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* CallingTheOldManOut: Donna gives Mr Halpen a ''very big and very deserved'' one. The Doctor approves of Donna's correctness.
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* AssholeVictim: pretty much everyone the Ood kill qualifies as this.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Donna gives Mr Halpen a ''very big and very deserved'' one. The Doctor approves of Donna's correctness.
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** Mr Halpen suspects that The Doctor and Donna are from the Friends of the Ood group, revealing that such an organization exists and is trying to infiltrate him. Dr Ryder reveals himself as one in the climax.
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** Mr Halpen suspects that The Doctor and Donna are from the Friends of the Ood activist group, revealing that such an organization exists and is trying to infiltrate him. Dr Ryder reveals himself as one in the climax.
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* KarmicDeath: The PR rep is zapped after rejecting the Doctor's offer to stop the injustice against the Ood, and the overseer is gassed to death with the same gas he tried to use on the ood.
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* KarmicDeath: The PR rep is zapped after rejecting the Doctor's offer to stop the injustice against the Ood, and the overseer is gassed to death with the same gas he tried to use on the ood.Oods.
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* ShoutOut: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons D'oh!]]" when it drops something.
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* ShoutOut: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons D'oh!]]" when it's told it drops dropped something.
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** The Doctor gives Donna a brief recap of what happened the last time he encountered Ood. They were possessed by the devil, or at least something that ''claimed'' inspire the legend of such a creature.
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** The Doctor gives Donna a brief recap of what happened the last time he encountered Ood. They were possessed by the devil, or at least something that ''claimed'' to inspire the legend of such a creature.
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* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Despite nine hundred years traveling time and space, The Doctor ''still'' gets excited at each location he visits because the universe is amazing! Why else would he still be traveling?
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* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Despite nine hundred or more years traveling time and space, The Doctor ''still'' gets excited at each location he visits because the universe is amazing! Why else would he still be traveling?
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* BatmanGambit: Ood Sigma's "hair tonic".
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* BatmanGambit: Ood Sigma's "hair tonic". He was counting on Mr Halpen's concern about his baldness to blind him to the possiblity that it was something else.
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* ContinuityNod: The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classic series]].
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* ContinuityNod: The ContinuityNod:
**The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classicseries]].series]].
**The Doctor gives Donna a brief recap of what happened the last time he encountered Ood. They were possessed by the devil, or at least something that ''claimed'' inspire the legend of such a creature.
**Back in "Partners in Crime", Donna mentioned that she packed for cold weather. In this episode, she brings out a winter coat.
**The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classic
**The Doctor gives Donna a brief recap of what happened the last time he encountered Ood. They were possessed by the devil, or at least something that ''claimed'' inspire the legend of such a creature.
**Back in "Partners in Crime", Donna mentioned that she packed for cold weather. In this episode, she brings out a winter coat.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor-Donna. It takes the rest of the series for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever. [[MotorMouth Partly because of the way he introduced themselves to the Ood in the first place]]. Truly an example of FridgeBrilliance.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet".
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The {{Foreshadowing}}:
**The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor-Donna. It takes the rest of the series for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever. [[MotorMouth Partly because of the way he introduced themselves to the Ood in the first place]]. Truly an example of FridgeBrilliance.
**Mr Halpen suspects that The Doctor and Donna are from the Friends of the Ood group, revealing that such an organization exists and is trying to infiltrate him. Dr Ryder reveals himself as one in the climax.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet". The Ood do ''not'' enjoy their enslavement as The Doctor and the audience are led to believe.
**The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor-Donna. It takes the rest of the series for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever. [[MotorMouth Partly because of the way he introduced themselves to the Ood in the first place]]. Truly an example of FridgeBrilliance.
**Mr Halpen suspects that The Doctor and Donna are from the Friends of the Ood group, revealing that such an organization exists and is trying to infiltrate him. Dr Ryder reveals himself as one in the climax.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet". The Ood do ''not'' enjoy their enslavement as The Doctor and the audience are led to believe.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Solana the PR representative helps the Doctor and Donna once, but doesn't go with them.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter 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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* IgnoredEpiphany: Solana the PR representative helps the Doctor and Donna once, but doesn't go with them.
them. Instead, she calls the guards on them.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century.Though Justified in that [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century.
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* PinballProtagonist: The Doctor and Donna are mainly here to witness the revolution; the Ood do the rising-up on their own.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs Noble."
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* ReverseMole: Dr Ryder
Ryder for the Friends of the Ood social activism group. He spent the last ten years infiltrating Ood Operations so he could free the Ood.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs Noble."" The response here is "not ever".
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs Noble.
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SupportingProtagonist: The Doctor and Donna are mainly here to witness the revolution; the Ood (and their Friends of the Ood ally) do the rising-up on their own.
*TheXOfYWeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: The Ood are shipped out as slaves to all three galaxies of the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
*TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Despite nine hundred years traveling time and space, The Doctor ''still'' gets excited at each location he visits because the universe is amazing! Why else would he still be traveling?
* TheXOfY: The Planet of the Ood.
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*TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Despite nine hundred years traveling time and space, The Doctor ''still'' gets excited at each location he visits because the universe is amazing! Why else would he still be traveling?
* TheXOfY: The Planet of the Ood.
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: "I've had enough of the schmoozing."
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* RandomTeleportation: The Doctor specifically mentions that he's set the controls to random. "Mystery tour!"
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* RandomTeleportation: RandomTransportation: The Doctor specifically mentions that he's set the controls to random. "Mystery tour!"
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* BondVillainStupidity: He's not the BigBad, but the overseer definitely displays this trope once the Doctor's cover is blown. He specifically orders his armed {{Mook}}s back, so that he can have the pleasure of [[spoiler:chasing the Doctor around a warehouse with a giant claw machine, instead of [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shooting him]]]]. For bonus points, he even says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to do this]].''
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* BondVillainStupidity: He's not the BigBad, but the overseer definitely displays this trope once the Doctor's cover is blown. He specifically orders his armed {{Mook}}s back, so that he can have the pleasure of [[spoiler:chasing chasing the Doctor around a warehouse with a giant claw machine, instead of [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shooting him]]]].him]]. For bonus points, he even says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to do this]].''
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* LargeHam: The overseer takes this to impressive levels while he's [[spoiler:chasing the Doctor around the warehouse with a giant claw machine]], cackling, rocking back and forth in his seat, and making some ''very'' expressive faces just to be sure the viewer understands that he's [[EvilFeelsGood having fun]].
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* LargeHam: The overseer takes this to impressive levels while he's [[spoiler:chasing chasing the Doctor around the warehouse with a giant claw machine]], machine, cackling, rocking back and forth in his seat, and making some ''very'' expressive faces just to be sure the viewer understands that he's [[EvilFeelsGood having fun]].
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* BondVillainStupidity: He's not the BigBad, but the overseer definitely displays this trope once the Doctor's cover is blown. He specifically orders his armed {{Mook}}s back, so that he can have the pleasure of [[spoiler:chasing the Doctor around a warehouse with a giant claw machine, instead of [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shooting him]]. For bonus points, he even says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to do this]].''
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* BondVillainStupidity: He's not the BigBad, but the overseer definitely displays this trope once the Doctor's cover is blown. He specifically orders his armed {{Mook}}s back, so that he can have the pleasure of [[spoiler:chasing the Doctor around a warehouse with a giant claw machine, instead of [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shooting him]].him]]]]. For bonus points, he even says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to do this]].''
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* LargeHam: The overseer takes this to impressive levels while he's [[spoiler:chasing the Doctor around the warehouse with a giant claw machine]], cackling, rocking back and forth in his seat, and making some ''very'' expressive faces just to be sure the viewer understands that he's [[EvilFeelsGood having fun]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutiveCorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr Halpen.
--> "Well, we can write [two thousand Ood] off. That's what insurance is for."
--> "Well, we can write [two thousand Ood] off. That's what insurance is for."
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* ItIsDehumanizing: "It's a he, not an it."
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* RandomTeleporation: The Doctor specifically mentions that he's set the controls to random. "Mystery tour!"
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* QuickNip: Solana reminds Mr Halpen that alcohol isn't allowed on the premises; he explains it's hair tonic. That's what he thinks, anyway.
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* PinballProtagonist: The Doctor and Donna are mainly here to witness the revolution.
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* RetroRocket: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!").
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* RetroRocket: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've approves.
-->"Blimey, a real, proper rocket! You've got a box, he's got aFerrari!").Ferrari!"
-->"Blimey, a real, proper rocket! You've got a box, he's got a
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* EscapeArtist: Subverted - the Donna assumes the Doctor's probably met Houdini, but he's forced to admit, "These are REALLY good handcuffs."
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* CruelMercy:
-->"Funny thing, the subconscious. Takes all sorts of shapes. It came out in the red eye as revenge, it came out in the rabid Ood as anger, and then there was patience. All that intelligence and mercy focused on Ood Sigma...how's that hair loss, Mister Halpen?"
-->"Funny thing, the subconscious. Takes all sorts of shapes. It came out in the red eye as revenge, it came out in the rabid Ood as anger, and then there was patience. All that intelligence and mercy focused on Ood Sigma...how's that hair loss, Mister Halpen?"
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* NotSoDifferent: The Doctor points out the situation with the Ood isn't that far away from contemporary Earth, pointedly asking Donna who she thinks made her clothes. She returns fire by asking if he only brings humans along so he can act superior at them, a point he concedes.
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* NonActionBigBad: Mister Halpen.
-->"Can't say I've ever shot anyone before. Can't say I'm gonna like it. But...it's not exactly a normal day, is it?"
* NotSoDifferent: The Doctorpoints out mentions the situation with the Ood isn't that far away from contemporary Earth, pointedly asking Donna who she thinks made her clothes. She returns fire by asking if he only brings humans along so he can act superior at them, a point he concedes.
-->"Can't say I've ever shot anyone before. Can't say I'm gonna like it. But...it's not exactly a normal day, is it?"
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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"[[note]]By and by, Lord; by and by...[[/note]]. 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.
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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"[[note]]By broken"[[note]] [[VideoGame/BioshockInfinite By and by, Lord; by and by...[[/note]].]][[/note]]. 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.
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-->'''Doctor:''' His eyes turned red.
-->'''Donna:''' What's that mean?
-->'''Doctor:''' Trouble.
-->'''Doctor:''' His eyes turned red.
-->'''Donna:''' What's that mean?
-->'''Doctor:''' Trouble.
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* CallBack: The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classic series]].
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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites the Sensorites]].
** Thedestruction Doctor is all gleeful to walk out and find a snowstorm of ''actual snow''. (The last few times it's been, respectively, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the circle around ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a scene from the classic series]]. damaged interstellar cruise liner]].)
** Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites the Sensorites]].
** The
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** The Doctor is all gleeful to walk out and find a snowstorm of ''actual snow''. (The last few times it's been, respectively, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
** Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites 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, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
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** Oodsphere being inContinuityNod: The destruction of the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites circle around the Sensorites]].
** The Doctorthird brain is all gleeful very similar to walk out and find [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a snowstorm of ''actual snow''. (The last few times it's been, respectively, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion scene from the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])classic series]].
** Oodsphere being in
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->'''Donna:''' It's weird, but... being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore.\\
'''The 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, [[UpToEleven 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "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"[[note]]By and by, Lord; by and by...[[/note]]. 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 which must be broken.
They save the Ood [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani using the tried and trusted method of blowing things up]], hear their Song of Freedom, and receive in return a cryptic message about the Doctor's song ending soon.
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!!Tropes:
* BatmanGambit: Ood Sigma's "hair tonic".
* BodyHorror: Halpen's "hair tonic" turning him into an Ood. His hair and scalp peel away revealing an Ood head, and tentacles spill out of his mouth, followed by a brain.
* CallBack: The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classic series]].
* ChekhovsGun: The drinks Mr Halpen keeps knocking back are blatantly going to bite him ''somehow''. Boy, do they ever.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* ContinuityNod:
** Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites 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, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
* DistressedDude: The Doctor tied to a pole.
* FantasticRacism: Emphasised by the fact that the whip-happy slave overseer is a black guy, and the PR representative who is tasked with justifying slavery to the audience is Indian.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor-Donna. It takes the rest of the series for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever. [[MotorMouth Partly because of the way he introduced themselves to the Ood in the first place]]. Truly an example of FridgeBrilliance.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The overseer who tries to gas the Ood ends up being the only victim of the gas.
* IgnoredEpiphany: The PR representative.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
* KarmicDeath: The PR rep is zapped after rejecting the Doctor's offer to stop the injustice against the Ood, and the overseer is gassed to death with the same gas he tried to use on the ood.
* KarmicTransformation: Halpen
* LongSpeechTeaTime: Donna's first impression of the Oodsphere is that it's freezing. The Doctor encourages her be more awestruck by the setting, consider how last week she was in Chiswick just getting up, working, coming home, watching telly and going to bed and now she's travelling across space and time to land on alien worlds... then finds she's gone back into the TARDIS to get a coat.
* MaamShock: Inverted -- Donna reacts to being called Miss. "Why do you say Miss; do I look single?"
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: Mr Halpen's hair tonic... isn't.
* PetTheDog: Despite his attitude towards the Ood at large and his general asshattery, Halpen seems to be genuinely quite fond of Ood Sigma for most of the episode.
* RailingKill: When Dr Ryder reveals he's a Friend of the Ood, Halpen pushes him over the rail and ''into'' the Ood brain.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RetroRocket: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!").
* ReverseMole: Dr Ryder
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs Noble."
* ShoutOut: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons D'oh!]]" when it drops something.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture
* TheXOfY
* ZergRush: A perpetual favourite of berserk Ood.
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->''There's a better / home a-waitin' / In the sky, Lord, in the sky''
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->'''Donna:''' It's weird, but... being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore.\\
'''The 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, [[UpToEleven 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "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"[[note]]By and by, Lord; by and by...[[/note]]. 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 which must be broken.
They save the Ood [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani using the tried and trusted method of blowing things up]], hear their Song of Freedom, and receive in return a cryptic message about the Doctor's song ending soon.
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!!Tropes:
* BatmanGambit: Ood Sigma's "hair tonic".
* BodyHorror: Halpen's "hair tonic" turning him into an Ood. His hair and scalp peel away revealing an Ood head, and tentacles spill out of his mouth, followed by a brain.
* CallBack: The destruction of the circle around the third brain is very similar to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani a scene from the classic series]].
* ChekhovsGun: The drinks Mr Halpen keeps knocking back are blatantly going to bite him ''somehow''. Boy, do they ever.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* ContinuityNod:
** Oodsphere being in the same system as Sensphere, home-world of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites 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, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the ashes of a Sycorax spaceship]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride bits of Racnoss web and artificial snow expelled by the TARDIS]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned ballast dropped by a damaged interstellar cruise liner]])
* DistressedDude: The Doctor tied to a pole.
* FantasticRacism: Emphasised by the fact that the whip-happy slave overseer is a black guy, and the PR representative who is tasked with justifying slavery to the audience is Indian.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Ood refer to the Doctor and Donna collectively as the Doctor-Donna. It takes the rest of the series for the Doctor to figure it out, but when he does, he thinks it's all quite clever. [[MotorMouth Partly because of the way he introduced themselves to the Ood in the first place]]. Truly an example of FridgeBrilliance.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted after being set up way back in "The Impossible Planet".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The overseer who tries to gas the Ood ends up being the only victim of the gas.
* IgnoredEpiphany: The PR representative.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guards with M4s and a guy with a PPK; in the 42nd Century. Though [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter it is currently believed that small arms have hit a peak where making them any more powerful would make them uncontrollable]].
* KarmicDeath: The PR rep is zapped after rejecting the Doctor's offer to stop the injustice against the Ood, and the overseer is gassed to death with the same gas he tried to use on the ood.
* KarmicTransformation: Halpen
* LongSpeechTeaTime: Donna's first impression of the Oodsphere is that it's freezing. The Doctor encourages her be more awestruck by the setting, consider how last week she was in Chiswick just getting up, working, coming home, watching telly and going to bed and now she's travelling across space and time to land on alien worlds... then finds she's gone back into the TARDIS to get a coat.
* MaamShock: Inverted -- Donna reacts to being called Miss. "Why do you say Miss; do I look single?"
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: Mr Halpen's hair tonic... isn't.
* PetTheDog: Despite his attitude towards the Ood at large and his general asshattery, Halpen seems to be genuinely quite fond of Ood Sigma for most of the episode.
* RailingKill: When Dr Ryder reveals he's a Friend of the Ood, Halpen pushes him over the rail and ''into'' the Ood brain.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RetroRocket: Of a similar design to the one from the last Ood episode. Donna approves ("You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!").
* ReverseMole: Dr Ryder
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "Pleased to meet you, Doctor Noble, Mrs Noble."
* ShoutOut: The "comedy classic" Ood is programmed to say "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons D'oh!]]" when it drops something.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture
* TheXOfY
* ZergRush: A perpetual favourite of berserk Ood.
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->''There's a better / home a-waitin' / In the sky, Lord, in the sky''
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