The Crimson Horror (TV story)

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
Revision as of 06:16, 5 May 2013 by 99.164.72.246 (talk) (Only correcting a tiny spelling error at the start of the summary of the episode.)
RealWorld.png

The Crimson Horror was the eleventh regular episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It featured the return of Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax, who were last seen in The Snowmen. The episode marked the 100th episode of the revived series of Doctor Who, started in 2005.

Synopsis

A new project - Sweetville - has been opened, but only the perfect humans are allowed to live there. While Jenny, Vastra and Strax are trying to find out what is behind the project, Winifred Gillyflower, the project manager, is promoting the project. But who is the real manager? And who is the mysterious Mister Sweet?

Plot

Madame Vastra and her partner Jenny investigate 'The Crimson Horror' as another victim has been taken and in the victims eye is an image of the Doctor. Strax hears about this and takes charge with Vastra and Jenny. Jenny joins Sweetville to investigate it and finds the Doctor chained up and h has caught the 'Crimson Horror'. The Doctor heals himself but is almost caught by Ada, Mrs. Gillyflower's daughter. After Jenny takes down many of Gillyflower's servants Madame Vastra says that the red goop is poison because she said it harmed her planet several billion years ago. Clara is soon found in a small room and is being told o what just happened and saying that Madame Vastra is a lizard. The Doctor and Clara confront Mrs. Gillyflower while Ada was peeping in, then Mrs. Gillyflower threatens to kill Ada. She takes Ada to the rocket where the Doctor and Clara follow. Meanwhile Strax was outside getting help from a boy named Thomas. Strax threatened to shoot Mrs. Gillyflower and se gets knocked down the stairs and the rocket in the sky explodes without the poison in it because Jenny and Vastra took it out. Ada says she'll never forgive her mother and then kills the parasite. The Doctor takes Clara back to London but she sees that there are pictures of her throughout time and her friends tell her that if she doesn't take them timetravelling with her they tell their dad that their nanny's a timetraveller.

Cast

References

Cultural references from the real world

  • Thomas Thomas, who uses the language of a modern GPS, is an obvious reference to the popular real-world GPS service, TomTom.

Story notes

  • This story marks the first time in the revived series that a companion's associates have successfully deduced the person's time-travelling affairs with the Doctor's on their own, along with the Doctor's ability to time-travel, without questioning the Doctor directly or getting a firsthand experience of the TARDIS. Artie and Angie Maitland discovered pictures of Clara's travels from TV: Cold War, TV: Hide, and a picture of Clara during her Victorian life (TV: The Snowmen) on the Internet, which exposed her secret. They are also the first people in the revived series to blackmail a companion in order to time-travel with the Doctor.
  • Likewise to the above, Clara sees herself in a past life for the first time by looking at the Victorian era photo of herself in London (TV: The Snowmen), cluing her in that she really has lived more than one life, which the Doctor confronted her over in their last adventure, TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.

Ratings

to be added

Filming locations

to be added

Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • Vastra's veil is far more transparent than it was apparently meant to be, and it can be pretty silly to see the appearance of her unveiled face be played as a complete surprise. Though one could argue that her having a type of skin condition has spread and it does at least cover the scale bit, not the green skin.

Continuity

Home video releases

DVD releases

to be added

Blu-ray releases

to be added

External links

to be added