Doctor Who:
Planet of the
Ood
By Keith
Temple
“The circle
is broken. The Ood can sing.”
As with most
seasons in New Doctor Who, well mainly in the Russell T. Davies era, there is a
visit to the future. As was the case for
each new series and when there was a new companion the theme for the first
three stories has been one story in present day, the past and the future. This story takes place in the future and
thankfully it is not on New Earth but in fact the home of the Ood the
Oodsphere. This is the return of the Ood
last scene in the classic story The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit.
Planet of the
Ood more or less gives us a history of the Ood and more or less shows us how
they unfortunately became slaves to the humans.
Planet of the Ood is pretty good as the story moved along very well and
there was also a fair amount of action also. The action was so precise and and the pacing
was perfect a type of story you would expect directed by Grahame Harper. Best sequence that had made the story really
good was when The Doctor was being chased by the giant claw device that is used
to pick up storage containers. Just
great direction in that sequence and it fits in really well.
