I see very little difference between humans and Daleks (or indeed, the aliens from Independence Day) as it is. And Skyline to me looked like a recap of the bison slaughter, from the PoV of the Plains Bison (they even showed brains being sectioned out as delicacies, from what I thought they were doing.)
I see very little difference between humans and Daleks
Well, there isn't. As I recall they were effectively meant as a Nazi metaphor which - despite some people's best attempts to deny - are human beings. Making them into obviously-inhuman pepperpots of death just makes it more tolerable because it keeps the viewers from having to confront their own shadow.
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I see very little difference between humans and Daleks (or indeed, the aliens from Independence Day) as it is. And Skyline to me looked like a recap of the bison slaughter, from the PoV of the Plains Bison (they even showed brains being sectioned out as delicacies, from what I thought they were doing.)
Well, there isn't. As I recall they were effectively meant as a Nazi metaphor which - despite some people's best attempts to deny - are human beings. Making them into obviously-inhuman pepperpots of death just makes it more tolerable because it keeps the viewers from having to confront their own shadow.
Humans are only opposed to the concept of a Master Race or Species when they think they're not going to be it.