My understanding is that Rings of Power did something similar where nobody takes note of the color of a characters skin, but having pointy ears is a big division. Relying on an audience ignorant of how such distinctions arose in the first place.

They’d look like the Velaryons, which is the point.

I know Shirley Henderson as the weirdo from season 2 of Happy Valley.

You are arguing that it WAS a bad call, not that it WASN’T. Here’s an example of an argument claimed to be impossible: “It was the most entertaining thing to happen during the ceremony since they read the wrong envelope for Best Picture”.

Corlys’ wife is Rhaenys Targaryen, “the Queen who never was”, so they’re already joined by blood. In the canon of the books, Aegon I Targaryen himself (and his sisters) were the children of Valaena Velaryon. Because the Targaryens & Velaryons looked the same, it was expected that Rhaenyra’s children with Laenor would…

That would work... if the Targaryens were ALSO black on the show. But the show has them white while Velaryons are black even though they are supposed to look similar to each other and unlike the Westerosi.

Mr. Anderson from The Matrix?

I was not expecting Anya Taylor-Joy to lose a competition centering on her eyes being filmed.

You’re missing out on Pugh-Pugh-Pugh!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Rich_Asians_(film)

Crazy Rich Asians made a lot of money as a romcom, but if I look up the comedies with the biggest box office for every year, the most recent ones are dominated by family-friendly animated ones & Chinese movies I’m unfamiliar with.

Maybe youtube has me pegged as more of a horror fan than you, because I’d been seeing lots of ads for it. I also saw ads for it during previews on my most recent theater outings (which were also for horror movies).

Thoroughbreds is the last movie I bought on physical media. Olivia Cooke is the standout there, but that’s partly because she’s got the more externalizing character.

There’s no “recasting” within a comic book, the character simply remains alive even if the person who was previously creating them (or served as an inspiration for them in real life) dies.

Do we know who’s playing Jonathan now?

Florence Pugh appears to be a better actress (among blondes with English accents who’ve recently done movies about murderous Nordic cultures), but Taylor-Joy is well-suited to this. There’s something uncanny about her (perhaps her eyes being so wide apart contributes) that works well in horror.

I was logged out at the front page, then when I went to the url for my notifications I was already logged in without me needing to do anything, then when I clicked the link to a response I was logged out again and had to sign in. Weird.

Murnau dropped the Dutchman from his adaptation.