OOoooh! OOoood! So it was off to OodWorld for this weeks Doctor Who, and the result was a bit of a run of the mill episode which was good in parts but pretty average in others. Visually it was excellent. An alien planet, snow, Ood brain... all very pretty. Unfortunately it suffered from again trying to throw too much into one episode and not really explaining why the Ood turned evil. Something to do with the brain dampening field being lowered etc but it all came as a bit of a surprise right at the end. The whole thing felt rushed. Donna 'couldn't bear' the sound of Ood singing after only 3 seconds. And speaking of Donna, she was a bit too Catherine Tate this week. As Dorothy Parker may have said: she ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.
Don't get me wrong it was still good stuff, but just too much thrown in there so it all felt far too superficial. The robot claw. The evil guard. The hair restoring drink. The Ood Liberation Front. Ood lobotomies. Slavery. Jeez one at a time please. For some reason I had it in my head that this was a 2 part story, so maybe it just felt crammed to me. And it seems like each week there's a *CLANG* story arc. Random conversations like "Where are all the bees disappearing to" and Ood saying "your song is coming to an end soon" *CLANG*. Bring back the subtlety of Bad Wolf.
Sontarans next week. Yay! Martha's back. Boo!
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