Post by Z451 on Aug 6, 2014 2:29:11 GMT
Ood
The Ood debut in the series two episode The Impossible Planet.
They are used by humans as a slave race, performing all manner of menial tasks for the humans in the episode.
They are described as offering themselves for servitude willingly, having no goals of their own except to be given orders and to serve.
It is also claimed that they cannot look after themselves, and that if they do not receive orders they pine away and die.
The episode also alludes to a group called "Friends of the Ood" who oppose Ood slavery and seek to have them freed.
According to the Official Doctor Who Annual 2007, the Ood live on a planet in the Horsehead Nebula where they were governed by a Hive Mind that was destroyed by human colonists.
The BBC authorized book Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons elaborates that the Ood came from the Ood Sphere.
The Ood Sphere is close to the Sense Sphere planet, home to the Sensorites, who share a mental and physical similarity with the Ood.
Without a hive mind the Ood offered themselves to the human colonists and became a slave race.
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler encounter a large number of Ood accompanying a human-led expeditionary force in The Impossible Planet.
The empathic nature of the Ood made them susceptible to psychic possession by the Beast, who formed the Ood on the base into his "Legion".
While possessed, the Ood's eyes changed color to red and they killed several humans by throwing their translation spheres at them and electrocuting them to death.
At the end of the episode, the Doctor was forced to sacrifice the surviving Ood to the black hole around the planet because he didn't have time to save both them and the human crew.
The Ood return in the series four episode Planet of the Ood, where it was revealed that they are not born to serve but are an enslaved race.
The Ood translation spheres actually replaced their hind brain which had contained their individual personalities.
The Doctor successfully frees the Ood by releasing the Ood hive mind, which connects all the Ood with a telepathic link.
The hive mind had been sequestered from the Ood for 200 years by Ood Operations, the corporation that processed the Ood slaves.
The possessed "red eyed" Ood reappear in this episode, running amok at the behest of the hive mind.
After being freed, all Ood across the universe are returned to the Ood Sphere.
While there, Ood Sigma refers to Donna Noble as the "Doctor-Donna" and prophesizes that the Doctor's "song" was soon coming to an end.
Ood Sigma returns as part of the 2009–2010 specials in the episode The Waters of Mars, where he appears at the end of the episode as an attempt to contact the Doctor.
The Ood also appear in the following episode, the two-part story The End of Time.
In this episode, the Doctor finally accepts Ood Sigma's message and returns to the Ood Sphere 100 years (in their time line) after having freed them in Planet of the Ood.
The Doctor discovers that the Ood's civilization has advanced too rapidly, and that the Ood have developed the ability to see and project themselves through time itself.
The Ood reveal that this is a consequence of time "bleeding", and the elders of the Ood show the Doctor the dreams and prophesies they have been seeing.
At the end of part two, Ood Sigma appears again to the Doctor and gives him the encouragement to return to his TARDIS to complete his regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor.
A single Ood referred to as Nephew appeared in the series six episode The Doctor's Wife.
Nephew was under the influence of an alien entity called House.
Nephew is killed when the Doctor and Idris land a TARDIS console in the exact spot he was standing, vaporizing him instantly.
The Doctor remarks that Nephew was "another Ood I failed to save", a reference to his previous encounters.
Nephew's eyes glowed green when possessed, a change from the menacing red in previous episodes.
In the mini episode Death is the Only Answer, famous scientist Albert Einstein is transformed into a red-eyed Ood after ingesting a mysterious liquid.
The possessed Ood repeats the phrase "Death is the only answer" before being transformed back into Einstein.
A scene cut from A Good Man Goes to War would have seen the Doctor meeting up with Ood Sigma again.
Russell T Davies is still credited at the end for the scene despite it being cut.
In the Pond Life series, a single Ood who had gotten lost in the TARDIS wanders out into Amy and Rory's house.
The Ood acts as their butler for several days until the Doctor can pick it up and return it to the Ood Sphere.
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