The people who cheer for the replacement of historically caucasian/male gender roles with minority actors/women, are the same people who protest the replacement of historically minority/women roles with caucasian/male actors. And they wonder why there's push back.
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It depends on context. Doctor Who is a fictional character. Historical figures are not. It isn't hard to understand why there are different reactions there.
Scarlet Johansen as the Major in Ghost in the Shell Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Dr Strange Controversy around characters like Iron Fist etc
Asian fictional characters often get white washed. Results in protests from minority groups who feel they're being denied representation in their own culture's created artwork, and roles in movies/shows -- just like how replacing caucasian fictional characters results in protests from groups who feel they're having their cultural representation in media suppressed by minority interests. But whatever man. Guess those dont count.
The Major is literally a full cyborg, the Scar Jo replacement didn't bother me too much. The ancient one was a Tibetan monk and China actively tries to repress Buddhist representation.
I know nothing about those particular shows or films. I would expect a US remake of a show or film to possibly do recasts.
Does this upset you? I believe Thailand also did a modern reimagining of Snow White too, with a Thai actress playing the role.
Doctor Who has always been a character who can regenerate and reform by design. They're an alien species. I'd argue its more important they're eccentric guile heroes in performance than their sex or race.
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I will still watch it for reasons..... .....
Same. I don't even like dr the who
