'It's not a choice. It's not a political statement,' one says. 'It's just.. we had to use what heads we had lying around.'
And all you saps giving them a pass, just ask yourself what the reaction would be if this was Obama or Clinton. They would NEVER get away with it or even attempt it in the first place.
In the early Pacific evening, the following statement went out from Benioff and Weiss:
We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.
In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.
And from HBO, in the same release:
We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste. We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production.
http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/HBO_Producers_Respond_to_Controversy/
The DVD also mentioned that the author of the books withdrew his own request to have his cameo as one of the heads on the wall after he found out how much it would cost.
“just ask yourself what the reaction would be if this was Obama or Clinton. They would NEVER get away with it or even attempt it in the first place”
So we should whine over trivialities and waste everyone’s time just because they would?