Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Planet of the Ood


 * The Doctor does not seem affected by the Ood Sphere's cold weather, but in DW: The Abominable Snowmen, he felt it necessary to don a fur coat while travelling in the mountains of Tibet.
 * Seeing as he seems to be immune to the cold in many other stories such as The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Seeds of Doom, and Four to Doomsday to name a few it would appear that The Abominable Snowmen is the one at fault not this one. Alternatively the coat might have just been for show, so he doesn't stick out too much.


 * When Halpen and Ryder first go to Warehouse 15, Halpen pours his "hair tonic" onto the Ood Brain. When he retreats from the edge of the containment area, there is still tonic in his glass which he drinks and then leaves.
 * Ood Sigma passes him another glass. You can just about see his arm lowering as Halpen begins to lift the glass.


 * The Ood Brain has a bad reaction to the hair tonic, why don't Ood suffer from it.
 * Technically, it wasn't a bad reaction. Since the 'hair tonic' was actually to turn Halpen into an Ood, it is likely that the liquid helped the Ood Brain to strengthen.


 * As the Ood begin to turn bad, the Ood behind Solana briefly stops panicking.


 * Ood fighting against the armed guards are seen not to be suffering from Red Eye.


 * When the Doctor and Donna are escaping Warehouse 15, Solona Mercurio joins out of nowhere.
 * Solana can be seen coming around the corner of the container just after the first security guard is killed by the Ood.


 * When the Doctor and Donna are leaping to avoid the barrels that are exploding behind them, you can clearly see snow on the lens of the camera.


 * The Doctor criticises Donna's apparent hypocrisy, pointing out that her clothes were made by (effectively) slave labour. However, in Gridlock, he says that Janis Joplin gave him his coat, implying that it is a coat which was made on Earth and would therefore have been made in similar conditions.
 * Not necessarily, as Janis Joplin was a folk singer from the Hippie culture of the 1960's and not likely to have owned much in the way of mass produced clothing from sweatshops.


 * Why wasn't Ood Sigma affected by Red Eye?
 * The Doctor points out that different emotions were expressed through different Ood. The red-eye was revenge, the rabid Ood were anger and all of the patience and intelligence of the Ood Brain went into Ood Sigma.