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{{quote| '''Donna:''' It's weird, but... being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore.<br />
{{quote|'''Donna:''' It's weird, but... being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore.
'''Doctor:''' It's better that way. People who know for certain tend to be like Mr. Halpen. }}
'''Doctor:''' It's better that way. People who know for certain tend to be like Mr. Halpen. }}


The Doctor and Donna land on a gorgeous snowy world -- your favourite alpine vistas, [[Up to Eleven|cranked up to 11]]--somewhere in the distant future. It is the Oodsphere, home planet of the Ood, the apparently willing slave race we first met in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E8 The Impossible Planet|The Impossible Planet]]"/"[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E9 The Satan Pit|The Satan Pit]]".
The Doctor and Donna land on a gorgeous snowy world—your favourite alpine vistas, [[Up to Eleven|cranked up to 11]]—somewhere in the distant future. It is the Oodsphere, home planet of the Ood, the apparently willing slave race we first met in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E08 The Impossible Planet|The Impossible Planet]]"/"[[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E09 The Satan Pit|The Satan Pit]]".


All is not well on the Oodsphere. Ood Operations, the Ood suppliers to the galaxy, are sitting on a disturbing fact: Ood everywhere have been going berserk and killing their masters. The only symptom is that the Ood's eyes will turn red just before it snaps.
All is not well on the Oodsphere. Ood Operations, the Ood suppliers to the galaxy, are sitting on a disturbing fact: Ood everywhere have been going berserk and killing their masters. The only symptom is that the Ood's eyes will turn red just before it snaps.


The Doctor and Donna sneak off to interview some Ood, but the only hint the Ood themselves can give is that "the circle must be broken"<ref>By and by, Lord; by and by...</ref>. The Doctor and Donna discover, to their horror and disgust, that the process that wild Ood undergo to turn them into slave Oods is... lobotomy. The communication orb isn't just an addition to their bodies: it's a ''replacement'' for their second, external brain. The Doctor gently connects to Donna telepathically and makes her hear the collective mind-song of those Ood that are still intact.
The Doctor and Donna sneak off to interview some Ood, but the only hint the Ood themselves can give is that "the circle must be broken".<ref>By and by, Lord; by and by...</ref> The Doctor and Donna discover, to their horror and disgust, that the process that wild Ood undergo to turn them into slave Oods is... lobotomy. The communication orb isn't just an addition to their bodies: it's a ''replacement'' for their second, external brain. The Doctor gently connects to Donna telepathically and makes her hear the collective mind-song of those Ood that are still intact.


But even the unaltered Ood are being restrained somehow -- something is holding back their song. That's when they come across the ''third'' brain of the collective Ood consciousness, a giant mass imprisoned in a ring of machinery and electricity -- the circle that must be broken.
But even the unaltered Ood are being restrained somehow—something is holding back their song. That's when they come across the ''third'' brain of the collective Ood consciousness, a giant mass imprisoned in a ring of machinery and electricity—the circle that must be broken.


They save the Ood, hear their Song Of Freedom, and receive in return a cryptic message about the Doctor's song ending soon.
They save the Ood, hear their Song Of Freedom, and receive in return a cryptic message about the Doctor's song ending soon.


== Tropes ==
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The drinks Mr. Halpen keeps knocking back are blatantly going to bite him ''somehow''. Boy, do they ever.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The drinks Mr. Halpen keeps knocking back are blatantly going to bite him ''somehow''. Boy, do they ever.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, homeworld of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E7 The Sensorites|the Sensorites]].
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, homeworld of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E07 The Sensorites|the Sensorites]].
** [[Fandom Nod]]: To the idea that the Ood are related to the Sensorites.
** [[Fandom Nod]]: To the idea that the Ood are related to the Sensorites.
** The Doctor is all gleeful to walk out and find a snowstorm of ''actual snow''. (The last few times it's been, respectively, [[Doctor Who/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion/Recap|the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Doctor Who/2006 CS the Runaway Bride/Recap|bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Doctor Who/2007 CS Voyage of the Damned/Recap|ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
** The Doctor is all gleeful to walk out and find a snowstorm of ''actual snow''. (The last few times it's been, respectively, [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion|the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Doctor Who/Recap/2006 CS the Runaway Bride|bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 CS Voyage of the Damned|ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
* [[Distressed Dude]]: The Doctor tied to a pole.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: The Doctor tied to a pole.
* [[Fan Service]]: David Tennant tied to a pole? With handcuffs?
* [[Fan Service]]: David Tennant tied to a pole? With handcuffs?
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Emphasized by the fact that the whip-happy slave overseer is a black guy, and the PR representative that is tasked with justifying slavery to the audience is Indian.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Emphasized by the fact that the whip-happy slave overseer is a black guy, and the PR representative that is tasked with justifying slavery to the audience is Indian.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor Donna. It takes the rest of the season for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor Donna. It takes the rest of the season for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever.}}
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet."
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet."
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The overseer who tries to gas the Ood winds up being the only victim of the gas.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The overseer who tries to gas the Ood winds up being the only victim of the gas.
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]
* [[Improperly Placed Firearms]]: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
* [[Improperly Placed Firearms]]: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
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* [[Never Trust a Hair Tonic]]: Mr. Halpen's hair tonic... isn't.
* [[Never Trust a Hair Tonic]]: Mr. Halpen's hair tonic... isn't.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: a factory that builds hats specifically.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: a factory that builds hats specifically.
* [[Railing Kill]]: When Dr Ryder reveals he's a Friend of the Ood, Halpen pushes him over the rail and ''into'' the Ood brain.
* [[Railing Kill]]: When Dr Ryder reveals he's a Friend of the Ood, Halpen pushes him over the rail and ''into'' the Ood brain.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Retro Rocket]]: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!")
* [[Retro Rocket]]: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!")
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs. Noble."
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs. Noble."
* [[Shout-Out]]: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[The Simpsons (Animation)|D'oh!]]" when it drops something.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[The Simpsons (animation)|D'oh!]]" when it drops something.
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in The Future]]
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future]]
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[Zerg Rush]]: A perpetual favorite of berserk Ood.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: A perpetual favorite of berserk Ood.
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Latest revision as of 07:08, 29 June 2016

Donna: It's weird, but... being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore.
Doctor: It's better that way. People who know for certain tend to be like Mr. Halpen.

The Doctor and Donna land on a gorgeous snowy world—your favourite alpine vistas, cranked up to 11—somewhere in the distant future. It is the Oodsphere, home planet of the Ood, the apparently willing slave race we first met in "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit".

All is not well on the Oodsphere. Ood Operations, the Ood suppliers to the galaxy, are sitting on a disturbing fact: Ood everywhere have been going berserk and killing their masters. The only symptom is that the Ood's eyes will turn red just before it snaps.

The Doctor and Donna sneak off to interview some Ood, but the only hint the Ood themselves can give is that "the circle must be broken".[1] The Doctor and Donna discover, to their horror and disgust, that the process that wild Ood undergo to turn them into slave Oods is... lobotomy. The communication orb isn't just an addition to their bodies: it's a replacement for their second, external brain. The Doctor gently connects to Donna telepathically and makes her hear the collective mind-song of those Ood that are still intact.

But even the unaltered Ood are being restrained somehow—something is holding back their song. That's when they come across the third brain of the collective Ood consciousness, a giant mass imprisoned in a ring of machinery and electricity—the circle that must be broken.

They save the Ood, hear their Song Of Freedom, and receive in return a cryptic message about the Doctor's song ending soon.

Tropes

There's a better / home a-waitin' / In the sky, Lord, in the sky

  1. ↑ By and by, Lord; by and by...
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