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<blockquote data-quote="Necropolitan" data-source="post: 9364171" data-attributes="member: 6669245"><p>I don't disagree that they were horrible, my point is the AI becoming self-aware enough to come to that conclusion, decide to kill them all, and then make the slug monsters.</p><p></p><p>In Smile the AI thought unhappiness was a communicable disease.</p><p>In The Green Death the AI was completely business-orientated and would do anything to make it's company succeed, including brainwashing and murder.</p><p>In Oxygen the AI were programmed to murder the employees to save money.</p><p>In The Robots of Death the robots were reprogrammed to kill humans other than their controller.</p><p>In Mummy on the Orient Express the AI Gus was programmed to find out the secret of The Foretold.</p><p>The AI in Space Babies decided to make a monster because it was malfunctioning and acting according to a story.</p><p></p><p>There's always a logical line of thought (even if it's flawed) in Doctor Who AI. But in this episode the Dot just became disgusted with the Finetimers and decided to kill everyone and decided to use slug monsters it somehow created to do so and nothing else is said or shown.</p><p></p><p>One of the things I like about Doctor Who is that unless a villain is meant to be enigmatic you get at least some idea of what they want and what they're doing. Money, power, control, ideals, food, etc.</p><p></p><p>Heck, the previous explanation I gave could be completely wrong. The slugs might be the actual villains who hacked the Dot to serve them and them going after people according to their names is some sort of cultural ritual they have when attacking a planet.</p><p></p><p>I know I complained about this season relying on telling over showing, but at least those episodes explained what was happening and why in some way as opposed to hand-waving where the threat came from.</p><p></p><p>I want to be clear that I thought the episode was great otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Necropolitan, post: 9364171, member: 6669245"] I don't disagree that they were horrible, my point is the AI becoming self-aware enough to come to that conclusion, decide to kill them all, and then make the slug monsters. In Smile the AI thought unhappiness was a communicable disease. In The Green Death the AI was completely business-orientated and would do anything to make it's company succeed, including brainwashing and murder. In Oxygen the AI were programmed to murder the employees to save money. In The Robots of Death the robots were reprogrammed to kill humans other than their controller. In Mummy on the Orient Express the AI Gus was programmed to find out the secret of The Foretold. The AI in Space Babies decided to make a monster because it was malfunctioning and acting according to a story. There's always a logical line of thought (even if it's flawed) in Doctor Who AI. But in this episode the Dot just became disgusted with the Finetimers and decided to kill everyone and decided to use slug monsters it somehow created to do so and nothing else is said or shown. One of the things I like about Doctor Who is that unless a villain is meant to be enigmatic you get at least some idea of what they want and what they're doing. Money, power, control, ideals, food, etc. Heck, the previous explanation I gave could be completely wrong. The slugs might be the actual villains who hacked the Dot to serve them and them going after people according to their names is some sort of cultural ritual they have when attacking a planet. I know I complained about this season relying on telling over showing, but at least those episodes explained what was happening and why in some way as opposed to hand-waving where the threat came from. I want to be clear that I thought the episode was great otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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