History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice

[[caption-width-right:350:Vampires![[note]]Well, okay, not ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay real]]'' ones, but nevertheless[[/note]] Better than ''Christmas''!]]

JustForFun/TheOneWith [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vampires. In Venice.]] [[NeverTrustATitle Except,]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent not really.]]

As the people panic around them on their way back to the TARDIS, Rory and Amy encounter Francesco, who decides to take the opportunity to fulfil his ambition and make a meal out of Amy. Still labouring under the impression that he's a vampire, Rory tries to ward him off with a makeshift cross, which Francesco responds to with no little contempt. Rory's attempts to distract him are unsuccessful [[YourMom until an ill-chosen crack about Francesco's mother]], which Francesco does ''not'' appreciate; Rory's feeble attempts at defending himself with [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing Broom Fu]] pale in comparison to Francesco's expert swordsmanship, and Rory looks like he's about to become a Saturnynian feast until Amy distracts Francesco with a hint of sunlight catching her pocket mirror. This has the added bonus of blowing Francesco up. Amy takes the opportunity to critique Rory's technique and to kiss him passionately, and both make tracks to help the Doctor.

'''Original air date:''' May 8, 2010

'''Production code:''' 1.6

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Subverted. Rory would appreciate it if he was notintroduced as Amy's brother, as he's her fiancé.

* EverybodyDiesEnding: There goes another species. No more "sisters of the water". Seriously, the only characters (whether they had any lines or not) who survive, apart from the main trio, are Carlo the steward, that remarkably lucky flower girl who typically might have bought it and the official at the start.

** The Doctor [[Film/BackToTheFuture climbs a stone edifice in a storm in order to do something to a mechanical device]].

The one with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vampires. In Venice.]] [[NeverTrustATitle Except,]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent not really.]]

* ArcWords: The cracks. The silence. The crack turns up again, but it's subtle. Look at the clouds, after the Doctor stops the storm engine.

** Isabella, when she thinks she's going to be executed by drowning, taunts the Calvierri by reminding them that she's a ''Venetian''. ''"We can all swim!"'' It's subverted in that once she's ''in'' the water she gets eaten alive by the Saturnynian children.
** Played straight by the Doctor saying that he will ''end'' the House of Calvierri.
* BadgeGag: Instead of his psychic paper, the Doctor pulls out a library card so old that it has a picture of his First Doctor incarnation.

* CharacterDevelopment: After the Doctor's experience with Martha Jones, it's sunk in that having female companions in unrequited love with you is actually quite cruel, so he goes to some trouble to sort out Amy and her fiancé. They nearly get killed in the process, so the Doctor hasn't changed ''that'' much.

** "I'll explain later" was used by the First Doctor and spoofed in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath The Curse of Fatal Death]]''.

* DeadMansChest: Dessicated bodies of several victims are kept in trunks in the basement.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In retrospect, Rosanna shouldn't have dispatched ''[[AllOfThem all]]'' the girls she had transformed to attack the Doctor and his comrades and put them all at risk of being killed, seeing as how they were the cornerstone of her plan. The reaction she has when the Doctor tells her they're dead indicates she realized this.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Francesco is slowly threatening Amy and Rory's desperately trying to get his attention. After several failed insults, Rory successfully enrages him by insulting his mother.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: There goes ''another'' species. No more "sisters of the water". Seriously, the only characters (whether they had any lines or not) who survive, apart from the main trio, are Carlo the steward, that remarkably lucky flower girl who typically might have bought it and the official at the start.

** Before she kills herself, Rosanna tells the Doctor to ''dream'' of her and her race, something that will be important next episode.

* GlamourFailure: The Saturnynians' go on the fritz after they have been kicked by a feisty redhead.

* HeHadAName: "Where's Isabella?" At the beginning, the Doctor makes a point of asking if someone can bring in from the cold the bikini-clad girl who was ''supposed'' to be in the cake he burst out of in front of Rory, in the process revealing that he's learnt her name (Lucy) and that she's diabetic. Contrast with Rosanna, who can't even be bothered learning the names of the human girls she's converting into breeding stock for her sons.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Subverted. Rory would appreciate it if he was ''not'' introduced as Amy's brother. He's her ''fiancé'' thank you very much.

'''The Doctor:''' No, I kissed her ''mouth''.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Doctor saves Venice by sabotaging Rosanna's plan to save her race. You could say that he broke it by fixing something else.

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Oi! Mummy's boy!" Cue disentegration via sunlight.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rory chews the Doctor out for how he instils in people the desire to do risky things to impress him.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Rosanna inflicts this upon her sons when she deliberately feeds herself to them while stuck in her human form. Being unable to recognize her as their mother, they unintentionally devour her.
* ShipperOnDeck: The Doctor with Amy and Rory. This adventure is his wedding gift.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: For some reason, the sight of Amy in a miniskirt doesn't raise any eyebrows in ''1580'' Venice.

* WeakenedByTheLight: The "vampires", due to actually being fish aliens. The young women they're converting develop this even before the transformation is complete — Isabella is captured during the escape because she flinches away from a ray of sunlight hitting the door.
* WeCanRuleTogether: After learning he's a Time Lord, Rosanna suggests the Doctor help her build a new society on Earth. The Doctor refuses due to awkward interspecies issues ("Think of the children")... and because she kills people.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Rosanna Calvierri's intention is to save her species and her family. It's rather understandable and sympathetic. The way she goes about it, on the other hand, means she's a villain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the episode, the Doctor doesn't seem to mind that there are still 10,000 human-eating fish aliens living under the waters of Venice. Sure, without any females they will eventually die of extinction, but presumably they can terrorize Venetians for years before that happens.

** Rosanna implying that he didn't fight hard enough for his own people, and asking if he wants to have another doomed race on his conscience. Of course, she doesn't know that he ''blew them up on purpose'' and for the same reason he's against her; wiping out another species to preserve your own.

** The Doctor has a minor case on his part when he first meets the Calvierri girls. He orders them to tell him the whole plan, before bemoaning that ''one day'' he'll get that to work.

The one where Rory and the Doctor nearly had a dick-measuring contest.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vampires. In Venice.]] [[NeverTrustATitle Well,]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent not really.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Vampires![[note]]Well, okay, not ''real'' ones, but nevertheless[[/note]] Better than ''Christmas''!]]

** The Doctor references ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.