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* RealityEnsues: At one point, Murdoch and Brackenreid discuss the beliefs of the Eugenicists, with Brackenreid commenting that everyone should "know" the effects of keeping the bloodline pure before pointing to a portrait of Queen Victoria: this is a comment on the myriad biological flaws (most prominently hemophilia) suffered by the Royal House of Hanover due to generations of cousin-on-cousin inbreeding.
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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At one point, Murdoch and Brackenreid discuss the beliefs of the Eugenicists, with Brackenreid commenting that everyone should "know" the effects of keeping the bloodline pure before pointing to a portrait of Queen Victoria: this is a comment on the myriad biological flaws (most prominently hemophilia) suffered by the Royal House of Hanover due to generations of cousin-on-cousin inbreeding.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer killed a man [[spoiler: his fiancé's father]] who had discovered that, by eugenist standards, his family was "tainted". Panicking about what this discovery would do to his life, he murdered the man in a fit of rage and fear, while if he'd heard the victim out, he would have found the the man's commitment to the eugenics cause had been shaken by finding out that their standards cast such a smear upon a man he liked and respected.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer killed a man man, [[spoiler: his fiancé's father]] father]], who had discovered that, by eugenist standards, that his family was "tainted". Panicking about what this discovery would do "inferior" by eugenicist standards. His desperation not to his life, lose [[spoiler:the woman he murdered loved]] drove him to beat the man to death in a fit of rage and fear, while if rage. If he'd heard the his victim out, however, it's likely he would have found the the man's commitment to the eugenics cause had been shaken by finding out that their standards cast such a smear upon a man he liked and respected.respected, and that he would have placed [[spoiler:his daughter's happiness]] above the principles of eugenics.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer killed a man [[spoiler: his fiancé's father]] who had discovered that, by eugenist standards, his family was "tainted". Panicking about what this discovery would do to his life, he mrudered murdered the man in a fit of rage and fear, while if he'd heard the victim out, he would have found the the man's commitment to the eugenics cause had been shaken by finding out that their standards cast such a smear upon a man he liked and respected.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer killed a man [[spoiler: his fiancé's father]] who had discovered that, by eugenist standards, his family was "tainted". Panicking about what this discovery would do to his life, he mrudered the man in a fit of rage and fear, while if he'd heard the victim out, he would have found the the man's commitment to the eugenics cause had been shaken by finding out that their standards cast such a smear upon a man he liked and respected.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: At the episode's end, Creator/HGWells is inspired by the experimentation to write a story exploring it in more grisly detail - he's obviously referring to the story ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Eugenics Society and its beliefs are unthinkable in the modern era, having seen the horrors of actually putting such beliefs into practice on a societal scale by the Nazis. In this setting, decades before the Nazis and their Holocaust, Eugenics is controversial but acceptable.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Eugenics Society and its beliefs are unthinkable in the modern era, having seen the horrors of actually putting such beliefs into practice on a societal scale by the Nazis. In this setting, decades before the Nazis and their Holocaust, Eugenics is controversial but acceptable.
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* RealityEnsues: At one point, Murdoch and Brackenreid discuss the beliefs of the Eugenicists, with Brackenreid commenting that everyone should "know" the effects of keeping the bloodline pure before pointing to a portrait of Queen Victoria: this is a comment on the myriad biological flaws (most prominently hemophilia) suffered by the Royal House of Hanover due to generations of cousin-on-cousin inbreeding.
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When Murdoch finds himself invited to a meeting of the local eugenics society, which is committed to research on genetic engineering, a dog shows up with a severed arm.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Dr. Dryus Alger is a prominent member of the Eugenics Society who is abducting dogs and conducting illegal experiments in his attempts to 'perfect' humanity.
