Who else thinks that the DirectTV marionette campaign is really, really creepy?

[kentauros]

22. I agree.

I'm not creeped out by them. I just find them plain dumb.

I thought their previous campaign with the magic-genie was fine. They're still advertising the same product, and having a magical genie is appropriate.

What's odd about their use of the super-marionation people is that they're contradicting themselves. They're advertising for a media-system that is wireless by using 'people' that can only function with wires.

Seems to me that a better way of getting that point across would be for the marionettes to be shown being freed of the restriction of their own wires, too. Pinocchio comes to mind in that light...