Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-4000564-20200730124549

Some more observations about the scene in Lights.

Benny says of the Emperor: "You're just a huge Dalek brain. The only Dalek that's allowed to think." It slots right in with what we know about the Prime/Golden Emperor. The Emperor also tells Benny the Daleks are not evil, they believe that strength and power are essential for survival. They seem to view human qualities as capable of eroding that idea, and therefore threatening their survival. That's pretty much the same as what the Golden Emperor sets out in Shadow of Humanity.
 * In the Evil novelisation: "the Dalek Prime could never risk another Dalek evolving beyond its own capabilities [...] Its mental powers were a hundred times greater than any other member of the race."
 * In The Secret of the Emperor: "We know that our Emperor has the greatest brain in the universe - so we will elect him again!"