Would it bother you if it were a black doctor? After all, all the doctors have been white for 50 years.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t go all the way PC and choose a black female gay actor to play the part.
believe it or not, I don’t think racial switch would bother me so much. But would still bother me, after over 20 regenerations of various characters seen in both new and old Who, that not once did race change.
Things change.