I find it to be true in The Keeper of Traken, too. They're so frigid. It's a society that hails kindness not on a standard of openness necessarily, but an absolute standard of what that means. Which sometimes goes to extremes. It is kind of a sad thing that the melkur is a punishment rather than a circumstance of the atmosphere, but it makes it pretty fascinating to me. Though I have my moments of wishing Traken was the Nice Happy Place because the ability to be that would also be amazing. The one bit I was annoyed by, rather than finding it interesting in a rueful kind of way, was the one Traken official who went all "*shakes in boots* I for one welcome our new omniscient evil overlords," because...well, that's just pathetic to the point of farce. Silly bastard. Anyway, there's too much of that audio that is crazy awesome. XD
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on 2008-08-07 05:08 am (UTC)