Doctor Who Meme - Day 24 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - The Ood

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As I said, I'm here for the aliens and the Ood are my favourite of the Nu-Who aliens.

There's just something about them.

I think it's partly the dichotomy between their appearance, which is pretty much straight out of sci-fi horror central - hairless, weird tentacly mouths, boiler suits - and their generally placid nature. This is best exemplified by their first appearance where they were crowding in on the Doctor and Rose going "we must feed, we must feed, we must feed ... you" which was then blamed on a translator globe malfunction at the time.

Then you've got their greatest vulnerability, their brains and their telepathy. The second, exposed, brain renders them so vulnerable, and people, particularly humans, keep taking advantage of them. The telepathy makes them vulnerable to things like the Beast, and I suspect that it was why Nephew swung so much between violent and docile in 'The Doctor's Wife', seeing as how House could do terrifying things to the Ponds's minds. I'm also intrigued because I can see also sorts of evolutionary disadvantages to exposed brains but I can see how and why it makes the Ood quite so community-centric. It must be very hard to kick someone if you can feel them going "ow".

The other interesting thing is that they don't seem to hold a grudge. For instance, the executive in "Planet of the Ood" who they turned into an Ood, you know he'll be safe with them despite all the terrible things he's done to other Ood.

"Planet of the Ood" in an interesting episode because it's so clearly a response to the justified criticism of the Doctor's behaviour in the Impossible Planet two-parter (no, I will never forgive 10 for turning a blind eye to slavery in those episodes. This is not my Doctor.) and in many ways it harkens back to older Doctor Who, where the Doctor blunders in to someone else's story and just tries to aid the forces of good (and keep his companions alive).

But yes, mostly they intrigue me.



Day 01 - Your Favourite Quote
Day 02 - Your Favourite Classic Series Episode
Day 03 - Your Favourite New Series Episode
Day 04 - Your Favourite Doctor
Day 05 - Your Favourite Companion
Day 06 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - The Thing Is, Who Is My Family's Fandom
Day 07 - Your Favourite Piece of Music
Day 08 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Happy
Day 09 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad
Day 10 - A Who-Related Photo That You Took
Day 11 - Your Favourite Season (Classic or New)
Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - Plenty of Planets Have A North
Day 13 - Your Favourite Villain
Day 14 - The Villain Who Scared You The Most
Day 15 - Favourite Who-Related Tumblr
Day 16 - Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic
Day 17 - A Piece of Who-Related Fan Art
Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - The Daleks
Day 19 - The Scene That Made Your Cry the Most
Day 20 - The Character Who Is Most Like You
Day 21 - Your Doctor Who OTP
Day 22 - A Who-Related Fansite
Day 23 - A Who-Related Youtube Video

Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 – Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 – An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 – An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 – Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy