At least some of the Time Police from Superjail are black-coded as I believe this clip shows https://youtu.be/DVyBG_aNFLE
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They can't be ginger. That is the only unbreakable rule in Dr. Who.
!remindme 7 years
Ahem...
They are from outer space though, not time travelers
If they FTL they time travelin
This is the most IYKYK pic I've came across in Lemmy
I just hope they eventually cast some fully Britishized actor originally out of Hong Kong... one trained in certain things Hong Kong actors are known for. I want a kung fu Doctor. :p
You have watched the Pertwee era right? Actually, on second thought, if you really like kung fu, don't watch Pertwee 😁
You can’t expect Venusian Kung Fu to be similar to Earth Kung Fu
You are completely right, hence my detraction. Very different, especially in light of physics.
Just thinking of the running scenes through random spaceships being spiced up with some wall runs and flying rotating kicks and it is glorious.
Mocking the minority of people who hold these opinions just gives them more attention than they deserve. No one relevant actually cares that the character is being played by a black actor. As always, the majority of complaining is coming from conservative trolls who take their anti-woke brigade to literally any film or TV series that has cast minorities in leading roles. It's just the same people doing it every time, they are not actually fans of any of these things and were never going to watch them anyway.
Yeah, I feel the same way.
There's always going to be dickheads on the internet, and I think in this case it's a very small group and of that group you could probably count on one had that are actually Dr. Who fans, if there's any at all.
If it were a significant percentage of fans then there might be something to talk about. But this seems another case of people that don't know anything about a show and just seeing a black actor being cast in a role what was previously played by a white actor and making racist hay.
Anyone that knows anything about Dr. Who knows the established lore allows any actor of any race or gender can play the part.
Yeah I remember reading similar headlines when Jodie was announced as the next Doctor. Same assholes, different day. I’m more concerned that the first few episodes have had terrible writing.
Space Babies was OK. I liked the bit where the Doctor stared dead into the camera and explained the allegory. That was funny.
The rest have been a load of wank. I had hoped that a bit of time off might have curbed some of RTD's excesses, but alas.
And Moff's script just seemed ... tired. Like he just couldn't do it any more. Blah blah, arms suppliers are bad, fish fingers and custard, love will save the day, something something atheism, ... .
The real tragedy is he's not a red head.
WOT having racial diversity in a village where the book made a huge deal about the fact that everyone looks the same due to isolation and inbreeding. That I had an issue with. This is stupid. It is well established that the doctor can come back looking like anything.
a village where the book made a huge deal about the fact that everyone looks the same due to isolation and inbreeding.
Two particular families were called out as marrying into one another often, not the entire village. In fact I feel like Robert Jordan generally does the opposite of what you describe here - he goes out of his way to uniquely describe a ton of Emond's Field residents, and gave them all pretty varied appearances. Heck, two of the main characters, Mat and Perrin, are different as can be in appearance, aside from the fact that they both have dark hair.
Anyways, either way, even if what you're describing is accurate, it's still not a good excuse to get upset that they casted dark skinned actresses for Egwene and Nynaeve.
never said i was upset about "Egwene and Nynaeve". Not sure where you got that. I just remember the one power being more common in the village because "the blood of Manetheren flows strong Emond's Field" and everyone commenting how Rand looked so different from the locals. They also commented that those in watch hill mixed with outsiders but Tam was strange because he married someone from off. Rand remarks that Mistress Grimwell (Else Grimwell's mother) has yellow hair, a hair color he had never seen before in his life. Rand sees Thom he notices that he has blue eyes and Rand remembers a time he fought Ewal Coplin because he made fun of Rand's grey eyes (so we can infer from that this eye color stands out there and Rand suffered at least one episode of bullying). I think everyone should have been dark skinned, or at least all similar. Its the variaty i did not like.
Especially given that they're all descendants of people that lived in one of the biggest cities of the time.
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