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Downton Abbey’s fifth series started tonight - and ran straight into Twitter controversy over sponsorship clips for the Kindle.The “bumper ads” for the Amazon eReader look like they feature behind-the-scenes clips of the production of the show, with people in twenties garb on locations similar to the drama secretly using their Kindles hidden behind scripts and newspapers.People watching at home say it spoils the mood - you go out from a dramatic scene to a commercial break with a sudden reminder that this is just a TV programme.
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So this particular ad is the problem? What other ads are there that DO NOT break immersion for them?Are all the other adverts for 1920's products and technology?
Do...do they just expect the actors to go around communicating with cans and varying lengths of string?
It is a show set in the Middle Ages.
The logical response to getting that tingle in his dingle is turning into an asshat, of course.
Quote from: Second Coming of Madman on September 24, 2014, 09:06:57 amIt is a show set in the Middle Ages.The early 20th century is the middle ages now?
Quote from: RavynousHunter on September 24, 2014, 08:53:06 amDo...do they just expect the actors to go around communicating with cans and varying lengths of string?I don't think the technology is the problem. Rather, it's that they show "behind the scenes" stuff right after the show goes to a break.Mind you, I still can't imagine I'd care.