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

4. Sally's Conversation With The Doctor Was The Hardest Thing To Write

Doctor Who Blink
BBC Studios

The most crucial scene in the episode - the moment where everything finally clicks into place - is the timey-wimey "conversation" between Sally and the Doctor.

Here, we get to see both sides of this conversation in full (after only seeing bits of the Doctor's dialogue peppered throughout the episode), we learn what the Doctor needs Sally to do, and we also learn more details about the Angels themselves, with the Doctor's chilling line "blink and you're dead" sending shivers down the spines of Who fans everywhere - as well as scaring the pants off Sally and Larry.

On the commentary track, Moffat stated that this whole scene was a "nightmare" to write, and that it took him "several goes" to get it to a satisfactory spot.

With the rest of the episode proving so effective up until this point, he was worried - understandably - that the climax would be a disappointment. Hey Steven: it wasn't.

In this post: 
Doctor Who
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

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!