How is it that Cinderella's kid ends up darker than the mother or the father? I mean come one, if you have a bi-racial kid that kid doesn't end up darker than the darkest parent they end up somewhere between the two parents.
shareThat happens a lot in "TV World" they care more about the actor than making sense with genetics. Casting rarely gets things right, but sometimes they get lucky...like with Ginnifer & Jennifer.
shareI completely and utterly agree with your premise that the diversity monster needs to be reined in, but I reject your science. A new person is not an "average" of his or her parents. We all have dominant and recessive genes. It's entirely possible for two parents with blonde hair and blue eyes to create a child with black hair and brown eyes, if the couple have matching recessive genes for those physical features. Moreover, I don't think that Lucy's skin looks darker than her mother's, and kids are not always, or even usually, born with skin pigmentation that is halfway between that of their parents. Having said all that, I really dislike the little girl cast in this role; but, if we are going to oppose mindless political correctness, let us not disregard scientific reality. Lucy COULD exist, but casting this kid was a bad idea. All that needs to be said.
shareI understand the recessive and dominant aspect, but being bi-racial myself and knowing a lot of other bi-racial people this is an instance where it goes beyond credibility. I could even go with her casting if she was the same shade as the mom, but this is a bit like having Ron Howard play the son of Morgan Freeman, it just doesn't fit at all.
shareYou want to talk about messed-up casting with genetics, try Pinocchio and Emma!
We'll work with Emma first:
Sure, she looks beautiful with blond hair, and I can understand her having blue eyes and light skin, due to her parents, but frankly, chances seemed more evident that she should have had darker hair, maybe even black. It's extremely rare for a dark-haired parent (in this case, Snow White), and a blond parent (like Prince Charming) to have a light-haired child. It might have been due to either a genetic fluke, Snow's dad might have been a blond (did he have light hair?), or it could have been a result of her having ultra-light magic infused into her from being a Child Born of True Love, or the goodness her parents infused into her at the expense of Maleficent's child. I'm using Elsa of Arendelle as an example, because she came from a family of brunettes and redheads, and yet she is pale with platinum blond hair. It could have only been because of her ice powers. We'll never know in the case of Emma.
Pinocchio was an even sadder case:
You first have a child with brown eyes and curly, reddish-brown hair. I can get that, because of the reddish-brown wood his puppet self was made of. But to suddenly have BLUE EYES and STRAIGHT BROWN HAIR when you're grown up?! Where's the logic in that?! That has to be the WORST casting adult/child match-up I have ever seen! Either August should have had curly reddish hair and brown eyes as an adult, or they should have cast a boy with blue eyes and straight brown hair. Otherwise, that was a TERRIBLE job they did. Drove me crazy when I first saw the child version of Pinocchio.