Diversity Is Our Strength 
!chuds literally who !indianmoment
Criticisms that Doctor Who has become too "woke" prove the series is doing the right thing by being inclusive, its new star Varada Sethu has said.
Sethu plays the Doctor's latest travelling companion, Belinda Chandra, in new episodes airing this month. With Ncuti Gatwa returning as the Doctor, the pairing marks the first time a Tardis team will comprise solely people of colour.
Speaking about the milestone, Sethu told the Radio Times: "Ncuti was like, 'Look at us. We get to be in the Tardis. We're going to piss off so many people.'"
At a time when representative casting in sci-fi and fantasy is prompting toxicity online, the actor, who recently appeared in the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor, said she had been encouraged by fans' response to her joining the show.
"There's been a couple of Doctor Woke [references] or whatever, but I just think we're doing the right thing if we're getting comments like that," Sethu said.
"Woke just means inclusive, progressive and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing."
Doctor Who celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, when some viewers criticised its introduction of transgender and non-binary characters, as well as a scene in which David Tennant's Doctor realises he has a crush on Sir Isaac Newton.
Sethu, who was born in India and moved to the north-east of England at a young age, has also appeared in Jurassic World Dominion, Annika and Strike Back.
The 32-year-old made her first appearance in Doctor Who last year, playing an entirely different character in the episode Boom.
She told Radio Times that, after filming that episode, the Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies said he "kept seeing me and Ncuti on screen and thinking, 'God, those two have such great chemistry'."
She added: "We really are equals in the way that we interact with each other. Russell wanted someone who can push back and not be in awe of this all-powerful being."
Sethu said the new Doctor Who episodes were "bright and energetic", with one – The Interstellar Song Contest – including a cameo from the TV personality Rylan Clark.
She also spoke of the "whiplash"-inducing experience of taking on one of the most coveted and high-pressure roles on British television.
"I was dropped into [filming] within two weeks of being told I had it. So a lot of the confusion and stress that [Belinda is] going through is the confusion and stress that I was going through," she said.
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Shows how irrelevant Dr Who has become that this is the first time I'm seeing or hearing anything about her
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Aren't they both gay men? Is that really woke?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
The "whiplash" of contributing to the decline of the most overrated zombie bong show of all time.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Playing a side character on a children's show is extremely high-pressure.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The children's law and order of bongs that every bong who has ever had a 5 minute segment on anything in BBC has been in.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
How will that help boost their viewership?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That's the nice thing about the BBC, viewership doesn't matter. All the Bongs pay for it regardles because it's a government program.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
It doesn't it just boost their own egos.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
/u/The-Mirrorball-Man
Say you're a young person who went through a long period of education and radicalization and came out as a passionate advocate for social justice, becoming a professional organizer by working for a lefty nonprofit. You go through the usual Tumblr-Twitter-TikTok education a lot of young social justice types do, but unlike most you're inspired to do real scholarship. You apply to grad programs and do the work. You read your bell hooks and your Gloria Anzaldua, you unpack your privilege knapsack, you pour over sociology PDFs until late in the morning, you gradually acquire the notoriously abstruse vocabulary, you start a campus political group with your comrades, you attend conferences and march at protests, you write a compelling thesis, you scour online job boards for work at relevant nonprofits, ready to start at the very bottom if you get a chance to do good. You built a whole life around developing a particular ideological stance, informed both by learning and by personal experience. You have a sophisticated, specific, and provocative set of opinions on philosophy, politics, and policy. You are deeply sincere and utterly committed, and you're ready to spend your life fighting in support of your vision of a more just and fair society. You want to live your life in such a way that your very existence serves as a repudiation of the various ideologies of bigotry and oppression that rule the world.
And now some celebrity lady looks at you and your political project and movement and says, "That just means you give a darn about people." In doing so, she drains every last ounce of actual political and moral meaning from you and your work, using words of praise that could just as easily be applied to a Mormon missionary or to a particularly friendly cop. Would you find that… respectful? A demonstration of adult admiration? A reflection on your mission as a political being? Or would you find it intensely fricking condescending?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Condescending? Their ideology created this. They'd be a little embarrassed at the hoi polloi, but they still would be proud. They're idpoltards.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This was nice, i made sure it sent
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I stole it from freddie deboer
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-15-3-future-shelved-report-bbc-response/
https://movieweb.com/doctor-who-rumor-cancel-ratings-woke-story-bbc-statement/
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
This literally means nothing when you guys would frick literally anything with a hole. Dramatards have no standards.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
But they won't frick you
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
That hair style makes me
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Oh, they're still making that show?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Once she cleans her butt of course.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This goes to show living the sissy femboy lifestyle is possible and the rewards are clear
Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/1jooil8/woke_criticism_of_doctor_who_proves_show_on_right/:
undelete.pullpush.io
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Ok r-slur
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context