Other candidates are in play, but “Rule, Britannia!”, if nothing else, will be safe in the next chair’s hands. After Moore bowed out, attention turned to Sir Robbie Gibb, who went straight from heading BBC Westminster to working for Theresa May and is currently raising funds for the new right-leaning channel GB News. Meanwhile the government floated Charles Moore, a man with no broadcasting experience who once appeared in court for not paying the licence fee, to be the next chair of the BBC. Here was a classic soufflé of an outrage, whipped up from the flimsiest ingredients, which enabled newspapers and ministers to wave the flag in the face of the BBC’s incoming director-general Tim Davie for several days. It would be cool if we could either debunk or confirm the theory, but sadly I don't see that happening.P atrick Barwise and Peter York must be miffed that the phantom controversy in August over patriotic songs at the Last Night of the Proms came too late to feature in their new book.

I personally don't see it being a spelling mistake. In every other acknowledgement of the SNES version AFAIK, including magazines, trademark documents, the logo and even in-game text (the 'Meeting for EarthBound 2' dialog) uses the spelling 'EarthBound'. Second, the stylization of the game's title is the one used for the NES version. My assumption/theory is that instead of referring to a return of the villain, they took the oppurtunity to refer to the cancelled NES localization because of how the text refers to a war actually started/started, now a second return of Giygas. MOTHER 2 displays MOTHER 2, but the localized version known as EarthBound (stylized this way) displays 'Earth Bound' instead, also removing the mention of a 'return' of Giygas.

The game title is displayed at the title screen. Later on we found prototypes of the (supposedly?) final version of the localization and even Nintendo re-released it through their Virtual Console service on the Wii U (rebranded as EarthBound Beginnings, while remaining the 'Earth Bound' logo in the game itself). Then it hit me.Īs we all know, the first MOTHER game got localized as 'Earth Bound' for the United States, yet got cancelled in favour of focusing on the upcoming Super Nintendo system. What I just noticed in the title screen ( ) it says 'Earth Bound' instead of 'EarthBound'.

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