Planet of the Ood (3003/403)

[Alipeeps]

Just wait for the ep where the bees become significant:

"don't get yourselves in a larva"

*weeps quietly whilst banging head against wall*

There's a bloody giant bee in the trailers! That's hardly a fish regardless of colour!

Um. It's a wasp, not a bee. As in the episode is titled "The Unicorn and the Wasp".

Therefore unlikely to be connected the the bee thing. Also as that ep is set in the 1920s, it's again unlikely to have anything to do with current bee issues.

[P-90_177]

you know what the best part of the episode was for me. The next week part i loved last week Pompey episode this was just meh

really? i thought it was much much better than pompeii. (don't get me wrong. i liked pompeii. hence the sig) i thought the fact that the boundaries between who was a good guy and who was a bad guy was blurred. doctor who is usually so clear cut.

[AvatarIII]

really? i thought it was much much better than pompeii. (don't get me wrong. i liked pompeii. hence the sig) i thought the fact that the boundaries between who was a good guy and who was a bad guy was blurred. doctor who is usually so clear cut.

agreed, FoP was exciting, and looked cool, but this had a stronger plot and out of all the new aliens in new DW the ood are the best imho

[Blitz]

I really liked this episode, found it a bit odd the guy turning into an Ood...but hey! Details

Out of curiosity...when the bad mans ship flew over the Dr and Dona...did anyone else think

THUNDERBIRD 3!!!!!!! or just me and my mate?

[The_Carpenter]

I really liked this episode, found it a bit odd the guy turning into an Ood...but hey! Details

Out of curiosity...when the bad mans ship flew over the Dr and Dona...did anyone else think

THUNDERBIRD 3!!!!!!! or just me and my mate?

As did the fear factor kids on the BBC website

having already read that I thought the same as the idea had been planted in my mind.

[Reefgirl]

I really liked this episode, found it a bit odd the guy turning into an Ood...but hey! Details

Out of curiosity...when the bad mans ship flew over the Dr and Dona...did anyone else think

THUNDERBIRD 3!!!!!!! or just me and my mate?

No it wasn't just you, I was waiting for Donna to yell "Oh my Gawd it's Thunderbird 3"

[Dusk]

An average episode after last week's explosive installment. I guess I appreciate learning more about the Ood, that they weren't just a passing species here in one episode and gone in another. The icing on the cake for me comes with continuity references, not so much the discussion of the Devil from Season 2, but also that the Doctor has been in this part of space before, to the Sensor-Sphere, which was seen way back in the first season of Who in 1964!! And the alien race seen then look remarkably alike to the Ood. Brilliant! How I know all this being born in the 80s I'll never know...

Next week it's back to Earth for some Sontaran action, and Martha makes a comeback. Should be fun.

[MasySyma]

I found this one ok, but not great. It was average.

Like most everyone, I enjoyed the backstory to the Ood, and I continue to enjoy the Donna/Doctor interactions.

I, however, could not suspend my disbelief enough to accept that the Ood had evolved to hold their brains. I agree with several other posts that it would be rather inconvienent at times. Additionally, the human who became an Ood didn't work much for me either.

Besides, we saw the Ood later on. They are a slave race then. Wasn't this episode supposed to be before Satan's Pit in the Ood timeline? If so, how did they lose their power? Or did the Doctor only free the Ood on this planet?

[ShadowMaat]

Well, you know us humans, if at first you don't succeed, enslave, enslave again.

[The_Carpenter]

I found this one ok, but not great. It was average.

Like most everyone, I enjoyed the backstory to the Ood, and I continue to enjoy the Donna/Doctor interactions.

I, however, could not suspend my disbelief enough to accept that the Ood had evolved to hold their brains. I agree with several other posts that it would be rather inconvienent at times. Additionally, the human who became an Ood didn't work much for me either.

Besides, we saw the Ood later on. They are a slave race then. Wasn't this episode suppoused to be before Satan's Pit in the Ood timeline? If so, how did they lose their power? Or did the Doctor only free the Ood on this planet?

I thought it was quite obvious that Planet of the Ood takes place after the events of TIP/TSP.

[Mr Prophet]

Gah. That's it. The "don't get yourselves in a lava" Doctor is a bad influence on you. Where once we could expect insightful wit, we now get cringeworthy puns. Go stand in the corner and contemplate just how you came to stoop so low.

I defy your claims of a pre-punning era.

Harry: Like finding a stone age man with a transistor radio.
Doctor: Playing rock music?
- Genesis of the Daleks

I liked this episode, but once more the message was a bit blunt; like being clobbered with a baseball bat while someone shouts: slavery is bad! Bad! Don't you understand! Bad! I just felt we could have got that without the guards having to be cartoonish sadists.

[MasySyma]

I thought it was quite obvious that Planet of the Ood takes place after the events of TIP/TSP.

I had read otherwise on Outpost Gallifrey. That was why I asked.

[MasySyma]

I liked this episode, but once more the message was a bit blunt; like being clobbered with a baseball bat while someone shouts: slavery is bad! Bad! Don't you understand! Bad! I just felt we could have got that without the guards having to be cartoonish sadists.

I agree that lesson was heavy-handed. It would have been better if we had seen other humans who didn't support the Ood slavery besides the one scientist. Otherwise, the human future doesn't look that great, and Donna's "take me home now" statement is very relevant. If society cannot progress, there is no point in examining the future to use it as a goal to move toward, which is why the Doctor always shows it off to the companions.

[Alipeeps]

I defy your claims of a pre-punning era.

Harry: Like finding a stone age man with a transistor radio.
Doctor: Playing rock music?
- Genesis of the Daleks

I was referring to Shadow's pre-punning era, not the show's!

[ShadowMaat]

I was referring to Shadow's pre-punning era, not the show's!

This thread is turning into a pre-punny opera. Gotta say, though, me 'n the Doctor? Baby, we were born to pun.