Goblin Mercantile Exchange

5 Responses

1. Christopher Barzak March 5 2007 @ 8:00 pm

   Wow, no matter what, really interesting viewing. I find the storm troopers coming in to stop the rebel runner a bit overdramatic and perhaps untrue to the situation. The only person “outside” of the individuals who listen instead of destroying the Hilary who talks and talks and calls it a conversation when it isn’t are the individuals themselves. In the end it’s going to have to require all of us to deman a real conversation, not to allow political candidates to call one thing a conversation when it’s another thing entirely. So while I’m pro-Obama at the moment, and more than a bit distrustful of another Clinton presidency, which should make me sympathetic to this ad, it doesn’t feel honest to me in presenting the situation as it is. Particularly it runs into foul territory with the troops running in to stop a rebel. If it were simply a rebel running in to smash the talking head, with no actual opposition other than the slack-jawed audience that listens and listens without question, I think it’d work better.

2. Alan March 5 2007 @ 8:14 pm

   It hews pretty much identically to the “1984″ Macintosh commercial that launched the Mac, so I think there were constraints with that.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

3. Alan March 5 2007 @ 8:16 pm

   Great analysis, I should add!

4. Gavin March 6 2007 @ 12:35 am

   John Edwards for King!

5. Christopher Barzak March 6 2007 @ 8:48 am

   Ah, I thought this was familiar, but I couldn’t place where I’d seen it before, so I thought maybe I was mis-remembering something and decided if it’s something created whole cloth, its writers were off the mark a little.

   It’s shaping up to be an interesting year for politics. Now there’s the “Draft Gore” movement too. Has there ever been a movement to “draft” someone into running for president? I find this incredibly interesting. Perhaps too much.