I actually just got the first season on loan from the library this week. Alas, the discs were damaged and so I had to give up on it. The brief bit I did watch left me with only one assumption. Cruelty may make one feel powerful but it is never very attractive regardless of the level of humanity assigned to the one we are cruel too. Certainly, Dolores inspired more empathy in me than her tormentors and those who would pay to torment. Humanity was quite beside the point.