Simple, Excellent Microsoft Ad
22 Nov
Score one for Microsoft — they finally get an ad that’s simple, well done, and which targets the right crowd (geeks being likely to be Battlestar Galactica addicts), though it’s admittedly an ad only insiders would grok. Now I’m just waiting for some geek to put up a parody version, linking _the virus_ to Microsoft. I first saw it at “The Hard Six”:http://www.thehardsix.com/archives/2006/11/20/those-wacky-cylons/, though it might have been on the “official site”:http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/ (when I’m there I head straight for the Kara Thrace wallpapers, so I wouldn’t know).
Who else is going to show love to BSG? South Park’s Matt and Trey “already did”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=qPvKx5V6-80, now Microsoft. Rightly so, too — don’t let the scifi tag put you off: this show is one of the best written, most intelligent, darkest, most intense and absorbing stories to be on TV in a long time. Whatever its political undertones, and whatever your political leaning; it’s hard not to fall in love with it.
(A little bird told me you can watch it “here”:http://tvlinks.voodeedoo.org/Battlestar%20Galactica_links.html, if streaming video does it for you.)
