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== References == |
== References == |
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=== Locations === |
=== Locations === |
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| + | * [[Villa Diodati]] is located near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]]. [[Team TARDIS]] travel there to witness the creation of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' on a [[storm]]y and [[rain]]y night on a [[Tuesday]] in [[June]] [[1816]]. |
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| − | * [[Villa Diodati]] is near [[Lake Geneva]]. |
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| + | * [[Lord Byron]] cannot return to [[England]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor almost says the boney hand is from the [[14th century]] before correcting, saying there's a "touch more [[umami]]", being [[human]], [[protein]] and [[collagen]]. |
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| + | * Byron has the [[skeleton|skeletal]] remains of a [[15th century]] soldier from the [[Waterloo]] [[Battle of Morat]]. |
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| + | * Polidori believes the Doctor to be from "the [[north]]". |
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| + | * Mary believes Percy has taken to their [[chalet]] [[Maison Chapuis]] by the [[shore]]. |
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| + | * Percy described the "lake apparition" as a [[death god]] rising from [[Hades (location)|Hades]]. |
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| + | * Byron wonders if the haunted villa is in reality [[Hell]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor ponders if the [[Year Without a Summer]] blamed on [[volcano|volcanic]] [[ash]] was really something else. |
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| + | * The [[Lone Cyberman]] made a [[time jump|time hop]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor shows Percy Shelley a vision of himself drowning in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] in [[1822]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor wants to return her friends back to [[2020]]. |
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| + | * The following [[July]], Byron is reading one of his works to an [[audience]] of people. |
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| + | * [[Thirteenth Doctor|The Doctor]] says she's getting a [[vibe]] of evil from the villa. |
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| + | * The Doctor loves "a good [[plume]]". |
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| + | * The Doctor has a natural "[[Time Lord magnetism]]" that makes the [[Cyberium]] choose her as host. |
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| + | === Individuals === |
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| + | * [[John Polidori]] calls the [[weather]] outside [[Dank (term)|dank]] and [[Frigid (term)|frigid]]. |
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| + | * [[William Fletcher|Fletcher]] is the [[butler]] at the villa, and [[Elise (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Elise]] is a [[nursemaid]]. |
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| + | * [[Mary Wollstonecraft|Mary Shelley]] notes that [[Percy Shelley]] is not one for playing [[trick]]s. |
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| + | * [[Lord Byron]] recently separated from [[Annabella Byron|his wife]]. |
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* Graham searches for the [[lavatory]], but finds that they're too early in [[history]] to enjoy the invention of [[toilet]]s. |
* Graham searches for the [[lavatory]], but finds that they're too early in [[history]] to enjoy the invention of [[toilet]]s. |
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| + | * Mary has [[William Shelley|a child named William]]. |
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| + | * [[Ghost maid (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|A ghost maid]] and [[Ghost girl (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|a ghost girl]] are haunting the villa. |
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| + | * Byron uses the term [[Candid (term)|candid]]. |
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| + | * The [[skeleton|skeletal]] remains of a [[Soldier (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|soldier]] are running amok in the villa. |
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| + | * Ryan mentions [[Grace O'Brien|his nan]]. |
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| + | * Mary feels she is not as good a [[writer]] as [[William Godwin|her]] [[Mary Shelley's mother|parents]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor mention Byron's daughter [[Ada Lovelace|Ada]]. |
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| + | * Fletcher points Graham to a [[chamber pot]]. |
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| + | * Ryan tells Polidori to stop [[Shooting daggers (term)|shooting daggers]]. |
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| + | * Graham says the [[sleepwalk]]ing Polidori is like a [[zombie]]. |
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| + | * They all think the villa is [[demon]]ic. |
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| + | * The "lake [[apparition]]" turns out to be the [[Lone Cyberman]] looking for "[[Cyberium Guardian|a Guardian]]". |
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| + | * [[Team TARDIS]] are reminded of [[Jack Harkness]]'s warning to "beware the Lone Cyberman. Don't let it have [[Cyberium|what it wants]]". |
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| + | * The Lone Cyberman's real name was Ashad, and he once had [[Ashad's children|children]], but he slit their [[throat]]s when they joined [[The Alliance (Fugitive of the Judoon)|the resistance]]. |
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| + | * [[Claire Clairmont]] finally falls out of [[love]] with Byron. |
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| + | === Languages === |
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| + | * Elise speaks [[French language|French]]. |
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=== Culture === |
=== Culture === |
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* Graham begins "[[Pride and Prejudice|It is a truth universally acknowledged...]]", but the Doctor interjects "[[Jane Austen|wrong writer]]". |
* Graham begins "[[Pride and Prejudice|It is a truth universally acknowledged...]]", but the Doctor interjects "[[Jane Austen|wrong writer]]". |
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| − | * The Doctor has instructed her friends not to mention ''[[Frankenstein]]'', or otherwise affect its inception. |
+ | * The Doctor has instructed her friends not to mention ''[[Frankenstein]]'', or otherwise affect its inception. |
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* Ryan plays "[[Chopsticks (composition)|Chopsticks]]" on the [[piano]]. |
* Ryan plays "[[Chopsticks (composition)|Chopsticks]]" on the [[piano]]. |
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* The Doctor quotes Lord Byron's poem "[[She Walks in Beauty]]". |
* The Doctor quotes Lord Byron's poem "[[She Walks in Beauty]]". |
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* Lord Byron believes that the Doctor is after the third [[canto]] of his work ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]''. |
* Lord Byron believes that the Doctor is after the third [[canto]] of his work ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]''. |
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* The Lone Cyberman recites Percy Shelley's poem "[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]". |
* The Lone Cyberman recites Percy Shelley's poem "[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]". |
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* The poem read aloud by Byron at the end of the episode is "[[Darkness (poem)|Darkness]]". |
* The poem read aloud by Byron at the end of the episode is "[[Darkness (poem)|Darkness]]". |
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=== Food and beverages === |
=== Food and beverages === |
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| + | * Graham notices a plate of [[hors d'oeuvre]]s on the table by the [[fireplace]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor notes that the Cyberman might need a [[breath mint]]. |
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=== Technology === |
=== Technology === |
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| + | * The Doctor attempts to use her [[The Doctor's psychic paper|psychic paper]] to pass herself off as someone else, but finds that the paper is blank and might need a [[blow drying|blow dry]]. |
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| + | * The Doctor scans the villa with her [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]]. |
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| + | * Polidori want to fetch his [[pistol]] for a duel with Ryan. |
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| + | * The Doctor realizes the villa has a [[perception filter]] all around it. |
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| + | * The [[Cyberman]]'s [[Cyber wrist blaster|writst blaster]] is broken. |
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| + | * The Doctor notes that the Cyberman still doesn't have an [[emotional inhibitor]] yet. |
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| + | * The Lone Cyberman uses a [[lightning]] strike to recharge itself. |
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| + | * The Cyberman reveals that it is looking for [[Cyberium]]. |
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| + | * The Cyberium is a [[supercomputer]] that fused itself to Shelley's [[cerebral cortex]]. |
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| + | * The Lone Cyberman signals for [[Lone Cyberman's ship|his ship]] to come. |
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| + | * The Doctor and her friends take off to stop the [[Cyber-Army]] from being built. |
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== Story notes == |
== Story notes == |
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Revision as of 16:45, 21 February 2020
The Haunting of Villa Diodati was the eighth episode of series 12 of Doctor Who.
It offered an alternate account of the conception of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley to that of the audio story Mary's Story featuring the Eighth Doctor, though with the story acknowledging that what it was depicting was the result of history becoming unusually flexible around that night.
The episode featured the return of the Cybermen, in their first television appearance since 2017's The Doctor Falls and their first encounter with the Thirteenth Doctor. Specifically, the story properly introduced the Lone Cyberman, as well as its motivations, after he had been mentioned by Jack Harkness in Fugitive of the Judoon.
Synopsis
The Doctor and her companions visit Mary Shelley on the fateful night in 1816 when she creates Frankenstein but all is not as it seems. The rooms of Villa Diodati keep shifting around and ghosts are stalking the halls. And the group soon remember a familiar warning: "Beware the Lone Cyberman. Do not let it have what it wants". But why is Percy Shelley not where he should be according to history?
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
- Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
- Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
- Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - Lili Miller
- Lord Byron - Jacob Collins-Levy
- Claire Clairmont - Nadia Parkes
- Dr John Polidori - Maxim Baldry
- Ashad - Patrick O'Kane
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Lewis Rainer
- Fletcher - Stefan Bednarczyk
- Elise - Sarah Perles
Uncredited cast
- Voice of the Lone Cyberman - Nicholas Briggs[1]
Crew
to be added
References
Locations
- Villa Diodati is located near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Team TARDIS travel there to witness the creation of Frankenstein on a stormy and rainy night on a Tuesday in June 1816.
- Lord Byron cannot return to England.
- The Doctor almost says the boney hand is from the 14th century before correcting, saying there's a "touch more umami", being human, protein and collagen.
- Byron has the skeletal remains of a 15th century soldier from the Waterloo Battle of Morat.
- Polidori believes the Doctor to be from "the north".
- Mary believes Percy has taken to their chalet Maison Chapuis by the shore.
- Percy described the "lake apparition" as a death god rising from Hades.
- Byron wonders if the haunted villa is in reality Hell.
- The Doctor ponders if the Year Without a Summer blamed on volcanic ash was really something else.
- The Lone Cyberman made a time hop.
- The Doctor shows Percy Shelley a vision of himself drowning in the Mediterranean Sea in 1822.
- The Doctor wants to return her friends back to 2020.
- The following July, Byron is reading one of his works to an audience of people.
The Doctor
- The Doctor says she's getting a vibe of evil from the villa.
- The Doctor loves "a good plume".
- The Doctor has a natural "Time Lord magnetism" that makes the Cyberium choose her as host.
Individuals
- John Polidori calls the weather outside dank and frigid.
- Fletcher is the butler at the villa, and Elise is a nursemaid.
- Mary Shelley notes that Percy Shelley is not one for playing tricks.
- Lord Byron recently separated from his wife.
- Graham searches for the lavatory, but finds that they're too early in history to enjoy the invention of toilets.
- Mary has a child named William.
- A ghost maid and a ghost girl are haunting the villa.
- Byron uses the term candid.
- The skeletal remains of a soldier are running amok in the villa.
- Ryan mentions his nan.
- Mary feels she is not as good a writer as her parents.
- The Doctor mention Byron's daughter Ada.
- Fletcher points Graham to a chamber pot.
- Ryan tells Polidori to stop shooting daggers.
- Graham says the sleepwalking Polidori is like a zombie.
- They all think the villa is demonic.
- The "lake apparition" turns out to be the Lone Cyberman looking for "a Guardian".
- Team TARDIS are reminded of Jack Harkness's warning to "beware the Lone Cyberman. Don't let it have what it wants".
- The Lone Cyberman's real name was Ashad, and he once had children, but he slit their throats when they joined the resistance.
- Claire Clairmont finally falls out of love with Byron.
Languages
- Elise speaks French.
Culture
- Byron reads the book Tales of the Dead. Characters in the book include Hildegarde the Death-Bride and a Count.
- Graham begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged...", but the Doctor interjects "wrong writer".
- The Doctor has instructed her friends not to mention Frankenstein, or otherwise affect its inception.
- Ryan plays "Chopsticks" on the piano.
- The Doctor quotes Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty".
- Lord Byron believes that the Doctor is after the third canto of his work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
- Mary Shelley wonders if Ashad is a composite of multiple men (like the creature in her novel), and refers to his creators as a "Modern Prometheus" (the novel's full title is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus).
- The Lone Cyberman recites Percy Shelley's poem "Queen Mab".
- The poem read aloud by Byron at the end of the episode is "Darkness".
Food and beverages
- Graham notices a plate of hors d'oeuvres on the table by the fireplace.
- The Doctor notes that the Cyberman might need a breath mint.
Technology
- The Doctor attempts to use her psychic paper to pass herself off as someone else, but finds that the paper is blank and might need a blow dry.
- The Doctor scans the villa with her sonic screwdriver.
- Polidori want to fetch his pistol for a duel with Ryan.
- The Doctor realizes the villa has a perception filter all around it.
- The Cyberman's writst blaster is broken.
- The Doctor notes that the Cyberman still doesn't have an emotional inhibitor yet.
- The Lone Cyberman uses a lightning strike to recharge itself.
- The Cyberman reveals that it is looking for Cyberium.
- The Cyberium is a supercomputer that fused itself to Shelley's cerebral cortex.
- The Lone Cyberman signals for his ship to come.
- The Doctor and her friends take off to stop the Cyber-Army from being built.
Story notes
- The episode had a "cold opening".
- Curiously Nicholas Briggs went uncredited for his voicing of the Lone Cyberman.[1]
- Unusual to a normal set up, this particular episode did feature a cliffhanger but it wasn't set at the end of the episode, instead appearing before Team TARDIS head back to the TARDIS, in the final scenes in Villa Diodati.
- In the real world, the competition to create the best ghost story took place over the course of three days, not one single night.
- Although uncredited, the Cyberman's helmet design visibly appears to be based on Matthew Savage's 2006 design.[2]
Ratings
- 3.86 million (BBC overnight)[3]
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.
to be added
Continuity
- In another account, the Eighth Doctor was involved in this night's events. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
- Mary also travelled with the Eighth Doctor for a time, as his companion. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk, The Witch from the Well, Army of Death)
- In one of their adventures, Mary encountered another lone Cyberman, popularly known as the Silver Turk, in 1873 Vienna. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
- In a second account, the Tenth Doctor saved Mary from a bandaged alien during her stay in Switzerland, partly inspiring her to write Frankenstein, and certainly leading to the book's ultimate title. (COMIC: The Creative Spark)
- The Shelley Cabal's encounters with the Mal'akh are detailed in PROSE: The Book of the War.
- Although taking on Shelley's name, Mary and Percy are not yet officially married. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
- The Doctor mentions that she knows Byron's daughter, Ada. (AUDIO: The Enchantress of Numbers, TV: Spyfall)
- Team TARDIS recall Jack's warning about the Lone Cyberman. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon)
- The Doctor understands that even a single Cyberman can lead to thousands. (TV: Cyberwoman, Closing Time)
- The Doctor refuses to lose anyone else to Cyber-conversion. (TV: World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls)
- Mary calls the Cyberman a "modern Prometheus"; this would form part of her title for Frankenstein. (COMIC: The Creative Spark et al.)
- Percy sees ahead to his future death at sea. (PROSE: Managra, The Book of the War)
- The Doctor once again has a chance to finally end an old enemy but sacrifices it for the common good. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)
Home video releases
to be added
External links
- Official The Haunting of Villa Diodati page on the Doctor Who website
Footnotes
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