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A terrific episode!

Again, a serious theme, and handled with less anomalies in tone, I thought. The nature and situation of the Ood has been a loose end since "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit" (episodes I liked) and it really is good to see a follow-up. Moreover, there seems to be a theme here - that some of us have been talking about for some time - the Doctor's awareness of his failures and their consequences. Not just choices of life and death, but of the death or survival of planets, races, and futures on a grand scale.

The best line of all - which deserves some sort of award for philosophical excellence:
Donna: Being with you, I don't know what's right and what's wrong any more.
Doctor: Better that way. People who think they're right tend to be like Mr. Halpen.
This episode was good on so many levels, though it's the fakest-looking snow I've seen on television for years. Not a problem: I did like the Ood planet.
  1. I loved the anti-salvery teme - yes, I know, that's an easy one, but it was nicely tied to the corporate-misdoing culture. I liked the way Dr. Ryder turned out to be working for the Friends of the Ood, and I never suspected a thing.

  2. Though I was horrified at the moment, I liked it that Solana opted to stick with the coroporation rather than help the Doctor or the Ood. She was terminally shallow and paid the price.

  3. Would anything have been different for the Ood if the Doctor hadn't been there? Perhaps his moral support made a lot of difference, as a catalyst to action. It looked to me as if they had things well in hand. The Doctor shut down the Circle - but Sigma could just have well have done it.

  4. Donna was better than ever.

  5. Interesting use of possible alien physiology. Not just the tripartate brain, but the telepathic singing. (I pause to consider the application of this sort of telepathy to Weevils.) So what do the tentacles have to do with anything?

  6. In terms of time, how far/close is this episode to "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit"?

  7. The conversion of Halpen to being an Ood was unfortunately reminiscent of the conversion of Diagoras to being a Dalek - one of the worst moments in Doctor Who that I've seen. Luckily this was infinitely better written and it seemed a fitting fate. I liked the 'hair tonic' theme though it squicked me far more than it should have. Not the conversion, the hair tonic thing.

  8. Good Donna line: "If you're going to take the mickey, I'll just put my hood back up."

  9. Interesting interiors.

  10. Why did Donna think the Doctor's criticism of her time was a 'cheap shot'? She was doing so well before she said that! I liked his little smile as he apologized.


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