Vampires of Venice reaction post

[dbskyler]

Hmmm. Well, it wasn't bad, but it's definitely not one of my favorites. It was just kind of there. I don't know, I might warm more to it after I've re-watched it, or seen more of S5.

I didn't quite get the logic of a few things. Since I haven't had the chance yet to go hunting through old reaction posts, can anyone enlighten me on the following?

-- Why were all of the Signora's children male? Was that explained and I just missed it? If you're going to save your race, and you need both males and females to procreate, you might want to bring along some of each (just a suggestion). Or did she just bring her own family, and she happened to have 10,000 sons and not a single daughter?

-- How exactly was fish-from-space species destroyed at the end? The Signora just jumped into the water, and presumably she can swim. Didn't the Doctor leave 16th century Venice with 10,001 aliens swimming around its canals? Or again, did I miss something?

By the way, this episode had a "Casanova" joke, and Victory of the Daleks had a "Paisley boy" joke . . . why do I suspect these episodes were written back when they still thought David might be continuing on as the Doctor?

Comments

[primsong.livejournal.com]

From the commentary when they sent the other unfortunate girl into the water, the fish-boys are apparently dumb enough they won't recognize one of their own if it looks like a person...hence she was committing suicide by being eaten by her own, which it kinda icky. That leaves all the creepy fish-boys to presumably die out of natural causes as they can't reproduce, though one must wonder what their life-span is and hope it is short. :-P To me it appeared (as many Nu-who eps do) like they had to chop and rush it - it would have been much better if they could have run it over a 2-3 part story arc (or maybe more, if the dad/daughter were developed further)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. That went right by me, which is a shame since it's a fairly important plot point! Thanks. And yes, kind of icky. And rushed.