[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
So, HBO found itself in the middle of a small shitstorm, when it turned out one of the beheaded victims of King Joffrey's killing spree in Kings Landing was... George W Bush. :-O
"We just had to use whatever head we had around, soorrryyyy!", the Game of Thrones crew whined. (story, courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] telemann)


...Heads on a pike, yay!

Nah, I'd say it was just one of the many faces of the faceless Jaqen H'ghar.

 = 

Hell, people see Jesus on cookies when they want to see Jesus!

What say you?

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Date: 15/6/12 13:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
The 3rd one makes sense actually.

Renley Baratheon: Handsome but hollow. / Frothy mixture!?
Balon Greyjoy: I take what is mine! What is dead may never die!

Etc.

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Date: 15/6/12 13:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Aaand, stealing this (http://asthfghl.blog.bg/zabavlenie/2012/06/15/kakvooo-razglezenoto-kralche-veche-izbiva-i-prezidenti.968368)!

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Date: 15/6/12 13:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luvdovz.livejournal.com
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"See, my dear? This is what awaits those who betray me and my socialist agenda! From right to left: Benito Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet... and now my latest trophy, known by the name of Dubya.

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Date: 15/6/12 16:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nairiporter.livejournal.com
And he could have just hired them all in GULag.

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Date: 16/6/12 01:45 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
"BANG, lol"

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Date: 15/6/12 13:37 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
Honestly, this is a crapsack pseudo-medieval world. It *would* chop the heads off of people who follow that heretical foolishness known as democracy. ;P And then massive artillery bombardments and A-10s wreak havoc all over the battlefield shortly thereafter......

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Date: 15/6/12 15:43 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ddstory.livejournal.com
Don't be so jealous, emo-bastard!

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Date: 15/6/12 14:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bailzzararco.livejournal.com
I am not seeing George Bush there.

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Date: 15/6/12 14:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
The two producers (and writers) stated they used a George Bush mask/ prosthetic and only after this controversy started, did they say there was no politics meant in the decision, just necessity. I'm pretty skeptical of that myself, and it sounds like a bad high school prank they're trying to wiggle out of ;)

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Date: 15/6/12 19:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
Cmon, who doesn't have a few extra ex-President heads lying around "just in case"?

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Date: 15/6/12 14:45 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rimpala.livejournal.com
Meh, I never hated Bush enough to put his head on a pike. He seems like an okay sort of person, like the kind of older conservative I know several times over, just not as a president. Not everyone can do that kind of job well, being the President of the United States must be real difficult and is certainly a huge responsibility.

On the other hand though, being the "casualty" in a film or tv show isn't always a bad cameo. I remember how John Romero put his head on one in Doom2, attacking it destroyed the final boss, so I assumed he made himself the final boss. :p

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Date: 15/6/12 15:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foreverbeach.livejournal.com
I say if this were a just world, a murderous tyrant like Bush would suffer such a fate. Alas, he'll no doubt be remembered fondly by the neocon shills writing history books about how great America is and such.

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Date: 15/6/12 15:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
I posted this over at the cartoon community a while back:

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Date: 15/6/12 16:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nairiporter.livejournal.com
"Strong on 2nd Amendment"

HAHAHA!

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Date: 15/6/12 16:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
Attribution fail - at least now I know where I'm getting my next head to send to tv shows...
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Date: 15/6/12 16:31 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Didn't Varys say the goddess had 16 tits?

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Or something like that.

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Date: 15/6/12 18:07 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gunslnger.livejournal.com
I say that I care less about this than I do about a chicken crossing the road.

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Date: 15/6/12 18:31 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dexeron.livejournal.com
Why did the chicken cross the road?

TO PAY THE IRON PRICE!!!

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Date: 15/6/12 22:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] udoswald.livejournal.com
I'm not an expert on Game of Thrones but as far as I know Joffrey is supposed to be the bad guy. Anybody whose head is on those pikes would presumably be his enemy and therefore at least a bit of a good guy. If anything, the Bush people should see it as a compliment that he's among that company.

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Date: 16/6/12 01:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
From Metafilter (http://www.metafilter.com/116935/Massive-Game-of-Thones-Spoilers-AHead#4396712):
Well, if we're really going to overthink this plate of Bush-head beans, let's overthink it.

George W. Bush's head appears amid a small forest of heads on spikes, including Eddard Stark - the conscience of the first season, the only lord in all of King's Landing with the moral fortitude to stand on principle even if it means his head winds up on a spike. We must therefore assume that Bush's head was harvested in the Stark purge.

So George W. Bush is being depicted as an ally of the most admirable noble in the Seven Kingdoms. He's being depicted, moreover, as the sworn enemy and victim of a miserable sociopath of a king so loathed that there's a wildly popular YouTube clip of nothing but looped scenes of him being slapped (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNeT2nzEgA).

George W. Bush - martyr in the massacre that claimed the Lord of Winterfell. This might be the most generous pop depiction of George W. Bush since he left office. His estate should be thanking the show.

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Date: 16/6/12 12:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenlight.livejournal.com
I say D.B. Weiss admitted to it being Bush's face on the season 1 commentary.

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Date: 16/6/12 15:44 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squidb0i.livejournal.com
I say this is more manufactured controversy, this time intended to take pressure off GOP eliminationist rhetoric.
Expect to see variants of "B-B-B-BUT GEORGE BUSHS HEAD!" next time some 'lone wolf' nutjob kills a bunch of librulz for Glenn Beck.

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