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David tennant as Doctor in a line

Lonely assassins they used to be called...

Creatures from another world

@@clairtaylor5845 Yeah we watched the vid thanks

DenierDev blink and your dead

You ruined it with the laughing emoji

Why the emoji? F for the good joke.

Magic

@@lukasbarnes alright, you can take my like now.

Yay u got rid of the emoji

because he cant write what sally is saying anymore because he has to look at the statue

You mean brilliant writing...

Holy fuck I just now noticed that. I always wondered why the transcript suddenly stops.

But the doctor replies when Sally asks what she's supposed to do

He just assumes she doesn't know because he hasn't said anything about that yet@@Klick404

I thought ‘Hohoho I was right! You can do the one eye thing Amy does!’ I was so caught up in being right, I forgot I can’t see out my right eye

And to think this format only came about due to scheduling issues meaning they couldn't get the main cast in long enough to film a regular episode. Sometimes we do more when we are given less.

What episode this is?

That’s what made it boring af

​@@lllchildmoon9831 Blink

Yep

yeah wait wtf that basically makes them invincible edit: I should clarify, it would make the ANGELS invincible. since people seem to not be able to use common sense...

@@Hotpink51 how?

@@sheeshkabob because if you close your eyes or can't see them, they kill you. and if you have one of these conditions, not blinking or keeping your eyes on them is impossible...?

@@Hotpink51 If you have dry eyes (a condition I have), you can't help *but to blink*

Replying to show you how many likes you have

still does for me to be honest, none will compare to his depiction of the Doctor

David be always my Doctor.

@ still hope I ll see tom elise as doctor,he would be great

He and Matt were the best doctors for me. The kind of emotion that David brought to the role, is what you would expect from a lonely universe saving alien.

It really starts to get tense when he says "Lonely Assassins" and then it gets worse when he says "But then you turn your heads"

also me: nice

also ALSO me: nice

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Just liked this comment and now it has 69 likes, nice Edit: welp too bad

I completely agree with you it’s so cool!

@Adolf Schinkler I agree, you could never know what to expect except amazing but now we're lucky to get a medeocor episode.

well it used to be able to at least

@@elisvideobazaar5299 Translation: I'm a misogynist who can't cope with the idea of a female doctor so I'm going to complain about the new series every chance I get. (Though to be honest every regeneration there's always Who fans who complain about *their* Doctor regenerating, it's just got a much nastier tone now)

Except the recent episodes the writing is awful

You are everywhere. Are you magical? Serious question.

so many Justin Y now

what happened to your mustache?!

@@prizma45 So he can manipulate time? It all makes sense now.

@@annoyingcat5328 dude at this point I believe his moustache is what powers the fucking tardis

oh god if they ever teamed up that'd be a nightmare. honestly someone should make a horror game of those both, but you are just a regular human person. Also, I would like to see the cybermen or daleks try to deal with those things so far only universe cracks have been able to actually make the angels scared. I think just having to deal with them might actually force fear back into their metal bodies

​@@GothicgirlscoutOK, but imagine this: What if the weeping angels, the Vashta Nerada, the Silence, and whatever was the creature from the episode Listen all teamed up?

@@sheersternfeld1914the shadows would defeat the Angels by moving around like a playful dog and make sure the angels are in a circle or facing each other.

@@BarryLetts379 yes, if they worked against each other, but what if they worked together for some reason?

"...STUFF!"

Timey wimey

I have no idea where he picks that stuff up.

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Whimey

Wibbley WHAT? What makes you so ashamed to be a grown-up?

Lol.. nice one 🤣👌

I wonder if that would actually work...

@@noneofyourbusiness27 don't see why not

@Sir Soy Gato the Second oh...idk then

@Sir Soy Gato the Second True, although most people would probably either freak out too much in that situation to think of that or just not know what was going on in the first place.

Yes. Just yes. Everything about this still screams Classic! 😀

Totally agree. It was so good that all subsequent episodes have disappointed me.

No doubt about it. So good, so smart, so much pathos, so much to say about aging and how quickly life passes by. It towers above all the other Whos.

It's the perfect standalone episode. Even if you've never watched Doctor Who, it's almost the perfect introduction to the series. Imagine this being your first episode. Then when this is over, you're through the looking glass and get to ride along with the character that's BARELY even in this episode.

@@robot_spideri remember that i was so scared that i had difficulty sleeping for several weeks

Well, wouldnt be the first time that people dying in a horror movie leave something behind

Time can be rewritten

Fourth wall remains intact but otherwise yes.

@@FabioVolo672 unless it's a fixed point. As when a Weeping Angel does their thing to a person that person's disappearance becomes a fixed point.

@@williamkim9861 ahh i forgot that but you are right

I never thought of that, that is brilliant!

We'll also the cameraman... But if it is recorded, (something I just realised), can't they kill the audience? As Matt Smith explained, the image of an angel _is_ and angel.

And then in the next story they were in we saw them move-

My headcanon is that there are no weeping angels stories except blink.

@@rishabhmittal9552 wasn't there an episode where an angel came out of a screen?

Ahhhhhh, I just realized that now as well. Man, other people's comments can do wonders for knowledge.

+Pvt. Church They usually aren't good for self-esteem, though.

+Leighton Petty The only thing is there was nothing stopping them from filling in any missed spots in the transcript later.

But didn't 10 wait with his orders until Sally asked what she was supposed to do, which was after the guy stopped writing?

Andrew Joseph True.

Totally agree.

It’s arguable whether it’s THE greatest episode but it’s not arguable that it’s one of them.

It's the highest-rated episode on IMDB with a rating of 9.8/10.

It was incredibly clever. Everyone has to admire the brilliant writing.

Hard agree. It’s still in my top 5 for sure. I really liked Midnight as well, I think it was called? The one with the passenger thing on the crystal planet. The sheer idea of that episode’s creature, whatever it was, was pretty terrifying too.

Could potentially happen with The Big Finish.

She was meant to be. But she chose to go to Hollywood because she got a lot of publicity from this episode and rightly so. She was amazing.

I see what you did there. :)

We see what you did there

I don’t get it sorry

@@aceblackrose9155 you gotta watch the series to get it. :) It's a reference to another episode.

Why did I read that part as if it was a pink floyd song lol. "Like a crack in the wall!!"

I have that T-shirt hahaha

holy shit its a real shirt

I've got a shirt and poster that says "Keep calm and Don't Blink"

I had a shirt that has a picture of the tardis and said "The angels have the phone box", loved when it would spark conversation with a fellow Whovian :D

as with many fictional items, it's been be defictionalized by multiple T-shirt makers. A quick Google search should be all you need

If.

Technically it's not stone, something way harder. Depending on what he meant by 'quantum locked' those statutes could be frozen in a single point in time. That would make them indestructible to all but Temporal based attacks, like the rip in time space or poisoned by a time paradox. Actually since they have control over time. E.g. spending people back in time, feeding off time energy, the frozen moment theory sounds most applausable.

@@matthewallen2273 That actually makes sense, despite how durable a stone may be, it's still susceptible to conventional weaponry And since the angels are practically almost the same age as the universe, that might explain why the angels were able to survive for such a long time

@@zeroframe7002 As the Doctor said it's the perfect defence mechanism. This along with the fact that they can easily feed off any living thing or just by soaking up energy from a strong enough power source and go long periods without sustenance. Would made them an enduring species as a whole. I question how they managed to get off their home planet since we never see them using their own technology. But they may have been introduced to that technology my other aliens who thought they were the artworks of a dead race. They could simply let these first explorers take a portion of their fellow angels back with them to new planets/feeding grounds and they then spread throughout the early colonised universe unprepared for such a unique threat.

"They don't exist when observed" is the clue. The way I see it, the stone statue is not really them, just something that occupies their place when they're not present in reality.

my parents have been fans since THEY were kids so I was brought up watching along with Dr Who as it came out post-2005. I was about 8 years old when this episode came out. TERRIFIED. even my parents were scared of this one!

This one seems like a better "first" one than Midnight.

Same with me :D

I was eight when I watched it for the first time, and I didn’t get any nightmares from them but I did with the silence

haha, my very first doctor who episode was Silence in the Library, i was already a horror fan at way to young of an age, that episode got me hooked, i watched for about another decade before dropping it

Go outside and you are dead

Covid-19's Fast! Faster then you can believe

wash packaged things comes outside STAY AT HOME. Do NOT EVEN OPEN THE DOOR.Its faster and DEADLIER than you think.Dont go outside.Good Luck

@@thatguy333 and i made it 70

Everyone in this threat is too bored for their own good

Joe Scirrotto true, but in that one episode with the 11th doctor, we did see a whole army of angels regrow their wings and dresses, so i think they can regenerate

@@RubenAssassinRose tbh, I've never seen this show. I somehow got this clip in my recommended and just rolled with it. If that is the case, then it's possible that only shattering the head would do the job

@@RubenAssassinRose dude they need THEIR FOOKING HEADS SMACK EM OFF YA DUMBO

@@phitthawatinthavong8401 except in the same episode, there were loads of status with missing heads too, so no, im no 'DUMBO'

@@fireblast8972 Sadly, no. Many Weeping Angels were apperantly missing their heads on that Episode as well, but they were still following around. So literally, either trick them into looking at each other, or the only other option is to *pulverize them* completely, up until the last atom. Their biology is weird.

Bro I got chills watching it again after it scared me when i was about 10 or 13 Now I'm 24 rewatched it today and his acting is insanely good imo so I agree the way he explains them gave me chills literally watching it lol

Cryer24597 It'll atleast create motivation...

Sachin Shekhar Agree. It is a great episode and will get people interested. Then they can watch more.

+Sachin Shekhar This episode was how my mother's fiance got her into Doctor Who after two years of me trying. Now it's one of her favorite tv shows.

+Scottlp2 cool bot Slender

+Sachin Shekhar My friend introduced me to Doctor with this scene.

genius

They'd likely touch the stone and get sent back to like, the prehistoric era.

@@conlooka9356 Oh, so you can't even touch them?

@@jimmythegrunt7371 well, yeah. That's kinda how they work.

​@@conlooka9356 Actually, if I'm not mistaken, their touch only sends you back if they aren't being actively observed while you're in contact with them. Or at least, there's no indication that they are anything other than a stone statue while being observed, including no indication that their ability is active when observed

Scared me shitless when I was 10 or 13 and watched it for the first time lol I couldn't sleep for 2 to 4 hours at night after all my friends did at my friends house I'm 24 now and still creepy but nowhere near as much cause I'm older

You make smaller stones, that's all

@@Awelbeckk *TnT has entered the chat* *Creeper Has entered The Chat* *Endermen has entered the chat*

@@Jyappino1010 You make smaller stones, that's all You make smaller stones, that's all You just move stones, that's all

@@Awelbeckk Worse, you make multiple stones. Try not looking at all of them at once.

/setblock stone air has entered the chat

Just hold 1 eye open and blink with the other then switch and keep doing that.

+Christian Birdhat thats what i was thinking

+Cheerio Orange IKR

My plan: 1. Move to England. 2. Become an Ophthalmologist. 3. Dress like Emperor Palpatine. 4. Tell my patient "You will pay for your lack of vision".

Well I'll see you here then

thats the reason of the aliens its gimmick to be not be iconic and makes you forget

Ellie Raven can’t believe with all the crap the BBC have released they never released that shirt 😂😂

Actually that shirt is a real thing

Pretty sure there are some online shops which customises clothing

Same Idc if I have to get a blank shirt and write it myself

same

Genius.

I mean ya, they beat him. for the first time in a long time the doctor lost.

based pfp

@@insidiosity no

@@iamasalad9080 Yes

Luke Berry Angel: *Hello there!*

@@CatAdvantage General Kenobi

Darth Vader you are a bold one

CatAdvantage Doctor: *Am I a joke to you?*

Welp, it was nice knowing you!

What a way to describe a causal loop.

In nine more it'll be genius.

How else do you explain something complicated to someone who has no hope of actually understanding, yet insists that they will and demands that they be given an explanation? You confuse them with meaningless babble and then move on. It's a pretty clever way of dealing with humans, actually.

That's So True.... Also, I Need Help...

@@waylonpark2340 need help with what?

Why can't we blink one eye at a time?

search up on youtube "dont blink im human" way more messed up than this.

Yea that's really weird huh. 2 side nobodies cared one if the best episode. Its funny

Yeah, I loved how everything revolves around the actions and the reactions of the Doctor, that there is something far more eviler than anything out there wanting the Tardis. That the Doctor has no other choice but to rely on other people who aren’t related to anything, get involved the moment they see the Doctor, he is both a blessing and a curse.

Agreed, The writing/plot here was just sublime. This along with Midnight and The Library are my picks.

facts

They hired actors and writers based on skills back then... Today they hire based on what you got between your legs, on what you use it and what colour it is... No wonder writing and acting has gone to shit.

Well they had the precedent of Alien, for that one.

They still are though

A bit over 3 years ago I binge watched all of dr who from 2005 up to that point ( not counting the specials) in just a couple months. The angles scared the heck out of me for quite a while afterwards. I was 37 when I finished watching them.

They are horrifying monsters, stone statues that snap your neck or send you back in time, but I think the Midnight Entity is the most terrifying. We never got to see it yet, even now, I have trouble sleeping after watching the episode.

These are the scariest ones for me😂 just the fact you have to keep looking at them etc terrified me

I the empty child is the scariest in my opinion

Yep, I did.

I can't remember the the last time I blinked! xD

Georgina Smith I don't know what that is anymore!

Michael Clavelli What are you talking about?

Watch the episode.

another at 1:20

and 1:34

Wow!!

I agree

Supertecnoboff me too

Supertecnoboff same

he is a great actor and had great writing, if only Capaldi had great writing he would be one of the best doctors

Supertecnoboff Lets just tell ourselves that, in a parallel universe somewhere,Tennant ended up staying after season 4 and beat Tom Bakers record as longest serving Doctor 😊👍

I've always thought this and I think most fans would agree - Every time we met the angels in an episode the became much less scary

@@Godzirra-San I want to know how much cocaine was snorted at the BBC when they wrote Angels in Manhattan. *SNORT* "What if the statue of Liberty was an Angel?" *SNORT* "That's a fantastic idea!" "wait guys, how would that work? First of all, Angels aren't statues that come alive, they're Aliens that freeze into stone. The Statue of Liberty isn't really a Statue. It a building, with plumbing and lifts and stairs and..." *SNORT* "Shut the fuck up Carl!" "Also, by the Angel's OWN RUELS, in the city that never sleeps, a population of 8 million, no one saw their most famous landmarks move as it walked down the streets? Not even the people INSIDE her?" *SNORT* "Carl, it's a show for children. No one needs to think too hard about logic."

even just the next angel episode(s. it's a two-parter) is one of my least favorite episodes, purely because it does a huge disservice to the angels. the angels were an incredible monster, with one of the most horrifying parts being that we could never see them move. and then the time of angels happened. time of angels also set up a bunch of weird extra powers of the weeping angels. you cant look into their eyes... for some reason? seriously why? what actually happened? she had like... an angel in her eye... why is that bad exactly? you have angels all around you, a new one couldn't hurt much, and if you can see it it cant hurt you, so if you dye because it's in your eye, why does closing your eyes help? your eyes dont turn off when you close your eyes, you still see the color black. it's very confusing and doesn't make any sense. anyway, you cant look in their eyes, images of the weeping become weeping angels (and even that is gone back on in future episodes. in the god complex, their are statues of weeping angels in one of the rooms. the doctor says that they are fake which, ok, fair. but... they would become not fake anymore right? they would become real weeping angels.). the weeping angels get to complicated and make no sense when they return past blink. blink was a masterpiece, and now weeping angels suck.

@@Godzirra-San it’s because the second episode they are in you see them move and hear them laugh. Their gimmick slowly melted away for plot convenience as Amy couldn’t see yet the angels were still stone.

@@lightningjet9444 the idea that they were in their defensive mode because they thought she could see... wait as I was typing this something sort of made some sense to me she has an image of an angel burned into her eye, so the other angels wouldn't be able to look into her eye or they would also be burned with the image of an angel, which would mean they could never move again, due to the fact if they look at one another they're observing each other... So they had to figure out her eyes were closed without being able to see whether or not she had them open, or risk the same death as those from the end of Blink. That all said circling back to the point I was originally going to make, the quantum lock thing doesn't really make all that much sense either. ANY living thing? What about insects and microbes that are affected by them? Conscious observation isn't what matters in quantum physics, to my limited understanding, it's any "observation," or external force on the quantum object. Also eyesight is affected by external forces and do not emit any information outward, only internally to the being processing the visual information, so do angels work by reading the minds of creatures, from the past so that their defense mechanism can turn them to stone before being seen? Point is if you think about it for any length of time some of it starts falling apart. "Wibbly wobbly." Just enjoy the show. I forget what happens in their third appearance after a whole bunch of them got erased from time which meant the images of those original angels were no longer images of angels because the original angels never existed therefore the images and Amy's memory of her angel's image meant absolutely nothing, which means those must have been all the angels because even if the particular angel no longer exists, wasn't the reason there wasn't even any drawings of angels because ANY image of an angel becomes an angel? So even if it's an image of a particular angel doesn't the fact it's AN image of AN angel make it a NEW angel? Again that *could* explain the whole not wanting to risk looking at Amy and seeing the angel that was IN HER EYE killing themself and that separate angel?

@oldedude51 Oh, Austin, behave!

Have you realized the video is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long ?

*Nice.*

*N O I C E*

*N i c e .*

One of Moffat's best scripts I'd say. It's my second place very closely behind Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead. :)

@@mortenv15 Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! Hey! I can't see the computer screen! ............................................................................................................................................

Strongest and scariest lol, well imo at least, can watch it much better nowadays as I was nearly 9 when it was originally broadcast, and aren't nearly as scary as FO4's Super Mutants or Racnoss or The Beast.

Literally the best. I was afraid to go to bed after I saw it as a kid but it was worth it.

@@leighwakeham3735 I was six when Blink came out first. Didn't sleep for three nights. 😂😂

Right; if they do that, you get stupid shit like...everything to do with Riversong, actually. Annoying character that makes no sense.

Yea david is the only doctor that feels weird to me when hes human and offf set lol

thats why he was seen as the best

We? Who's we?

@@no_social_skill1369 Pardon my spelling mistake. Me*

I feel ya!

search up on youtube "dont blink im human" way more messed up than this.

@@charlottedillon2467 I saw the thumbnail and said nope out loud I’m not clicking it

when I was 10 or 13 I watched for first time at a friend's house I couldn't sleep for 2 to 4 hours at night after everyone else fell asleep it freaked me out lol Now I laugh when I'm 24 now but I was so scared I couldn't close my eyes cause in the episode he literally says not to as well "don't blink" 😂

@@foltyn_noah “Don’t blink. Blink, and you’re dead."

and since their eyes are on the side of their head they're able to see in front of them and behind them at the same time so no matter which way the fish is facing it'll be looking at the weeping angels

If it's that easy then just get a bunch of flies...or some pigeons. 😂

"just point a fish at them" is my new favourite solution

The perfect evolutionary form and best defence against stone time demons: the fish

How would you get one to stare at an Angel tho?

Yup, who came up with the original text when the Doctor was just saying what the guy wrote and when the guy was just writing what the Doctor said?

@@Fragenzeichenplatte Wibbly wobbly timey wimey

**Beethoven’s 5th plays in electric guitar**

Fragenzeichenplatte bootstrap Paradox

@@ElainaLycan google it

Or else I’ll send them back to stone ages!

+Wedge Antilles Indeed? how?

Turn your back on a 2 year old and see what happens, mayhem.

Aah.

+Wedge Antilles I think you meant to say: Ooddly enough ;)

+Elizabeth Lingurar "...They are fast, faster then you could believe, don't turn your back, don't look away..."

Spartan Goku can we see the picture please

Eh I know it has been 9 months, but can we still see the pic?

Can I add you as a friend on Facebook please?

Gosh damnit... we still want to see the photo. Lol.

Answer!!

the bloody man himself

My first episode and it gave me nightmares.

Same for me. Brilliant episode.

Always gives me shivers that bit

Hey it's GGGmanlives! Love your reviews.

how about Vashta Nerada?

@@yorkgrass there's this feeling when it comes to the Angels that gives me goosebumps. If I take my eyes off them even for a second they will move closer. And they way they look once they are going to attack you. Yikes! Atleast the vashta nerada kill you in microseconds if i recall correctly.

Scared me shitless when I was 10 or 13 I'm 24 now lol Very good episode for scaring people

Graviton AS just a bit of a reliever, it is stated that the angels in that episode are as old as time, so they move incredibly slowly compared to the angels in this episode. But I do agree with the fact that they showed the angels movement. I love the tension created by their quick movements

Connor Thacker also weird that they stayed stone whilst moving. I always assumed they were only stone when you looked at them, and they would look different when you aren't.

Connor Thacker but if the viewer sees them then doesn’t that count as being observed and they should be frozen?

ZeR0W1 we aren't there mate, it's called a movie

Sincerely, disappointed a movie, you say? Never heard of that before x(

The Story of River Song is Time-Travel Writing at its peak.

The one that freaked the most people out was the boy with the gas mask face "Are you my mummy"

Kid me couldn't have guessed in his life that he'd be scared shitless by a chicken bone

Now that you mention it they could have maybe used her in Smith's era instead of Amy and Rory. You could have had her and the guy, I liked the two of them. PLUS Moffat wrote this episode and became lead writer for Smith's era... the more I think about it the more I think it should have happened. Although I still like Amy and Rory.

William DeMarco the other guys name is Larry.

sanam after rose of course

@@sjhddhdhs If you're not as good as Rose that means you replace her as the worst companion though

best companion ? SHE should have been the first female Doctor ! I would like to hear someday what chain of events got this incredible woman in this episode-what in the universe aligned for all this to come together,this perfection.

He probably understands it but finds it impossible to explain

@@wyvern5890 Probably there's a concept in Gallifreyan but he can't put it into English

@@auberginemanproductions1608 that's gonna be a lot of circles

@@rattles8789 yep

@@wyvern5890 A dimensional being of a lower state can only slightly speculate on higher dimensions. We understand distance and depth because we have senses that support them. We can only understand time in a linear fashion because we observe time in a linear fashion and even then only conceptually. The best way I can explain our existence is that we are tangled worms. We could very well exist cyclically

where can we get that shirt !

I what that t-shirt too. I've searched for one but I don't find any.

@@anime.books.lover.93 www.thinkgeek.com/product/e78d/

it's 459 so im gonna like

You will have to sleep eventually. And then they've got ya!

Lel

Fuck like half of all doctor who villains could be SCPs.

Basically Peanut!

Fun fact: SCP-173 was written before this episode aired

@@Nooblolftw I was wondering about that. When was SCP-173 created?

try to wink and not to blink a few seconds later :) really hard

Nicolas Coenen true

Lost Bunny twirk

Lost Bunny 😉😉

the angle will be like "why are you hitting on me?"

YEs the church near Lindenvale!! I WAS YELLING

their still scary to me

They haven't stopped being scary

I get what he means. They showed the angles moving at that ruined them quite a bit for me. The whole point is you're only ever supposed to see statues and they showed them moving :(

+123455thatguy I saw someone on TV Tropes point out that perhaps we appear to see the angels move because they're actually moving in-between the frames.

i am scared of the weeping angels more than anything else

Is it 15 now?

Sounds like skill issue

Cryer24597 "when ever they Being Observed by any living creature they turn to stone" that's what he basically said

Okay i was just making a joke and quoting the doctor but you really deep about this

Cryer24597 Yep

+Cryer24597 Six months ago... Throwing in my bit anyway. I'd like to think the Angels' defense mechanism only applies to creatures they could feed from, which I guess is anything larger than the average human fist. Any sentient being that 'understands' a statue is a statue. To any insect or bacteria it is just yet another galaxy/planet-sized oddity moving.

+Lewis Murphy although he did say seen by any other living creature and besides once the bug looks away it dies

Brione me too

I’m getting one for Christmas. Hopefully.