i've read all the books but refuse to watch the show. in the books, it is regularly called out that Jimmy is olive complected because he's Spanish. he stands out by being so much darker than the people around him.

now, i will suspend disbelief in the books because the reality is that after that many generations of breeding with only shetlanders, jimmy would be fully white. the point is that he looks different from the people around him.


so when the show casts a white white person? really? they couldn't find *any* actor with mediterranean skin? in a show in a very white place full of white people, they erase the one non-fully-white person???


okay, i'm a-gonna get off my soapbox.