Haha, what really disturbed me was when Matt Parkman met with the African man.
First, I thought it was sort of dumb that the man referred to Parkman being in Africa... apparently it's a country now. Second, he said that "[he] should have gone with Sprint," due to the poor service in the area.
I just had to roll my eyes at that one... and say, "REALLY?"
Oh and I have nothing against Sprint or anything. I miss Sprint and want to get back to them ASAP. I was an early adopter of the iPhone 3G and regret it.
Anyway, my only problem with the product placement in Heroes is that their tactics are sooo, for lack of a better phrase, blatantly obvious... unless it was intentional. To me, it sort of takes away from the show.
I was watching Smallville last night (don't ask) and they had the most blatant product placement I've ever seen. Chloe held her Sprint branded LG phone up to the camera, brought up a map and then made some comment about having everything at her fingertips before handing the phone to Clark. When Clark reached his destination we got another close-up of the phone with the maps just in case we'd forgotten about it.
With such obvious obscene advertising taking up time in TV shows how can the producers complain when their shows turn up on P2P sites?
personally, I thought it was funny. However, I agree that it was pretty shameless. It seems like NBC has been the worse with the shamless product placement. If you watch the Biggest loser it's even worse. Also, it seems commercial time just keeps getting higher and higher. It's got to be over 1/3 now. I'm just glad I've got my xbox extended windows media center DVR.
I liked it last season when Claire was given the Prius (that she never drives). It was such awkward and obvious product placement. They even zoomed in on the tag on the back of the car for a moment and there was a strange moment of silence. I half expected a voice-over to start talking about the Prius in the middle of the show.
@ jakem... I noticed it too... but realize if you're a big a fan of Smallville as I am... Chloe has ALWAYS had a "powerful" Sprint phone (not just a cute one) for all her activities. In years past, she's had (and very much displayed in close-ups) such phones as HTC Mogul (the big, bulky silver one), a Palm Treo (Lex picked it up off the cave floor when she & Clark teleported to the fortress), and several others. It's not just a one-time event. I agree it's a big of a shameless plug... but in MODERATION can make the charatcers seem more "real" by using regular products like us. My 2 cents.
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Haha, what really disturbed me was when Matt Parkman met with the African man.
First, I thought it was sort of dumb that the man referred to Parkman being in Africa... apparently it's a country now. Second, he said that "[he] should have gone with Sprint," due to the poor service in the area.
I just had to roll my eyes at that one... and say, "REALLY?"
Oh and I have nothing against Sprint or anything. I miss Sprint and want to get back to them ASAP. I was an early adopter of the iPhone 3G and regret it.
Anyway, my only problem with the product placement in Heroes is that their tactics are sooo, for lack of a better phrase, blatantly obvious... unless it was intentional. To me, it sort of takes away from the show.
I was watching Smallville last night (don't ask) and they had the most blatant product placement I've ever seen. Chloe held her Sprint branded LG phone up to the camera, brought up a map and then made some comment about having everything at her fingertips before handing the phone to Clark. When Clark reached his destination we got another close-up of the phone with the maps just in case we'd forgotten about it.
With such obvious obscene advertising taking up time in TV shows how can the producers complain when their shows turn up on P2P sites?
I noticed the 'Sprint' comment on Heroes, too...... it was very shameless.
personally, I thought it was funny. However, I agree that it was pretty shameless. It seems like NBC has been the worse with the shamless product placement. If you watch the Biggest loser it's even worse. Also, it seems commercial time just keeps getting higher and higher. It's got to be over 1/3 now. I'm just glad I've got my xbox extended windows media center DVR.
I'm beginning to think that the show is being almost entirely funded by sprint and nissan.
I liked it last season when Claire was given the Prius (that she never drives). It was such awkward and obvious product placement. They even zoomed in on the tag on the back of the car for a moment and there was a strange moment of silence. I half expected a voice-over to start talking about the Prius in the middle of the show.
@ jakem... I noticed it too... but realize if you're a big a fan of Smallville as I am... Chloe has ALWAYS had a "powerful" Sprint phone (not just a cute one) for all her activities. In years past, she's had (and very much displayed in close-ups) such phones as HTC Mogul (the big, bulky silver one), a Palm Treo (Lex picked it up off the cave floor when she & Clark teleported to the fortress), and several others. It's not just a one-time event. I agree it's a big of a shameless plug... but in MODERATION can make the charatcers seem more "real" by using regular products like us. My 2 cents.
So Sprint has cell coverage in Africa now? LOL
I suppose product placements are the price we have to pay for circumventing commercials with our DVRs (which I do judiciously).