![]() As the Doctor and Amy return to the present, Amy is confident that there will be hundreds of new paintings by Vincent waiting for them, though the Doctor is less certain. They return an emotionally changed Vincent to the past and say their goodbyes. Black say that Vincent was "the greatest painter of them all" and "one of the greatest men who ever lived". Vincent is stunned by the display and becomes emotionally overwhelmed when he overhears art curator Dr. The Doctor and Amy take Vincent in the TARDIS to the van Gogh exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay. The Krafayis is fatally impaled on Vincent's easel when it tries to lunge at Vincent. Vincent saves the Doctor and Amy from the Krafayis, which the Doctor realises is blind. Vincent begins painting and soon spots the Krafayis inside the church. After initially feeling distraught that everyone leaves him, Vincent joins the Doctor and Amy at the church to paint it. He sketches it for the Doctor, who identifies it as a Krafayis. Amy goes outside and is attacked by a creature that only Vincent is able to see. That evening, Vincent confesses that his works have little value to anyone else. The Doctor and Amy talk Vincent into letting them stay the night and they return to his home. When the trio go out to see what happened they are stoned by locals who blame Vincent's insanity for the killing. A young girl is murdered outside the café. In 1890 France, they find Vincent, a lonely man, at a café. The Doctor discovers a seemingly alien figure in a window of the 1890 painting The Church at Auvers, and decides they must travel back in time to speak with Vincent. ![]() The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where they admire the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Plot The Church at Auvers, van Gogh's 1890 painting where the Krafayis's face appears. While the amount of emotion in the episode was debated, many reviewers acclaimed Curran's performance and the final scene in the Musée d'Orsay, but thought that the Krafayis was not a sufficiently threatening "monster". Reception to the episode was generally positive. The episode was watched by 6.76 million viewers on BBC One and BBC HD. Most of the episode was filmed in Trogir, Croatia, and many of the sets were modelled after van Gogh paintings. Curtis wanted to portray van Gogh truthfully, rather than being cruel by writing jokes about his mental illness. He left the script open to criticism from the crew and made many revisions as a result. The Doctor and Amy work with van Gogh to defeat the Krafayis, but in their attempt to have van Gogh realise his legacy through bringing him to the future they ultimately realise that not all of time can be rewritten and there are some evils which are out of the Doctor's reach.Ĭurtis, inspired by the fact that van Gogh never knew he would be famous, had the idea for an episode centred on him. Intrigued by an ominous figure in Vincent van Gogh's June 1890 painting The Church at Auvers, alien time traveller the Doctor ( Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond ( Karen Gillan) go back in time to meet van Gogh ( Tony Curran) and discover that Auvers-sur-Oise has been plagued by an invisible creature, known as the Krafayis, which only van Gogh can see. It was written by Richard Curtis and directed by Jonny Campbell and featured an uncredited guest appearance from actor Bill Nighy. " Vincent and the Doctor" is the tenth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 5 June 2010. ![]() ![]() Crashing into the lives of Amy Pond, and her boyfriend (later, husband) Rory, he solved the mystery of the time-erasing cracks in the universe, escaped his own death, restarted reality and even found time to marry River Song.List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) After sacrificing his life to defend Trenzalore, and granted a whole new cycle of incarnations by the Time Lords, the Doctor regenerated once more…Hugely energetic, occasionally flirtatious, and by his own admission, "a mad man", the Eleventh Doctor combined youthful looks with an old soul. Finding his own tomb on the embattled Trenzalore and meeting a shameful, hidden past incarnation, started him on a path of redemption, teaming up with the Tenth Doctor to save Gallifrey rather than burn it. But it wasn't long before the lure of "the woman twice dead" brought the Doctor out of retirement. Just make it a good one, eh?" First Regular AppearanceĪ broken man after Amy and Rory were sent back in time by a Weeping Angel, and a Victorian-era Clara fell to her death, he decided to disappear. ![]()
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