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HBO apologized Wednesday amid outrage that "Game of Thrones" features former President George W. Bush's severed head impaled on a spike.
In commentary for the DVD of the first season, one of the writers admits that the Republican's likeness "appears in a couple of beheading scenes" but insisted no one is playing politics.
"We just had to use whatever head we had around," the writer says without explaining where the prop came from.
The presidential noggin, topped with straggly hair, appears for a just a second in an episode of the fantasy series that aired last year, when spoiled child king Joffrey shows Sansa Stark a line of heads on spikes.
No, they should absolutely have apologized. I'm sure that this was the action of an idiot effects guys and not some grand political conspiracy by the producers, but they employ the idiots and put the product out under the names of the producers and the studio and aired it on HBO-- they're all guilty by association and were right to issue the apology.
"There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
Abraham Lincoln, from his Address to the Ohio One Hundred Sixty Fourth Volunteer Infantry
No, they should absolutely have apologized. I'm sure that this was the action of an idiot effects guys and not some grand political conspiracy by the producers, but they employ the idiots and put the product out under the names of the producers and the studio and aired it on HBO-- they're all guilty by association and were right to issue the apology.
"There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
Abraham Lincoln, from his Address to the Ohio One Hundred Sixty Fourth Volunteer Infantry
Fans of the show should check out the cover story in most recent issue of The Economist; pretty clever analogy drawn between the behemoths striving for internet dominance and the Houses.
Concern about the clout of the internet giants is growing. But antitrust watchdogs should tread carefully
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If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
- Terence McKenna
Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige
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