The Moral Dilemma of 'save the whale vs save the humans' is a completely false dichotomy, because the whale's pain is not an unavoidable consequence of sustaining human life.
Yes, this! I'm handwaving it by pretending that maybe they thought the whale wouldn't want to carry them anymore because they had been torturing it. Or something. Yeah, they skipped over some logic in this episode's dilemma.
Hoo boy, yes indeed. I don't think they skipped over logic so much as trampled it into the ground with hob-nailed boots. In the cage match of Logic vs Dramatic Licence and Emotional Impact, our boy got the thrashing of his *life* :-)
This is why the episode annoyed the snot out of me: I kept coming up with other options while the characters sat around and moped. Finally Amy comes up with a simple, obvious answer, and yay Amy, but is an entire city full of people co galactically stupid that none of them think of that (or any of the other potential solutions) for centuries?
Seriously, someone must have been handing out the stupid pills like they were Smarties for a long, long time.
But I've been weirdly impressed by how many viewers appear to have thoroughly enjoyed the moral dilemma issue without seeming to notice (or perhaps care) that it didn't exist. That's... *effective* writing, I suppose you have to say.
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Yes, this! I'm handwaving it by pretending that maybe they thought the whale wouldn't want to carry them anymore because they had been torturing it. Or something. Yeah, they skipped over some logic in this episode's dilemma.
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But I've been weirdly impressed by how many viewers appear to have thoroughly enjoyed the moral dilemma issue without seeming to notice (or perhaps care) that it didn't exist. That's... *effective* writing, I suppose you have to say.
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No, scratch that. A lot of people forget about plot, period. *g*
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*cuddles it and scratches its sad little ears*
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