projectorion
19-August-2005, 07:53 AM
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'Oh look! The neighbours just arrived!'
Are Daleks evil?
Not too sure about this new Doctor with a northern accent. I live in Australia. This must be one of the few shows that have ever been screened in Britain first. Past Time Lords have posessed a more upper class slang of greater suitability to a "Lord". Tom Baker is still my favourite. Still, the pommy guy currently joyriding in a blue telephone box does have his moments. And the new look of the Tardis(inside atleast) is kind of cool. He still hasn't fixed that chameleon circuit.
One episode had an encounter with the universe's remaining Dalek. Squirrelled away in some subterranean Area51 style Museum on Earth. Full of alien tech which had been falling to earth for centuries. The Dalek had crashed through the atmosphere and burned in its own crater for three days. Poor thing.
Apparently the Daleks nearly succeeded in conquering the universe. Two million Dalek Starships fell upon Gallifrey if I heard correctly. They were all destroyed but so were the Time Lords. One all? Now one Time Lord and one Dalek face off as survivors. The Dalek had fallen through a hole in time during that final great 'Time War', but I'm uncertain how the Doctor escaped.
Daleks are soldiers. Engineered bio-weapons. Cyborgs with advanced computing capability and weapons systems. Perhaps one of the more honest denizens of the Galaxy, their mission to defend their own race and eliminate or enslave any threat(everybody else) has never been kept secret. They are in fact quite open about it and will even squeal "EXTERMINATE" before opening up on an enemy. Rather decent of them to give a warning in my opinion. Almost like the old Knight's code of conduct. Quite capable of subterfuge though, if it allows them to conquer a world with less casualties. Sun Zu must be buried in those memory banks somewhere. How many times did they invade earth? They had remarkable success with many worlds by initially approaching them as 'friends'.
Looking at historical heroes such as Alexander the Great we might ask ourselves what it is we admire about them. What is the difference between Alexander and Ghengis Khan for example? What about Spartacus? Didn't he crucify a Roman legionnaire in the same fashion as one of his kinsmen had been tortured to death by the Romans? Isn't good and evil just a matter of perspective?
Weren't the Daleks just another race doing their very best to survive in a harsh universe and succeeding at it perhaps too well. Any World they couldn't conquer they destroyed. Just as the ancients used to kill children to prevent them growing up to avenge their dead parents.
In the episode I liked the way it got past the 'stairs' problem. I guess it had to evolve to overcome that problem eventually.
http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion/daleks3.jpg
'Oh look! The neighbours just arrived!'
Are Daleks evil?
Not too sure about this new Doctor with a northern accent. I live in Australia. This must be one of the few shows that have ever been screened in Britain first. Past Time Lords have posessed a more upper class slang of greater suitability to a "Lord". Tom Baker is still my favourite. Still, the pommy guy currently joyriding in a blue telephone box does have his moments. And the new look of the Tardis(inside atleast) is kind of cool. He still hasn't fixed that chameleon circuit.
One episode had an encounter with the universe's remaining Dalek. Squirrelled away in some subterranean Area51 style Museum on Earth. Full of alien tech which had been falling to earth for centuries. The Dalek had crashed through the atmosphere and burned in its own crater for three days. Poor thing.
Apparently the Daleks nearly succeeded in conquering the universe. Two million Dalek Starships fell upon Gallifrey if I heard correctly. They were all destroyed but so were the Time Lords. One all? Now one Time Lord and one Dalek face off as survivors. The Dalek had fallen through a hole in time during that final great 'Time War', but I'm uncertain how the Doctor escaped.
Daleks are soldiers. Engineered bio-weapons. Cyborgs with advanced computing capability and weapons systems. Perhaps one of the more honest denizens of the Galaxy, their mission to defend their own race and eliminate or enslave any threat(everybody else) has never been kept secret. They are in fact quite open about it and will even squeal "EXTERMINATE" before opening up on an enemy. Rather decent of them to give a warning in my opinion. Almost like the old Knight's code of conduct. Quite capable of subterfuge though, if it allows them to conquer a world with less casualties. Sun Zu must be buried in those memory banks somewhere. How many times did they invade earth? They had remarkable success with many worlds by initially approaching them as 'friends'.
Looking at historical heroes such as Alexander the Great we might ask ourselves what it is we admire about them. What is the difference between Alexander and Ghengis Khan for example? What about Spartacus? Didn't he crucify a Roman legionnaire in the same fashion as one of his kinsmen had been tortured to death by the Romans? Isn't good and evil just a matter of perspective?
Weren't the Daleks just another race doing their very best to survive in a harsh universe and succeeding at it perhaps too well. Any World they couldn't conquer they destroyed. Just as the ancients used to kill children to prevent them growing up to avenge their dead parents.
In the episode I liked the way it got past the 'stairs' problem. I guess it had to evolve to overcome that problem eventually.
http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion/daleks3.jpg