Game of Thrones - whoops.

ejmaztec

Some people would have preferred the real thing.


http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/s151/game-of-thrones/news/a387214/game-of-thrones-hbo-sorry-for-george-w-bush-head-on-spike-scene.html

'Game of Thrones': HBO sorry for George W Bush head on spike scene

HBO has apologised for a scene in Game of Thrones which appeared to depict George W Bush's head on a spike.

A prosthetic version of the 43rd president's severed head with a wig is visible in the first season finale of the medieval fantasy

calex71

Am I the only one who looked at that and would not have been able to say who's head it was had it not been spelled out

ejmaztec

calex71 wrote: »

Am I the only one who looked at that and would not have been able to say who's head it was had it not been spelled out

No.:D

madrab

wouldn't have noticed it at all

DarkDusk

I lol'd so hard when I read these comments on the article:

who complained?

I complained.
There is no reason to get our hopes up like that.

Daxve

HBO have now pulled the episode from all TV and digital distribution and have halted the shipping of boxsets until the scene is reedited talk about an over reaction.

Witcher

This is one of the times when I wonder what the person themselves would actually think, I'm pretty sure George Bush has no idea and even if he did I'm confident he wouldn't give two sh1ts. If it was me I'd actually send them a dummy of my head to put on a pike just so I could say to people 'Hey....you might remember my head from such tv shows as Game of Thrones:pac:

GhostInTheRuins

I just watched the scene there again on youtube. I still can't see how it looks like Bush at all. Ridiculous to be stopping the dvds for this!

ejmaztec

I expect one of the competitors paid someone to go through each episode frame by frame just to see if they could spike HBO's most popular series.

On the other hand, if you look at IMDB, some anoraks do this as a matter of course for every film or tv programme known to mankind, because their only interest in life is finding bloopers.

Cardinal Richelieu

ejmaztec wrote: »

I expect one of the competitors paid someone to go through each episode frame by frame just to see if they could spike HBO's most popular series.

On the other hand, if you look at IMDB, some anoraks do this as a matter of course for every film or tv programme known to mankind, because their only interest in life is finding bloopers.

Would that not be True Blood still?

ejmaztec

Cardinal Richelieu wrote: »

Would that not be True Blood still?

Dunno, I never watch it, so it can't be much good.:P

copacetic

ejmaztec wrote: »

I expect one of the competitors paid someone to go through each episode frame by frame just to see if they could spike HBO's most popular series.

On the other hand, if you look at IMDB, some anoraks do this as a matter of course for every film or tv programme known to mankind, because their only interest in life is finding bloopers.

Did you even read the article?
They pointed it out themselves on the DVD commentary, which is how everyone found out.

ejmaztec

copacetic wrote: »

Did you even read the article?
They pointed it out themselves on the DVD commentary, which is how everyone found out.

Nope.:(

OhLongJohnson

copacetic wrote: »

Did you even read the article?
They pointed it out themselves on the DVD commentary, which is how everyone found out.

They pointed it out on the DVD commentary

Fans shared screenshots with text attached to it on sites like Reddit

Non-fans got hold of it and created a political issue out of a scene they had never seen, nor will ever see, from a book and tv series they will never see, completely out of context.

Stupidity to the core. I genuinely hope those offended by this are infertile because the gene pool is messed up enough already without them splashing their oxygen thieving selves in it.

eyeball kid

Looked at the clip again and still don't see the resemblance. Storm in a tea cup really.

TerrorFirmer

Seriously can't even see a shred of resemblance. If a million euro were staked on my guessing the owner of said head, I'd have lost regardless of how many guesses were given. Mind boggling at the fact it was included in commentary and worse, the reaction it's inspired. Who actually cares?

Interestingly, who do you reckon will be held responsible for this, within the production?

s.o.c.k

the fella who mentioned it on the commentary.

Syferus

Mind boggling it was mentioned in the commentary? What else but production tidbits like that make up commentaries? 'Held responsible' for it? No one because there's nothing to be held responsible for.

You're falling into the same sad trap as the people up in arms about the head without seeing the show.

Chief_Jack

Talk about making a big deal out of nothing, its just a almost unrecognizable prosthetic head for crying out loud! Recycling is what it is if anything!