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On 2024-11-10 20:46:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:
> The True Doctor wrote:
>> On 10/11/2024 12:35, Blueshirt wrote:
>>> 
>>> In retrospect, some people might consider the casting of
>>> Jodie Whittaker a blunder if they were unhappy with her era
>>> once that had seen it... but they didn't know that in July
>>> 2017.
>> 
>> They knew she was a woman and that the Doctor was established
>> as a masculine male character for over 50 years.
> 
> They also knew that it had already been established in the show
> that Time Lords can change gender... following the General and
> your favourite incarnation of the Master, Missy. So the Doctor
> following suit wasn't a completely revolutionary idea to fans of
> the show.
> 
> The way you go on about it you'd swear it had never been done
> before...

The gender-swapping / ethnicity-swapping nonsense was only fully 
"established" relatively recently and explicity so that the show's 
makers could increase the Politically Correct quota tickboxing. Before 
that there was at best only vague hints or joking lines of dialogue.