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

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I'd be very happy to discuss it if only my bloody, um, magical gift-bearing Internet fairy were a bit more reliable.

*glares at bit rate*

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

I'll be watching, later! (;

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet either! I am watching episodes with an Americvan friend on a sort of fandom exchange arrangement we have going, and we've found it's more fun if the episode's new to both of us. So I'm not allowed to watch ahead of her.

I am really, really pleased with Matt Smith. Before the season started I was uneasy about my ability to accept a Doctor played by someone this young, but he had me at five minutes.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a lot of fun. There was some great dialogue. And did you notice the photo on the Doctor's library card? :)

I was weak-willed enough not to switch off before the trailer for next week, and I thought that it looked as though it could be very good,

[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.

[uitlander]

Mother talked incessantly throughout. It looked good, and I shall be watching it again without her once I have a chance.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

I did...

Didn't see Confidential though

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Though as the episode pointed out, they weren't really vampires... and as the Confidential pointed out, it wasn't really Venice.

A genuine Helen McCrory, I think...

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I've only just seen it because that was another thing about today where the timing sucked and so I wasn't back in time to watch the live broadcast.

Just about to watch the Confidential.

(Edited for typo.)

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Give us a chance, dear, not all of us can manage to watch in real time! I posted as soon as we'd flipped over to Francesco da Mosto - he was on BBC4 later, repeating the Venice series! Are you saying I missed him on the Confidential?! Curses, curses...

I was thinking as I watched "altariel will be loving this," you old traditionalist, you... My inner eight-year-old enjoyed that, lots. So did First Small Person, though he did climb right into my lap when the "creepy ladies" got too close.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Not sure why the fish needed to sink Venice when there were perfectly good canals an estuary and lots of ocean available...

[furius.livejournal.com]

That was a ridiculously wonderfully layered episode.

I love Rory who's a sort of a foil to Amy but still susceptible to the usual excitements!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Colour me unimpressed. Nothing to do with the actors, who did a great job, and I like Rory a lot, but the writing/plot - ugh.

Terry Pratchett is right - it's deus ex machina every week. What the heck was with the gizmo on the roof thing? It made no sense. The connection between storms and earthquakes? No sense. And if they're not vampires, just alien fish with projectors, how is draining the blood and replacing it with their own supposed to turn people into alien fish?

I don't mind scientific 'magic' as an explanation in DW - that's the norm - but when it's scientific BS with no attempt even made to cover it, I get annoyed. Hey, BBC, your viewers are smarter than that.

[manna]

I'm away from the internets (using free wireless in a Wetherspoons), or I would've posted. I thought it was okay.

(ETA: Apart from the plot, which was stupid.)