Flying Rabbit Wrote:
The Soup did a montage of shots from what I assume was last week's ep about how they whored out to Memoirs of the Geisha. If you were watching it normally you probably wouldn't notice it much, but through this montage it was frickin' crazy how many times Geisha was mentioned/shown.
Yeah, I watched and I noticed, but I thought it was pretty cool. I wish more advertising could be like this - seemlessly threaded in with the show, instead of 2 min. commercial breaks that ruin the feel of a show. Sears and Extreme Makeover Home Edition is another example. Not that I watch that.
Of course, the problem is that we're not going to get any fewer commercial breaks as they start to do this more. The networks will just get greedier and add these extreme "product placements" as an additional source of revenue. And when they're not done right, which will be often, they will destroy an otherwise good show.
So we all lose, and the man gets richer. As usual.
