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Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 3.10: Blink

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I’m thinking about writing a Sally Sparrow/Tenth Doctor fanfic, so naturally I went and rewatched “Blink” tonight for the millionth time to get some inspo, and you know what kills me?

All the little details we don’t get. All the little stories that played out without us seeing.

Kathy getting zapped back to 1920’s Hull, directly in front of the cow farmer who will become not only her first friend in the strange new town she now has to call home, but also eventually her husband. When Kathy awakes in the night with her heart pounding and tears streaming down her cheeks, and simply chokes out “the angels…I dreamt about the angels again”, his arms are always there to comfort her. The dreams slowly subside over time as she adjusts to her new life, and soon there are other, more important things to worry about. Some good, like the birth of their children, and some bad, like the war. But Kathy survives and lives a full life, as do her husband and children, and with every picture she continually insists upon taking—one every time they have enough money to afford it—she thinks of her friend Sally Sparrow.

There’s also poor, lovely Billy Shipton, transported back to 1969 London—probably by the same Angel that sent the Doctor and Martha there. He’s just as unmoored as Kathy is, but—as strange as this Doctor guy seems to be—Billy finds himself liking him in a weird way. He makes a point to become Billy’s first friend in 1969, and he and his friend Martha help get Billy not only a place to live, but also a job working in publishing (even though Billy can’t figure out how the Doctor possibly managed to forge those papers that spoke to his “extensive expertise” in the field, or why he is so insistent upon splicing several videos of him talking in jargon into a bunch of completely unrelated DVDs once Billy moves into video production). Martha sets Billy up with a pretty girl named Sally who always comes into the shop where she works, and a few months later, the Doctor attends their wedding. Billy tries to find him afterwards at the reception to say thank you, but he’s already gone, leaving behind only a simple envelope inscribed “for the bride and groom”. It contains a pound note hefty enough to get Billy and his new wife off to a good start in their marriage, and simple card inscribed with a wedding blessing, written in a script and language neither of them can read.

The next time Billy does see the Doctor is many years later, when he’s old and grey, lying bedridden in a nursing home. Billy had never truly believed the Doctor’s claims of being an alien, but when he sees the same skinny, dark-haired young man walking across the room towards him—looking exactly as he had in 1969—he can’t help but cry in the midst of his wonder. The man who calls himself the Doctor is still a mystery, but as he pulls up a chair next to Billy’s bed and takes the latter’s outstretched hand, he’s as kind as he always was. He offers his condolences when Billy tells him of the passing of his wife, and smiles at the photos Billy shows him of his children, carefully dodging Billy’s question of whether or not he ended up having children of his own. But then he grows silent and his gaze grows sad as he looks out the window at the storm clouds brewing in the sky. “I’m sorry, Billy, I’m afraid I didn’t just come here to visit,” he says, and his voice is laced with a guilt and sorrow so deep that it sounds centuries old. “It’s time.” For a second Billy thinks he sounds close to crying for some reason, so he puts his wrinkled hand on the Doctor’s shoulder gently. “It’s okay.” he insists, giving him a soft smile. “This means I’ll finally get to see her again.”

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One moment Kathy Nightingale was in the year 2007 with her friend Sally Sparrow investigating a creepy house and the next thing she knew she was in Hull in 1920. When she finally came to terms with being trapped in time, she fell in love and started a whole new life. She did make sure a message was handed down through time by her relatives so she could let Sally know what happened. ("Blink", Doctor Who, TV, Event)

Part 4 of my Black and Biracial actors in the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who:

So, Gridlock, we have Lenora Crichlow as Cheen and Natasha Williams as the 'pharmacist'.

The onto Daleks In Manhattan we get Hugh Quarshie as Solomon, best known in the UK as Ric Griffin in Holby City. He also appeared in Star Wars as Captain Panaka.

In 42 Vinette Robinson as Abi Lerner. Tumblr probably remembers her as Donnovan aka Sherlock's number 1 hater.

Then Blink we get one of my personal favourites, Michael Obiora as Billy Shipton, with one of the best quotes ever:

And Louis Mahoney as elderly Billy Shipton. Another fun fact: Louis Mahoney had appeared previously in several Doctor Who stories in Frontier In Space and Planet of Evil, under John Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor respectively.

Then we get Utopia, we have Chipo Chung as Chantho who is of half-Zimbabwean of Mberengwa origin and half-Chinese descent and this isn't the last time Chung is in the show. Additionally, Neil Reidman as Atillo.

And that's it for Series 3. A lot of the other episodes except from the Human Nature/Family of Blood center other members of the Jones Family. And of course another Trinity Wells cameo in The Sound of Drums.