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[tree_and_leaf]

I quite enjoyed "Vampire of Venice", though I don't have much to say about it than "it was fun", I loved the fact that his library card shows his first incarnation, and the episode handled the Doctor stopping a dying race killing large numbers of people to save themselves rather better than The Runaway Bride did.

Oh, and could we please stop killing off the black and Asian characters? It's getting skeevy even more skeevy. I suppose all the major non-regular characters died this week (I'm not counting Rory as such, because he's been in more than one story), but still, it's a disagreeable pattern and no, Liz X doesn't balance the scales, however awesome she was.

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[undomielregina]

Oh, and could we please stop killing off the black and Asian characters?

I noticed this too and it made me >:( I really like this season otherwise, and I would like it to stop being so terrible about race.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's very depressing, and the fact that the season is otherwise good makes it even worse, somehow.

[sir_guinglain]

I'd find it just as racist if all the non-white characters survived; I was more bothered by the actor who played Guido just seeming very out of place and epitomising the flatness of much of the episode; a pity, as it was a good script.

[tigerfort]

"Oh, and could we please stop killing off the black and Asian characters?"

Yes, please. Someone needs to have a word with whoever's in charge of casting.

"I suppose all the major non-regular characters died this week"

As I said to a friend elsewhere, I'm getting concerned about Moffat's attitude to random slaughter of minor characters, and I'm starting to feel he needs Douglas Adams to come along and throw a whale at him to make the point.

[tree_and_leaf]

Random slaughter of minor characters is, to be fair, at times a regular characteristic of Who - it's still not as bad as some of the things Eric Saward got up to - but it's not my preferred model of Who.