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

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Is that an episode? (I've not really seen any ST:ToS.)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yep, it is. Spock's brain gets stolen out of his body, and McCoy operates him via remote control as they go on a mission to try to get the brain back. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds; truly horrible. One famous quote: "Brain and brain! What is brain?" It makes most people's "worst episode" lists for Star Trek.

Doctor Who plots are, of course, far, far better than it.

Well, maybe not "End of Time, part 1." ; )

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Bwuh?!?! I don't even...

Oh dear gods above! O_O


(The only thing The End of Time is better than is Love and Monsters!)