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Originally Posted by macblo

Actually, I'd argue that the Doctor motif is perfect for the show. While on the surface the two don't really have anything in common, how well they work together really becomes apparent when you look at the overall theme of Death in Ex-Aid.

Despite what people may believe, Doctors are not here to save lives. They are here to delay the inevitable. No matter what they, or anyone else, does, people will always die in the end and there's nothing that anyone can do to change that. Once they're gone, they're gone.

This is in direct contrast with video games. In the video game world, death means absolutely nothing. Sure you may fall down a hole or get shoot a few time, Heck you might even lose all of you lives and get a game over, but that means absolutely nothing in the end. You can always push the reset button and try again, no matter how many times you die. You may get a penalty of some kind but death ultimately means nothing.

In other words, you're correct. The Doctor Motif and the Video Game Motif don't go together. That's the point. The show forces you to look at Death from two completely different angles in order to examine it.

Basically came here to say this.

To be fair, the connection between the two themes didn't become really clear until a pretty recent episode. As soon as Dan said, "I've created a type of medicine you doctors never could", the theme, and even why they killed Lazer off so soon, suddenly clicked for me. Ex-Aid is really an examination of how we treat death.