{"id":394,"date":"2020-02-05T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:30:24","slug":"condemned-criminal-origins-beat-doctor-who-by-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2020\/02\/05\/condemned-criminal-origins-beat-doctor-who-by-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Condemned: Criminal Origins<\/em> beat <em>Doctor Who<\/em> by two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeping Angels from the \u201cBlink\u201d episode of <em>Doctor Who<\/em> (June 9, 2007) instantly became one of the most iconic characters on the show, almost on par with the Daleks and Cybermen. They&#8217;ve been pretty popular and referenced in all kinds of other media since then. However, the game <em>Condemned: Criminal Origins<\/em> did that same concept two years earlier (November 22, 2005). At one point in the game, you investigate a derelict store and come across a bunch of mannequins which move when you turn your back on them.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, SCP-173 was first posted to the \/x board on 4chan on June 22, 2007, a couple of weeks after \u201cBlink\u201d aired, clearly inspired by it.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt there have been other similar creatures imagined before the mannequins in Condemned. The concept is hardly unique or extraordinary. Feel free to mention some older ones in the comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Condemned-Criminal-Origins-2005.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Condemned-Criminal-Origins-2005-300x219.png\" alt=\"Condemned: Criminal Origins released in 2005\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Condemned-Criminal-Origins-2005-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Condemned-Criminal-Origins-2005.png 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Condemned: Criminal Origins had weeping-angel like mannequins in 2005<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_396\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Doctor-Who-Blink-2007.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Doctor-Who-Blink-2007-300x145.png\" alt=\"Doctor Who &quot;Blink&quot; episode released in 2007\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Doctor-Who-Blink-2007-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-Doctor-Who-Blink-2007.png 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Doctor Who&#8217;s weeping-angels were in 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_397\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"SCP-173\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173-1024x424.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Condemned-did-it-two-years-before-Doctor-Who-SCP-173.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">SCP-173 was made right after the weeping-angels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeping Angels from the \u201cBlink\u201d episode of Doctor Who (June 9, 2007) instantly became one of the most iconic characters on the show, almost on par with the Daleks and Cybermen. They&#8217;ve been pretty popular and referenced in all kinds of other media since then. However, the game Condemned: Criminal Origins did that same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}