'Doctor Who' is about possibility. Ncuti Gatwa's role embodied that

Actor Ncuti Gatwa's brief stint as the mercurial, time-traveling Doctor on the British series Doctor Who came to an end last Saturday.

His Fifteenth Doctor represented a welcome departure from the direction the show had settled into before his arrival. Some of that sense of newness could be chalked up to the simple fact of his casting: He was the first Black actor, the first openly queer actor and the first African-born actor to inhabit the role. (Gatwa is Rwandan-Scottish, making him the fourth Scottish actor to play the Doctor on telly. Yawn.)

There was also the shift in showrunner. Russell T. Davies returned and oversaw Gatwa's run on the series, having first revived Doctor Who back in 2005 and left in 2010. What Davies has thus far brought to his second bite of the Who apple ha