Delighted to see that the Doctor Who episode “Blink” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Hettie Macdonald, won the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category at this year’s Hugo Awards.
I can’t comment about the other awards as I mostly have not read the stories/journals concerned. (You should see my books-to-be-read pile!)
“Blink” was to my mind the outstanding episode from the 2007 season and well deserves the accolade. Like all of Steven Moffat’s episodes it was head and shoulders above those written by Russell T Davis. Hopefully the fact that Mr Moffat is assuming the oversight of Doctor Who bodes well for future series.
“Blink” was also notable for only having about three minutes worth of David Tennant in it. Good as he is as the Doctor, “Blink” nevertheless showed that a proper, intelligent Science Fiction story could be done on TV without (much) of the Doctor as a prop.
Pity this could not carry over into “Torchwood” of which I watched the first episode and promptly gave up. I never caught the Sarah Jane spin-off stories, which, given the last two episodes of the 2008 Doctor Who season may have been a blessing.