There's a new Dr. Who and they call him They/Them. That's right, gender neutral or perhaps alien unidentifiable.
Then what would make the show have his side-kick be a cute She/Her. It seems to mock the gender neutral identify and undermine it so that character can be considered a He/Him. "Time" will tell how well that goes.
"The original run of Doctor Who spanned 1963 to 1989. Since the show was revived in 2005, the Doctor has been played by Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith, in addition to Capaldi and Whittaker. Other stars, such as Karen Gillan and Billie Piper, have made their names on the show as the Doctor's "companion."
It makes sense that with the last Doctor being a woman, then next one had to be a "whatever" ir nature a "Who Knows".
Who should play the gender-neutral character? Hard to know.
It seems that television content is a direct reflection on our everyday social mores and thoughts. Even a "television series" about far-distant planets and time travel. Did television replace religion as the guide for everyday living? Maybe Roger Silverstone's 1994 book "Television and Everyday Life" has some wisdom on this.
Famous words in a Sydney, AU garden. Little did Darwin know he words would apply to science fiction television drama.
