Quotes
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"Millions of planets, millions of galaxies, and we're on this one. Molto bene. Bellissimo, says Donna, born in Chiswick. All you've got is a life of work and sleep, and telly and rent and tax and takeaway dinners, all birthdays and Christmases and two weeks holiday a year, and then you end up here. Donna Noble, citizen of the Earth, standing on a different planet. How about that Donna? Donna?" ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Rocket. Blimey, a real proper rocket. Now that's what I call a spaceship. You've got a box, he's got a Ferrari. Come on, lets go see where he's going." ~ Donna Noble
"The Ood Sphere, I've been to this solar system before. Years ago. Ages. Close to the planet Sense Sphere." ~ The Tenth Doctor
Donna: It's weird. I mean, it's brilliant, but. Back home, the papers and the telly, they keep saying we haven't got long to live. Global warming, flooding, all the bees disappearing.
The Tenth Doctor: Yeah. That thing about the bees is odd.
"Last time I met the Ood, I never thought. I never asked. I was busy. So busy I couldn't save them. I had to let the Ood die. I reckon I owe them one." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Is that why you travel round with a human at your side? It's not so you can show them the wonders of the universe, it's so you can take cheap shots? Don't, Spaceman." ~ Donna Noble
"I spent all that time looking for you, Doctor, because I thought it was so wonderful out here. I want to go home. " ~ Donna Noble
"You idiot. They're born with their brains in their hands. Don't you see, that makes them peaceful. They've got to be, because a creature like that would have to trust anyone it meets." ~ Donna Noble
"Funny thing, the subconscious. Takes all sorts of shapes. Came out in the red eye as revenge, came out in the rabid Ood as anger, and then there was patience. All that intelligence and mercy, focused on Ood Sigma. How's the hair loss, Mister Halpen?" ~ The Tenth Doctor
"It's weird, being with you. I can't tell what's right and what's wrong any more." ~ Donna Noble
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Trivia
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The snow scenes were shot in a boiling hot week in August, using fake snow. This was done using tiny pieces of paper, as pointed out in this episode's Confidential.
The transformation of Halpen into an Ood was originally far more graphic, but after the footage was viewed it was re-edited to be less horrific for a family audience.
Russell T Davies noted during production of the Ood's introductory episodes that he considered their home world to be close to that of the Sensorites.
The theme of humans exploiting alien life had previously been touched upon in two Season 2 episodes of Torchwood that aired a few months before this episode: Meat and Reset. The difference here is that freedom for the aliens in the Torchwood episodes came through their deaths, whereas most of the Ood survive.
The Ood may be inspired by the Illithids, a race from Dungeons and Dragons. Both are psychically linked to an 'elder brain', have tentacles for mouths, are capable of turning creatures into their own kind, and are linked to slavery- the Illithids were slave masters who came from the distant future, and it has been speculated that their arrogance may lead them to becoming the slaves at some point.
Trefil Quarry, Gwent, played the part of the Planet of the Ood.
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Trailer
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