[ SECRET POST #5490 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5490 ⌋

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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

This reminds me of that secret about fantasy villains being irredeemable evil, in that the problem is that people aren't actually clear about what evil means philosophically and so static tropey characterization ensues as a shortcut. But anyway, i think Dr. Who was or is a kids show. And I don't mean that it's viewership is intended to be children, I mean that it's themes were meant to invoke and instill cultural values in the simplest, but also very fun and sci-fi-y, way possible to its audience, so the shortcut evil villains were more useful overall.

I don't necessarily like it either, but I think with this type of show, you know what you're getting going in, and I wouldn't assume that any showrunner wanted to challenge that basis really. It doesn't help that the Daleks are nonsensical, in that engineering that "removes" types of emotive social responses and increase non-social responses would destroy any actual coherent attempt at domination. But it doesn't matter because that's not the point, is it! The point is that world domination is evil and only creatures devoid of what makes humans "good" would persist in it, and they're aliens so you don't even have to get into whether that actually makes any sense because it's an alien perspective not ours no matter how much the alien is inspired by us. It's not like people extrapolate from art/media or anything!