So the wedding of Amy and Rory is on the rock and there is only one man who can save them is in a cake. That’s how the Vampire in Venice starts. It’s a great start and we are soon back in time in Venice and it looks beautiful. Well done for the production team and the CGI team on merging the Czech location and the footage shot in Venice. It looked fantastic.
So the story moves on and the Doctor soon discovers that the city famous school has something mysterious is going on. Creepy girls with an aversion to sun light. With my love of vampires was I disappointed with this story. No.
It was nice to see Rory come into the story. He’s the love of Amy’s life or maybe. However unlike the RTD era he’s an integral part of the story, not just a stopping point to get the story moving. We kept coming back to Jackie and Micky. Martha’s family or Donna’s Granddad, Wilf. They rapidly became annoying. However Rory, is not that and long may he continue.
Toby Whithouse has come out with a simple story. Aliens using the school as a cover to convert women into aliens, however this story rattles along. The fact that the Aliens are not vampires is revealed quite late on in. The suspense is kept and we have a nod back to State of Decay and William Hartnell in a library card.
The only downside is that the machine that would destroy Venice is switched off with a simple switch. It’s a downside, but it’s bearable. All in all a great solid story, memorable but not nessacrily a classic like Blink or Talons of Weng Chiang.
8/10
P.s. I have also missed the fact there maybe 2 different versions of the Doctor running around
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