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[icepixie]

I finally got around to watching "Blink" (hooray for Netflix's streaming video), and...that was pretty good. Much better than the other two Doctor-lite episdes I've seen. Has it made an entire generation of children scared of statuary?

I think I could probably use it as an example of both time travel and SF's intersections with horror in the class, so onto the list it goes! (I'm probably gonna have to pare down this list before next semester...)

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

"Blink" is a classic. It's one of the most frightening things I've ever seen, and the amazing thing about it...is that nobody dies. If you think about it, Moffat never kills people. He comes up with much more clever ways to dispose of them, for want of a better word. And that makes them that much more frightening. The two things I've seen that have scared me the most in New Who are this episode, and "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances".

Has it made an entire generation of children scared of statuary?

Wouldn't surprise me. Lord knows, I'm still scared of gas masks!

[icepixie]

Moffat never kills people. He comes up with much more clever ways to dispose of them, for want of a better word.

Heh. Very true!

I think TEC/TDD is very slightly scarier than this one, but that may be because I saw it first, and that kind of creepiness isn't as novel with this episode.

Lord knows, I'm still scared of gas masks!

Hee. Although I would argue that gas masks are inherently creepier than statues. IMO, making angel statues creepy > making gas masks creepy. :)

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I thik TEC/TDD did freak me out a little more, yes. And yeah, I'm not fond of masks of any kind, but gas masks are even more sinister to me now than they were before (I'm the girl who turned around and saw one at The Who Shop three years ago and screamed--before smacking the friend who pointed it out to me!). But for a small chunk of Moffat-y goodness, I don't think you can beat Blink, since it's shorter and it creates SO much of the fear through the merest suggestion. That's why I think it's such genius.

(Damn. Now I should haul that ep out and watch it tonight, in the dark... ;) )