Vampires In Venice

[daibhidc]

Only they're not vampires, and it's not really Venice. Fish People In Trogir.

That was fun! Basically a historical romp with scary monsters, and Rory ... well, being Mickey II: This Time He's Not Completely Useless. (As they said in DWM, the companions seem to pick up the Doctor's worldview very quickly, so it's fun to have a character who asks questions like "Why are we running towards the monster?")

Not being vampires is probably a good idea; it saves needing an explanation as to how they're related to the Great Vampires, or the Haemovores[1]. And fish-people in Venice makes sense.

The Doctor doesn't want to meet Casanova, because he owes him a chicken. Dare I hope that last time they met he was in his previous incarnation? And the bet involved some sort of identity exchange because they looked very similar?

Amy gets to call Rory a numpty (second bit of specifically Scottish slang, following on from "The Beast Below"'s "minging!"), and I loved "I've got my spaceship, I've got my boys. My work here is done!"

And at the end ... OMG! The TARDIS keyhole is The Crack!

[1]Come to think of it, how are the Great Vampires related to the Haemovores? The Plasmavore is a blodsucker with no connection to vampire legends, but the Haemovores must have some connection, because they've got the "repelled by belief" thing. I've a feeling this was probably explained in Paul Cornell's Goth Opera or Terrance Dicks's Blood Harvest, but I don't recall.

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

They aren't related at all, the haeomvore thingies are psychic mutants from a grimdark future timeline that was created and obliterated by Fenric and the Old One in that very story. MOst of that didn't make it to screen though, even in the extended version. It is in the Curse of Fenric novelisation though. The last of the McCoy era was kinda the inverse of the early Pertwee where they jammed 3 episode stories into 6-8parters, Ghost Light and CurseoF could both have taken at least 6eps to tell properly.

[john_amend_all]

As I recall there's a brief visit to the Haemovore-future in Goth Opera, but I don't remember if anything was said about their relationship to any other Whoniverse vampires.

[pedanther]

Just checked: Ruath says that they're an independent convergent evolution.

[scarfman]

The Great Vampires aren't related to the Haemovores. The Great Vampires are subject to the quantum faith effect only in tie-ins, I believe (and, if not, then obviously it just has something to do with survival by ingesting the circulatory fluid of sentient beings, same as reaction to certain herbs). Or anyway that's how I explained the difference between Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel vampires and Forever Knight vampires when I was running a crossover universe in which everyone lived on the same plane. Nick and the Scoobies had each independently encountered an FBI agent who could quote you the legendary characteristics of vampires from the lore of any demographic you could name...