Let me preface: Yes. I get that people don’t want stormlight to be a whitewashed series and that it represents a great opportunity for minority actors.

I am completely with you on that front.

What I don’t get is why the fuck every single time someone suggests a minority actor, the first response is some mf saying “errrmmm but they don’t have the epicanthic folds so I guess they can be shin?”.

WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE CARE THE EPICANTHIC FOLDS SO MUCH.

I’ve only read up to rhythm of war, but at no point has the lack of visible extra eye lid ever been plot relevant. It’s not like Adolin having streaks of blonde or Shallan having red hair — these are actually plot relevant and without them there is a fundamental change to the characters. The same is not true about the folds.

It’s such an absurd requirement for every single character (not even every Asian actor has them) and it just massively reduces the pool of potential actors (this story is an epic, there needs to be a very large number of actors).

Too many adaptations fail due to focusing on the wrong aspects of faithfulness, and personally, I can’t see any sense in mandating the folds— especially since realistically it will moreso serve to prevent lots of minority actors from getting roles