Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26311512-20150512071859/@comment-26159109-20150610133224

Rockchick 19 wrote: Farerb wrote: Rockchick 19 wrote: Darkness Snow wrote: Merlin can't be Lily's dad because he is a black britt They haven't cast Merlin yet and I'm not quite sure why an actor being British or not would affect the storyline, or which characters are related. It's not he is british. It is the fact that he is black that prevent him from being Lily's father, since she is white female. Like I said they haven't cast anyone as Merlin yet so we don't know that he is black, yes the actor who did the voice in the episode 'Lily' is black but it doesn't mean that the same actor will be playing Merlin next season, having someone voice a character before they're seen on screen and then casting someone else when the character does appear isn't unusual. Also we saw that when Lily was younger she looked latina so its entirely plausible that she could be mixed race, for all we know her father could be black or latino or arabic etc, especially as it's possible for two people of different races to have a child who doesn't look as though they are mixed race, there have even been cases where a couple have twins and one twin will appear to be the same race as one parent and the other twin will appear to be the same race as the other parent.

All I meant by commenting on the idea of Merlin being played by a Brit is that an actor's nationality shouldn't affect something like this plotline, if nothing else because Lily grew up in the US and as such would have an American accent, meaning that the nationality of the actor playing her father wouldn't matter. They said in the casting call that he is black. Check before you reply.