Wrt The Impossible Planet (the first Ood double), the Doctor's choice was never, and never would be, based on slavery ethics. He saved the humans (mostly) because Rose was on the ship with them, and if she'd been with the Ood I think he would have been more inclined to save them instead. IMO, anyway.
And if the Ood are lobotomised, why does turning on the big brain make them ok again?
Whatever limitation they were imposing on the big brain was supposed to make them OK again when taken away, right? So maybe the implication is that they no longer have the red eye thing but still have problems. I mean, we don't know how their functions were divided between their fore- and hind-brains, so we don't know in exactly what way the removal of their fore-brains has affected them. So maybe they're no longer mad and are no longer having their desire for freedom or ability to sing supressed, but OTOH maybe they are now emotionally and/or ethically unstable, human-language-speaking, and so on... This clearly calls out for more Ood episodes. Episoods.
I'd love to see UNIT again, I really want to see what they're like now and how new who portrays them. Though I thought they were wiped out when the top brass were killed by the Unpronounceable Skin-suit Aliens.
Do you mean in Aliens of London/World War Three? I don't think they would have sent all of UNIT to Downing St, would they?
Another question about Torchwood is how the Cardiff and London branches co-existed, I think. But I'll save that speculation for another time...
P.S. I rewatched Smith and Jones (first episode of series three) last night, and had forgotten how good it was. Exciting, and it showed Martha as pretty good companion material.
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Date: 2008-04-24 11:38 am (UTC)Wrt The Impossible Planet (the first Ood double), the Doctor's choice was never, and never would be, based on slavery ethics. He saved the humans (mostly) because Rose was on the ship with them, and if she'd been with the Ood I think he would have been more inclined to save them instead. IMO, anyway.
And if the Ood are lobotomised, why does turning on the big brain make them ok again?
Whatever limitation they were imposing on the big brain was supposed to make them OK again when taken away, right? So maybe the implication is that they no longer have the red eye thing but still have problems. I mean, we don't know how their functions were divided between their fore- and hind-brains, so we don't know in exactly what way the removal of their fore-brains has affected them. So maybe they're no longer mad and are no longer having their desire for freedom or ability to sing supressed, but OTOH maybe they are now emotionally and/or ethically unstable, human-language-speaking, and so on... This clearly calls out for more Ood episodes. Episoods.
I'd love to see UNIT again, I really want to see what they're like now and how new who portrays them. Though I thought they were wiped out when the top brass were killed by the Unpronounceable Skin-suit Aliens.
Do you mean in Aliens of London/World War Three? I don't think they would have sent all of UNIT to Downing St, would they?
Another question about Torchwood is how the Cardiff and London branches co-existed, I think. But I'll save that speculation for another time...
P.S. I rewatched Smith and Jones (first episode of series three) last night, and had forgotten how good it was. Exciting, and it showed Martha as pretty good companion material.