I saw some of this series and was disappointed as well. Get Semitic actors to play Semitic characters - - there must be some out there somewhere... The makeup, the hairdos... that stuff bothers me the way it has always bothered me to see paintings of Jesus with blonde hair. Seeing African blacks and northern European whites playing Semitic characters just doesn’t cut it.
About the only leeway I give in these kinds of historical films is the dialogue - - ideally I would prefer original languages spoken, with the film subtitled, but I realize that’s asking too much.
The original tongue spoken on board Noah’s ark was, of course, Elizabethan English........ (tongue in cheek)>
Abraham was essentially mesopotamian....
Semitic peoples became more swarthy with the Arab conquests
Phonecians and other Med peoples were more European looking then than now
There were no tropical Negroes in the Bible i know of and no Rus type folks either
Nor Orientals....like Japs or Koreans....nor Amerindians or early Britons though i know Joseph of Arithimea had contact with Pax Romana Britons
The darkest historical Biblical folks were Hamitic peoples...i guess the Falasha connection
Similar to modern day Eritreans...i think
Narrow nose thin lips thick straight to curly hair thin build bronzed peoples
Almost Berberish
Alas....Berber peoples not too far back were much fairer
As for pre Abraham...who knows...many folks see Tarim Basin as earliest white man
Jury still out
I don't think all humans started same spot