So I think I just ran into the most intriguing advertisement campaign I've seen in a while. I was just minding my own business, trying to watch a YouTube video of a Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari interview. Before the video, they show me an advertisement. I'm about to skip over it, but all of a sudden Terry O'Quinn is in a lab coat and talking to me about
discovery and the senses and stuff. I have no idea what it's about, but I check out
Survival Code. I click somewhere on the page because I still don't know what's going on. And it shows me this flash video that's basically an extension of the commercial, Terry O'Quinn in a lab coat talking to me the whole time. I'm, like, seconds away from submitting my information to make an account for this thing when I snap out of the daze and read, "By submitting this information, you will be receiving in-game communications including email, direct mail and phone messages." Woah there.
I looked through the YouTube comments for the commercial. Apparently this is for 5 Gum--the chewing gum product. Okay. You almost got me there. But I'll give them props for intrigue. More than a year after the show's over and Locke's still getting me into all sorts of trouble. Maybe I'll make myself an account for this thing anyway. I'm probably this close to unlocking the brainwashing video.