Ok, so I’ve been watching this show, a remake of an older TV show, and instead of saying it’s name and then declaring that I will never admit to watching it in public, I’m going to pretend this is public. First off I haven’t been feeling well so cut me some slack and secondly it’s not really that bad and thirdly Fuck me? No, fuck you.
Ok, now that’s out of the way, here’s the thing; the good guys drive Chevy’s and the bad guys drive Fords, the good guys drink coke products and the bad guys drink pepsi products. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never noticed negative product placement before, I mean negative product placement with malice of forethought. I have noticed product placement in TV shows and Movies that made me dislike the product, but that wasn’t the intent of the placement.
I just think that’s a little weird.
Since the factories left there’s less of the Buy American or Fuck You sentiment around these parts, but, for the most part folks drive American cars around here, you know, except for the occasional VW, which has always been forgiven because it’s cute as a bug, and Lexus SUV’s, though there are more Escalades in that general price point.
Given that the show That Will Not Be Named takes place in an area that is very markedly not Detroit or even remotely close, and although it’s the one State I’ve never visited and/or lived in, I would think that American cars would be more the exception than the rule. Just saying.
I see cars around here from companies I didn’t know were still in business, like ,say, Buick. My deceased fathers Buick is in the garage collecting dust and raccoon shit. To be fair, if it were, say, a fiat, it would collect dust and raccoon shit too, probably not as much, but that’s just a size thing.
Ok, shut up, shut the hell up, it’s Hawaii 5-0 and damnit, the remake is better than the original, better being relative and I’m still not admitting to watching it in public, you all have just had your pretending to be public right revoked.
Until the air can manage to stay above zero for two days in a row I’m going to try staying indoors. It’s not that the cold bothers me, I like the cold. It’s that the whole weird breathing thing that the docs insist are panic attacks seem to exacerbated by sub zero air. It did no good to complain to docs in Oregon that I didn’t think it was panic attacks, and here it actually does harm; I had to go through all those dumb ass lung tests in a glass elevator thingy’s for bitching about it here.
Anyhow, this is an entry, and it’s about negative ad placement and going to youtube to find a song to end this with because maybe that’s all you will remember.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. There’s another thing about the show that’s kind of propaganda-ey. The bad guys get all jacked and do stupid or desperate things when they are looking at their ‘Third Strike’. There aren’t any DA’s or lawyers in general on Hawaii 5-0.
Not to be a bummer or anything but what the third strike laws wound up doing is having every single mommy jumper insisting they were not guilty, backing up the court systems when, prior to the third strike laws, they’d just plead and do their time. I’m not suggesting it was more or less just or that at some point recidivism is ridiculous and should just be nipped in the bud; I’m saying when the law is on the books every dog has to have their day in court.
The third strike thing was fine in theory, in practice it put more stress on an already over-worked system and here in the future — it didn’t work so well. In an ideal world if I were in charge of that kind of ruling I’d leave it in the hands of individual judges but have a judicial oversight committee in every jurisdiction to ensure it wasn’t being misused, under-used or other types of malfeasance. Often the threat of a stick is a lot scarier than the stick and when the stick has no back door to it, well, the system gets jammed up.
5-0 made it seem like the three strike law made for either cleaner streets or instant CI’s. It didn’t.
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