REACTION | DOCTOR WHO | 4x3 | Planet of the Ood

[@storageheater]

I love the woman who is "definitely going to help" - she's bright, capable and beautiful, everything you expect in a TV show to make her a good guy, and... she does not help. She sides with the strong, the team she judges will win, she resists change. She does, in fact, what people tend to do, and it's so much more memorably uncomfortable

[@phtevenj]

the first time my partner saw an Ood she said "EW" and i was like "no its pronounced "Ood""

[@Tejiknasten]

A very strong episode. When Donna gets emotional, Catherine Tate really show some great acting skills. One can feel the devestation going through the screen. Thanks for a magnificent reaction 👏

[@BritanyBinges]

Yeah, Catherine's performances in this episode and the previous one really helped me to start liking her a lot more.

[@LondonCelt]

She is brilliant 💚

[@primevmegatronTf]

Fun fact about this episode, they originally wanted mr halpens transformation into an ood to be even more graphic than it already was

[@BritanyBinges]

They made the right call. 😂

[@IggyStardust1967]

Once you hear the Ood song of captivity... you cannot UNHEAR it.

[@BritanyBinges]

There's a little difficult for me to look at, but the truth about them was heartbreaking. I don't blame Donna one bit for feeling like it was too much. This was another episode that really helped me start to like her even more.

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@BritanyBinges For all her abrasive faults, Donna is a very compassionate person. The actor who plays her does a lot of comedic roles, and she is absolutely hilarious.

[@YorkshireInsight26]

@@IggyStardust1967there is no faults, it’s just that some people go into things like this actively looking to find fault and flaws in people. Donna was the best companion.

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@YorkshireInsight26 I can't really rate companions against one another. I usually rate them based on the stories they are involved with. For the stories told (with David Tenant), Donna is an excellent companion. For the stories told with Martha, she's an excellent companion. The same goes with Matt Smith and the Ponds. Excellent companions for those stories. I can even say that the stories told with Rose were absolutely fantastic for her character. The "guest" companion of Sarah Jane was absolutely amazing when it comes to both her, and the story. Especially given that she was the 4th Doctor's companion, when I first started watching the show. I could be a little biased because of that..... but I still really enjoyed seeing her again. May she RIP. I am very much looking forward to the 60th anniversary special, because of the connections to the past.

[@DurgisFlak]

This is where you really see the Doctor Donna relationshop, the friendship truly begin.

[@BritanyBinges]

Yeah, I think this was definitely a turning point for her because she got a glimpse of what the Doctor feels and experiences. It seems like it gave her a deeper appreciation for him.

[@mezz09smezzanine]

I just connect some dots I hadn't until now. So a few episodes ago in voyage of the damned the doctor mentioned that 50 million credits is 1 million pounds. At the start of this episodes they mention the price of an ood is 50 credits. They are selling slaves for £1 each. At current exchange rates that is $1.25 US

[@Andy-wl6xy]

The Ood are beautiful, misunderstood and mistreated beings!

[@ajivins1]

There's a really good BBC documentary about the origins of the Ood, 'Ood do You Think You Are'...

[@mattperiolat]

Yeah, this is a corner turn for the Ood as a favorite Who alien I think. The chattel slavery definitely cuts very deep and across so many cultures. And it says a lot that Donna wanted to hear, her arc as a companion and character is just amazing. For me, up until another to come, this companion arc and story is my favorite and look forward that all that is to come.

[@BritanyBinges]

Oh, interesting... is the other companion before series 12 (where I'm currently at on Patreon)? If so, please share. I would be curious to hear who it is. (And, yes, she easily has one of the best character arcs.)

[@mattperiolat]

@@BritanyBinges No. 😁 Funny, I’m about to start on series 12 in a week so we’re almost in synch. But no, my favorite is coming on KZbin, past on Patreon.

[@HuntingViolets]

Yes, there was a lot of energy about "oh, the Ood like to be slaves" in their first (tragic) appearance, which no one seemed to question (it's been a long time since I watched the actual episode), including the Doctor, as he admits here.

[@chris-hz2wd]

So which companion arc after Donna did you like more? Personally for me 12 and Clara just take top spot for me and then 10 and Donna but it always changes love them both

[@TheFalconerNZ]

23:46 When asked about my thoughts in talks about Extraterrestrials &/or (race/gender/lgbt) rights I have replied "If humans can't accept other human as a human based just on something as simple as skin colour or gender & we are all from the same planet, how are we going to treat the 'Humans' from space that look like 6 foot Cockroach or an Octopus?'' We are a long, long way from being accepting enough of our own differences to yet to be ready to meet an Alien race because one thing is pretty sure if we ever do meet Aliens, they'll not look like David Tennant. But yeah I agree with you @BritanyBinges the Ood are on the 'I'll not notice soon' side of pretty & interesting take on them. till the next one. 👍

[@kennethiain]

"Let me out of here." Britany: "Nah." I love that! This another great episode in this season, and I love the way that Donna is the one to work out the thing with the Ood when they're in front of that guy, regarding their peace-loving natures. Tate's performance in this was brilliant, I thought!

[@obiwankenobi687]

6:27 I’ve only just noticed the way the ood sort of looks startled when Donna taps it’s shoulder. That’s a cool bit of prosthetics work

[@TheWhovinerd-1963]

This is one of my absolute favourite episodes of Doctor who of all time. I love how absolutely full of emotion this episode is, I love the fact RTD took an already established species which we only knew a little bit about and delved deeper into their backstory. The episode is clearly a blatant take on RTDs opinions on capitalism but idm it here because it’s nice to see the tenth doctor side with the aliens for a change. I especially love the fact the episode leaves us to constantly question who the villains of the story are, the ood lashing out at humanity, the red eye representing anger, rabid representative of revenge and patience representative of the ood intelligence and sentience. The scene of the Ood singing in captivity breaks my heart ♥️ every single time. I won’t even lie to you when I say that the whole time I watch the episode I fully support the Ood because, the humans in this story deserve what come to them for how they treat Ood kind. The end scene where the Ood are finally free and we hear them sing 🎶 together in harmony as they are finally freed. One of my favourite favourite episodes of S4, probably in my top 3 of 4 episodes. Xx

[@10thdoctor15]

It's funny, while watching this, I'm having spaghetti for tea.

[@BritanyBinges]

That's like the worst food to be eating while looking at an Ood. 😂

[@kemmdog4444]

Even though it’s “snowing” on the planet, I believe they actually filmed this in July.😊

[@elliottnoad1270]

One criticism often said against Planet Of The Ood is that this is to Doctor Who what Raiders Of The Lost Ark is to Indiana Jones (in that technically the story doesn't change if Indy/The Doctor wasnt there) personally disagree but even if nothing changes without them, The Doctor & Donna were still a catalyst in speeding up events happening. Spookily timed, Big Finish just released the 2nd in its trilogy of Torchwood stories where the remaining 3 from the Torchwood team in Impossible Planet/Satan Pit interact with the ood earlier this week. Weirder still, the actor who played Mr Bartel (the guy who died just before the opening credits), would go on to play someone called Mr Colchester, a member of a Torchwood team thats exclusive to Big Finish-where the Ood go, Torchwood often isnt far behind I guess).

[@BritanyBinges]

Umm, I think I forgot that the team from Impossible Planet/Satan Pit were Torchwood. That is funny timing, though. I've listened to a couple of the 9th Doctor Big Finish audios, but I haven't listened to any Torchwood ones.

[@elliottnoad1270]

@@BritanyBinges think the leader (Zach?) says something to the tune of "This is Captain Zach of Sanctuary Base 6, representing the Torchwood Archive, asking who are you?" to the Devil/Ood To be honest it's only that line of dialogue in the mainline show & 4 Big Finish stories (one of which isn't out yet and in all honesty Big Finish is lot more niche (definitely more expensive) than the TV stuff.) that give any notion that the expedition team was Torchwood/had Torchwood members in the team. Like Zach definitely was a Torchwood member (being in 2 Torchwood Big Finish stories & saying so on screen). Based on their Big Finish stories in the Ood trilogy at the moment being part of the Torchwood range; the Archeologist that went down in the lift with the Doctor (Ida Scott?) & the Guy in charge of Ood (Danny?) probably were part of the Torchwood Archive team as well (or unofficial members like Rhys & Andy in the Torchwood TV series). Like for the rest of the expedition, their Torchwood status is a grey area (again either being allies/unofficial members or being full on members).

[@mpg272727]

I remember watching Impossible Planet/Satan Pitt for the first time and wondering why the episode just so casually brushed over the Ood seemingly having been enslaved and then all of them being killed off like it was nothing so needless to say as dark as this episode is I'm glad they decided to at least give the Ood a good ending as they sure as hell deserve it

[@HuntingViolets]

Yes, that was terrible.

[@DavidB-2268]

Tim McInnerny was in Notting Hill, as well as the classic comedy series Blackadder, Sherlock, and so many other roles.

[@BritanyBinges]

As far as I recall, the only other thing I've seen him in is Outlander. I've never seen Blackadder or Sherlock.

[@channyh.221B]

@@BritanyBinges NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You have never seen Sherlock?!!! Here's a fun fact for you then. When writing for Doctor Who (and writing one of the best episode's you've seen) and traveling to Cardiff by train, during those long rides, Steven Moffat loved musing with Mark Gatiss about their love for Doctor Who, but also their shared love for Sherlock and what a modern man he was. Wondering how this man would thrive in modern London, they fantasized about it, untill Steven Moffat's wife said:"Well, write the show itself". Ofcourse, as his wife is also a producer, she wanted to produce the show if only 'that creepy guy for Atonement' would play Sherlock and as Benedict Cumberbatch agreed, we got this amazing show. Only it happened at the same time as Steven Moffat also became the showrunner for Doctor Who (series 5 to 10), you can imagine we only got 3 episode's par season and not even every year. So only 13 episode's in total for Sherlock. I think it's do-able, but are you up for it?

[@channyh.221B]

In fair, even though I found Donna very shouty at first, well, actually, still, I appreciated her more towards the end of her run, but I only started to understand her after rewatching her run, and the more I watched it, the more she became my favorite. Strange maybe, but that's what Donna managed to do for me. She and Rory always get to me yet both needed to grow on me.

[@Capn_Mal]

Been catching up on your videos and I didn't realise til now where you were up to in the series and now I'm sad because I have to wait for more xD Can't wait for the rest of 10s episodes :)

[@smashstuff86]

Something that Turn Left doesn't address is that the Ood all died in the alternate reality.

[@smashstuff86]

And the Doctor's daughter would never have been "born," and that planet would keep fighting with each other.

[@iz723]

Well no. Turn Left took place in 2008 or whenever, this was the year 4126, so no Ood were even discovered. Same with the other eps like Midnight.

[@kingp260]

They wouldn’t even exist. The reality bomb would have destroyed them before they even came into being.

[@TheHallokween]

@@iz723without the doctor or Donna being there everything still would have happened the way it did, just not with them there to stop it. So yes the old would have all died. And the midnight entity would have just infected sky and someone else on the ship before being rescued and returning to alien civilisation

[@freeportkid]

“If they would just stay nice” oh boy this should be an interesting episode

[@samuelbattrick8516]

The Ood aren’t bad though. They got used in S2 by the devil against their will and here they’re trying to be free and again they’re not 100% in control. Their physic link makes them vulnerable

[@BritanyBinges]

Right. That's why I specifically talked about that at the end.

[@obiwankenobi687]

The thing about the bees was actually true in the UK, so at the time nobody really thought of it as a plot line more just a commentary on current life. As there was genuinely a shortage of bees in the UK as thousands of them hadn’t survived the previous winter and then scientists thought it was also down to phone signals decreasing their numbers even more, Reactors have the benefit of living 15 years in the future though so they always manage to pick up on the hints that we didn’t realise were hints at the time 😂

[@BritanyBinges]

It wasn't just in the UK. It was an issue here in the states as well. I think that's why I latched onto it so quickly... because I specifically remembered it being talked about quite a bit in the news.

[@bananasaregood8655]

Some great facial expressions from you in this reaction 😂😂😂😂 can’t wait to see you’re reaction to the stolen earth, and that amazing cliffhanger

[@jeckjeck3119]

I just realized it.... your SONG must end soon, it was a foreshadowing too.

[@BritanyBinges]

I'm not sure if you're referring to River or something else, but I watched The Husbands of River Song two months ago for Patreon and I'm still not over it. 😭

[@didoryan3537]

I have seen the hole episode, Ever time I see them they make me.😢

[@hornorsilk2901]

The rise of the Doctor-Donna....

[@darynvoss7883]

The Doctor Donna 😊

[@chaosminer65vods]

The circle must be broken

[@francisbartoszewski2284]

Ooh is there a Notting Hill reaction going up?

[@BritanyBinges]

It probably won't be coming to KZbin. I have almost 90 movie reactions over on Patreon so far and will likely only be bringing a portion of them (the most popular ones) onto KZbin.

[@UserName-vb4lg]

1:01 “I would totally buy one”. Uh. That’s a choice.

[@BritanyBinges]

I could've have taken that out because I know how it sounds but I left it in because I went on the journey the show wanted me to go on. I didn't have all the information at that point in time. The general public (and the viewer) are lied to and led to believe that the Ood want to serve others. That they wouldn't know how to function or have a purpose if they didn't. As we learn the truth, the thought of the Ood being sold and used to serve others is abhorrent and heartbreaking (hence the tearing up when Donna heard their song for the first time).

[@creepykidandinfinitedreams2987]

Very emotional episode

[@jonathanward2527]

When is your next Doctor Who reaction?

[@HuntingViolets]

I'd say the Ood are victims more than anything.

[@WiccanRai]

I'm with you on your thoughts over Donna. She grew on me too, quite slowly. She came off as loud and brash in the Runaway Bride and I wasn't sure of her to begin with. Catherine Tate really sells the emotional scenes and Donna is seen to have a softer side, which really endears you to the character. Fires of Pompeii made me see there was more to Donna than at first impressions, but it was this one that really sold me. And we get introduced to the concept of doctor/Donna. I know you're ahead now, but I'm really looking forward to your reactions to 'future' episodes. Will you be watching the 60th anniversary specials?

[@H2E47]

The Ood put me off bolognese for a while.

[@BritanyBinges]

I can see why. lol

[@JudgeJosephDredd1989]

Just on your end of the discussion the cybermen aren't something your suppose to have an emotional connection too they are designed to be scary and since cybermen don't have emotions anyway that fits. I have to say with respect and i enjoy your reactions and honesty but i think that's a vanity point of view your a tiny bit mean about the Ood's appearance we can't compare every species that they are going to look humanoid or human looking they are going to have different customs to what a human looks like from their point of view we probaly look gross to them they can't be as too gross as the absorbaloff 😂. This is one of my favourite episodes because not only I like the Ood but also it's good to have the Doctor and his companion on an alien planet which NuWho doesn't do often enough because stories are always often taken place on earth, london, earth, london, earth and it was a nice change yes Donna does take awhile to like but it's the same with every new companion though it be nice to have an alien companion every now and then.

[@BritanyBinges]

It's not the fact that they don't look humanoid or that they look different at all. I find the tendrils on their face extremely unpleasant to look at. I can't help what I find to be physically revolting. It's no different than how I feel when I'm looking at a spider or something else that grosses me out.

[@BritanyBinges]

Also, the mention of the Cybermen and me saying I would rather have the Ood in an episode was just from a personal preference standpoint of which one I would rather have featured in a story. I'm not a big fan of the Cybermen as an adversary and tend to not enjoy Cybermen stories as much as I enjoy other stories.

[@karabelle221]

For the italicised “oh” thing, I like the sentiment behind it but would rather not see it written out like that.

[@kenmercer8112]

ood is just a weird name.

[@JDP5127]

I am not a fan of Catherine Tate or Donna Noble, but she does fill an interesting role as the companion, and she does have her moments of really great acting and story. This episode definitely helps show the best side of her.

[@Joey15811]

Probably the worst episode this series for me. I think the grabber scene ruins it. A season 1 classic who story was mentioned in this story

[@YorkshireInsight26]

This is one of my favourite episodes. I’ve only just found your channel and I’m enjoying it so far. Also just wanted to let you know that there’s a way you can put these on KZbin in full without any issues! If you go over to me you’ll see that I do reactioons and that recently I’ve been able to start posting content that would usually only be available on patrein . It’d be great cos I bet everyone who doesn’t want to join yours would love to able to watch these in full. Also the way it’s done manages to let them on YT in full without losing the incentive for joining! You can’t lose. And it’ll save you a LOT of time because you won’t have to edit them into YT friendly versions anymore! There is literally no reason why you shouldn’t want to do it! I’m looking forward to your reaction to ‘turn left.’ Prepare yourself for that one…

[@BritanyBinges]

So glad you're enjoying the channel! While I appreciate the suggestion, posting full episodes is very illegal here in the US and is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. And that's per video. It's also against KZbin's policy and could very easily get my channel deleted and result in a ban from the platform. It's just not worth the risks for me personally. :-/

[@YorkshireInsight26]

@@BritanyBinges it’s not against copyright laws, if you have a look at what I’ve done with my vids you’ll see that you can’t see the show I’m reacting to and there’s background music drowning out the audio. Every video that I’ve done like that has passed the check without a single hitch. But it was just an Idea.