History YMMV / DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit" was criticized for having the Doctor not caring about the Ood being enslaved to the point of being perfectly happy to leave the slaves to die at the climax, this episode has him fighting against the instutionalized enslavement of the Ood and admitting that he probably should have tried to help them in the aforementioned story.

* HarsherInHindsight: It's sad for Donna to hear the song of the captured Ood, but it's even sadder [[spoiler:for the viewers who have seen the end of the season. Donna can't handle something humans are not supposed to experience, and the Doctor blocks it for her]].

** There's a slightly more subtle Aesop at work as well. At one point when Donna's railing against the institutionalised slavery represented by the Ood, the Doctor points out that most of the clothes she's wearing at that very moment were manufactured in sweatshops by people living only a few steps above slavery. It suggests that although people in the west intellectually know slavery is bad and wouldn't tolerate it when they're directly exposed to it, if it's out of sight and they benefit from it they're likely to not give it much thought.

** The " the anvilicious "slavery's bad, mmmmkay?" aesop seems to have been a deliberate attempt at amends for the FridgeHorror of the Doctor basically saying "okie dokie" when he discovered the Ood slaves in "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" and ''left them to die at the end of the episode''. This is the main reason they made "Planet of The Ood", to address that fact. It's even lampshaded when Donna points out how uncharacteristic it is for the Doctor to not help the Ood. The Doctor points out he was battling Satan at the time and thus a little busy. Then he admits that he owes them one.

* ArtisticLicence-Biology: The Ood don't look like the sort of species which would have evolved in an icy climate. Surely all that bald skin (including a delicate tangle of fronds and even an '''exposed brain''') would quickly freeze over.

* LostAesop: Donna doesn't quite know how to feel about Halpen being turned into an Ood and comments that she doesn't feel she knows right from wrong anymore. The Doctor replies, "It's better that way. People who know for certain tend to be like Mr. Halpen," which sounds a lot like AnAesop -- and in no way applies to the episode we just watched. Halpen was an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral businessman who only cares about his profit]], not some kind of dogmatic KnightTemplar (whereas fighting against him ''was'' presented as a matter of plain right vs. wrong, and the Doctor and Donna certainly never seemed conflicted as to which side they should be on).

* AccidentalAesop: In light of "Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]" being a pro-EU tract, the timeline here established turns this episode into a Brexit tract.

* AccidentalAesop: In light of ''The Curse of Peladon'' being a pro-EU tract, the timeline here established turns this episode into a Brexit tract.

** There's a slightly more subtle Aesop at work as well. At one point when Donna's railing against the institutionalised slavery represented by the Ood, the Doctor points out that most of the clothes she's wearing at that very moment were manufactured in sweatshops by people living only a few steps above slavery. It suggests that although people in the west intellectually know slavery is bad and wouldn't tolerate it when they're directly exposed to it, if it's out of sight and they benefit from it they're likely to not give it much thought.

** There's a slightly more subtle Aesop at work as well. At one point when Donna's railing against the institutionalised slavery represented by the Ood, the Doctor points out that most of the clothes she's wearing at that very moment were manufactured in sweatshops by people living only a few steps above slavery. It suggests that although people in the west intellectually know slavery is bad and wouldn't tolerate it when they're directly exposed to it, if it's out of sight and they benefit from it they're likely to not give it much thought.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Blackadder}} Lord Percy/Capt. Kevin Darling]] is the CEO.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Blackadder}} Lord Percy/Capt. Kevin Darling]] is the CEO.

** "Slavery is a bad thing." How many of the audience didn't already know that is unclear. An alternative one, only slightly less obvious (but in some quarters probably still necessary) might be: "Even if a people doesn't look like you, and seems more primitive than you, that gives you no right to exploit them." Also, the anvilicious "slavery's bad, mmmmkay?" aesop seems to have been a deliberate attempt at amends for the FridgeHorror of the Doctor basically saying "okie dokie" when he discovered the Ood slaves in "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" and ''left them to die at the end of the episode''. This is the main reason they made "Planet of The Ood", to address that fact. It's even lampshaded when Donna points out how uncharacteristic it is for the Doctor to not help the Ood. The Doctor points out he was battling Satan at the time.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Blackadder Lord Percy/Capt. Kevin Darling]] is the CEO.