Blink

Cat and I watched the Doctor Who Season 3 episode “Blink” last night and found ourselves totally chilled and enthralled. After a couple of lousy Dalek episodes, the season really hit a high with “Blink”. Its central menace — suggested, I suspect, by the childhood game of “Statues” — was inspired and genuinely unnerving, the unorthodox handling of the narrative excellent, and the complex temporal manoeuvrings fascinating. I’m not sure the latter were all tied up neatly, but that’s the way with time-twisty stories — and within that always-intriguing sub-genre, this was a doozy! In my mind the episode well-and-truly made up for the inept Dalek double.