The Doctor and Donna, go to a random planet, and end up on the Ood’s sphere. The home planet of the OOD, telepathic creatures last seen in series 2’s Satan’s Pit. They find out that Earth in 42^nd century is ‘farming’ the Ood and breeding them for domestication. The Doctor as you can imagine is not happy and neither it appears are the Ood who are going 'Redeye', rabid then attacking or killing humans. 

Donna and the Doctor investigate further only to find even more dispicable act's of evil by the Human's and the reason behind the Ood's subserviant nature..

The first thing to strike you in the episode is the rendering of the Ice Planet for the Ood, for once you really feel like you’re on an alien planet in the Who’ verse. Even when we go onto the planet’s base of operations the outside rendering continues with distant planets and large ice out crops in the distance – pity that the interiors are not up to the same quality, admittedly we didn’t need much – but they are all the same shots in the warehouse – although the panning shot of the one large warehouse -Raiders of the lost ark style - is impressive.

This seems to be one of those episodes where they try to include everything, good special effects, monsters and horrible nasty skin pulling off type things (is this really shown at 6pm on Saturdays?) – indeed, at points it’s almost has a movie quality about it.

The Doctor and Donna have a few moments in the episode like last week, but nothing too heavy, just the Doctor showing Donna the Ood’s song.

I liked this episode, but I didn’t really get all that excited about it, sure it looked nice and the little political undertones about slavery ate all good touches. The episode itself just failed to engage me like the last two episodes; also some of the wit from this so far high standard of the season was missing.

Is it me or does it look like the creators of Doctor Who, have seemed to find out how to structure the stories for Doctor Who to fit into 45 minutes, over this series the stories have managed to have a beginning, a middle and end with neither section feeling rushed, which all seemed prevalent throughout the first two series and sometimes last series. Finally the UK is producing something that can rival American SF shows.

Overall then, I can’t say it’s one of my favourite stories, but as far as who goes it’s not really a disappointment, with the acting, effects and storyline all on fine form.

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