Posted on 06/16/2012 4:31:09 AM PDT by SMGFan
HBO is continuing to do damage control after producers confirmed that a model of President George W. Bush's severed head appeared in the season one finale of Game of Thrones. The premium cable network has pulled the 10th episode of the drama from rotation on digital platforms -- including HBO Go and iTunes -- and halted all future shipments of its best-selling Season 1 DVD set, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Ok, I guess I dont really get this. Was this really on screen for THAT long for people to really care THIS much?
For the management...I suspect they knew nothing and this has cost them well over a million to destroy the current collection of DVDs in the warehouse. For the guy down in the production staff who knew the inside story from day one....he’s probably grinning about this.
they may fear some of us are becoming activists and might finally cancel HBO or those related. “Follow the money trail”?
Just imagine if it had been Obama’s head. I agree that it should never have been done.
Just imagine if it had been Obama’s head. I agree that it should never have been done.
Yeah, some smart ass liberals thought it would be cute to know that they had the power to decapitate W. Whoever it was, their heads should roll...
No, their were multiple heads on spikes, very gory. There was no way one could tell it was him. The producers pointed it out in an interview.
Since it’s the principle of the matter (for me), I don’t care how long it was on screen. I hope this creates a major annoyance for HBO. (I don’t care how far down the totem pole the problem originated.)
I am SICK of the blatant hypocrisy from the liberals.
Yes,it IS a big deal.
Just as the “sniper crosshairs” picture of Bush a few years ago.
only HBO is actually doing something to correct the disgusting situation for which I applaud them.
it was an inside joke. sort of an “Easter Egg”?
“”they may fear some of us are becoming activists and might finally cancel HBO or those related. “Follow the money trail”?””
Too late, I did that years ago.
A competent PR person would have said the following:
“All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”
Instead, HBO is saying “you got us, we hate Bush.”
There has to be much more to the story than they’re letting on. Someone has to have the feeling that this isn’t going to go away unless they go to extremes in making good and apologizing. Can’t someone just check into rehab?
It wasn’t an inside joke after the jokesters bragged about it.
My Cable Co had an HBO preview last weekend. I marathoned S1 and S2 of Thrones.
I didn’t even notice the GWB head. I recall several on spikes, but none, other than the main character who got beheaded, was showing that close or distinctive.
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Since HBO is going to this extensive of an effort, apparently the inclusion was intended to be GWB’s head.
Thus, the inclusion was not done in a vacuum. It had to be designed, created, propped, and videoed. That would indicate that several people would need to have been involved.
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Much ado about over-sensitivity by some immature people involved in the development and production of the scene.
The producers now apologize, but I'll bet that they were initially snickering at what they got away with.
Now maybe they can explain the fat...bumbling...drunk ..idiot that was carrying a shield that was unmistakeably an american flag...im the first episode this season.....it jumped off the screen it was so obvious....was in a tournemant scene...
George R. R. Martin (the author of the books) was rabidly anti-Bush. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was his idea of a joke.
HBO is a rabid leflt-wing outfit. Who do they think they’re kidding? They personally endorse this, but have to pretend it’s offensive because it offended so many viewers.
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