Travelling through space and time in a police box requires white skin, according to several Internet morons today. As Ncuti Gatwa began his stint as the new Doctor, lots of angry idiots have spent …
I feel that lore-wise, the doctor changing sex was a bigger test of suspension of disbelief. But they prepped for it by having the Master do it. The Master has previously spent time being a walking corpse, so that is a fairly straight line of baby steps to get there.
Once that's been established, changing race is nothing. And arguably the doctor has shown a not insignificant amount of racial diversity already to prove it's not impossible.
The show just sucks for a variety of other reasons.
The show just sucks for a variety of other reasons.
Terrible writing. It's been bloody awful for a few seasons now imo. I don't care about the race or gender of any of the actors, but you've got to give me good storylines.