Why were the old Daleks classed "unpure"?

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JAS84

19-04-2010

Originally Posted by Dai13371:
“Parallels with the Nazis. The master race is supposed to be superior in health, stature and intellect to other races. Something Georing (sweaty and fat although to be fair he was a flying ace) Himmler (sickly, bad eyesight, stick thin, puny) and Hitler (stupid moustache, lungs knackered by mustard gas, terrible flatulence, one testacled etc etc) definately were not. Didn't stop them though saying they were Aryan though.”

Hitler wasn't German either.

Corwin

19-04-2010

Supposedly the ship design was one from TSE/JE rather than BW/PotW but I agree with those who don't consider Davros' Daleks to be impure (or any more impure than the original Daleks he created on Skaro).

Davros himself called them "True Daleks".

Of course if every faction of Daleks consider every other faction to be impure why were the RTD Daleks (when/wherever they were from) even bothering to create a strain of Daleks from old DNA?

DavetheScot

20-04-2010

Originally Posted by JAS84:
“Hitler wasn't German either.”

Hitler considered the Austrians part of the German race.

Listentome

20-04-2010

Originally Posted by tingramretro:
“Yes. It is. But Davros is not a mutant Kaled. He's inferior as far as they're concerned.

Davros artificially accelerated and refined the mutation, though-it wasn't random. The Dalek mutants were what he believed to be the ultimate form of his race.”

Excactly. They kill him at the end of Genesis, and that explains the 'pure' Daleks we see in earlier (though later chronologically) stories.

The Daleks created from Davros's cells would be considered 'pure' in Davros's eyes (or eye). Let's not forget, he was very much disliked by 'pure' Daleks and had previously created new breeds of Daleks like in 'Resurrection of...' and the further mutated Imperial Daleks in 'Remembrance of...'.

Interesting that in Remembrance, it is the 'pure' original Daleks that are seen as renegades. So as far as Davros was concerned, since the original Daleks killed him, only his new breed are legitimate Daleks. 'Pure Dalek' to Davros meant only those loyal to him. But as you say the progenitors see differently.

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