#and no i'm not of the belief that characters belonging to certain minority groups can never have anything bad happen to them at all
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I'm sure it was pointed out many moons ago that the gesture of giving a character that was up until this point only portrayed by white male actors a bunch of extra previous lives where they were often a person of color rings hollow when those iterations were subjected to experimentation (which clearly included being murdered in order to further analyze their regeneration capabilities), torture, and a whole lotta gaslighting - and all while being an actual literal child. But I still have to do it bc I'm a salty lil bitch.
#so i'm guessing we're explaining away that the last 14 faces have all been white as a result of the trauma faced as a person of color then#which is chock full of unfortunate implications i am not equipped to examine#certainly muddies the message to all the nonwhite children watching#don't know if this is how they want to see themselves represented in the hero of their fave scifi tv show#and no i'm not of the belief that characters belonging to certain minority groups can never have anything bad happen to them at all#but that's why flippin' CONTEXT is gd important. understand the bounds of what you're working wrt the story that's already preexisting.#zima watches dw
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