Thank you so much for explaining the background in "Genesis". One of the things I love most about Doctor Who is the way we get these moral choices that really aren't simple ones - that really get down to situations where it is possible that the end might justify the means - or not. Even knowing the future to some extent does not make the choices (or the subsequent guilt) any easier for the Doctor.
What would I do, in his place, in "Evolution of the Daleks"? I don't know. Although I think I would never have cooperated with a Dalek at all, on any justification - I can't help admiring the Doctor's choice to take a chance. And in not killing Dalek Caan at the end - well, that's a tricky one too.
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Date: 2007-05-06 06:32 pm (UTC)What would I do, in his place, in "Evolution of the Daleks"? I don't know. Although I think I would never have cooperated with a Dalek at all, on any justification - I can't help admiring the Doctor's choice to take a chance. And in not killing Dalek Caan at the end - well, that's a tricky one too.