Barely makes it onto the Mt Rushmore of Jesse Armstrong shows

Why does "diverse" always mean the same thing? The UK has a lot more south Asians than black people but for some reason they don't get included when talking about "diversity"

Anyways House of the Dragon obviously did it a lot better. If you can get past the silliness of the blood-obsessed Valyrians seeming not to notice that this one family looks completely different than everyone else (all the talk about "keeping blood pure" doesn't really help), it actually is coherent. You have one foreign house that is fiercely proud of their descent, and when they intermarry the children look like the combination of their parents.

The method of Rings of Power of just randomly making every fourth character black is just silly (feels like a decade ago this would've been called "tokenism" and universally detested). How do you have these insular communities in an ancient world where people are not homogenous? Are these cultures strictly against race-mixing? They could've easily just set one of the plotlines farther south in Harad and everything would have made sense. But maybe part of getting the brownie points for inclusivity is to make it make as little sense as possible, to show that you're doing it just because you're so ideologically committed to it.

The reality is that these companies have internal and external racial quotas they're working to fulfill. Artistic considerations are second. But if you're going to do it, at least make a serious attempt at having it make sense. House of the Dragon did, to its benefit. Rings of Power did not.