10 Major Unanswered Questions From Classic Doctor Who
4. How Does Lurking In A Church Wall Looking Evil Help Plan An Invasion?
In The Awakening, the Doctor and the gang encounter the Malus. Outside of lurking around looking sinister, it's described as a part living/part machine psychic probe that was sent to Earth long ago as the first step of an invasion from the planet Hakol... which appears to have never happened. Which is just as well, really, because it's hard to imagine anything less useful to your invasion plans than the Malus. First off, it immediately goes dormant and allows helpful masons to apparently build the rest of the church around it, which doesn't seem entirely helpful if one is planning on arriving in a war fleet in the near future. Then, once it wakes up, it begins stirring things up so that it can feed on negative emotions like fear, rage and anger. Which means that you are actively making the people you're about to invade more aggressive and dangerous, probably killing off the weak ones and leaving just the meanest and toughest alive to deal with your invasion forces on the off chance that they ever even show up. Seriously. There's a reason that the phrase "Great Hakol Empire" has never been used. Just quit while you're ahead, yeah?
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