[ SECRET POST #3615 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3615 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Except the show actually kept the whole argument of "Ned wonders why Robert's children are blonde when all Baratheons ever have been dark-haired", except the show couldn't actually be arsed to make the Baratheons black-haired (or even dark-haired, Shireen is blonde ffs).

[(Anonymous)]

Which is, entertainingly enough, actually a lot more realistic than the way the books play it - the Baratheons have intermarried enough with fair-haired families that some of them should be coming out blonde.

I like to pretend that the show's actually being clever with the casting in that respect, and subtly alluding to the fact that Ned Stark, having no comprehension of how biological inheritance works, jumped to a wild-ass conclusion that just happened to be the right one.

[ginainthekingsroad]

Agreed. Ned, 4/5 of your book!children have Tully red/auburn hair, it's totally possible to have kids with traits from both families...

But in context Ned's conclusion is "supported" by that old book with descriptions of various noble families, and an olde timey understanding about genetics. Plus I guess Ned thinks a lot about how Jon has the "Stark look," always reminding the family of his birth (real or assumed)?

[(Anonymous)]

If tbey made it blonde vs dark-haired then that was good enough... Robert, Renly and Gendry were all dark-haired, sufficient to drive the point home to the viewers (who, again, probably didn't care that much about this particular detail). We wouldn't even meet Shireen until the third season anyway, by which point hardly anyone would've remembered or cared anymore about Baratheons having to look any certain way.