House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power have made the same mistake: posh blonde heroes

Queen Elizabeth asked crisply, her eyes boring into mine: ‘What’s the name of that horror film that begins with a G?’

The Rings of Power is able to flex its bigger budgetary muscles with cinematic vistas that had some critics in initial ecstasy, but the problems begin as soon as the characters open their mouths. Irish Times readers may already have read about the stage-Irishry of the proto-hobbits. Irritating they may be, but only marginally more so than the dwarves, who appear to have dialled in their performances from an early episode of Rab C Nesbitt. Men appear to have based their general visual affect and accents on the veteran Leicester hard-rock band Kasabian.

So time to extinguish The Irish Times. Pure left-wing babble.

Not sure the author of this article understands the meaning of “hero”

Of course a show about the targaryen family tree has blonde posh people.. they are literally known for being blonde and they are royalty?

The posh blonde people in House of the Dragon are not heroes 😂

Identity politics is cancer

Star Wars is even worse for it. Desert orphan scavenger with a rough upbringing? Cast a posh English brunette. Plucky, punky rebel fighter? Cast a posh English brunette! Seemingly they think 'British' and posh are just the default fantasy casting choice.

Blonde, White skinned, blue eyed women are the most sought after demographic that there is. Anyone who says otherwise is coping.

So we can't have any more TV shows based on the Targaryens... because they're white?

'terrible mistake' 'wrong damn heroes' lol this is like reading a child's tantrum. Crying because it's sibling is watching it's favourite cartoon and not theirs. Even though there's another TV in the other room.

Whats posh about bottle blondes or any blonde ?

The accents in ring of power reflect the opinions of the English upper classes.

Have a day off from this shite, please

It’s a good piece and cuts to the heart of the issue with both shows.

Relentless labelling of people breeds hate

George R.R. Martin wrote the them that way

Racist.

'Upper-crust heroes don’t cut it in the fantasy wars'. Indeed. We definitely needed a couple of BAME lesbos in there to make fantasy reflect the real world.

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