Doctor Who 'Blink' episode question (spoilers!)

[chrisk]

@ArrMatey

My questions, which are likely answered in another episode, is what was the Doctor hunting at the end of the ep that required a bow and arrow? And was it ever revealed how the heck the TARDIS got ‘stolen’ from him in the first place?

1. This was also mentioned in the commentary, but not answered. The writer said that he made what the Doctor and Martha were doing as outrageously absurd as he could get away with, and deliberately didn’t invent the full story. It was just intended to show how weird and strange a Doctor Who adventure would seem if you only saw a snatch of it - like the monster chase in the abandoned factory that Elton sees in ‘Love and Monsters’

2. If the transcripts of her side of the adventure that Sally gave the Doctor were so complete, then the Doctor probably played through his side deliberately, knowing that it would end up all right for him - parked the TARDIS on the side of the street in front of the abandoned house, knowing that the police would come and collect it. Then he and Martha went inside, and purposefully turned their backs on the Angels.

[chrisk]

@chrisk

2. If the transcripts of her side of the adventure that Sally gave the Doctor were so complete, then the Doctor probably played through his side deliberately, knowing that it would end up all right for him - parked the TARDIS on the side of the street in front of the abandoned house, knowing that the police would come and collect it. Then he and Martha went inside, and purposefully turned their backs on the Angels.

Tried to add this via an edit, but time ran out on me.

The above presumes that circular causality loops can spontaneously occur in the DW universe - IE, Sally puts down the message that she read on the wall, but the doctor only puts that message on the wall because Sally told him to. I’m not sure how any of the main action of this episode could have developed without spontaneous loops - especially the DVD conversation.

If the Doctor had actually been caught by the Angels, stranded in time, without any knowledge of Sally or her experiences, is there anything he could have done to start the cycle going, so that after a few loops through time we could have arrived at this steady timeline?

[RealityChuck]

@ArrMatey

My questions, which are likely answered in another episode, is what was the Doctor hunting at the end of the ep that required a bow and arrow?

Never answered, and, with luck, it never will be. It works much better if you don’t know.

And was it ever revealed how the heck the TARDIS got ‘stolen’ from him in the first place?

He was sent back in time and the TARDIS remained. The police investigated it and took it to headquarters; the Weeping Angels took it to the house (the TARDIS is much lighter than one might think – it’s often been carried away fairly easily).

[ArrMatey]

@RealityChuck

Never answered, and, with luck, it never will be. It works much better if you don’t know.

He was sent back in time and the TARDIS remained. The police investigated it and took it to headquarters; the Weeping Angels took it to the house (the TARDIS is much lighter than one might think – it’s often been carried away fairly easily).

Oh! Okay, I hadn’t even thought that it might’ve been the angels that sent him back. Would also explain why the angels had the key… :smack:

And the ‘not being answered’ thing, I heartilly agree with. The commentary note is cool; I like the idea of seeing the Doctor and his companion just doing something over-the-top bizarre and perhaps -never- knowing why they did it. Part of the charm of the show, I suppose. I know such a thing would irk me in other series.