Steven Moffat on how @doctorwho will be addressing the dangers of time travel for the new POC companion, Bill (played by Pearl Mackie).
‘What do you want to say to children?’ is the biggest thing here.
You don’t want to feel as though you’re apologising for them, or saying that there is something for which they have to make amends.
You want kids to see their kind of face on-screen and to know that that kind of face is absolutely fine and always has been. That’s what you want to say: there is no case to answer.
So if you do make a great big fuss about it, then you might be the first people to tell those kids ‘hey, there’s something about which you have to be afraid’. I don’t want to do that. I want to say ‘the universe is full of people like you’. And, y’know, we’ve started doing that in our historicals too, because, actually, it’s historically accurate. They didn’t invent people of different colours recently, in fact white is the most recent colour, so we address it but we address it in a positive, optimistic, Doctor Who way.