The Vampires of Venice - Reaction Post

[persiflage_1]

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Here be spoilers, of course...

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[jadekirk]

Rory says he and the Doctor aren't Amy's boys, but the Doctor disagrees.

The Doctor knows Amy is in charge. LOL I now ship Eleven/Amy/Rory.

[persiflage_1]

Yes he does know!!

[persiflage_1]

Someone who (sometimes unwittingly) by speech or action demonstrates a lack of knowledge or misconception of a particular subject or situation to the amusement of others. It's Scottish slang...

[londonesque]

Eleven has gone some way to making up for the terrible way Mickey was treated, he was rather sweet to him.

[persiflage_1]

Yes he has and was...

[viomisehunt]

Can't wait until this episode.
16th century Venetian school will give a girl who's a person of colour a place, Was she Catholic and a free woman? She lives in Venice. She probably identified by whatever African state her family came from, her social status (slave, free servant, apprentice...), and religion. SHe wasn't Muslim was she? Venice was closer to the mid-east and the Italian city states have long relationship with their North African, middle-Eastern neighbors. They purchased their slaves through Muslims slave trades and it was more direct. Her school mates say a word or two about her hair or complexion, as teenage girls will do, but there are many stories of tradesmens in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy of African descent, again usually freedmen or women, or simply indentured servants or Chritian/Jewish refugees from Muslim persecution in North Africa.

[persiflage_1]

There was no comment on her religion or origins whatsoever. Her dad was a gondolier.

[lost_spook]

Aw, thought this was huge fun - lot's of entertaining lines I can no longer remember, and just fun over all. :-)

[persiflage_1]

I never said it wasn't fun! Did I say I didn't enjoy it?

[lost_spook]

No. That was me agreeing with you. It doesn't look like it, I realise now, but not when I typed it yesterday. I thought this one was a lot of fun from start to finish - and I really like the look of next week's one. Am I forgetting an ep, or is this the first time New Who has gone surreal or 'sideways' like Classic Who? (Even Turn Left is straight-forward compared to stuff like the Time Robber and Enlightenment...) And I love the surreal episodes very, very much. :-)

I'm enjoying the ride so far. And I might have to rewatch this one and last week's - so many quotes I liked that I instantly forgot.

"Fish from space" is great, though. They actually had some logic in the explanations for them being so like vampires, which I appreciated.

:-)

[persiflage_1]

I was reminded of the virtual!life scenes in the Library two parter, actually, when I saw the preview for next week - which does seem to imply that Moffat's reusing his plots in other ways (as has been mentioned several times already).

I thought the fish from space was a very interesting idea - and I liked that they weren't inherently evil, but trying to find a way to save their race, without really caring about the "lesser" species already inhabiting Earth.