tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post6021917981732643267..comments2024-01-11T04:57:37.530-04:00Comments on The Furious D Show: Hollywood Babble On & On #915: This Is Not A Good Sign...Furious Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-92175190185399736612012-06-16T06:50:21.639-03:002012-06-16T06:50:21.639-03:00Well, I don't think they intended to have G.W....Well, I don't think they intended to have G.W. Bush's head on that pike as a political statement. A production as large, expensive, and spread out as Game of Thrones is a shockingly buckshee operation. They ask the European props house for heads, one of them turns out to be an effigy of Bush, they use it, with those who knew what it was thinking it's all just a big joke that everyone going to have a giggle over. That's because they honestly don't realize that they live in a tiny bubble of people who all think and vote the same way, and that the people in this bubble have an egregious double standard when it comes to presenting politicians in effigy.<br /><br />As for GRRM, he started the book series when Bush jr. was just a glint in the political milkman's eye, and the first book alone took him almost <b>7 years</b> to write so I can't really believe the whole series was motivated by political animus. GRRM is now 20+ years older than he was when he started the series, and took long breaks to write other books and stuff while working on it, and his health isn't as good as it used to be. That's probably why he's taking such a long time to wrap it all up with the last two books.<br /><br />Personally, he should end it by having the final page show Catelyn Stark waking up and finding Eddard Stark in the shower, revealing that it was ALL A DREAM!Furious Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-62860774577482354332012-06-16T01:07:56.455-03:002012-06-16T01:07:56.455-03:00Rainforest Giant here,
What about the Game of Th...Rainforest Giant here, <br /><br />What about the Game of Thrones Bush head deal? It was rumored the reason Martin had trouble finishing the books was because the whole thing had been started as a commentary on the evil Bush jr and as Bush wound down so did Martin's venom that fueled it.<br /><br />Everyone is entitled to their peaceful politics and the stories were fun so I didn't care. This makes me wonder if the hate simply taints everything. Imagine it was an Obama head. I think everyone would be screaming racist when they weren't measuring the people involved for a noose.<br /><br />So was it simple Hollywood hate or did a Martin's hate for bush play a part?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com