DarthOne
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Agreed on all points.Yeah -- according to Genesis, Davros purposefully made the template mutants (not the earlier experiments but the pre-production versions that the Doctor tried to destroy) have "defects" (which he called "improvements") to their brains, which made them incapable of being anything but sociopaths.
His own scientists were like "what the fuck, bro?" on finding out, too.
The few times the Daleks broke from this paradigm? It didn't end well for them, with their being either wiped out (the Humanized Daleks eventually, and their psychic colony), going on a genocidal rampage against their own species (such as with Rusty), or putting a literal or proverbial gun to their heads (Dalek Caan, the Metaltron) when they realized how evil they were/the guilt of being so monstrous.
This isn't even going onto the genetic purity spiral they frequently descend into (a good example is that survivors from Davros' "New Empire" outside of the three Ironsides actually attacked New Paradigm Daleks, and each considered the other impure/abominations: Civil wars between the Daleks are insane, as are their attitudes towards "impure" Daleks they use a cannon fodder.
If the Daleks at their height (Last Great Time War) were in the B5 universe, it'd basically be like all the Old Ones, together, with all their batshit EU capabilities rolled into one faction. Hell, they threw pretty much everything the Old Ones had in equivalence around as party favours against the Time Lords, and vice-versa.
The Last Great Time War was utterly insane, and the TV special a dozen years or so back did such an injustice to it that it makes bad superhero movies like Green Lantern look good.
Though I have a love/hate relationship with the Doctor Who EU and the new series. Mostly because it runs into the not unexpected issue of not matching up with itself and the show that spawned it. Which would be a lot more acceptable if it wasn’t for the fact that parts of it, especially the relatively new stuff, seems to have been written by the literary equivalents of That Kid. Aka the Mathew Wards of fiction.
Mind you I’ll take the Mat Wards who genuinely love the franchise over the wokists who only care about: The Message.