Dr Who -- kinda lame this season

[Morrus]

Btw, if you liked this episode, definitely check out Jekyll on BBC America. It's also penned by Stephen Moffat. Good stuff.

Moffat is good. Jekyll was good. Coupling, too, of course. He's touted as next in line as lead writer once Davies leaves Doctor Who.

 

[Kesh]

It makes a fair amount of sense for them to be able to see in the dark. But phospheresent paint is another solution.

I found bigger holes myself, like:
A) if earlier in the show the angels could fly across the street in the blink of an eye, then they're certainly fast enough to pounce on Sally in the basement once the light starts to flicker.
B) why is the light flickering anywa--if you turn off the power, the light goes off, so what does the angel do to just make the light flicker?

Btw, if you liked this episode, definitely check out Jekyll on BBC America. It's also penned by Stephen Moffat. Good stuff.

The episode was a blast, but had lots of plot holes.

1) "Duck." really. The Doctor had no basis of knowing that was going to happen, by the episode's own logic.
2) The DVDs. I'm guessing the Doctor came back after the TARDIS was returned, just to record the DVDs. How he would know that he'd get the right person to record them onto the discs, though...
3) For that matter, "I'll die when the rain stops." Uh... okay. Maybe the Doctor went into the future and read the medical records + weather reports for that day, and told the guy when the DVDs got recorded.
4) "Look to your left." I doubt the transcript mentioned a scruffy guy writing all that stuff down just to her left. Hell, the Doctor wouldn't have known where she was viewing it.
5) The Doctor had the transcript. Meaning, he knew what he was going to say before he said it. Yeah, time is "wibbly wobbly," but that one hurts my brain.
6) The Doctor's "trick" at the end was way too convenient. The chances of them ending up like that are crazy, and I would've preferred a more direct confrontation with them.

That said, I did enjoy the show, especially the ending.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

The episode was a blast, but had lots of plot holes.

1) "Duck." really. The Doctor had no basis of knowing that was going to happen, by the episode's own logic.
2) The DVDs. I'm guessing the Doctor came back after the TARDIS was returned, just to record the DVDs. How he would know that he'd get the right person to record them onto the discs, though...
3) For that matter, "I'll die when the rain stops." Uh... okay. Maybe the Doctor went into the future and read the medical records + weather reports for that day, and told the guy when the DVDs got recorded.
4) "Look to your left." I doubt the transcript mentioned a scruffy guy writing all that stuff down just to her left. Hell, the Doctor wouldn't have known where she was viewing it.
5) The Doctor had the transcript. Meaning, he knew what he was going to say before he said it. Yeah, time is "wibbly wobbly," but that one hurts my brain.
6) The Doctor's "trick" at the end was way too convenient. The chances of them ending up like that are crazy, and I would've preferred a more direct confrontation with them.

That said, I did enjoy the show, especially the ending.

Most of this stuff I think was covered in her notes and photos that she gave him before he met her. I tend to think is was more time paradoxes than plot holes.

1. The doctor knew what to write and where because it was in her notes.
2. The doctor knew just who to do it. It was the cop turned sound engineer that he met in 1969 when he was sent back. Again who and what DVDs were covered in her notes.
3. His death was in the notes and the doctor told him.
4. Again in the notes.
5. She provided the transcript along with her notes and photos.
6. Again notes and paradoxes.

The plot holes I saw were:

1. The Angels not seeing each other when the lights went out, but that could be explained with them seeing in the dark.
2. The variable speed at which they moved.
3. The biggest: if the Doctor has the notes before it happens and is able to set the tardis up to work on a DVD recall then why did he get zapped into the past by the Angels.

 

[Capellan]

3. The biggest: if the Doctor has the notes before it happens and is able to set the tardis up to work on a DVD recall then why did he get zapped into the past by the Angels.

Because if he didn't get zapped into the past by the angels those events wouldn't happen and Sally wouldn't write the notes to give him so the Doctor wouldn't be warned and he'd be zapped into the past by the angels ...

 

[Felon]

Because if he didn't get zapped into the past by the angels those events wouldn't happen and Sally wouldn't write the notes to give him so the Doctor wouldn't be warned and he'd be zapped into the past by the angels ...

Ah, the joys of time paradox. Even longtime viewers can get snagged by it.

 

[Mkhaiwati]

I loved "Blink." Probably my favorite of the current series.

I did see one minor plot hole. Once the light goes off in the cellar, those weeping angels won't be stuck anymore.

I wasn't thinking of the light going off. I was thinking of somebody wandering down there. "Hey, look at these cool statues! I'll just take a couple for my garden at home!"

I was a cool episode.

 

[Richards]

Here's a question: Why did Nightingale get thrown back all the way to 1920, but the Doctor and Martha (and then later the cop who was trying to get a drink with Sparrow) get thrown back to the late 1960s? Was it just randomness, or is there some method to it?

Johnathan

 

[Huw]

Here's a question: Why did Nightingale get thrown back all the way to 1920, but the Doctor and Martha (and then later the cop who was trying to get a drink with Sparrow) get thrown back to the late 1960s? Was it just randomness, or is there some method to it?

Johnathan

Each angel sends its victim back a fixed number of years. Nightingale was hit by one, the Doctor, Martha and the cop by another.