Doctor Who: 12 Cool Details Revealed In Steven Moffat's Blink Commentary

by Danny Meegan

1. Moffat Deliberately Made The Doctor’s Final Scene As Weird As Possible

Doctor Who Blink David Tennant
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The episode concludes with an extremely satisfying scene in which Sally finally meets the Doctor - in the flesh.

Because he's a time traveller though, his encounter with the Weeping Angels (and his DVD easter egg message to Sally) hasn't happened to him yet. At this point in his own timeline, he's off on a completely different adventure, with Martha in tow.

And the few details we get about this adventure are rather odd, to say the least. We see the Doctor carrying a bow, we hear Martha talk about "migration", and we hear the Doctor mention a "lizard". It sounds very Doctor Who, but still, very bonkers.

And funnily enough, the reason why this unseen adventure sounds so strange and random is because it was designed to be. Moffat said that he purposefully threw in as many "disparate elements" as possible, just so he could dial up the kookiness.

Mission accomplished on that front.

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Any thoughts on Blink, a whopping thirteen years later? Where do you rank it among Moffat's other episodes? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!