Doctor Who - The Dominators
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In Theaters : 29 September, 1975
Video Release : 24 August, 1994 |
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Doctor Who - The Dominators Customer Reviews
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We can learn a lot from this story
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The thing I enjoy about The Dominators is that it doesn't hold back being politically true, proving flower power to be oxymoronic. You won't find the John Lennon weed-smoking, "imagine" crowd glorified in this tale. The Dulcians, with emphasis on the first syllable (dull) are portrayed as a bunch of beatniks who wouldn't lift a finger, let alone a weapon, to save their hide. They abolished all weapons long ago, and set up a museum on an island which was once used as a nuclear test site as a reminder of the "evils" of aggression. When faced with a potential threat, they waste time in hours of pointless debate and end up doing nothing, allowing their planet to be overrun by the aggressive Dominators. The Dulcians are a great representation of the left in this country, who think negotiating with those that don't understand negotiation should be our only course of action against fundamental extremists who'd like nothing better than to destroy our way of life. In this respect, the story provides us with a glimpse of consequence if the left get their way.
It is only the Doctor's party who steps up to run the bullies off the planet. Most of the Dulcians are the Kumbaya type, satisfied to accept anything presented to them as fact, without questioning inconsistencies. As the pevious review states, somehow if the Dominators did destroy the planet as was their intention, you'd have a hard time sympathizing. The only Dulcian with any self-pride and courage to fight back, Cully, is considered an outcast and ridiculed by Dulcian society. Yet it is this attitude possesed by Cully that prevents Dulkis from total destruction.
Writers Haisman and Lincoln (unbilled in the credits as they had a squabble with production over having their story, originally a six-parter, sliced down to five) explode a nuclear bomb on pacifism, a refreshing change from most purely fantasy moral messages in Doctor Who. Pacifism works if and only if everyone around you accepts that principle. If not, pacifists will be dominated.
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