Jamie's child? They gave her his hair color but Frank's eye color. Every where I look, I'm told it's impossible for two blue eyed people to make a brown eyed child. Maybe it's just really, really rare but they should have made it obvious that she belongs to Claire and Jamie.
shareThey cast Sophie Skelton because she had the essence of the character from the books. Frank and Black Jack in the books is supposed to have blue eyes. Tobias Menzies has brown. Again it was who captured the essence of the character and Diana Gabaldon has had no issues with any of the casting choices.
shareI remember when Sophie was first cast, a lot of people were upset about the eye color (I don't really notice eye color.) Apparently, it actually is POSSIBLE for two blue eyed people to have a blue eyed child, but it is very rare. The genetics chapter many of us studied in high school biology made genetics seem very cut and dry. The reality is, there are other factors at play, and we were really just given a basic overview.
I agree with prometheus1816 that Sophie was likely chosen because she really captured the essence of Brianna. She's received a lot of criticism, but I think she's done a great job. Brianna is not an easy character to play.
Ziggy, Yes, in high school they teach that DNA is cut and dried. But like so many subjects, there are textbooks, and there are real world situations. I knew a guy who was a broadcast engineer for the government that recruited new hired while they were still in college. The new hires would go to school for 6 months, then work for 6 months as trainees. My engineer friend told me they spent nearly the first half of the 6 months of on the job training to unteach what they had learned in school, because what they learned in school was theory that often didn't include all the booger factors you find in real world scenarios. The same is true for DNA. In genealogy, one quickly learns that DNA can prove a relationship exists, but more often than not, there are too many variables for it to be proof positive of what that relationship is. You get half your DNA from each of your parents. They in turn got half of their DNA from THEIR parents, and so on. But there is no telling WHICH half of their DNA will be given to their offspring, and where THEY might have gotten in from. One little piece from a 2 or 3x great grandparent could still be hanging around and get passed along.
shareGood examples!
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