No, the question is: Why should Brains be Indian?
I think the real question is why it even matters to you that he is. The original Brains was not defined by his national or ethnic origin, therefore neither is this new version. No, he didn't have to be Indian, he could have just as easily have been French or Chinese or he could have stayed an American. I don't care.
For some stupid, pointless "ethnicity quota"?
How do you know that's the reason they did it? And even if it is, so what?
The same way people complained that "Friends" was mostly white people, and people whinged about THAT?
I didn't watch much of that show, but I'd imagine such complaints were because of their belief that the show's presentation of the demographics of New York City didn't reflect reality.
Whinging that there isn't enough ethnic diversity in a bloody TV show is as pathetic in my book
As opposed to whinging that ONE character isn't white, out of a cast of mostly white people? God forbid that International Rescue is, well, International!
And no, I wasn't "whinging" about diversity, idiot. It's just a plain fact that the original series was lacking in this regard, perhaps not by the standards of the time, but certainly in retrospect. It's not about being "PC" it's about reflecting reality. Not a single black character appears in the entire run of the original series. That doesn't make any sense and if this new show presents a more believable version of the world in all of it's diversity than so be it.
a pointless change
Ah, but that's not what you're saying. You're saying that it's a negative change, otherwise you wouldn't be complaining about it. You think that a character being Indian is worse than that same character being American and White. In short, you're racist.
Why the hell does EVERYTHING have to have some carefully contrived balance of ethnicities
Because REAL LIFE is a balance of ethnicities you moron.
If it doesn't serve a purpose
Oh, so Brains national and ethnic origin now has to have a purpose? By logical extension, so does everyone else's, right? So tell me, for what purpose are the Tracy brothers White Americans?
You are the disease, and Mr. Zurkon is the cure!
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