@pratik @dominikhoecht I’ll jump in as a 68 year old white woman to say: “Why not new ideas?” I bet that’s 99.9% money-based. Plus making a character ‘different’ is probably a money-based ploy to increase audience and therefore earnings. As for changing up a character — when I was a kid watching TV everybody was male. Sure, there were a few females sprinkled around - princesses for the very young or wives or secretaries who catered to the men for the adults. But it was men’s stories all the way. How relieved I have been as years have gone by to see myself more and more often represented, whether in reruns or new series, as a woman, as a lesbian. Representation is incredibly important.