Doctor WHO?

So! Our beloved Matt Smith (whose full name is Matthew Robert Smith, which gives him the most generic British person name this year) is actually going to leave Doctor Who, the show for which he has provided laughter, tears, and suspense (but mostly laughter) for the past three seasons. As the 10th Doctor went up into flames at the end of the fourth season, we met the strange but hilarious 11th Doctor, who crashed into the house of a little girl named Amelia Pond, whose life would forever be affected by him. Next, he ran into a girl with the name Clara Oswin Oswald, not only once, but several times, who would become one of the biggest mysteries yet. Now that his song is ending as well, Doctor Who fans from all over are holding their breath to see just how spectacular his regeneration will be. So the next question of the universe is, who will emerge from the flames this time?

For some reason, the world is freaking out about this question. It has to be a woman! She has to be black! She has to be in a wheelchair! Why don't we just bring in Johnny Depp while we're at it and make the show American after all! Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with all of that, but why now? There have been eleven Doctors in the past fifty years, and only now the media cares about so-called justice? Just to show what kind of candidates the world is thinking up, they include Jenna Coleman (I don't even think that's possible), Emma Watson, Michelle Dockery, and Susan Boyle, which just leads me to think that we care so much about equality that we will throw out some of the most famous and random names to entice the audiences. That led me to write this, about a month ago:

There was an article that I saw a little while ago about how it looked like Moffat wasn't going to cast a female or black Doctor, and how that was horrible and degrading, and how the BBC is being racist. I hate how we live in a society now where if you don't try at all to treat one race better-and end up being racist yourself-then you are considered a horrible person. Maybe a woman or a black person just wouldn't fit the role, but it's nothing against the gender or race itself. Personally, I think that the BBC, or just people in general, are trying way too hard to be fair that it's not an interesting theme anymore, and just caters to the wants of of fairness-seekers. Sure, the Doctor COULD be a female, but it doesn't mean that he has to. It's such an old show, and I feel like changing it now would just kind of ruin everything a little bit, not because of the gender (and I really don't care about race, mostly about gender), but because of the desperate plea of trying to satisfy people who are so obsessed with making things fair that they end up being totally unfair in the end.

There's a 50-50 chance of what gender a human will be. It's not the end of the world that this particular show happens to feature one of them.