Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood
I have really mixed feeling about this episode.

First off, I liked the Ood when we met them back in The Impossible Satan Planet Pit. I figured they'd been enslaved and there was an uprising on the way, so I'm glad we got to see it.

But there was some really weird stuff going on in this episode. Why were two of the people complicit in the subjugation of a species members of historically oppressed ethnicities themselves? Kess, a black man, was a literal whip-cracking overseer, while Solana, the Indian woman, was a heartless PR flak. I want to know if that was intention on the production team's part. The way the camera lingered on those characters at key points, and the nature of Commander Kess' death, makes me think it was meant to be ironic commentary.

Hooray for the Friend of the Ood mole. That was neat, but did he really have to die?

Donna gets more points for maturity and general competence. I think I like her better than Martha or Rose at this point.

Next week, Martha Jones and Sontarans. Meh.