Since when is popular SF opposed to genocide?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Rather alarmed by The Day of the Doctor's rejection of established tropes.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think the first time the Daleks were exterminated forever and ever, never to be seen again, was in their very first appearance, wasn't it?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...And the second time they showed up, the onscreen excuse was "Well, that was millennia in the future at the very degenerate end of Dalek history; this is the Dalek Golden Age." Which didn't stop the Doctor from wiping out the Daleks forever many times after that. Once he even blew up Skaro!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One of the lessons of Who seems to be that it's very hard to completely exterminate a species (or perhaps a species with space/time travel).

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

One of the lessons of Who (and many other shows) is that continuity is for wimps. At least Who is forthright about it; Moffat is on record that there is no canon, what with the Doctor's habit of rewriting inconvenient bits of history.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Hence the Time War :)