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The altar upon which Doctor Who has been sacrificed is a complex and painful one. Initial strong storytelling, exemplified by William Hartnell’s original Doctor, has been replaced by a series of radical rewrites, including overt gender and racial politics. The casting of a Black actress to replace the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell, was not only controversial but perceived as an erasure of the show's historical integrity, a move seen by many critics as pandering rather than faithful storytelling.