Jesus Christ, "Blink" really was lighting trapped in a bottle and much more high concept than I expected from the previews, with the bizarre Weeping Angels straight out of Sapphire and Steel, HP Lovecraft or Stephen King. However the Weeping Angels do not technically kill their victims, they seem to just dump them two to ten decades into the past, not far from their original spot and in one piece. Although the two "victims" we witnessed had nice lives in spite of their temporal exiles induced by the Weeping Angels, I get the nagging suspicion their happy outcome was manipulated by the Doctor off-screen with his sonic screwdriver, with the earlier Weeping Angel victims jettisonned into far less desirable spots like right in the middle of the Battle of Kursk or D-Day.
"Blink" is a very well written episode that holds up well to repeat viewing, feels utterly surreal (the surrealism enhanced when I was ill with feaver the first time I seen it
), could easily be pulled off in 70s/80s DW, and almost feels like it came from a completely different show to the rest of the NuWho episodes (especially to almost total dreck such as "Evolution of the Daleks"). However I found Sally Sparrow to be ridiculously overhyped and slightly so-so as a character, while Billy the Younger was just a smug creep that oozed out icky unlikability. But that said I liked Larry Nightingale through and through as a character and the actor who played him, Carey Mulligan the actress, should be hyped up not the 2D goody two-shoes she played, and Billy the Older was a vastly more sympathetic, dignified character overall than his younger jackass self.
And while stone cannot be killed, what if you smash a sledgehammer onto a immobilized Weeping Angel or stick a block of Semtex on it?
