Time for Shuker In MovieLand to metamorphose once again, albeit only temporarily, into Shuker In TVLand, in order to review the following TV programme.
As a child and early teenager, I was a serious Doctor Who fan, but after Tom Baker's Doctor regenerated into Peter Davison's I lost interest, and have only watched a very occasional episode since then. However, one set of alien entities always intrigued me, and I read a lot about them, even though I'd never seen an episode featuring them – the Weeping Angels.
Almost as old as the universe itself, they send their living victims into the past and then feed upon the energy that their victims would have utilised had they continued living in the present. Moreover, they are lightning fast and are normally never seen, but if you do happen to see one, you can only survive by not turning your back on it, and continuing to stare at it without blinking.
As long as you stare at it, the Angel takes the form of a stone angel statue like those seen in cemeteries, entirely immobile and initially with its hands covering its face as if weeping. But blink for only a split second, and during that split second of non-sight the Weeping Angel will move closer, and will continue to do so each time that you blink again, until it is finally close enough to steal your energy...
During autumn 2019, while looking around a car boot sale, I came across and purchased a Doctor Who DVD that contained three episodes from one of the David Tennant's Doctor series, specifically because one of those episodes was none other than 'Blink'. Directed by Hettie MacDonald, written by Steven Moffat, and originally screened on 9 June 2007, this was the very episode in which the Weeping Angels make their first appearance.
On 12 November 2019, I duly watched 'Blink', finally saw the Weeping Angels in action on screen, and, as expected, found it to be very creepy indeed – creepy but also quite mesmerising. And yes, I did look behind me on more than one occasion while watching it! The Weeping Angels have since appeared in several other episodes of Doctor Who, and in a vote conducted by Doctor Who Magazine, 'Blink' was voted by its readers the second best episode ever from this entire long-running sci fi show that began way back in November 1963.
If, like me (until 12 November 2019, that is), you've never seen an episode of Doctor Who featuring the Weeping Angels, please click here if you'd like to see the fraught climactic scene from 'Blink', and here to watch a short compilation video claiming to show the Top Ten scariest moments (pre-Series 6) featuring these veritable energy-draining vampires – but don't blink!
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