YMMV / Doctor Who S29 E10 "Blink"

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• Crosses the Line Twice: The Doctor explaining what his timey wimey detector does. Explaining that it can boil an egg whether you want it to or not is funny enough. Explaining that it blows up hens is outrageously funny.
• Epileptic Trees: Many fans assume that the Sally, who is the daughter of Kathy Nightingale, is the same Sally as the one who married Billy Shipton. Here's one explanation of how this theory might work.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Sally has a photo of an Angel in the folder she gives the Doctor. The concept that the Angels are pure creatures of concept that can survive through images of themselves wouldn't be introduced until their next appearance, but it also provides the last link in this episode's Stable Time Loop.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Larry's comment that "look to your left" might be a political statement becomes this after the following season's "Turn Left", where the titular decision to turn left or right really is a political metaphor.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "People assume time is a straight progression from cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective point of view, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff."
  • The Angels Have The Phone Box.
  • "Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't turn away, and don't blink... good luck."
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • There are a few shots where nobody's looking at the angels. So why aren't they attacking? Because YOU'RE looking at them.
  • The last minute of the episode goes to great lengths to imply that any statue could be a Weeping Angel.
  • The angels don't move when anyone's looking at them. Not even you. They move only when your view is blocked as well. If you pay close attention, you'll see that some of them do move when your view of them is blocked. Don't blink.
• Retroactive Recognition: Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow before her Star-Making Role in An Education, and before becoming Mrs. Marcus Mumford.
• Sacred Cow: Considered to be one of the all-time best Doctor Who episodes by fans and critics alike.
• Unintentional Period Piece: This came out during the last hurrah of video rental stores, and when DVDs were still the most popular means of consuming media; the whole plot hinges on Sally owning a certain number of films on DVD that all have the same Easter Egg on them. Of course, given that this is a show about time travel that always treats the era the episode is filmed in as the "present", it can afford to be this.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: This concept is made fun of:
  Sally: How can you know what I'm gonna say?
  The Doctor: Look to your left.
  Sally looks to her left, and sees Larry transcribing everything she says.
  Larry: What does he mean by "look to your left"? I've written tons about that one. I think it's a political statement.
  Sally: He means you.

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