Hacker News Reader

Probably. :)

Look to your left.

And whatever it is you do, don't blink. Don't. Ever. Blink.

Hello, Sweetie.

What do you mean by that?

It's a Doctor Who reference to the episode “Blink”, which introduces a villain race of statues that can move, but only when unobserved.

Incoherent snippets of dialogue seen on a DVD turns out to be half of a conversation being had with a specific viewer in the future, a transcript of which goes back in time.

Did SCP-173 rip off this premise?

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173

I think it's a pretty old idea (things which you can't look at, or which can't look at you, are certainly _very_ old mythological ideas), but... maybe? SCP showed up at about the same time as the first weeping angels Dr Who episodes.

The SCP page itself was created on 2008-07-25, while the episode aired on 2007-06-09, so it looks like the BBC was more like a year prior.

It's a quote from the Doctor Who episode "Blink"

I think it's a political statement. ‹clicks pen›

Reply on news.ycombinator.com