I'm suspicious about a lot of ads, I can see why they use the images they do and I don't like a lot of the underlying messages I see in ads. But every so often I see an ad that is really truly worrying...I just saw one for some kind of flea treatment for dogs and cats. The vet is a beautifully made up young woman and the premise of the ad is all the crazy questions she gets asked and can't answer until she says "Oh, that one I can answer, use this flea treatment."
Except that one of the questions is "Is he old enough to be nuetered?" while she's wrestling with a cat. I would really hope that vets do in fact know if a cat is old enough for that. I mean, it's got to be one of the most common pieces of surgery cats receive right? You'd think she would have learnt it at some point.
I also saw one where a woman throws herself out of bed overnight in order to get away from her boyfriend because he didn't use the toothpaste that keeps your breath fresh all night. Are people fooled by this? Does anyone care that much about morning breath?
This is one of the reasons I don't watch TV now. Ads make me rant. Dr Phil is worth it though.
I watched The Others which is pretty good, well made, solid and very atmospheric. I guessed the twist pretty early on, but apart from that I thought it was very good. Great performance from Nicole and the ending was well done.
Seraph's Nobilis game was freaky as. I'll leave it at that for now. I want to give some of the images some time to fade away.
Posted by jenni at March 24, 2004 01:07 PM