One of the most famous episodes of Doctor Who, “Blink,” is getting rewritten - to include Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor. Widely viewed as one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever made, “Blink” was a Doctor-lite episode that starred Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow, the greatest Doctor Who companion who never was.
“Blink” is fondly remembered as the introduction for the Weeping Angels, an alien race of predators who become immobile whenever you look at them, and who “feed” upon people by transporting them back in time and consuming the temporal energy of the resulting paradoxes. Director Hettie MacDonald immersed viewers in the narrative by avoiding ever showing the Weeping Angels moving, meaning audiences felt as though the Weeping Angels were responding to their eyes just as much as to the characters'.
Titan Comics has unveiled the first preview of Doctor Who: The Thirteen Doctor Season 2 #1. Eisner-nominated author Jody Houser and Witchblade artist Roberta Ingranata are kicking things off in style, with a hotly-anticipated crossover featuring a crossover between the Thirteenth Doctor and David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor. It seems that Houser is adding another layer of complexity into the narrative, with the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions drawn into the action as well.
The preview for Doctor Who: The Thirteen Doctor Season 2 #1 promises to give viewers a glimpse of some key scenes that were never shown in the actual episode. One page shows the Doctor and Martha when they arrive in the present day, and are first attacked by one of the Weeping Angels; the Doctor is brandishing his sonic screwdriver, clearly aware that something is wrong, but neither he nor Martha notice the Weeping Angel behind them. The panels replicate Hettie MacDonald’s directing, avoiding giving the Weeping Angels any sense of movement at all.
The Weeping Angel transports the Doctor and Martha back to 1969, and it looks as though Doctor Who: The Thirteen Doctor Season 2 #1 will reveal just what happened back in the past. The Tenth Doctor is shown building his Weeping Angel detector, a machine that goes “ding” whenever a Weeping Angel is nearby. It looks as though the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions arrive in that time-period, and they start to follow the Tenth Doctor around for unknown reasons.
Titan has previously revealed that the Doctors won’t just be facing the Weeping Angels, though; they’re also going to go up against the Autons. Living stone will meet living plastic, and it will be fascinating to see how it plays out. Can a Weeping Angel move if an Auton is looking at them, given the animated plastic beings don’t even blink? Only time will tell - it always does.
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Season 2 #1 arrives on January 8th, 2020.
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