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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 13: Gallifrey at War Part 2

TW: more gruesome Time War shit, lots of death, disturbing stuff

Both the Daleks and the Time Lords investigated genetic manipulation to create new creatures to use during the Last Great Time War. This includes the highly psychic Time Lord called Quarren Maguire, who was altered to have reality changing abilities. He used these abilities to erase the evidence that he existed and then Chameleon Arched himself to pass as human, unaware of his nature as a Time Lord.

Marie is a sentient humanoid Type 103 TARDIS. The Time Lords kept her in a box for more than a year screaming and thrashing. Eventually, the High Council allowed her to mate with a Type 105 TARDIS, and she bore a baby TARDIS. After the baby was born, the Time Lords took them away from Marie immediately.

The Last Wave was a generation of soldiers in the War in Heaven. The officers in this group were older individuals who forced regeneration until their skin was coated in this black organic blastproofing.

Dalek technology possessed regeneration inhibitors.

The Time Lords would often splice different species together in the Time Vortex to create increasingly impossible and mindless beings.

Leela was fitted with a compliance collar during the Last Great Time War to force her obedience.

The Fifth Doctor became involved in the Last Great Time War by accident after crashing his TARDIS into a Dalek time machine.

During the War in Heaven, the Nine Gallifreys project concerned cryptoforming planets into Gallifreyan cloneworlds. Some envisioned every planet in the universe eventually being transformed. These clone Gallifreys would eventually be used as ballistic projectiles as the war escalated among other things.

In the Last Great Time War, mutated Time Lords dubbed "Interstitials" were living in the Death Zone. They were the results of experiments by Rassilon to create a possibility engine. This involved retro-evolving the timeline of these Time Lords to connect to the time vortex and enter a loop of iterative regeneration. This meant they had no constant appearance and were instead in flux between different bodies. Rassilon and Borusa eventually managed to build their engine using them.

In the beginning of the Last Great Time War, the War Council built munitions factories underneath Gallifrey's surface. They employed children.

It was said that a soldier in the Last Great Time War could die a thousand times in a single day only to learn that they had never been born at all the day after.

The Cold was a weapon created by the Time Lords during the War in Heaven. When activated, it breaks through the time-space continuum, so everything nearby gets sucked into an alternate universe and destroyed. If introduced to an inactive Cold, a subject could be held in stasis for centuries, like Fitz Kreiner was.

During his time working for the Faction, Kreiner spent centuries killing Time Lords, including the Rani and the Master although these may have been clones. He collected their severed heads.

Saturnyne was a water world until it was hit by a shock wave of temporal disruption from the Last Great Time War. This caused the planet to change to one where the inhabitants evolved with no natural laws of evolution, becoming odd beings that could move from the deepest depths of the water to land. The Saturnyne matriarch Rosanna Calvierri would later meet the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory in Venice.

The Time Lords began to seriously alter their biology during the War in Heaven, often becoming what the Eighth Doctor termed to be "monsters."

The biodata virus altered its victims biodata to become members of the Faction Paradox. It infected the Third Doctor while he was regenerating on Dust after being shot, thus dramatically altering the timeline. Now infected, the Doctor would be corrupted into a member of the Faction by the end of his Eighth self.

River Song used a therapy bot to erase the Eleventh Doctor’s memory of counting how many children were on Gallifrey at the end of the Last Great Time War. This same therapy bot would one day belong to Cass Fermazzi, but instead of taking her memories, it just spewed out the Doctor’s. This had a great effect on her childhood and inspired her to fight for what is right. Discovering this confirmed the Thirteenth Doctor’s belief that they caused her death.

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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Vampires of Venice

Synopsis

The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy and Rory, soon to be married, on a romantic trip to Venice, 1580 to make Amy focus on her relationship with her fiancé. However, things in Venice aren't quite what they seem. Warnings of the plague are spreading about despite it having died out years before, and pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight are lurking around. Could it have something to do with the school run by the mysterious Rosanna Calvierri?

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The Doctor’s Wife

Synopsis

The Eleventh Doctor receives a message from an old Time Lord friend. The message brings him, Rory Williams and Amy Pond to another universe where they meet an alien who eats TARDISes.

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#round 2

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Initial Brackets!

[ID: All images in this post are brackets of the pairings listed below]

Bracket A Pairings:

Doctor/Corsair vs Caleera/Padrac

Donna Noble/Rose Tyler vs Valeyard/Vansell

Six/Peri Brown vs Rose Tyler/Raffalo

Rose Tyler/Gwenyth vs Six/Charley Pollard

Doctor/The Eleven vs The Eleven/Miskavel

Rose Tyler/Ianto Jones vs Valeyard/Master

Valeyard/Matrix vs Donna Noble/Stacey Campbell (Partners in Crime)

The Eleven/Helen Sinclair vs Doctor/Romana

Doctor/River Song/Rose Tyler vs Abby McPhail/Cleo Proctor/Shawna Thompson

Donna Noble/Lee McAvoy vs Valeyard/Death

Six/Hebe Harrison vs Rose Tyler/Toshiko Sato

The Eleven/Kandyman vs Seven/Ace McShane

Seven/Beevers!Master vs Rose Tyler/the TARDIS

Rose Tyler/Erisa Magambo vs Six/Mel Bush

Valeyard/Inspector Darkel vs Donna Noble/Rose Tyler/Martha Jones

Mel Bush/Ace McShane vs Doctor/Doctor

Bracket B Pairings:

Thirteen/Ada Lovelace vs Caleera | The Sonomancer/Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair

Thirteen/Rose Tyler vs Thirteen/River Song

Thirteen/Jamie McCrimmon vs Thirteen/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler

Thirteen/Yasmin Khan/River Song vs Thirteen/Jack Harkness

Thirteen/Clara Oswald vs Ryan Sinclair/Sonya Khan

Thirteen/Nikola Tesla vs Thirteen/Astos

Thirteen/Missy!Master vs Thirteen/Ace McShane

Ryan Sinclair/Trixabelle vs Thirteen/Claire Brown

Thirteen/Lord Byron vs Leela/Romana II

Thirteen/Solitract vs Thirteen/Mels Zucker

Thirteen/Swarm vs Thirteen/Yasmin Khan/Rose Tyler

Ryan Sinclair/Yasmin Khan vs Thirteen/Delgado!Master

Thirteen/Kate Stewart vs Ryan Sinclair/Tibo

Thirteen/Missy!Master/Rose Tyler vs Thirteen/Lumiat

Thirteen/Martha Jones vs Thirteen/Simm!Master

Leela/Vega vs Thirteen/Bill Potts

Bracket C Pairings:

Twelve/Nardole vs River Song/Martha Jones/Rose Tyler

Five/Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken vs Five/Tegan Jovanka

Twelve/Jack Harkness vs River Song/Liv Chenka

River Song/Martha Jones vs Twelve/Simm! Master

Twelve/Missy!Master/Simm!Master vs River Song/Jack Harkness

River Song/Clara Oswald vs Twelve/Rose Tyler

Twelve/River Song/Jack Harkness vs Four/Sarah Jane Smith

River Song/Jenny Flint vs Twelve/Missy!Master/River Song/Clara Oswald

Twelve/Missy!Master/River Song vs River Song/Madame Vastra

Four/Romana vs Twelve/Missy!Master/River Song/Rose Tyler

Twelve/Psi vs River Song/Kate Stewart

River Song/Toshiko Sato vs Twelve/Mels Zucker

Twelve/Dhawan!Master vs River Song/Rose Tyler

River Song/Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair vs Twelve/Robin Hood

Five/Ainley!Master vs Four/Ainley!Master

River Song/Christina de Souza vs Twelve/Missy!Master/Clara Oswald

Bracket D Pairings:

Eleven/Amy Pond vs Craig Owens/Sophie

Missy!Master/Helen Sinclair vs Theta Sigma/Koschei (Academy Era)

Eleven/Handles vs Missy!Master/Petronella Osgood

Missy!Master/Martha Jones vs Eleven/Rosanna Calvierri

Eleven/Rory Williams vs Irving Braxiatel/Leela/Narvin/Romana

Master/Master vs Three/Jo Grant

Two/Jamie McCrimmon vs Missy!Master/Liv Chenka

Inquisitor Darkel/Pandora vs Eleven/Dhawan!Master

Eleven/Craig Owens vs Graham O’Brien/Dhawan!Master

Missy!Master/Kate Stewart vs One/Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright

Three/Delgado!Master vs Missy!Master/Nardole

Missy!Master/Rose Tyler vs Eleven/Rose Tyler

Eleven/Lorna Bucket vs Missy!Master/Donna Noble

Missy!Master/River Song vs Three/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

Theta Sigma/Vansell vs Simm!Master/John Hart

Graham O’Brien/Grace O’Brien vs Eleven/Amy Pond/Rory Williams

Bracket E Pairings:

Ten/Clara Oswald vs Prem/Umbreem (Demons of the Punjab)

Yasmin Khan/Gat vs Ruth!Doctor/Yasmin Khan

Ten/Jackson Lake vs Bel/Inston-Vee Vinder

Alison Cheney/Bill Potts vs Ten/Jacobi!Master

Ten/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness vs Ashildr/Orson Pink

Yasmin Khan/Martha Jones vs Ruth!Doctor/Lee Clayton

Ruth!Doctor/River Song vs Yasmin Khan/Clara Oswald

Heather/Bill Potts vs Ten/River Song

Ten/Missy!Master vs Jo Grant/Sarah Jane Smith

Yasmin Khan/Sally Sparrow vs Ruth!Doctor/Rose Tyler

Ruth!Doctor/Gat vs Rachel Jensen/Allison Williams

Alice O’Donell/Mason Bennet (Under the Lake) vs Ten/Simm!Master/Rose Tyler

Ten/Vislor Turlough vs Alice Cassini/May Cassini

Barbara Wright/Ian Chesterton vs Ruth!Doctor/Dhawan!Master

Ruth!Doctor/Lee Clayton/River Song vs Yasmin Khan/Rose Tyler

Jo Grant/Liv Shaw vs Ten/Donna Noble

Bracket F Pairings:

Nine/Missy!Master vs Livia/Romana

Martha Jones/Riley Vashtree vs Martha Jones/Tom Milligan

Bill Potts/Yasmin Khan vs Lucy Fletcher/Grant Gordon (The Return of Doctor Mysterio)

Sarah/Nick (Eve of the Daleks) vs Bill Potts/Rose Tyler

Nine/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness/Mickey Smith vs Tania Bell/Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair

Martha Jones/The Hath (The Doctor’s Daughter) vs Martha Jones/Donna Noble

Martha Jones/Clara Oswald vs Martha Jones/Bill Potts

Tim Lunn/Cass (Under the Lake) vs Nine/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness

Nine/Rose Tyler/Mickey Smith vs Liv Chenka/Molly O’Sullivan

Martha Jones/Chantho vs Martha Jones/Rose Tyler

Bill Potts/The TARDIS vs Martha Jones/Mels Zucker

Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair vs Shalka!Doctor/Shalka!Master

War!Doctor/War!Master vs Ivan/Ellie (Oxygen)

Elton Pope/Ursula Blake (Love and Monsters) vs Bill Potts/Jenny (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Martha Jones/Verity Newman vs Martha Jones/Jenny (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Tania Bell/Liv Chenka vs Nine/River Song

Bracket G Pairings:

Eight/Charley Pollard vs The Master/The Eleven

Jack Simmonds/Mickey Smith vs Jack Harkness/Amy Pond/Rory Williams

Ace McShane/Tegan Jovanka vs Nardole/Narvin

Nardole/Ramone vs Eight/Roberts!Master

Eight/Jack Harkness vs Sally Sparrow/Billy Shipton

Mel Bush/Hebe Harrison vs Jack Harkness/Lord Byron

Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler vs Ace McShane/Kate Stewart

Sally Sparrow/Larry Nightingale vs Eight/Grace Holloway

Eight/Fitz Kreiner vs Saibra/Psi (Time Heist)

Ace McShane/Yasmin Khan vs Jack Harkness/Martha Jones

Jack Harkness/Graham O’Brien vs Mike Yates/BOSS

Olistra/Veklin vs Eight/Jacobi!Master

Eight/River Song vs Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken

Marco Poly/Susan Foreman vs Ace McShane/Graham O’Brien

Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones/Rose Tyler vs Jack Harkness/Ashildr

Rigsy/Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart vs Eight/Dhawan!Master

Bracket H Pairings:

Clara Oswald/Ashildr vs Fourteen/Jack Harkness

Kate Stewart/Sarah Jane Smith vs Kate Stewart/Petronella Osgood

Clara Oswald/Mels Zucker vs Dhawan!Master/Yasmin Khan

Missy!Master/Clara Oswald vs Clara Oswald/Rigsy

Clara Oswald/Madame Vastra/Jenny Flint vs Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato

Vansell/Sentris vs Dan Lewis/Karvanista

Dan Lewis/Diane vs Vansell/Narvin

Fourteen/Dan Lewis vs Clara Oswald/Rose Tyler

Clara Oswald/Jane Austen vs Fourteen/Rose Tyler

John Benton/Mike Yates vs Dan Lewis/Sarah Jane Smith

Dan Lewis/Graham O’Brien/Grace O’Brien vs Helen Sinclair/Jean (The Love Vampires)

Owen Harper/Norton Folgate vs Clara Oswald/Psi

Clara Oswald/Saibra vs Rani Chandra/Clyde Langer

Master/Alison Cheney vs Dan Lewis/Graham O’Brien

Kate Stewart/Jacqui McGee vs Romana/Vansell

Tenteen/Rose Tyler vs Clara Oswald/Clara Oswald

I hope you all enjoy!!

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#Doctor Who #11th Doctor #Rosanna Calvierri #Matt Smith #The Vampires of Venice #GIF #my gifs #Helen McCrory #dwedit #Not a DW Rewatch #Hide and Queue

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hanamiprime · 3 years

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Doctor Who - Vampires of Venice (s5e6)

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Doctor Who

S05E06 - The Vampires of Venice

Rosanna Calvierri

Episode aired: 20 October 2011

#helen mccrory #rosanna calvierri #doctor who #the vampires of venice #s05e06 #screencaps #tv sho #guest star #british actress

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Helen McCrory (Rosanna Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice) has died aged 52 via /r/doctorwho https://ift.tt/32jclGf

#reddit #Helen McCrory (Rosanna Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice) has died aged 52 #Doctor Who #BB

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The Vampires of Venice

Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 6

#doctor who #vampires of venice #helen mccrory #dw #rosanna calvierri #mine

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Timestamp #214: The Vampires of Venice

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Timestamp #214: The Vampires of Venice

Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice (1 episode, s05e06, 2010)

There’s something fishy in the waters of Venice.

Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Part II

The Doctor gets Amy back into the TARDIS where she continues trying to seduce him. While he tries to work the console, proclaiming to be a mix between Gandalf and Yoda, Amy points out just how much a a typical guy he is.

The Doctor tells her that he just can’t see it anymore. He’s lost the wonder. Everything is just… stuff. He wants Amy to help open his eyes to the wonders again.

Amy takes this as a clue that she’s not the first companion. When she asks how many of them were girls, the Doctor dances around the question, so Amy brings up the visual records with a little trick. The TARDIS obliges, showing her only the women who have traveled with the Doctor.

The Doctor decides to go find Rory, who is at his bachelor party.

The Vampires of Venice

In Venice, 1580, Guido presents his teenage daughter Isabella to Rosanna Calvierri and her son, Francesco. Isabella is seeking entrance to Rosanna’s school, and when it is granted, Rosanna takes the young woman promptly.

As Guido leaves the room, Isabella is inspected before Francesco reveals himself as a vampire.

Four centuries in the future, Rory is enjoying his bachelor party until the Doctor pops out of a cake instead of the expected stripper. The Doctor reveals that Amy tried to kiss him, but it’s okay because she is a great kisser.

It sounded better in his head, you know.

Some time later, the Doctor is working on the TARDIS console as he offers relationship advice to the young couple. He also offers to take them to any location so they can get away together. He decides on Venice, a bit perturbed that Rory understands the “bigger on the inside” concept.

He goes on for a spell about the founding and history of Venice, including a note to avoid Casanova, before running into a guard who asks for traveling credentials in an attempt to stop the plague. The travelers use the psychic paper to bypass the checkpoint – Rory is apparently the Doctor’s eunuch – before running into Guido and learning about Isabella’s plight.

In the school’s courtyard, Francesco tries to convince his mother that they have more than enough converts, but she’s not convinced at all. He later trawls the streets looking for another victim. The subsequent screams draw Amy and Rory. After spotting the vampire fangs, Amy gives chase.

The Doctor breaks into the school and encounters a group of female vampires, impressed by their lack of reflections. They ask who he is and he shows them a library card, so they vamp out to chase him away. He runs into Amy and Rory. Amy and the Doctor are excited about the vampires, but Rory is appalled.

Amy and the Doctor strategize with Guido on how to get into the school undercover. The Doctor and Rory argue that Amy shouldn’t be the one to go in, but she spins an elaborate cover story. Rory does not like the idea of the Doctor posing as her fiancé, so Amy and Rory pose as siblings to gain Rosanna’s favor. One flash of the psychic paper later and Amy’s matriculated.

She soon finds Isabella and learns about being strapped to a chair for a procedure that she cannot remember. All she knows is that the sunlight now burns her skin. As Amy looks for a way in for her traveling companions, Guido (in Rory’s stag party shirt) takes the Doctor and an apprehensive Rory to meet her.

They talk about Amy’s relationship with the Doctor while the Time Lord shows off his huge UV light. Rory challenges the Doctor about his attitude that makes people take risks to impress him. They also discover a corpse that it completely drained of all fluids before being ambushed.

Amy gets captured and taken to Rosanna where she is confronted about the psychic paper. Amy is strapped down and bitten by Rosanna. The headmistress explains that they drink the girls dry and replace their blood with that of their own kind. Amy kicks Rosanna, exposing a perception filter and the vampire’s true nature.

Yep, they’re aliens.

Isabella rescues Amy and the travelers escape into the sunlight. The Doctor tries to go back for Isabella but is attacked by an electric shock. As the morning continues on, Isabella is forced into the canal behind the school where she is eaten alive by the males of the species who are hiding beneath the water’s surface.

Rosanna returns to her throne room to find the Doctor waiting for her. He has deduced she is from Saturnyne. She’s using a perception filter to appear human and they share a common identity as alien refugees. Rosanna’s planet was consumed by the cracks in time, and while fleeing the Silence, they ended up on Earth. Rosanna asks for the Doctor’s help in rebuilding her species, but he only wants to know what happened to Isabella. Rosanna disavows Isabella, remarking only that all traitors must be killed. As the Time Lord is escorted out, he shouts that he will stop her. If only because she didn’t know Isabella’s name.

With a malfunctioning perception filter, Rosanna assembles her girls in the courtyard and prepares to wage war. Meanwhile, the Doctor reunites with Guido and his traveling companions and hashes out Rosanna’s plan. He deduces that she plans to sink Venice and give rise to a new Saturnyne.

The “vampires” pick that moment to assault Guido’s home, forcing the heroes to flee. Guido commandeers the UV light and locks himself inside, luring the girls to his gunpowder stash which he uses to destroy the invaders at the expense of his own life.

As Rosanna begins her plan, the Doctor forces Amy to return to the TARDIS. Rory thanks the Doctor and pursues her as the Time Lord returns to the school and tries to stop Rosanna’s machine. He finds it deadlock sealed, but even the news that her daughters are dead doesn’t dissuade the headmistress.

Rory and Amy find a detour in Francesco. Rory fights him while Amy uses her compact mirror to disintegrate the alien in a burst of sunlight. Amy kisses Rory in celebration before they both rush off to help the Doctor.

The Time Lord is miffed about Rory’s change of heart, but he soon leaves them in charge of dismantling the throne as he ascends the bell tower after Rosanna. He ascends to the spire and stops the weather machine before finding Rosanna on the canal’s edge.

The matriarch’s perception filter has failed, locking her in her human form. She prepares to dive to her death, and as the Doctor rushes to stop her, she tells him that he’ll have to live with the death of her species on his conscience. She then jumps into the water and is consumed.

The Doctor, Amy, and Rory return to the TARDIS. Seeing Amy’s excitement and her apprehension about the wedding, Rory offers to break off their engagement. Amy replies that he should travel with them, and the Doctor agrees.

As they are about to leave, silence falls around the Doctor, an omen of the darkness still surrounding them.

This is a tough story to consider. On the one hand, the story is quite average with a small connection to the ongoing thread about the Doctor being the last of his kind. This story would have played well in the Tennant era which leaned heavily on the Doctor pledging to prevent another such genocide. It also plays well here, both as a counterbalance to Matt Smith’s portrayal of a younger, hip, almost laissez-faire Doctor and as a fulfillment of his promise to never be cowardly or cruel, and to never give up or give in.

On the other hand, we have some great (and tough to handle) character development with this twisted triangle. As much as I despise the attempted seduction of the Doctor by Amy, it opens the door to some dramatic friction. Amy’s attracted to the Doctor, but the Doctor isn’t interested in her. Rory loves Amy and she seems to love him, but she’s not quite ready to settle down. The Doctor’s interests reside with unraveling the mysteries surrounding these two while helping them to find each other.

But the biggest source of friction is how poorly Amy treats Rory. She seems irritated that the Doctor brought him in, but seems excited to be with Rory on a wedding-gift vacation. It all comes back to the Doctor, however, because they are there purely because of time travel and Amy immediately gravitates back to the adventure instead of guiding and mentoring her future husband.

Let’s be frank: Rory needs reassurance about their relationship and Amy is either ignorant or reluctant to provide it. She’s not holding up her end of the Pond-Williams team and effectively leaving Rory alone in the storm roiling around them.

I wish that she would treat Rory better because I really love the chemistry between Karen Gillan and Matt Smith, but that amazing connectivity is blunted by Amy’s disregard for Rory, who seems to be a really sharp and grounded character.

I loved a lot of the mythology touches throughout the episode, from the First Doctor library card to the Doctor’s continued fear of heights. A closer look at the library card reveals that it was issued to “Dr. J. Smith”, continuing the John Smith alias into the Hartnell era, and was registered to 76 Totter’s Lane in Shoreditch, London. The story also swerved into meta territory with the jokes about Casanova, which touches on both David Tennant and guest star Helen McCrory.

We also cannot forget that the Doctor has plenty of experience with vampires and blood-drinkers, including State of Decay, The Curse of Fenric, and Smith and Jones.

I bounced back and forth for a while on the score for this one, but finally settled on my modus operandi of rounding up.

Rating: 4/5 – “Would you care for a jelly baby?”

UP NEXT – Doctor Who: Amy’s Choice

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The Littlest Timelord: Cracks in Time Chapter 18

TITLE: The Littlest Timelord: Cracks in Time Chapter 18 PAIRING: No Pairing RATING: T CHAPTER: 18/? SUMMARY: A little girl escapes the Time War when the Timelord’s return in “End of Time Part 2″. The newly regenerated Doctor must now raise the little girl while trying to find out why cracks in time keep following them around.

[A/N - First chapter of “Vampires in Venice”!]

Elise woke up and ventured out of her room. Where was her father and Amy? Just as she was about to go looking for them, they came through the doors with a man following them.

It was Amy’s boyfriend.

What was his name again? Roger? Reggie?

The Doctor walked up to the small Timelord. “Elise! What are you doing? You’re supposed to stay in your room until I come and get you”, he scolded her.

Her bottom lip quivered as her eyes went wide.

The Doctor sighed and picked her up.

“Told you”, Amy sang.

“Shut-up”, the Doctor muttered.

“Um, who is she?” Rory asked Amy.

“The Doctor’s sort-of daughter. Elise, you remember Rory?”

The Doctor handed Elise to Amy as he went down below the platform to work on the TARDIS.

“Umm, hello?” Rory said to Elise.

Elise just smiled and waved.

“She doesn’t really speak. She’s trying to, aren’t you?” Amy said.

Elise nodded.

“But she’s what? 4 or 5? She should be speaking by now”, Rory said.

Elise, ashamed, hid her face in Amy’s red hair.

Amy rubbed her back to comfort her as she glared at her fiancé.

“What?” he asked. He hadn’t meant to upset the little girl.

“Oh, the life out there, it dazzles. I mean, it blinds you to the things that are important. I've seen it devour relationships and plans”.

The rotor sparked and let out smoke.

“It's meant to do that”, the Doctor told them, “Because for one person to have seen all that, to taste the glory and then go back, it will tear you apart. So, I'm sending you somewhere, together”.

“Whoa. What, like a date?” Amy asked.

The Doctor put his goggles away and made his way to the platform. “Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition. It has to be amazing. The Moulin Rouge in 1890. The first Olympic Games. Think of it as a wedding present, because it's either this or tokens. It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside. What's that about? Let me explain”.

“It's another dimension”, Rory said.

“It's basically another dimens…What?”

“After what happened with Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes”.

“I like the bit when someone says it's bigger on the inside. I always look forward to that”.

“So, this date”, Amy said, breaking up a fight she had feeling was about to start, “I'm kind of done with running down corridors. What do you think, Rory?”

The Doctor pulled a lever. “How about somewhere romantic?”

When they landed, Amy helped Elise into her new harness and they left the TARDIS. They stepped out into a busy marketplace.

“Venice!” the Doctor said, throwing his arms out, “Venezia. La Serenissima. Impossible city. Preposterous city. Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun. It was just a collection of little wooden huts in the middle of the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world”.

The Doctor continued to rant as they walked. “Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding, constantly just beautiful. Ah, you got to love Venice. So many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Ooo, that reminds me”. The Doctor checked his watch. “1580. That's all right. Casanova doesn't get born for a hundred and forty five years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken”.

“You owe Casanova a chicken?” Rory asked him.

“Long story. We had a bet”.

A man stepped into their pathway and stopped them. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Papers, if you please. Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection”.

The Doctor pulled out his psychic paper and held it up. “There you go, fellow. All to your satisfaction, I think you'll find”.

The inspector snatched the psychic paper from his hand. “I am so sorry, your Holiness. I didn't realize”.

The Doctor made a cross sign over his chest. “No worries. You were just doing your job. Sorry, what exactly is your job?”

“Checking for aliens. Visitors from foreign lands what might bring the plague with them”.

“Oh, that's nice. See where you bring me? The plague”, Amy said, hitting the Doctor on the arm.

“Don't worry, Viscountess. No, we're under quarantine here. No one comes in, no one goes out, and all because of the grace and wisdom of our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri”, the inspector told them.

“How interesting. I heard the plague died out years ago”, the Doctor said.

“Not out there. No, Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets are piled high with bodies, she said”.

“Did she now?”

Rory took the psychic paper from the Inspector. “Er, according to this, I am your eunuch”, he told Amy.

“Oh yeah. I'll explain later”, she said, hurrying after the Doctor and Elise.

They came to a stop and watched a procession of girls in white dresses and veils from across the canal.

A man ran up to them. He went through the girls yelling, “Isabella!”

One of the girls knocked him down and they quickly left.

Now that was odd.

Since this was meant to be Amy and Rory’s date, the Doctor decided to leave them and find out what was going on. Amy didn’t want to run through corridors? Fine. He’d do it himself, with Elise of course.

The Doctor and Elise waited in an alleyway not far from the canal. When the man walked by, the Doctor popped out. “Who are those girls?” he asked him.

“I thought everyone knew about the Calvierri school”.

“My first day here. It's okay. Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion. So why are you trying to get her out?”

“Something happens in there. Something magical, something evil. My own daughter didn't recognize me. And the girl who pushed me away, her face, like an animal”.

The Doctor through an arm over the man’s shoulder and said, “I think it's time I met this Signora Calvierri”.

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Guido ran up to the gates of the school yelling, “You have my daughter. Isabella!”

The distraction allowed the Doctor and Elise to sneak around to the water gate and get in that way.

The Doctor had tried to leave Elise with Guido, but she screamed when he tried to hand her over. Maybe Wilf was right. Maybe she was too attached to him.

They made their way down a stone staircase into a basement. There was a mirror on the wall and the Doctor walked up to it.

“Hello, handsome”, he said, adjusting his bowtie.

Elise rolled her eyes.

“Who are you?” a chorus of voices asked.

The Doctor spun around and saw five girls standing there. He looked at them and then back at the mirror.

They had no reflections.

“How are you doing that? I am loving it. You're like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, and he was shorter. Will be shorter. I'm rambling”.

“I'll ask you again, signor. Who are you?”

“Why don't you check this out?” He pulled out a black wallet and showed them. The girls just stared at it until he flipped it around. He groaned, realizing it wasn’t his psychic paper. “Library card. Of course, it's with….He's…I need a spare. Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight and can't be seen in…Ha. Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking? But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless…”

“Leave now, signor, or we shall call for the Steward, if you are lucky”. The girls’ teeth turned into needles and Elise whimpered in the Doctor’s ear.

They started to come towards them, hissing.

“Tell me the whole plan!”

The girls continued to advance on them.

“One day that will work”, he muttered, “Listen, I would love to stay here. This whole thing. I'm thrilled. Oh, this is Christmas”. The Doctor turned and ran for the stairs.

Night had fallen.

“Doctor!” Amy yelled, running towards them.

“Elise and I just met some vampires”.

“We just saw a vampire”.

“And creepy girls and everything”.

“Vampires”.

The two jumped up and down with excitement, jostling Elise.

She whined and tapped the back of the Doctor’s head with her forehead, letting him know she didn’t appreciate it.

The Doctor stopped jumping as Rory finally caught up.

“We think we just saw a vampire”, Rory said.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Amy was just telling me”, the Doctor told him.

“Yeah, yeah. The Doctor and Elise actually went to their house”, Amy said.

“Oh. Right. Well…”

“Okay. So, first we need to get back in there somehow”, the Doctor said.

“What?” Rory asked.

“How do we do that?” Amy asked.

“Back in where?”

“Come and meet me and Elise’s new friend”, the Doctor told them.

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Elise sat in the Doctor’s lap as they came up with a plan.

Guido had a map of Venice laying out on the table. “As you saw, there's no clear way in. The House of Calvierri is like a fortress. But there's a tunnel underneath it, with a ladder and shaft that leads up into the house. I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor”, Guido said.

“You need someone on the inside”, Amy told them.

“No”, the Doctor said.

“You don't even know what I was going to say”.

“Er, that we pretend you're an applicant for the school to get you inside, and tonight you come down and open the trapdoor to let us in”.

“Oh. So you do know what I was going to say”.

“Are you insane?” Rory asked her.

“We don't have another option”.

“He said no, Amy. Listen to him”.

“There is another option”, Guido told them. He pointed to the barrels behind where Rory was sitting. “I work at the Arsenale. We build the warships for the navy”.

The Doctor set Elise down on the table and walked over to the barrels, sniffing them. “Gunpowder. Most people just nick stationery from where they work. Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosive”.

Rory got up and moved away from the gunpowder only to bump into a dead rabbit hanging near the fireplace.

“What do you suggest, then? We wait until they turn her into an animal?” Guido asked.

“I'll be there three, four hours, tops”, Amy told the Doctor.

He considered it for a second, admiring her bravery before he shut the idea down. “No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It can't keep happening like this. This is how they go”. The Doctor sat down on Guido’s bed and rubbed his face with his hand. “But I have to know. We go together, say you're my daughter”.

“What? Don't listen to him”, Rory told her.

“Your daughter? You look about nine”. He barely looked old enough to claim Elise was his daughter and she looked like him.

“Brother, then”.

“Too weird. Fiancé”.

“I'm not having him run around telling people he's your fiancé”, Rory said.

“No. No, you're right”, Amy said, finally agreeing with him on something.

“Thank you”.

“I mean, they've already seen the Doctor. You should do it”.

“Me?”

“Yeah. You can be my brother”.

“Why is him being your brother weird, but with me, it's okay?”

“Actually, I thought you were her fiancé”, Guido said, gesturing to the Doctor.

“Yeah, that's not helping”.

“This whole thing is mental!” Rory told Amy, “They're vampires, for God's sake”.

“We hope”, the Doctor said.

“So if they're not vampires?” Amy asked.

“Makes you wonder what could be so bad it doesn't actually mind us thinking it's a vampire…”

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The Doctor's genocides

The Fourth Doctor destroyed Sutekh, the last known Osiran. He even taunted Sutekh as he died in the "temporal trap", asking him how long Osirans live, before finally declaring, "The time of the Osirans is long past. Go." (TV: Pyramids of Mars) The Fifth Doctor twice encountered other living Osirans, but was forced each time to destroy them as well. (PROSE: The Sands of Time, AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)

The Fourth Doctor tripped Eldrad, the last Kastrian, causing him to fall into a pit. Although the fall appeared to be fatal, the Doctor doubted he had really been killed. (TV: The Hand of Fear) He later encountered another surviving Kastrian, Mulkris, assigned to ensure that Eldrad's death sentence was carried out. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)

With Leela's help, the Fourth Doctor destroyed the last of the Fendahl. He dropped the remains of the Fendahl into a supernova to ensure their permanent destruction. (TV: Image of the Fendahl) However, this attempt appeared to have failed, as the Fendahl later managed to re-manifest in Kaldor City, (AUDIO: Checkmate) and the Eighth Doctor discovered that the Fendahl he defeated was only a fragment of the true Fendahl that remained trapped on Planet 5 (although the true Fendahl was consumed by the Fendahl Predator). (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)

The Fourth Doctor may be arguably responsible for the death of Ligeia Bassett, the self-proclaimed last of the Valjax, as he destroyed the equipment that she was using to keep herself alive after her people were struck by a lethal plague, with Ligeia only keeping herself alive by transferring herself into the bodies of human women, this process resulting in accelerated aging and only serving as a temporary stop-gap measure. (AUDIO: The Auntie Matter)

The Fourth Doctor fulfilled a Time Lord's solemn duty by killing the King Vampire, the last of the Great Vampires and sole vampire survivor of the Vampire-Time Lord war. (TV: State of Decay)

When the Sixth Doctor was forced to wipe out the Vervoids to stop them killing the humans on Hyperion III. This was used against him in a trial occurring in his own past. When the Valeyard accused him of genocide, the Doctor said that he had no other option. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids) When the Eighth Doctor travelled to the events of the trial and met his sixth incarnation, he dismissed the charge due to the artificial nature of the Vervoids' creation. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)

The War Doctor was about to commit double genocide when he planned to destroy the Time Lords and the Daleks at the end of the Last Great Time War with the Moment. It was apparently Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction, which threatened the whole multiverse, that convinced him he had no other choice. He believed to have committed it until the final days of his eleventh incarnation. (TV: Dalek, The End of Time, The Day of the Doctor, et al.) Actually, with the help of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, he found a different solution and with the help of "all thirteen" incarnations of himself, froze Gallifrey and the Time Lords in a pocket universe while the Daleks destroyed themselves. He forgot about these events because the timelines were out of sync. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

During the Dark Times, the Fledgling Empires all but wiped out the Racnoss to prevent their devouring of planets. The Tenth Doctor later made them extinct when he flooded a ship of surviving young within the Earth. He was unknowingly aided by the Master, who ordered the destruction of the Webstar which resulted in the death of the Empress of the Racnoss. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

The Doctor accused his Meta-Crisis duplicate of genocide when he destroyed all the Daleks in the Medusa Cascade, along with their fleet and the Crucible. (TV: Journey's End)

The Saturnyns were wiped out, with the Eleventh Doctor's help, in their attempt to take over Venice and convert female humans into new mates for their males. The converts were killed in an explosion, leaving the males to die out. The last female, Rosanna Calvierri, offered herself as a last meal to them, after telling the Doctor she hoped that their extinction would haunt his conscience. (TV: The Vampires of Venice)

The Twelfth Doctor destroyed Rann-Korr, the last Hyperion by channelling seas to his caverns. (COMIC: Terrorformer)

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Vampires of Venice

I’ve covered every episode of the first ten Doctors so it’s time for the Eleventh Doctor!

247: Vampires of Venice

“You know what’s dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you. ”

Format: 1 episode x 45 mins

Writer: Toby Whithouse

Team TARDIS:

Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith)

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Story: The Doctor takes Amy and Rory, soon to be married, on a romantic trip to Venice, 1580 to make Amy focus on her relationship with her fiancé. However, things there aren't quite what they seem.Warnings of the plague are spreading about despite having died out years before, and pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight are lurking around. Could it have something to do with the school run by the mysterious Rosanna Calvierri?

Thoughts: It’s interesting to see Doctor Who do proper relationship drama. In the classic series companions regularly fell in love with random people they met on their travels. We saw the Doctor end up breaking up Rose and Mickey's relationship but they rarely felt like a couple. Here though we finally see the effect the Doctor can have on a relationship.

I love Rory. He’s one of the funniest characters Doctor Who has ever had, simply a nice man who says funny things. But he’s also one of the few companions who really recognize the danger of the Doctor. I think it’s something the Doctor himself tends to forget (perhaps on purpose) so when Rory reminds him you can see the pain on his face. But even Rory ends up sucked into the adventure.

This strikes me as an episode that had a title before it had a plot. The Venice setting is largely irrelevant other than little use of the canals. The episode was filmed in Croatia and frankly it doesn’t look anything like Venice at all. The vampires are well used though and I quite like that this went with the trend at the time of sexy vampires.

They are of course not vampires at all but Saturnyns and they get a full rendering when in their natural form. Even now this seems ambitious- we’ve still had very few completely CGI aliens. I love the design of the Saturnyns but the heavy CGI means they never feel quite real. They do work well as villains, especially due to Rosanna being played by the excellent Helen McCrory.

This is a well-balanced episode, with lots of humour, proper monsters, a strong villain and some great relationship stuff. I love Toby Whithouse’ Being Human and this is the closest his Who writing has ever got to that show. A lot of fun.

Next Time: The Dream Lord!

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