Great. So HBO is going to do to Game of Thrones canon what Amazon did to Tolkien.
The original series did have plenty of non-white actors, but it worked because they put them in roles that made sense. Dothrakis were often swarthy, black roles were found in Qaarth, Latinos often played Dornishmen. It worked when you looked at Martin's fictional map.
Now were supposed to buy into black Targaryens?
Netflix wanted us to buy black Vikings.
I don't care if non-white actors are used in roles, for crying out loud, but, please, make it make sense. Don't just put them in rolls to satisfy racial quotas because it distracts from the narrative.
Now were supposed to buy into black Targaryens? Those are Velaryons, not Targaryens. Still, they should be white as they came from Valyria. Of all the families in HOTD, Velaryons are the easiest to make non-white. They are a seafaring family who could have intermixed with southern islanders.
I’ve read that UK movie & TV series can’t get funding unless there are roles for minority actors\actresses. Making sense is irrelevant. There’s a Georgian England costume drama series with black actors\actresses having roles of Lords\Ladies, etc. There’s a UK TV series on Anne Bolyen and she’s black. Visually these series just look ridiculous! There’s another UK series about 1950s\1960s Belfast, blue collar lower class Belfast and its well populated with all sorts of minorities. Again not even remotely historically accurate in the numbers presented. History is being rewritten to include people who weren’t there, i think primarily because it’s cheaper easier to do then write actual new plausible material. Of course the intellectual fraud and laziness is being disguised as “woke”. How fraud and lies helps these minorities escapes me.