You left out Nine's speech where he promises to "wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky" to Rose, but otherwise a great collection of scenes illustrating the theme.
The reason why Russian President Putin believed that killing people would protect his loved ones was because of his family starving to death because of his childhood Nazi soldiers. His parents told him to forgive the Nazi soldiers, but Putin believed that if he was weak, he would be eaten, and he thought he should be strong, and he wants to keep what he thinks is worthwhile in a way that wars Ukraine and wields power. We believe he's like a Dalek, but he's the father who goes to his daughter's room before anyone else when he comes home from work and hugs the children he loves. I mean, the Dalek's statement that the Doctor is like a good Dalek may be true. If we allow violence to be used to protect our loved ones, there will be another war, a nuclear war, and blood will flow. So, neither the doctor nor the Dalek, neither the villain nor the villain, only the discussion of whether to choose violence to express love or to harmonize in a different way without violence.
There are moments where I'm not convinced 10 or 11 would have made the same "coward or killer" choice. 10 certainly loved to act like he would have, but sometimes he acted otherwise, and 11 was even worse in that regard
not really .Dalek race wanted to destroy all non daleks in the universe doctor as the ultimate being who knows what is happening what has happened and what will happen has moral authority to destroy the irredeemable beings such as daleks .
I always enjoy Dr. Who. Not just because the Dr. is funny or the characters are brilliant. But because in a way they are the best and worst of people. Yet their end motive is always the larger idea of love. Even when enraged. They still care and try to do the right thing.
Davros once famously stated that "Action requires courage", arguing that the Time Lords were cowards because they chose to passively sit back and watch the universe from behind their barriers. Ironically he had more respect for the Doctor, a renegade Time Lord who actively interfered with other species, even though their personal ideals were diametrically opposed.
I'd like to make an honourable mention to the Series Three story: Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, which had plenty of moments of the Doctor showing his true nature. From the first time he sees a Dalek in the sewer tunnel, he is ticked off that the same Daleks from the batttle of Canary Wharf survived as he lost Rose, to Solomon being killed in Hooverville and the Doctor decides to give in and let the Daleks take him before being taken back to the Empire State building, to the confrontation with Dalek Caan swearing not to cause another genocide, which is major foreshadowing for the Series Four finale.
The "If you ou want orders, Follow this one! Kill yourself"-scene always blew my mind. I think there aren't many main characters in media who ever said something like that...
"I am alone in the universe..." "Yep!" "So are you. We are the same.." I never was much into dr. who, only watched season 1 in its entirety + a few episodes of the other seasons here and there, but scenes like this make me wanna go and watch the whole series.
How each face of the doctor makes sense. War Doctor: Served through the war and ended the Time Lords 9th: Is thrown out of the war barely sitting still and has a lingering veteran personality. The reason its a young body, to act almost like the adrenaline after experiencing a wound 10th: The trauma has set in and the Doctor feels guilty for what he has done. Darker and more scared of himself than ever, he struggles between saving and not. 10th: Covers his trauma with childish wonder and personality but the time war has left a scar until he confronts the time war again. Even gets married to the best girl (River) 12th: To remind himself to save those he can, he carries a little bit of the last few personalities. A war veteran who sometimes acts like a child, but cares deeply even if he doesnt show it. As seen by Clara a "hero" which i believe after Heaven Sent (or whichever has the time dial) eventually he calms down for a moment and has a wife. Then spends 70 years teaching at an academy. 13th: Back to that wacky Doctor Personality showing hes healed until the time lords die. Again.
I never really liked the idea that this was the doctor’s “true nature”, I always kinda thought it was mostly a trauma response that made him act like this, like he tried so damn hard to be rid of the daleks that he wiped out his entire native species so that they could never do anything harmful again, yet they constantly continue to return and wreak havoc on the world, and the doctor
Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help and they didn’t give him a superpower or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. And that’s extraordinary. There will never come a time when we don’t need a hero like the doctor. ~ Steven Moffat He hates the daleks, but he always gives them a chance. 9 pointed a gun at one but realised he couldn't do it, then decided he'd rather be a coward than a killer. 10 was willing to help Dalek Sec create his new race of hybrid Daleks, and find them a new world to live on. Even when the other daleks betrayed Sec and killed the hybrids, he offered to help them, he even tried to save Davros. Time and time again, he hates them but he'll save them anyway. It's who he is, the essence of a hero.
