Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20161114173607/@comment-24674051-20161115203437

CoolDudeAl wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: There's also the concept of "color-blind casting", where directors choose to cast based on skill rather than appearance. People tend to be okay or even supportive of it when it's a non-white playing a role that should be white and call it out as inappropriate when it's the other way around, but it is still a possible explanation. Yes, but Once is not something that does color-blind casting, and for good reason. As much as people may hate to admit it, biological children do come from the DNA of their two biological parents. So as much as I appreciate the idea behind color blind casting, nothing is more distracting then having actors who are supposted to be biologically related look nothing alike. And I would agree with not using "color-blind" casting when the relations are human (which would be true for most TV shows). Once Dragons are not human, they just appear human, and therefore don't necessarily need to stay within the bounds of color/ethnicity. Look at how dog breeds are. Just within the Labrador breed, there are 3 distinct but similar subclasses (Black, Brown, and Yellow). and I have seen breeding between 2 of the 3 produce offspring of the 3rd color (due to recessive genetics and other factors).

I'm not trying to say Dragons are Dogs. Just trying to point out that we don't need to restrict non-human species to paradigms that are applied to humans. and racial/ethnic appearance is one of the factors that does not need to be restrictred for non-humans.