Doctor Who: More on Planet of the Ood (music-related)

[butterfly]

So, the Doctor's song may be ending soon. What's that about? I've got no notion. Isn't that fun?

The bit of the Doctor's theme that plays at the end of PotO goes sliding down fast, much faster than it plays in the straight-up 'Doctor's Theme'. It is, in fact, exactly the version of the song that appears over the driving beat of 'Doomsday' (all of the 'Doctor's Theme' is much... dreamier than the more intent version that is sung during 'Doomsday').

Note: Ah-ha. A mystery is solved. Though the melody from DD is not the same as "The Doctor's Theme", it is still the same as the music that happens when Rose enters the TARDIS (as pointed out by cookie2697), which is not "the Doctor's Theme" and does not appear to be on the soundtrack of first series (unless someone else finds it there!).

And here's the imeem link if the embed doesn't work.

They're the two halves of a whole -- she's the driving, burning determination and he's the lone, calling voice. Each reaching out. Each still lost.

And that is all the meta that I have for right now.

Comments

[shaela]

This time, the Doctor wasn’t even the reason that things went well (they would have gone about the same regardless of his presence, because Ood Sigma (?) totally had things under control).

I liked that a lot. (Well, that and the fact that Ood Sigma really was Spartacus. Once again, the one-episode characters are one of my favorite things about this series.) Plus, where “Gridlock” showed that the Doctor was going in circles, in “Planet of the Ood,” he went back in order to go forward. I can’t say that I’m surprised he missed the Ood the first time around—on top of everything else, he’d just lost the Tardis. But this gave him a chance to deal with that.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

It did. I mean, as someone else said, as far as excuses for not noticing something goes, "I had to defeat the devil," is a pretty good one. But I like that he still wishes that he'd noticed.

And this episode definitely made me feel much more positive about where the Doctor's head is than Gridlock did.