Since you haven't read it, you wouldn't know, but on top of being immersion breaking, it also makes meaningless a very important detail about the main character. Spoilers for the books below.
Rand Al'Thor is the only person in the village to have anything other than brown hair and eyes. He has red hair, paler skin, and blue eyes. This is because he was adopted from a battlefield, where his father found him as a baby whose mother, a woman of a race that lived across a major mountain range and had invaded for interesting reasons, had died in the war. He brought Rand home and raised him as a son. This ends up being crucially important to the plot of the entire series.
But nah. Town is diverse. It's uninteresting that he looks a bit different, because everyone looks a bit different.
I know. Why is that controversial. Like when I told someone I didn’t watch Wheel of Time because I wanted to see Robert Jordan’s vision on the screen
I haven’t read wheel of time. I bailed on episode 1 when the tiny secluded town looked like a corporate diversity training cast.
It makes no sense. It completely takes me out of the show.
Since you haven't read it, you wouldn't know, but on top of being immersion breaking, it also makes meaningless a very important detail about the main character. Spoilers for the books below.
Rand Al'Thor is the only person in the village to have anything other than brown hair and eyes. He has red hair, paler skin, and blue eyes. This is because he was adopted from a battlefield, where his father found him as a baby whose mother, a woman of a race that lived across a major mountain range and had invaded for interesting reasons, had died in the war. He brought Rand home and raised him as a son. This ends up being crucially important to the plot of the entire series.
But nah. Town is diverse. It's uninteresting that he looks a bit different, because everyone looks a bit different.