Some media outlets still use Twitter/X as a source for news and opinion, otherwise I wouldn’t go near the site. Seeing some of the replies to a trailer for the upcoming Doctor who xmas special, I wonder why somebody feels the need to actively shit on a show they so clearly dislike:
Like most #DrWho fans, I won’t be watching. #DrWho is dead. The doctor is now black and gay, Sir Isaac Newton is now Indian, and the character of Rose is being played by a man wearing women’s clothing. #RIPDoctorWho #DefundTheBBC #DiversityHire
That quote alone has too many levels of wrong to pick over, but it will never not surprise me how little of the show’s humanist messages these people have taken to heart.
Edit: Thanks for the “duh, Twitter” responses. I do think it’s low hanging fruit to just blame the platform (which is, inarguably, a dumpster fire). Let’s talk about reactionary fans instead, yeah?
…and if they were?
No, it has not been writ in stone that the Doctor is now “gay”. Ncuti Gatwa is queer although not public about what that entails afaik. In a recent special, David Tennant’s Doctor did (somewhat to his own surprise) note that another man was “hot”, but Donna commented that his queerness “was never that far from the surface, mate”.
When it comes down to canon, the Doctor is a millennia old, time travelling alien that changes face every couple of years. If viewers are able to accept that and the other wild concepts of the show, they shouldn’t have any trouble coming to terms with down-to-earth, real life things like the Doctor not being totally straight.
I mean, I’m curious, that’s why. But thanks for answering the question.