Vampires of Venice
So we've got that other extra scene after FaS - I'm putting it here because... well, it fits my pattern by now, and it really doesn't feel like an "afterwards" scene anyway, none of the little ones do, they all feel like beginnings, so I've no idea why they insist on sticking these two at the ends of episodes.
But I'm gonna put them under separate cuts this time.
Anyway, we'd just had the Doctor shoving Amy into the TARDIS while trying to keep her off him, something's going to explode on her wedding day, an unknowing Rory is waiting for the cake to show up at his stag party, and...
Meanwhile, in the TARDIS, the Doctor lies about Rose, and the TARDIS conspires with Amy
Amy's still trying to get him to shag her on the console, and accuses him of being a typical bloke, and talks about signals, and he goes into denial mode.
"That's not what I'm like!"
"Then what are you like?"
"I don't know. Gandalf. Space Gandalf. Or the little green one in Star Wars." And he does a little lightsabre spin! XD But they had to mention Yoda sometime, didn't they? "When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not." ORLY?
"Every room you walk into, you laugh at all the men and show off to all the girls." ...no, he doesn't. He really doesn't. Just cos he laughs at Rory is no proof of anything, and why does he laugh at Rory? Rory's really not that funny. He admits to being fond of him, though, that's... something... I suppose.
She asks why she's here if he's not trying to get into her pants, and oh, the mood whiplash in this scene:
"Because I can't see it anymore." Except that wasn't true just as recently as WoM, even, look at his expression when he stepped out onto the red planet! Did EoT break him in whole new different ways?
"I look at a star, and it's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends and I was probably there both times."
He's still lying to her about why he brought her though - but she figures out, now, there've been others.
"Loads of 'em! But just friends -" Liar, liar, pants on fire. Rose and Fitz are about to team up and slap you.
He shies away from the word "mate", though.
It's actually sort of cute how he shies away from admitting he found some of them attractive...
Amy tricks him into showing her the visual records, and that was way too easy... I'll see if I can pick up everyone who's there, though.
Okay, I've gone through this frame by frame, we get Rose first - either the TARDIS misses her too, or she's really trying to get to him by starting with the most recent "not just a friend". Followed by - not exactly in order cos there are some pics I can't identify and at least one repeat of Rose - Sarah Jane, Jo, Martha, Donna, Zoe, both Romanas, Barbara and Tegan.
And then back to Eleven and Amy watching. "Oh, thanks. Thanks, dear. Miss out the metal dog, why don't you?" Mind you, she's also skipping all the boys so far, no sign of Mickey, Jack, Adric, Turlough, Jamie or Ian (I'm particularly disappointed about Jamie because one of my friends thought she'd spotted him). Also no Nyssa or Ace, where's my Nyssa?!
"Is that a leather bikini?" Yes, Amy, yes, it is. He tried to put her in a long Victorian dress for a while, but thankfully it didn't take.
Four pics of Leela in a row. Is the TARDIS mad at him for something?
(I thought, before I did this, that I'd caught a glimpse of Susan in there before, but she doesn't appear to be, no.)
And then the pics just start repeating, while he decides they have to go find Rory. Because obviously this can't be allowed to continue.
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Venice 1580
Isabella's dad's brought her to Rosanna's school. He's very quickly gonna regret that.
"I believe protecting the future of one's own is a sacred duty."
"Signora, she is my world."
"Then we will take your world."
And if that's not sinister enough...
I like how Isabella's scream at seeeing Francesco's fangs cuts straight to Rory yelling on the phone. Erm, do most blokes call their fiancees from their stag parties?
"The reason for this call is that I haven't told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal!" I'm not sure if that's sweet or just clingy.
Everyone's faces when the Doctor bursts out of the cake! Really can't be comfortable in there, seems like a waste of a good cake, I don't get this custom at all, honestly. Especially since having a stripper at your stag seems sort of insulting to your fiancee.
The Doctor doesn't seem to get it, either. "Could someone let her in, give her a jumper? Lucy, lovely girl. Diabetic."
Not the only thing he doesn't get, either. "We need to talk about your fiancee. She tried to kiss me. Tell you what, though, you're a lucky man, she's a great kisser." And that smile, Eleven what are you doing?
"Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine." XD
"The Vampires of Venice", in which the Doctor flirts with a fish, Amy Pond nearly becomes a fish, and Rory Williams speaks his mind
And he's worried that taking Amy away on her own will tear her and Rory apart... so he's taking them on a date.
"One condition - it has to be amazing. The Moulin Rouge in 1890, the first Olympic Games! Think of it as a wedding present, because frankly, it's either this or tokens."
And he goes straight on to trying to explain the TARDIS. "Let me explain -"
"It's another dimension."
"It's basically another dimension. What?" He's so not impressed that Rory's been doing his research and already figured it out. "I like the bit where someone says 'it's bigger on the inside'. I always look forward to that." He's so creepy here. Damn, I wanna see Eleven really, really angry, he's so good at sinister.
But Amy defuses it.
He loves Venice! "Impossible city! Preposterous city! Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun! It was just a collection of little huts in the middle of the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world. Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding, constantly just... beautiful!" He talks about her like he talks about Earth. <3
Plus, of course, she is about to be threatened with both invasion and flooding, so, well.
He owes Casanova a chicken! I wanna know what their bet was about - hang on, Casanova spent some time at Louis XV's court, I should check the dates and see if it was any of the times Ten was there with Reinette.
So Rosanna's lying about the plague to keep the citizens within the city.
Amy's not concerned that the psychic paper says Rory's her eunuch? That's really, really horrible of her.... People keep saing Amy treats Rory better than Rose treats Mickey, but I'm not sure she does. The Doctor treats Rory better than he treated Mickey - most of the time, this moment isn't a great example of that, either - but Amy? I don't know... This is one thing I can't ever see them doing to Mickey, and certainly not Rose dismissing it like that, there'd at least be a giggle and a 'sorry', and a bit of poking at the Doctor about him taking a joke too far.
Team TARDIS watch from the balcony as Giuseppe tries to get his daughter back - but she's got fangs now. And the Doctor goes after him for info.
"Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion. So why are you trying to get her out?"
"Something happens in there. Something magical. Something evil. My own daughter didn't recognise me."
Francesco lying on Rosanna is a bit Oedipal...
Rory asks what Amy's been doing. "I've been running. Mostly I've been running. And I've been fighting. I've been scared, more scared than I thought was -"
"Miss me?" *facepalm* Don't interrupt while she's actually opening up to you!
"I knew I'd be coming back."
"He was right, it blots out everything."
"Rory, this is our date, let's not do this."
So he tries. And he's starting to get it now, the awesomeness of travelling with the Doctor. "This is Venice, 1580!"
"I know!"
But when Amy runs off after the vampire, Rory calls her back - he still doesn't really get it.
Meanwhile, the Doctor's trespassing. I love how he just keeps checking the mirror. "How are you doing that, you're like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, only he was shorter - will be shorter, I'm rambling."
Ooh, that chorus is creepy. The fishpeople have some sort of hivemind? Except Francesco seems to have independent thought, he snarks at his mum...
And One's library card! *dies*
"Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight, and can't be seen..." And he turns to the mirror and back. "Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking?" And he's so happy about it, too, it's werewolf squee all over again, don't give me that "I can't see it anymore".
Poor Rory. Amy and the Doctor are doing the Vampire Squee Dance and they didn't include him.
They go back to Giuseppe's place and plan. Amy wants to go undercover as an applicant and let them in from the inside. Er. She says the Doctor can't post as her dad cos he looks nine... but she still made out with him. Ooooookay. That his immediate thought was to pose as her dad says a lot, though, doesn't it? There are reasons I'm vehemently not shipping Doctor/Amy...
"Why is him being your brother weird, but with me it's okay?"
Cos she's not that into you, Rory. Sorry. You should find someone who'll actually learn to appreciate you. Like a Time Lord
So they go to the school and Rory's adorably daft. But Rosanna takes one look at the psychic paper and takes her anyway.
Amy gets what info she can from Isabella, but Isabella doesn't know much. "I wake up here, and the sunlight burns my skin like candlewax." I really like that image, cos of course she'd be a lot more familiar with hot wax than Amy probably is.
Giuseppe in Rory's t-shirt - I'm so, so sorry for him. He's a pretty good gondolier, though.
Rory wants to talk about the kiss while they sneak in, though. "I have a right to know! I'm getting married in 430 years!" XD
The Doctor talks about kissing each other in a spate of relief, and I wish he wouldn't imply that it was mutual in any way, because we saw that it wasn't, he was pushing her away the whole time.
And turns out Rosanna took Amy because she recognised the psychic paper and wanted to know who they really were.
And without her to let them in, they've got a problem.
Rory's worried about cancelling the wedding, but the Doctor finds a more urgent subject - dehydrated corpses.
"Maybe not everyone survives the process."
And Rory's mad now. "You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks - it's that you make them want to impress you! You make it so they don't wanna let ou down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around!" Oh, Rory. And, see, this is Rory standing up to him, he's telling him uncomfortable truths and calling him out on them, and I've yet to see Amy do anything of the sort. "A feisty girl who stands up to the Doctor", my arse.
And the Doctor looked like he was listening, but he doesn't get to reply before the vampires show up.
"This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?"
They get Amy out, and she's learnt things, so it wasn't a total loss - but they can't get Isabella into the sunlight. Oh, Giuseppe.
So they just dump Isabella into the water to be eaten by fish-aliens. Charming.
"Mother, change your form, or my brothers will think they're being fed twice today." Oh, that's not foreshadowing either, is it?
And the Doctor's worked out who they are. I like their game of trading questions. Also the explanation of the lack of reflections... "The brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank."
And she's heard of Time Lords. "You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum."
"Why are you here?"
"We ran from the Silence. ... There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the wky. Through some we saw worlds and people, and through others we saw Silence and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours, and the crack snapped shut behind us. Saturnyne was lost."
And she asks for his help. "We can build a new society here as others have." Yeah, that's not weird at all, you flirting with him. Cos obviously all aliens like humanoids, even if they're not humanoids themselves, give me a break. Obviously she's got some other ulterior motive under that - unless she means to transform him as well...
He asks about Isabella and she doesn't know her. Sorry, Rosanna, you just killed yourself. Really, if you want these girls as daughters-in-law, you should KNOW THEIR NAMES.
"I will bend the heavens to save my race, while you philosophise!" And she gives him that derisive look, and of course, she can't know that he didn't fail to save his race... or does she?
"I will tear down the house of Calvierri stone by stone." And the steward comes to drag him away. "Take your hands off me - Carlo." I like how he pauses before saying his name, just to emphasise his final point. "And you know why? You didn't know Isabella's name."
Rosanna proclaims gleefully that the storm is coming. Well no, he's just left.
The others gather in Giuseppe's house again and start working out the rest of the puzzle... she's going to sink Venice. "Only the male offspring survived the journey, she's got 10 thousand children swimming around in the canals, waiting for mum to make them some compatible girlfriends. ...ew. I mean, I've been round a bit, but really that's... ew."
And they get attacked by fishgirls. And Giuseppe stays behind to blow them up... "WE ARE VENETIAAAAAAANS!" IN SPARTAAAAAAAAA!
Oh, I hate this bit. I really, really hate it. "We don't discuss this! I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it!" See Nine or Ten talking to a companion that way? Cos I don't.
And she gives him this sulky look and runs off - and Rory - oh, this is the bit that really sickens me - Rory thanks him. For putting the girl in her place. WTF IS THIS?
Nice shot of Francesco jumping into the water. He seems to have forgotten his own advice about transforming, though.
The Doctor goes into the house to stop the flooding, and Rosanna's waiting for him. "Such determination - just to save one city! Hard to believe it's the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash." Oh, but don't you see, Rosanna, that makes it even more important.
And he tells her the girls are dead. And she gives up and walks away.
"Rosanna, please, help me, there are 200 thousand people in this city!"
"So save them."
Rory tries to distract Francesco from Amy... and manages it with a 'your mum' joke. Which would piss me off too if we hadn't already seen that Francesco's such a mother's boy.
Oh, Rory, trying to stab him with a broom was never gonna work. But Franc's distracted long enough for Amy to come back with a mirror, so okay.
So when Amy says, "I'm not leaving you", she gets yelled at and ordered about, but when Rory says it, he gets a proper argument? Yeah, no. Much as I love Rory saying it, the double standard here is... ick.
"Right. So one minute it's all 'you make people a danger to themselves', and the next it's 'we're not leaving you', but if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets blamed -"
But the earthquake stops him from finishing.
And he doesn't, after all, send them away again.
Oh, shades of Idiot's Lantern here. I bet he's still not over Logopolis, either.
And he gets cheers from below! XD
Oh, Rosanna. This bit makes no sense, cos she's not even really wearing those clothes, but it's still sad. "One city to save an entire species. Was that so much to ask?"
"I told you, you can't go back and change time. You mourn, but you live. I know, Rosanna, I did it." Hold on, I don't remember him saying that to her... was that a deleted bit that they forgot to cut the reference to?
"Tell me, Doctor. Can your conscience carry the weight of another dead race? Remember us. Dream of us."
And he's about to take them straight back to get married - "Maybe I can give you away." Blimey. He's really serious about this father-figure thing.
But Rory's ready to give her up, to let her just run off and have this life with the Doctor... until she asks him to stay. "Just for a bit. I want you to stay."
And the Doctor's happy enough about it. XD
And as they go back into the TARDIS... silence in Venice.
Next: Amy's Choice, featuring... the St Trinian's bursar.
But I'm gonna put them under separate cuts this time.
Anyway, we'd just had the Doctor shoving Amy into the TARDIS while trying to keep her off him, something's going to explode on her wedding day, an unknowing Rory is waiting for the cake to show up at his stag party, and...
Meanwhile, in the TARDIS, the Doctor lies about Rose, and the TARDIS conspires with Amy
Amy's still trying to get him to shag her on the console, and accuses him of being a typical bloke, and talks about signals, and he goes into denial mode.
"That's not what I'm like!"
"Then what are you like?"
"I don't know. Gandalf. Space Gandalf. Or the little green one in Star Wars." And he does a little lightsabre spin! XD But they had to mention Yoda sometime, didn't they? "When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not." ORLY?
"Every room you walk into, you laugh at all the men and show off to all the girls." ...no, he doesn't. He really doesn't. Just cos he laughs at Rory is no proof of anything, and why does he laugh at Rory? Rory's really not that funny. He admits to being fond of him, though, that's... something... I suppose.
She asks why she's here if he's not trying to get into her pants, and oh, the mood whiplash in this scene:
"Because I can't see it anymore." Except that wasn't true just as recently as WoM, even, look at his expression when he stepped out onto the red planet! Did EoT break him in whole new different ways?
"I look at a star, and it's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends and I was probably there both times."
He's still lying to her about why he brought her though - but she figures out, now, there've been others.
"Loads of 'em! But just friends -" Liar, liar, pants on fire. Rose and Fitz are about to team up and slap you.
He shies away from the word "mate", though.
It's actually sort of cute how he shies away from admitting he found some of them attractive...
Amy tricks him into showing her the visual records, and that was way too easy... I'll see if I can pick up everyone who's there, though.
Okay, I've gone through this frame by frame, we get Rose first - either the TARDIS misses her too, or she's really trying to get to him by starting with the most recent "not just a friend". Followed by - not exactly in order cos there are some pics I can't identify and at least one repeat of Rose - Sarah Jane, Jo, Martha, Donna, Zoe, both Romanas, Barbara and Tegan.
And then back to Eleven and Amy watching. "Oh, thanks. Thanks, dear. Miss out the metal dog, why don't you?" Mind you, she's also skipping all the boys so far, no sign of Mickey, Jack, Adric, Turlough, Jamie or Ian (I'm particularly disappointed about Jamie because one of my friends thought she'd spotted him). Also no Nyssa or Ace, where's my Nyssa?!
"Is that a leather bikini?" Yes, Amy, yes, it is. He tried to put her in a long Victorian dress for a while, but thankfully it didn't take.
Four pics of Leela in a row. Is the TARDIS mad at him for something?
(I thought, before I did this, that I'd caught a glimpse of Susan in there before, but she doesn't appear to be, no.)
And then the pics just start repeating, while he decides they have to go find Rory. Because obviously this can't be allowed to continue.
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Venice 1580
Isabella's dad's brought her to Rosanna's school. He's very quickly gonna regret that.
"I believe protecting the future of one's own is a sacred duty."
"Signora, she is my world."
"Then we will take your world."
And if that's not sinister enough...
I like how Isabella's scream at seeeing Francesco's fangs cuts straight to Rory yelling on the phone. Erm, do most blokes call their fiancees from their stag parties?
"The reason for this call is that I haven't told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal!" I'm not sure if that's sweet or just clingy.
Everyone's faces when the Doctor bursts out of the cake! Really can't be comfortable in there, seems like a waste of a good cake, I don't get this custom at all, honestly. Especially since having a stripper at your stag seems sort of insulting to your fiancee.
The Doctor doesn't seem to get it, either. "Could someone let her in, give her a jumper? Lucy, lovely girl. Diabetic."
Not the only thing he doesn't get, either. "We need to talk about your fiancee. She tried to kiss me. Tell you what, though, you're a lucky man, she's a great kisser." And that smile, Eleven what are you doing?
"Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine." XD
"The Vampires of Venice", in which the Doctor flirts with a fish, Amy Pond nearly becomes a fish, and Rory Williams speaks his mind
And he's worried that taking Amy away on her own will tear her and Rory apart... so he's taking them on a date.
"One condition - it has to be amazing. The Moulin Rouge in 1890, the first Olympic Games! Think of it as a wedding present, because frankly, it's either this or tokens."
And he goes straight on to trying to explain the TARDIS. "Let me explain -"
"It's another dimension."
"It's basically another dimension. What?" He's so not impressed that Rory's been doing his research and already figured it out. "I like the bit where someone says 'it's bigger on the inside'. I always look forward to that." He's so creepy here. Damn, I wanna see Eleven really, really angry, he's so good at sinister.
But Amy defuses it.
He loves Venice! "Impossible city! Preposterous city! Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun! It was just a collection of little huts in the middle of the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world. Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding, constantly just... beautiful!" He talks about her like he talks about Earth. <3
Plus, of course, she is about to be threatened with both invasion and flooding, so, well.
He owes Casanova a chicken! I wanna know what their bet was about - hang on, Casanova spent some time at Louis XV's court, I should check the dates and see if it was any of the times Ten was there with Reinette.
So Rosanna's lying about the plague to keep the citizens within the city.
Amy's not concerned that the psychic paper says Rory's her eunuch? That's really, really horrible of her.... People keep saing Amy treats Rory better than Rose treats Mickey, but I'm not sure she does. The Doctor treats Rory better than he treated Mickey - most of the time, this moment isn't a great example of that, either - but Amy? I don't know... This is one thing I can't ever see them doing to Mickey, and certainly not Rose dismissing it like that, there'd at least be a giggle and a 'sorry', and a bit of poking at the Doctor about him taking a joke too far.
Team TARDIS watch from the balcony as Giuseppe tries to get his daughter back - but she's got fangs now. And the Doctor goes after him for info.
"Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion. So why are you trying to get her out?"
"Something happens in there. Something magical. Something evil. My own daughter didn't recognise me."
Francesco lying on Rosanna is a bit Oedipal...
Rory asks what Amy's been doing. "I've been running. Mostly I've been running. And I've been fighting. I've been scared, more scared than I thought was -"
"Miss me?" *facepalm* Don't interrupt while she's actually opening up to you!
"I knew I'd be coming back."
"He was right, it blots out everything."
"Rory, this is our date, let's not do this."
So he tries. And he's starting to get it now, the awesomeness of travelling with the Doctor. "This is Venice, 1580!"
"I know!"
But when Amy runs off after the vampire, Rory calls her back - he still doesn't really get it.
Meanwhile, the Doctor's trespassing. I love how he just keeps checking the mirror. "How are you doing that, you're like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, only he was shorter - will be shorter, I'm rambling."
Ooh, that chorus is creepy. The fishpeople have some sort of hivemind? Except Francesco seems to have independent thought, he snarks at his mum...
And One's library card! *dies*
"Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight, and can't be seen..." And he turns to the mirror and back. "Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking?" And he's so happy about it, too, it's werewolf squee all over again, don't give me that "I can't see it anymore".
Poor Rory. Amy and the Doctor are doing the Vampire Squee Dance and they didn't include him.
They go back to Giuseppe's place and plan. Amy wants to go undercover as an applicant and let them in from the inside. Er. She says the Doctor can't post as her dad cos he looks nine... but she still made out with him. Ooooookay. That his immediate thought was to pose as her dad says a lot, though, doesn't it? There are reasons I'm vehemently not shipping Doctor/Amy...
"Why is him being your brother weird, but with me it's okay?"
Cos she's not that into you, Rory. Sorry. You should find someone who'll actually learn to appreciate you. Like a Time Lord
So they go to the school and Rory's adorably daft. But Rosanna takes one look at the psychic paper and takes her anyway.
Amy gets what info she can from Isabella, but Isabella doesn't know much. "I wake up here, and the sunlight burns my skin like candlewax." I really like that image, cos of course she'd be a lot more familiar with hot wax than Amy probably is.
Giuseppe in Rory's t-shirt - I'm so, so sorry for him. He's a pretty good gondolier, though.
Rory wants to talk about the kiss while they sneak in, though. "I have a right to know! I'm getting married in 430 years!" XD
The Doctor talks about kissing each other in a spate of relief, and I wish he wouldn't imply that it was mutual in any way, because we saw that it wasn't, he was pushing her away the whole time.
And turns out Rosanna took Amy because she recognised the psychic paper and wanted to know who they really were.
And without her to let them in, they've got a problem.
Rory's worried about cancelling the wedding, but the Doctor finds a more urgent subject - dehydrated corpses.
"Maybe not everyone survives the process."
And Rory's mad now. "You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks - it's that you make them want to impress you! You make it so they don't wanna let ou down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around!" Oh, Rory. And, see, this is Rory standing up to him, he's telling him uncomfortable truths and calling him out on them, and I've yet to see Amy do anything of the sort. "A feisty girl who stands up to the Doctor", my arse.
And the Doctor looked like he was listening, but he doesn't get to reply before the vampires show up.
"This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?"
They get Amy out, and she's learnt things, so it wasn't a total loss - but they can't get Isabella into the sunlight. Oh, Giuseppe.
So they just dump Isabella into the water to be eaten by fish-aliens. Charming.
"Mother, change your form, or my brothers will think they're being fed twice today." Oh, that's not foreshadowing either, is it?
And the Doctor's worked out who they are. I like their game of trading questions. Also the explanation of the lack of reflections... "The brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank."
And she's heard of Time Lords. "You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum."
"Why are you here?"
"We ran from the Silence. ... There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the wky. Through some we saw worlds and people, and through others we saw Silence and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours, and the crack snapped shut behind us. Saturnyne was lost."
And she asks for his help. "We can build a new society here as others have." Yeah, that's not weird at all, you flirting with him. Cos obviously all aliens like humanoids, even if they're not humanoids themselves, give me a break. Obviously she's got some other ulterior motive under that - unless she means to transform him as well...
He asks about Isabella and she doesn't know her. Sorry, Rosanna, you just killed yourself. Really, if you want these girls as daughters-in-law, you should KNOW THEIR NAMES.
"I will bend the heavens to save my race, while you philosophise!" And she gives him that derisive look, and of course, she can't know that he didn't fail to save his race... or does she?
"I will tear down the house of Calvierri stone by stone." And the steward comes to drag him away. "Take your hands off me - Carlo." I like how he pauses before saying his name, just to emphasise his final point. "And you know why? You didn't know Isabella's name."
Rosanna proclaims gleefully that the storm is coming. Well no, he's just left.
The others gather in Giuseppe's house again and start working out the rest of the puzzle... she's going to sink Venice. "Only the male offspring survived the journey, she's got 10 thousand children swimming around in the canals, waiting for mum to make them some compatible girlfriends. ...ew. I mean, I've been round a bit, but really that's... ew."
And they get attacked by fishgirls. And Giuseppe stays behind to blow them up... "WE ARE VENETIAAAAAAANS!" IN SPARTAAAAAAAAA!
Oh, I hate this bit. I really, really hate it. "We don't discuss this! I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it!" See Nine or Ten talking to a companion that way? Cos I don't.
And she gives him this sulky look and runs off - and Rory - oh, this is the bit that really sickens me - Rory thanks him. For putting the girl in her place. WTF IS THIS?
Nice shot of Francesco jumping into the water. He seems to have forgotten his own advice about transforming, though.
The Doctor goes into the house to stop the flooding, and Rosanna's waiting for him. "Such determination - just to save one city! Hard to believe it's the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash." Oh, but don't you see, Rosanna, that makes it even more important.
And he tells her the girls are dead. And she gives up and walks away.
"Rosanna, please, help me, there are 200 thousand people in this city!"
"So save them."
Rory tries to distract Francesco from Amy... and manages it with a 'your mum' joke. Which would piss me off too if we hadn't already seen that Francesco's such a mother's boy.
Oh, Rory, trying to stab him with a broom was never gonna work. But Franc's distracted long enough for Amy to come back with a mirror, so okay.
So when Amy says, "I'm not leaving you", she gets yelled at and ordered about, but when Rory says it, he gets a proper argument? Yeah, no. Much as I love Rory saying it, the double standard here is... ick.
"Right. So one minute it's all 'you make people a danger to themselves', and the next it's 'we're not leaving you', but if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets blamed -"
But the earthquake stops him from finishing.
And he doesn't, after all, send them away again.
Oh, shades of Idiot's Lantern here. I bet he's still not over Logopolis, either.
And he gets cheers from below! XD
Oh, Rosanna. This bit makes no sense, cos she's not even really wearing those clothes, but it's still sad. "One city to save an entire species. Was that so much to ask?"
"I told you, you can't go back and change time. You mourn, but you live. I know, Rosanna, I did it." Hold on, I don't remember him saying that to her... was that a deleted bit that they forgot to cut the reference to?
"Tell me, Doctor. Can your conscience carry the weight of another dead race? Remember us. Dream of us."
And he's about to take them straight back to get married - "Maybe I can give you away." Blimey. He's really serious about this father-figure thing.
But Rory's ready to give her up, to let her just run off and have this life with the Doctor... until she asks him to stay. "Just for a bit. I want you to stay."
And the Doctor's happy enough about it. XD
And as they go back into the TARDIS... silence in Venice.
Next: Amy's Choice, featuring... the St Trinian's bursar.