There’s nuances: no one’s all good, no one’s all bad.” People read these characters and they want to play them because they’re not cookie-cutters. “The luxury of adapting characters that George created is they’re so well-defined, and so it’s easy to get actors excited. “She is smart and strong and incredibly powerful, and that’s what we wanted as Mel,” Buhler says. Jodie Turner-Smith plays Melantha, the only member of the crew who stands a chance of surviving the onslaught of a murderous unseen force, though showrunner Jeff Buhler points out she was not cast for the color of her skin but instead because she is “the improved model.” Martin is glad the Syfy series is finally getting it “right,” though. I could’ve done more, I suppose, but I did want my book to sell.” “I said, ‘This is wrong, you should change it.’ And to my discredit, and something I was a little ashamed about for many years, I don’t think I protested hard enough when the editors back in the early ’80s said, ‘Well, do you want your book to sell? No one will buy a book with a black woman on the cover.’ I gave in. “I got a white, blonde woman on the cover when she’s clearly described as a black woman,” says Martin. Taking its cue from that cover, the 1987 film adaptation followed suit. Martin originally envisioned Melantha that way in his 23,000-word novella written in 1980, but when it was published, she was whitewashed on the cover.
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