From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: What Dalek book should I read???
Organization: University of Virginia
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:59:44 GMT

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>Then you're also missing out on the sublety of the Master, who wanted to
>turn Earth into the Pickle Planet.
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>>Sure, he created the Dalek travel machines... but why do you think he
>>created them in the form he did?  One arm, no legs, one eye in the
>>center of the forehead?
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>Davros did NOT create the Daleks. The Daleks are his people with the mutations
>accellerated. Thats what they would look like in the future.

Davros did so create the Daleks dude.
The mutations most certainly are not just what would have happened
eventually if the mutations had been allowed to run free, Davros
made genetic alterations to them, conditioned them, and created the
machines they travel and live inside all their lives.
Hence, Davros created the Daleks.
The physical descriptions of the previous poster to you Frank were about
the casing, not the creature.

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>He found the form digusting and dispicable. He never altered the physical
>structre of the Daleks, only the brain patters.

Yes he did Frank!  
I quote from "Genesis of the Daleks" (part four I believe):
Davros:  That (points to piece of paper) outlines the chromosomal variations
	to be introduced into the conditioned creatures immediately.
(I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I distinctly remember the words chromosomal
variations.  I can look this up later if you want me to.)
Gharman:  Davros, these changes will create enormous mental defects,
	(and then he goes on to list the things the Daleks will be devoid
	of.)


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>Thats what I said, but he wasn't arrogant. See below
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>Wrong. The Daleks were not a right or wrong situation. Like I said before, he
>wanted to see what his people were going to look like after the radiation had
>done it's work. He was horrified at his race's prospects, and decided enough
>was enough. Davros was a brilliant man, and he was at WAR. His society and
>people were threatend, and he used the Daleks to fight the war. It was his
>job and duty to create the monster known as the Daleks.
>

No, Frank, this is wrong.  This is how it was at the beginning perhaps,
but Davros' own paranoia took over over the years and by the time we see
him in "Genesis" his own arrogance is taking complete control of the Dalek
project.
"He has a fanatical desire to perpetuate himself in his machine,"
said the Doctor in "Genesis" of Davros when talking to the Kaled leaders.

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>That may seem rather cruel hearted, but it's a good strategic decision. His
>people were dying and muatating. He knew what they would become, and saw no
>future for them. I mean, would you pump billions of dollars/pounds into
>something you KNEW for a FACT would fail? The Daleks would survive, the
>Kaleds would die.
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Davros didn't care a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys what happened to
the Kaleds.  I think he would have slightly preferred them alive to use
in the machines once he'd mutated everyone, but who knows?

>Well, yes...That's probably true. He did make them a little too good.
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>Yeah, I know that. I wouldn't have  blown them up unless they tried to
>nail me either.
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>Well, that's one of those bits where one writer picks up and distorts another.
>Davros was a VERY intelligent and non-bad guy until the Davison writers took
>him over. He was the victim of his own intelligence.
>

Frank, WAKE UP!  Davros was a VERY bad guy since we first saw him, and
the only thing that changed with later writers was in how gruesome
his crimes could now be portrayed as.

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