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Blink: Is it all that?
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Anytime! You let me know when I can be of further help, particularly for your many non-sensical trollish threads.
Many? Name one.
Anytime! You let me know when I can be of further help, particularly for your many non-sensical trollish threads.
Many? Name one.
Anytime! You let me know when I can be of further help, particularly for your many non-sensical trollish threads.
Take it outside, guys.
So how can creatures in shadows eat people to the bone and quickly? Like, they're meant to be the dust you see in sunlight so they're physical things. But where does the consumed matter go. If you've eaten 10 stone of flesh and blood, then there'd be a load of matter to move away. Like, I'm afraid to say, the Adipose.
You're definitely watching the wrong show.
Well at a guess they're holding the Skeleton together and just filling the space suits?
The Vashda Narada clearly have insane metabolisms and reproduce at a rate that would make a tribble blush. As soon as they eat flesh the energy is almost instantaenously converted into reproduction, spawning more vashda narada...
Actually that makes more sense than it did in my head!
The defence rests...
Actually that makes more sense than it did in my head!
The defence rests...
Would you like to make this brilliantly insightful point of yours a third time, or maybe actually contribute something to the discussion instead?
That's as good an explanation as any, Starkers. It doesn't bother me as much as the complete bollocks of the way the Weeping Angels work. I think the Library two-parter is one of the few genuine new Who classics.
Certainly! If you're going to complain about how Doctor Who occasionally doesn't really make sense, you're probably watching the wrong show. I firmly believe it's supposed to be absurd - in Doctor Who, realism comes second to telling the story.
That is a good explanation, Starkers.
Hey, I just came up with a theory about the Weeping Angels. The angels are connected to a rift in time that when opened causes time to flow in reverse - basically, a doorway to the past. The angels are able to feed off the energy created by the rift, but even they can't get something for nothing - you can only get energy out of the rift if you put something in. The unique energy signature produced by sentient beings makes them the perfect 'sacrifice' for the rift. Throwing someone into this rift causes a massive surge of energy to flow backwards out of the rift (forward in time, from our point of view) and while the victim is sent into the past, the angel feeds off of the energy surge.
Okay, so that doesn't really work realistically either...but isn't it better than feeding off of the potential life energy of the victim?
I've always enjoyed "Blink," but I've also always felt that Sally Sparrow is not a very three-dimensional character. Especially with the arbitrary "Larry I'm not into you I've told you that before oh wait I've met the Doctor now I'm going to hold your hand and be your girlfriend because Steven Moffat can't bring himself to write a hot blonde who doesn't fall for the geeky guy" bit at the end.
Well that scene can be interpreted in many ways, she might just take Larry's hand almost as a signal to the Doctor that she isn't interested (he clearly is, the old dog him). In the end Sally is proto-Amy, she's the girl who waited. The only differences are A/She didn't wait as long and B/In the end she realised he wasn't worth waiting for a hell of a lot quicker than Amy did.
And Sally's at least as 3D as Rose is after one episode (if not more). But we've had this debate before
And Sally's at least as 3D as Rose is after one episode (if not more). But we've had this debate before
I didn't see it so much as "Larry I'm not into you" as "Larry, I'm too busy trying to sort out this whole timey-wimey brain-twisting evil statue time-traveler mess at the moment to be your girlfriend."
Well that is the most likely option really, but people just can't bring themselves to accept that for some reason!
That's how I always took it - she was so caught up in what had happened and the mystery of how the Doctor knew all that he did that she refused to see what was right in front of her. When she met the Doctor and gave him the notes she kind of closed the case in her head and could move on in her life.
I might be able to buy that if she had shown even a hint of interest in Larry before that scene, but she hadn't. Near as we can tell from that scene, she's spent a year turning down his advances. I don't buy the idea that it was just that she was preoccupied with the events regarding the Weeping Angels, because she apparently did find the time to undertake a major life change by opening a business with him. So the idea that she'd be able to undertake a major life decision like opening and running a business, but not another major life decision like dating a guy, all because of being preoccupied with the Angels business, seems, at best, like an arbitrary characterization choice to me.
Blink is a fine show, but it's far from my favorite.
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