Doctor Who’sOriginal ‘Blink’ Ending Didn’t Quite Put the Fear of Angels Into Us

There ’s a understanding theWeeping Angelsare some of the most - terrifying villain onDoctor Who . Their modest screen debut ended with a stern warning from the Doctor , solidifying the angel as a lasting and ever - present scourge . But it was n’t always that way .

Former Doctor of the Church Who showrunner Steven Moffat latterly free the original script forDoctor Who’s“Blink , ” widely considered one of the show ’s greatest hours of telecasting . The episode look the debut of the Weeping Angels , which have turn out to become one of the most - fear beast in the history of the series — they even won a recentRadioTimes pollfor scary monster , beat out the Daleks andeven the Cybermen . That ’s partly because of how the episode ended , with a stylized montage of Great Britain ’s many statues alongside David Tennant ’s Doctor telling the hearing that these creatures are here , and they will destroy you .

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Carey Mulligan as Sally in the Doctor Who episode “Blink.”

Carey Mulligan as Sally in the Doctor Who episode “Blink.”Image: BBC

Moffat shared how the episode ’s original script ( which you could readhere ) , which was call up “ Sally Sparrow and The Weeping Angel , ” did n’t have the whole “ do n’t wink ! ” matter at first — something that ’s wide considered one of the core tenets in a solid Moffat Doctor Who episode . In a statement ( according toRadioTimes ) , he said it was then - showrunner Russell T. Davies who hint the instalment ’s last supercut , after Moffat had changed the episode title . The rest was , as a Weeping Angel would say , history .

“ The right title had n’t get yet , so no one says ‘ do n’t wink ! ’ Weird , really , looking back . When I changed the title , it was Russell who suggested I hit the word “ blink ” over and over again , like a cheesy older trailer . As you know , I turn tail with the note for all I was deserving — and what a brilliant note it was , ” he said .

Moffat noted some other changes from the original script , including how it terminate on a more ambiguous note for Sally ( Carey Mulligan ) and Larry . It ’s not the first metre Moffat has reflect on Sally ’s fate in the sequence . In a2017 audience , he notice how he wish he ’d shift the finish so that Sally had terminate up getting whip away to another clock time by a surprise Weeping Angel in her depot . It would ’ve been an appropriately coloured Doctor Who ending , but I ’m glad they keep her fate a scrap happier . It put more of the stress on the montage about Weeping Angels being everywhere , which was much scarier in the prospicient run .

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