Genesis of the Daleks Discussion Post

[fauxkaren]

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[_thirty2flavors]

1. The whole "would you kill Hitler" dilemma is a complicated one if you think about it in terms of the real world because obviously in the real world we don't know how time travel and that sort of thing would all work out. In this case though lol I found it frustrating to watch, since a) we know the whole serial is just going to establish that he DOESN'T do it, and b) I couldn't stop being like lOL WELL DOCTOR YOU'D'VE SAVED YOURSELF A LOT OF HASSLE IF OYU JUST DID IT. I think the problem with the Daleks as a villain is that they're so explicitly straight-up evil that it's like... I dunno, I can never really buy into the Doctor's "let's hold hands and make friendship bracelets" approach to them. What? No! Blast 'em out of the sky, they're ROBOT SPACE NAZIS. They are LITERALLY designed to be unredeemable. So like... whatever, the moral dilemma in any Dalek ep is really hard for me to get behind.

3. I don't think "fixed point in time" necessarily follows logic. I think it just... well I mean I KNOW it just follows whatever the writers need it to follow, but I also got the impression that in-universe it's supposed to be more complex and ~mystical than that, something you need a magical ~*Time Lord sense*~ to tease out.

4. BIGGEST MYSTERY OF THE EP, TBH.

6. I'm not a first-time viewer of Classic Who, but the giant clams were my fave part by far. And everyone looking human except for Davros.

[fauxkaren]

I am forever bitter about the fact that everyone looked human. THEY NEEDED NAMETAGS OR SOMETHING. I had trouble keeping straight who was a Kaled and who was a Thal.

[_thirty2flavors]

LOL IFKR

IF IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE POETIC IT WAS JUST CONFUSING

[john_amend_all]

Thals have fair hair and Kaleds have dark. Simplez.