The ideas I get on next-to-no sleep. I tell ya.
So Chicago, beautiful Chicago (currently wet-and-snowy-and-beautiful Chicago), I have discovered, carries on the long-honored tradition of PBS stations rewarding children for their nocturnal perambulations with Sunday night Doctor Who. Or, in this case, rewards gleefully childlike volunteers whose roommates are thankfully not interested in
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(Speaking of Hush, don't see the Blue Man Group. They do that exact same "silently look at each other and agree on which victim to choose" shtick when pulling people up for audience participation, and the similarity was uber freaky.)
It actually functions on much the same level as Hush, to be honest. Both take away a primal function that horror/suspense would initiate in you, but instead of not being able to scream, in this you can't close your eyes. The the part that gets tricky is that, while Hush doesn't self-consciously attempt to transcend Whedonverse, Blink is very explicit that these baddies present as everyday objects in our world as well, and so could be anywhere. But conversely, the deaths in Blink are themselves very mild, and actually entirely off-screen, so there's more shrinking away during Hush and more time to tense up inside for when you see the event that you've only been so far seeing the results of.
Idk if that's a satisfying answer, but it's certainly a comprehensive one. XD
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