Vampires! Venice!

[altariel]

Nobody on my flist has posted about "The Vampires of Venice". Are you all out agitating for Nick Clegg to deliver PR? Well I loved it. I thought Matt Smith sparkled and I think Arthur Darvill is smashing.

ETA, while watching Confidential: Matt Smith and Francesco da Mosto are together in a gondola! This is why I pay my licence fee.

Comments

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the episode enormously.

The actors are all excellent (some minor characters excepted), and the character development is excellent. Good story line. How much is owed to Jeanette Winterton? Or maybe I'm thinking of some other Venice story with web-footed women. I think there was a Calvino line or two. This is not to say that it is 'derivative' or any such drivel. It's sophisticated - it is written for an audience who are anticipated as enjoying multiple layers of suspencion of disbelief, recalling other tales and knowing them as tales as much as this is as a tale, but at the same time believing them all together because _that_ is Venice, and _that_ is history.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love your insight into this episode. I haven't read The Passion, do you recommend it?

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I have a dreadful memory for books read ... yes, I think it definitely left a (good) impression.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean :-) I'll keep an eye out for it.