Doctor Who: 10 Dubious Morals That Series 8 Taught Us
9. Maybe... Don't Help...
So, in Into the Dalek the Doctor is confronted with a Dalek who has become so damaged that it has developed a concept of morality and beauty that (more or less) aligns with his own. The Dalek is hurting no one and spends all its time going on about how tormented it is by how there is so much beauty out there and he's the only one to appreciate it properly. So the Dalek has basically turned into every post-graduate student that you've ever met. Determined to dive in and get to the root of the problem, the Doctor gets miniaturized and injected into the Dalek (referred to as 'Rusty'). Finding the source of the issue, the Doctor repairs Rusty - at which point Rusty immediately becomes a psychotic killing machine again and starts murdering people. The Doctor has no choice but to hastily put together a software patch for this that turns Rusty into a psychotic killing machine, but at least he just kills other psychotic killing machines. To summarise, the sole result of the Doctor's help is to get a lot of people (and Daleks) killed. If the Doctor hadn't helped, viewers probably would have just been subjected to a lot of tedious Dalek performance art 'happenings'.
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