions really do seem to inspire great things. Running out of money? No problem! Just have villains who are stone statues that only move when you aren't looking. Cheap and creepy. And so surprisingly effective. When the Doctor says in the video not to blink, I was compelled not to. And how do you stop blinking? It's a natural thing. You can only keep your eyes open for so long. And stone angels and statues are so common. That's why I really liked the ending. All those shots of statues, who could potentially rise up and kill you. That truly is what Doctor Who does best: it can take something common and turn it into some malevolent.

And such simple villains, too. They don't kill you, they just transport you and let you die out. An easy way to get the Doctor and Martha out of the episode, too. They're stuck and with no TARDIS. Steven Moffat used time in a wonderful fashion, too. Billy has to take the long way back to 2007 to deliver his message, it's Sally who ends up telling the Doctor everything he needs to know. Trying to sort out timelines gives me a headache, but I always enjoy it when shows has stuff happening before it's actually happened.

Martha has such a wonderful line in this episode. "I'm stuck working in a shop and I have to support [the Doctor]." Oh, I wonder what adventures the Doctor and Martha had while stuck in 1969. Why was it Martha who had to get a job? You'd think the Doctor would be more qualified? I guess he was too busy creating his timey-wimey machine. :-D Which apparently he took too close to some chickens. Now that's a story waiting to be written. And how hot does the Doctor look with a bow slung over his back? He was even in his casual outfit, with no tie and a t-shirt under his dress shirt. Oh. My. :-D Also, kudos for the Sally and Larry relationship. He wants her. She's obsessed with the Weeping Angels. And then Sally finally meets the Doctor and she can let go. So nice.

I couldn't bring myself to watch next week's trailer, but I do know a certain someone is back. I can't wait. :-)

Comments

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Okay, that icon is AMAZING. Is it gackable, by any chance? *adores*

This episode was fantastic. I really can't say enough good things about it. It just combined everything perfectly - acting, dialogue, characterization, storyline. Steven Moffat is my writing god.

Also: TIMEY WIMEY. *dies a little bit*

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the timey-wimey line. :-D I find it funny that the Doctor knows he has to say it, can see the words written down, and he's still perplexed. Like he's thinking, "Wait, I actually said this?" And the addition of "... stuff" at the end just makes that explanation so wonderful.

I could send you the original icon through e-mail. I think I made it in, like, two hours, but I just love how it turned out. :-)

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I could listen to David Tennant repeating "timey wimey" over and over again. "It beeps when there's stuff." Oh, Moffat. :D

I could send you the original icon through e-mail.

WOULD YOU?! I am really in love with it. It's just perfect.