Doctor Who 4x03 Planet of the Ood Reaction | First Time Watching 

cannot believe that you predicted the ood transformation !!

"Natural Ood has never killled". I think this line says it all about how justified the Ood were to revolt in a violent manner after 200(!) years of being enslaved.

The Ood are definitely one of my favourite aliens in Dr Who.

You’re the first person I’ve seen who predicted the transformation. 😁

Love the scene when Donna hears the Ood Song.

You can imagine our collective surprise when Donna became a fan favourite after her deliberately abrasive performance in The Runaway Bride! All these years later, she's still my absolute fave. Catherine Tate is an exceptional actress with the right material.

One thing I love about this episode is the fact that the Doctor and Donna don't really do anything to save the day, they're just witnessing an ood revolution in action

And this is why we love the Oods. EDIT: Also, happy that you're grown to love Donna this fast. Generally speaking there's two schools of thought regarding to her. Those who love and consider her as one of the better NeWho companions (yours truly signs to this) and those who find her just "loud and annoying" and keep that image of her all throughout the show. Point being, the Noble army gladly welcomes you.

I don't hold killing slave owners against the slaves.

Remarkably early how you predicted the spiked drink. Edit: You guessed the transformation too. I'm impressed.

The snow scenes were shot in a boiling hot week in August, using fake snow. This was done using tiny pieces of paper.

Another lovely, lovely episode Jules. Delighted by how quickly you predicted Halpen's transformation - not many do. Brilliant (but not surprising) that you get Donna so well.

Something that I hadn't really noticed before but do now is that each companion of the 1-th Doctor has a distinctive title. Rose is adventure, Martha is rebellious, but Donna (underneath her legendary sass) is empathy. Someone who wears their emotions on her sleeves and gives the Doctor probably something he didn't know he needed or needed to be reminded of. Not that he was ever mean but she's a human element to the Doctor's more rash and blunt decisions. She works so well. Can I just say for the record, I love the Ood so much. LOL I want to see more of them soon.

Spot the famous person. This week the award goes to … *Tim McInnerny* who played Mr Halpen Tim is known for playing Percy in Blackadder, Lord Percy in Blackadder II, Lord Topper-Fop in Blackadder the Third and Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth _(I make a pasta dish which, because of the parsley in it, is very green. We call it Purest Green Pasta. I tried to leave a link to Black Adder, Purest Green but my comment gets deleted)_ He appeared in Notting Hill, 101 Dalmatians, Game of Thrones, Outlander and Sherlock He was also in two music videos, UpTown Girl by Westlife and This Woman's Work by Kate Bush Honourable mention goes to *Adrian Rawlins* who played Dr Ryder Adrian is known for being in Chernobyl and also playing James Potter in some of the Harry Potter films

I remember thinking the ood transformation scene was the absolute peak of horror when I was younger

Catherine Tate was around 35 when she first appeared on Doctor Who. She became a full companion two years later.

"I just want to know how that is going to affect the Ood brain." Exactly! It's worrying.

Just love this series and era so much, Murray Gold's music gives each episode even more than what's just on screen.

Ood Revolution! And yes, Donna is great, and she's exactly what the Doctor needed ;)

my favourite thing about the Ood prediction is "wouldn't it be funny if..." not QUITE so funny when you have to see it, lol I loooove the bit where the female assistant refuses to change her mind, because so often these stories would have had them be a hero (especially when they're young and good-looking!) and it's really a little jarring to have this reality check, and I feel that choice is way more effective than any story where she'd become a good guy when the director sets his assistant free, I think it's more like... how slave owners and bigots live with themselves. you do one nice thing, occasionally, when you think they've earned it, when it doesn't cost you much, and you can tell yourself you're not a monster, that the rest of them deserve what they've got

Here straight away, best Wednesday treat

I heard the same as you, but I think she was supposed to say "end of the work shift" not "end of the world shift".

"Doctor Donna Friends" 😂 Love your reaction! I Can see the zero compassion for human's diying in this episode! 😂😂 You're gonna enjoy the Season ! 🤩

There's a lot to say about this episode but I'll just settle for saying I love the Dr's line "people who know for certain tend to be like Mr Halpen". Yes it was the Olympic torch episode, neither one is that subtle sadly.

This is another one I go back to a lot. It’s so painful at the beginning but the resolution is so satisfying and the very end is beautiful. The doctor Donna will be in the song of the ood forever. Makes me teary every time.

Just another banger of a Donna episode. I never get tired of her being the ideal in universe voice of the audience. EDIT: GREAT POINT about Donna's age. I never thought about that, but you are right for older fans Donna was closer in age to the older fan base, so like the classic companions the actresses/actors were closer in age to the person playing the doctor so they were seen more as equals thank love struck pups. I think you have hit on a significant difference about Donna's relationship to the fandom as well as bringing some maturity to the doctors life. Good call J-bird, keep up the excellent work.

its so sad how the oods were suffering and the song was sad too

CT was in her late thirties when this series was filmed. Unless otherwise specified, I usually assume in TV shows, that the character is the chronological age of the actor. I sometimes get the impression that Donna is meant to maybe be a little younger but not much. That is just my opinion though.

I love this episode, and I love the Ood. I mean, the Ood, Donna, Doctor Donna, the brain in their hands line, I just love it so much. It's one of my favorites!

I really love this peaceful Oods - and their song always touches me.

my partner saw them and said "EWW" I said "its pronounced OOD"

3:23 "End of the WORK shift", Jules. Blimey lol.

You wonder about ages-I don’t know how old Donna is supposed to be, but Catherine Tate was born in December 1969 (some sources say May 1968), and David Tennant in April 1971. Other actors of similar ages are John Barrowman (Jack Harkness, born 1967) and John Simm (the Master, born 1970). For a comedienne, I think Catherine Tate does well as a straight actress in Doctor Who, and she apparently loved taking part in the show. She seems to be a popular companion in general, although of course not everyone likes her. As for the Ood, they will be seen again occasionally; they’re a relatively minor but persistent element in the story of Doctor Who.

The thing that jumps at me about this episode is... The Doctor and Donna were basically just spectators. The Ood and the infiltrating scientist did everything. Yet, the Ood are thanking the Doctor and Donna at the end.

Yay! Another week, another brilliant reaction 🙂Thank you so much, Jules 😉 I'm sure all the people who love Donna, love her for the immeasurable amount of true compassion and empathy. I love most of the modern "Doctor Who" companions pretty equally for different reasons (but Martha is my second favorite after someone who you haven't meet yet), and Donna's strongest side is definitely her heartfelt emotions (outside of "Runaway Bride", where she was just loud and obnoxious) As always, I just can't wait to see your reactions to next week episode. Thanks!

I also fell in love with Donna so quickly, it’s lovely and refreshing to see a pure friendship dynamic with no romantic complications. I personally wasn’t keen on Martha’s acting and couldn’t stand her family. So it was a nice change to get Donna and her lovely grandad 😊

‘You could be free’ ‘I do not understand the concept’ 😭😭😭😭

My favourite episode from series 4.

While it’s been a theme before now, this episode is the one that really teaches you the morality of Doctor Who - that is that alien life is as valuable as human life and will be treated as such (at least it’s supposed to be) in the future, and we, as an audience, are meant to do the same. Also, you are crazy good at figuring out how these episodes and (or maybe you’re just smarter than I was at 12 years old)

Oh, wait, that Ood voice at 4:05 was the same voice actress as the base's computer in The Impossible Planet.

I always thought this episode was very dark for Doctor Who! Donna must have nerves of steel to keep wanting to travel after this and Pompeii back-to-back!

The Ood episodes are among my favorites.

Watching you react to my DW favourite season is just so fun and relaxing. I'm loving it so much. I really hope people will be more considerate with spoilers as you continue because there are some pivotal moments that just shouldn't be revealed or even hinted at. I myself kept quiet during certain scenes so that you could fully enjoy the storyline when it unfolds. You're great and entertaining in your reactions overall, but your perception and authenticity really shine with shows that have lots of plot twists. I don't know if you've ever watched LOST, but if you haven't, I'd love to see you react to it because your insight, empathy, and overall excellent comprehension skills would be a perfect match for that gem of a show.

Listening to your comments, it's amazing sometimes how you unknowingly predict just what's going on. A father of the Ood race, turning out to be the Ood brain. The boss turning into an Ood.

Great reactions from Jules, to another fantastic New Who Ood episode! :)

Donna really comes into her own in thr last episode and this

Great insight on the spiked drink and Ood Transformation :) As much as Donna grates me as a character (i find her too over the top) this was one of her better performances for me.

Yes Donn Noble have a more matrue and self-assured demeanour. Not quite as fresh and naive as the newly adult that severeal of the other companinions are. She would be 38-39 when when this season aired.

I forget the title at the moment, but it wasn't The Satan Pit where we first saw the Ood, as that was the second half of a two-parter. We first saw them, obviously, in the first part.

It amazed me how your guesses turned out to be true. Something controlling the Ood species, for example (the Ood brain). And I was astonished when you suggested the boss could be turning into an Ood.

It's been a month since I was last here at your channel, been waiting for the two parter in the Library to come around which you've now reacted to so I don't have to worry about spoilers for them. When I first watched them on first broadcast back in 2009 I didn't love it, the library episodes, I enjoyed it sure but didn't love it, but over the years since and re-watching these episodes now much older than when I first saw them I feel my appreciation of them has only gone up to the point that this is one of my favourite two parters in all of Doctor Who, right up there with The Empty Child, Human Nature, and The Impossible Planet. I consider episodes like Utopia, The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords to be three parters, as I do with the finale episodes of series 4 which you have yet to experience, no spoilers of course but I feel it is a three parter. Anyway, I'm here and ready to catch up with your reactions.

You were on point in guessing what happens in this episode! 😂 I really like this episode, and I'm so glad the Ood got a happy ending from their cruel treatment. It was lovely seeing Donnas caring side, and it definitely adds to her character and shows shes not all gob!

10:15 really showing that Barty Crouch jr side of David's acting

I came to Doctor Who relatively late. A friend got me into it early during 10's tenure, and this period was always my favourite: the Doctor and Donna, and I'm glad to see people afterwards giving it the value it warrants!

While I don't think there's a single episode in Series 4 that isn't either really good or even better, this is another standout! I talked on your previous video about how Catherine Tate delivered an acting masterclass in The Fires of Pompeii, and now she goes and does it again! Her listening to the Ood's song of captivity breaks my heart every time. Donna is amazing. She's so emotionally intelligent and strong in her moral compass. Easily my favourite companion! The Ood are probably my favourite aliens created for the modern run of Doctor Who. A lot of fiction has the trope of "slaves that are happy to serve," for example the House Elves in Harry Potter. The Ood are a brilliant deconstruction of that trope, where we see the whole picture instead. We see the cruelty of their enslavement and hear the sorrow of their captivity. But in the end, we get to hear their "Song of Freedom," which is another piece of this show's soundtrack that always makes me emotional.

Thank you for another uplifting empathic reaction. It still gets better.

Hey Jules!!! No more tears!! 👏👏🫶🫶

Love your Doctor Who reactions Mrs Jules!

The circle must be broken

Home from the night shift, a cup of tea, and always look forward to seeing your reaction to Who. Makes a great start to the day.

Thank you for being so peaceful.

How on earth did you guess that twist so early? Well done!

I feel like the ood have gone through a lot up until this point, i do feel sorry for them

Always great to hear your reactions, and how you feel about Donna. Incredibly gOOD😆

One of my favourites.

The Ood are a good alien. We do see Doctor Who tackle human issues, historical and contemporary, using both alien cultures and/or humans. The idea that a "family business" is built on enslaving an alien species to serve humanity... is a good way to comment on the history or slavery and exploitation humans already have without ruffling too many people's feathers. It is the perfect "abstract example" that doesn't blame anyone "family" with details of the past.

Hey Jules 🙋‍♂ ... Another great episode down. Yes, Donna is one of my favorite characters too, but for me ... Rose ... like your first girlfriend/boyfriend, will always have that special place in my heart that no one can ever replace. It was nice seeing the Ood again, but honestly, I'd forgotten about the twist, and was just as intrigued as you were, thinking,, "Why is he offering him a drink all the time ???", and I really wasn't sure until just before the reveal. What a great concept. I love watching these with you, but it's so hard keeping all thoughts about things contained, good or bad, but it's all that much more special when we get to see your reactions when you DO see them... in the right time, of course, and it makes it all that much better. I want to praise you again for speaking out last episode about people giving spoilers. I wish more reactors would do so.

As the Doctor would say - ooh, yes! Love it when he does that.

I was basically like you, cheering for the Ood.

hi Jules! So excited to see your reaction to this

A fantastic reaction to a fantastic episode. I'm happy that the Oods were liberated.

4:00 that's kinda the point. It's a moral and ethical question. My stance is if the Ood choose it AND they are treated justly then even if I morally dislike the idea it is ethical (which still sits wrong in my gut) This episode shows why I'm morally against the notion

Donna’s compassion in this episode is a reflection of RTD’s guilt in many ways - it was only after The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit went to air that Russell apparently realised he’d killed off the entire cohort of Ood slaves without questioning or challenging their slave status. This was his apology.

awesome video as always. always loved this episode!

Hello, Jules!💜 A day with no tears! Yay, indeed. I was very sure you would enjoy all the bits you mentioned in this episode. The Ood are great alien entities, and Donna is a force, once again. She just seems very happy to be travelling with the Doctor, and brings great empathy. The way she immediately comforted the dying Ood was a touching scene.🥰 She is my 2nd favorite companion.😊 It is probably a good thing that your views come in staggered, as the collective Bah, AH, or general sigh, would be sound heard 'round the world, when folks view 8:49, and you just pop out the twist! Excellent work, you're like an Oracle from mythological times!🤭😜 I love how Donna speaks exactly what is on her mind - sort of like Cordelia - "You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari!"🤣🤣 Great episode, one of my top. A great end. Very touching.🥲 Have a wonderful Thursday, Jules💜🤗💜 - it's storms of thunder and lightening, hail, and (possible) tornadoes here once again. But just windy for now. I think that is all it will be. Take care, See to all the animal friends - inside, outside, and digital!🥰 See you in your next!👋

Today is David Tennet’s birthday.

It is Wednesday here and it is Doctor Who day again and I kinda remember this episode they showed it when it was on PBS but it's been awhile and as always have a really awesome rest of the week my friend Juliette.🇦🇺💞🤠💞🇦🇺

Fun fact about this episode; Mr Halpens transformation into an ood was originally going to be even more graphic than it already was, but they decided to tone it down

Glad that you liked this episode and that Donna is becoming a favorite of yours! I'd say she is my favorite "New Who" Companion (with 2 more i won't name because of spoilers) and Sarah Jane is my favorite Companion from "Classic Who". Please don't ask me to rank Donna and Sarah Jane against each other, I can't pick one over the other.

Yes, another new one!!! THANKS for this!!!!

I was waiting for this one

yes

Well, Donna is a fan favorite

The Ood are one of those new Doctor Who aliens that truly feel like one of the classics from the old days.

As a kid watching this episode the ood were always one of the scariest "villains" to me but now that I'm an adult and can actually pay attention to the story fully and have watched seasons 1-4 many times I really understand the complexity of this episode, it's like that for most of the episodes from seasons 1-4

3:21 "end of the work shift" not World 😂

This episode in particular really struck me as pretty dark, and gave me the impression the series as a whole might be going that way. It's interesting in retrospect that I was picking up on more visceral things like the one guy who was gassed or how many people died, when the really dark elements have arguably been lurking in the show the whole time.

The moment you called the Ood transformation is the moment you became my favorite Doctor Who reactor. But you were already near the top. 😉

Donna "You've got a box, he's got a ferrari." That's why Donna is my favourite New Who companion. She's not a romantic interest, not a younger friendship dynamic, she's a best friend and emotional equal.

I have a reaction to Donna this episode that not a lot of Who fans I have seen can understand. But specifically coming off the heels of the Pompeii episode, Donna's decisions by the natural Ood rub me the entirely wrong way. In the Pompeii episode, she acts with stunning courage and compassion when she helps the Doctor blow Vesuvius to save the world, even knowing they're actively killing twenty thousand people. Here, she agrees when the Doctor offers to let her in to the Ood's telepathic suffering. And while she could commit a mass murder for the greater good along with her friend, she fails here. She can't bear the sound of the Ood's pain, even knowing the Doctor has to hear it on his own anyway and CAN'T block it out. Then, when both of them are having the same terrible day, she says she wants to leave. She changes her mind. But in the moment, it's an act of selfish self-preservation and a burying her head in the sand against the suffering of the galaxy that I can't stand the episode after she helped blow Vesuvius. Don't get me wrong. I think it's phenomenal writing. Donna is capable of committing mass murder for compassion and the greater good. She can't bear witness to suffering when she can't help it, even when doing so would help a friend. I also think there's a statement in there about humanity. But it makes me mad.

This episode...'Molto Bene'....=))

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Just remember what the ood said the doctor donna

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Catherine Tate was born in 1969. That would make here 39 or 40 but I think Donna would be closer to 30.

another favourite. some truly weeiird shit here lmao

I loved your empathy in this episode.

The topic of the BEES disappearing, I believe, was written in as social commentary because when this 1st came out no one was really aware that THIS WAS &IS HAPPENING. Dr. Who has always found ways to bring real world problems to light. Like slavery. Look up the loss of bees & see how you can help. 😁 ❤ ya Jules. You and I cry at the same times.

this episode is easily in the top 3 of all show for me. the fact that it's so relevant to our days with all terrible things that capitalism produces including slavery of more poor nations. i just love when doctor who is so on spot. after all that's why science fiction exists - to reflect the reality

Like Martha said boys and their toys. XD A time machine is better than a Ferrari though. What it can do matters, not what it looks like. Who cares if they look strange. We look strange to animals/aliens as well. Ah the song/red eyes/the circle. Well they love to serve and eventually will I guess be free. Ah the drink hmm. Ah the brain almost like the Rose episode Plastic brain I guess. Yep distribution of Ood. Yep work conditions for clothes and any other items. What else do people expect but people don't want to think about it. But it's civilised so it's ok apparently or people just don't think because norms to people. Ah the crane scene. XD Losing hair hmm yes quite the theory. Them holding their brains, the song. Hearing then nope too much. Donna asks the right questions and wonders so much. Well home but they don't really end a season that easily well not till later. Different coloured eyes and killing them. Idiots too blinded by business. A magician to help them yep. Well they got out of that situation easily. Well they have to show off their CGI of an Ood conversion why wouldn't they. XD Yep the bees disappearing. Well the company or helping. Nope. I think thry all have their yep the romance, yep they ask and assist this and that way about them. Catherine Tate as Donna does a fair job with many lines in a joke way whilw getting the point across for the audience in that Sherlock Watson way. Martha being smarter yeah but I don't mind those characters. They all are eother average, ask those right questions. I mean eh human side to things sure. To me the emotion can be hit and miss but I find some emotional moments in any media that tries way too hard to be patronising. Doctor Who i think balances the situations of it dors feel natural rathwr then you must react to this now. It can sometimes be a bit eh yep sure qhilw others the situations bring it out fairly I think. I think anything emotional is an excuse in writing if not done well. I don't expect logic or other aspects all the time but a good balance of themes, reactions, and more makes for a good show ans the way they detail things two or one parters especially. Some do go ok you know by the title or by the first episode a decent amount or you know nothing. Which with two parters this season you see the oh obvious but not full plan and the oh this mystery and this and that as the focus. If an alien or a bigger scale thing ans the alien isn't the thinf to deal with but something else far greater and more exciting. A later two parter is one of my favourites in this series but also probably od the early show beside Blink, the WW1 Family two parter or the Master 3 parter of last series. S2 qas good and S1 woth certain episodes that are fun, some on a fair scale but others just do a better mix of things. Never cared fot relate-ability. I find ir patronizing. Like to me anytycan happen to anyone old, young, parent, adventurers or whatever and I'm fine qith it. It just depends how it's handled. If irs too much I fins it a vit annoying. To me if its done well I'm satisfied not going oh I can't relate. I fI wanted to be that picky I could of oh I have to be such and such age as them in the ahow or match on a modern modern scale ans rhats just dumb. Probably some people do rhat. Of course many of us don't and just watch. But eh to me they can do anything and as long as irs enjoyable I'm good not excuse emotional triggers I can see miles way and go no thanks. Irs why if I dee oh an adventure movie never mind its an emotional drama I just get annoyed. I don't want yhe metaphor to be for that. It can be there but the only reason thats when it puts me off. I hated the Disney movie with the planet and ghe family drama. Let alone didn't get as excited about Elemental because they push og we have a world but still want to push the drama. I get they are films but even still the world by its fairest presentation they go yep thats gokd enough and I'm like sure but sometimes just leave it at points for the drama to take up so much of a film I just zone out. A better balance. But then again ors clear their audience sometimes not just kids but sometimes like cheesy Christmas movies certain pthers in that way and I fins them kind of annoying. Not a bad thing but I think some people want a balance and we get more feel this, we have to tell you this. Whoch with comedy is bad enough rhen sometimes visual comedy or yes a situation and a good one then over telling situational.jokes just showing it. But also just making some just that bit more I don't know not so forceful of getting a reaction. I don't come to media to get a reaction. I have seen enough media or tropes. I don't get stunned that easily like others that do to everything in media different from their norm. No wonder soup operas people take everything too seriously. It isn't just oh I don't actually warch that and it just happened to be on TV/or a magazine sure people that say that sure it is. To me just seeing enough media I react less and sure I separate reality from fiction but even still irs not hard it isn't always one's first time with media after all. It depends on thr writer. Neither is a bad way it kreps variety while making it show how they can present episodes and scenarios well.