30 Days of Doctor Who: Favorite Alien

Kelly: While I love the language of the Judoon and the goofiness of the Slitheen, my favorite alien is the Hath.

Hath! 

They're only in one episode in the fourth season, The Doctor's Daughter, and I thought they were terrifying at first! They communicate to each other without words, rather their little green chambers with bubbles. They don't like fighting or war, but in the episode they were in their home was being invaded by humans. Martha befriends one and ends up helping her find the Doctor and Donna. The poor hath ends up losing his life by trying to save Martha. The humans and the hath end their war at the end of the episode, with unfortunate circumstances that lead them to their making up...SPOILERS. Well there you have it. The good ol' Hath.

Holly: So I entertained several possibilities for this one.  First, I thought, well, is Novice Hame an alien?

Nah, I decided.  While she is part cat, cats aren't alien.  So I threw that out.  Then, I thought, well, what about the Face of Boe?

Went with no on that one too.  The Face of Boe is....well, he just is, really.  Don't really want to explain all that.  

So I finally decided on an Ood.  

Ood are a basic slave race; they live by orders.  That's their purpose: to serve, and they are happy to do so.  They don't know anything else.  They speak through a communicator, which is what he's holding, as well as telepathy.  And they sing (sort of...), and it's quite beautiful.  When we first see them in "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit", they go kind of rogue.  Red eyes, y'all.  Red eyes are bad.  But when their eyes are not red, they're so expressive and sweet.  They're sadly mistreated along the Doctor's journeys, but the Ood eventually come to join the side of The Doctor and Rose, and later Donna, and are with the Tenth Doctor in his final moments.  

I want one.  But rest assured I would treat it with the utmost kindness.