Dr. Who is a black lady pimp in new comic book.
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The Fugitive Doctor has been the best thing in Who since Capaldi - but that's not saying much.
I'm hoping that the writers give Jo Martin's incarnation at least the respect that Paul McGann's Doctor got (Which wasn't much at the time, but a helluva lot more that Jodie Whitaker or Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors got).
BUT, it's already been signed off on. Probably all concocted before Russell T. Davis got the boot, probably going to double down on the shitty marketing if CBR's comment...
...is anything to go by. I could play the whole "We're stating that a black gay man isn't important?" card that I'm sure some will come out with, or when Ken Bones' General character regenerated into T'Nia Miller's version with "Oh, back to normal, am I? The only time I've been a man, that last body. Dear Lord, how do you cope with all that ego?" as her first words, or how's about Daniel Anthony having Matt Smith's Doctor take over his body in the Sarah Jane Adventures? Or (If we're sticking to comics), what about Cardinal Hemal In the 1994 comic story Blood Invocation - or are we only sticking to 'The Doctor' who might not even be the Doctor (Yet or at all)?
And that's saying nothing of Maya Glace-Green or Nina Toussaint-White playing a young River Song as Mels (Melody Pond) or Don Warrington playing Rassilon in the audio play The Next Life.
Cherry picking actors who are black when it suits is probably the most vulgar thing the BBC has done. Then we have the gender and sexuality categories too. I think Lindy Pepper-Bean from 'Dot and Bubble' was right, she was just portraying the BBC's hiring team for roles and not just a preppy rich kid on a GAP decade.
So I've no problem with Jo Martin, she's done a better Doctor than Jodie or Ncuti has with much less screentime. But will the creative team behind her make her a good version of the Doctor? Experience this past decade has made me say "No".
Show died with Capaldi and it will take a heck of a retcon to pull it back to anything resembling a silly British science fiction show about a time traveller sorting out problems.