A reader e mailed us screenshots from the science-fiction series FlashForward, which is currently airing on ABC. The scene occurs 26 minutes 30 seconds into the fourth episode, which was broadcast last Thursday.
The image shows a computer screen and on it a web page with a prominently featured advertisement that reads, “Time for Your Flu Shot.” Another ad immediately to the right of this reads, “Take It Now!”
The web page was obviously manufactured deliberately for the scene because the URL in the address bar is not a real website.
“I realized why I spotted the flu shot ad so easily,” writes the reader. “They had a really pretty girl on just before. I was looking at the pretty girl then all of a sudden I got hit with a flu shot ad.”
“The overlay of the cute chick and the “Time for you FluShot” is perfect. There is just too much going on for all this to be just a coincidence. She is also wearing a cross. That must mean god wants everyone to take a flu shot,” he writes.
The reader took note of all the words that were included in the shot.
Better Health
Health
Drugs & Supplements
Healthy Living
Parenting & Pregnancy
Mental Health
Pigment / pig=swine
Time for you flu shot
take it now
Warning
Health risks
Safe use
conditions
disorder
FDA
eating & diet
cancer
effective
health check
consumer
news
edline
From these words, we can assume the casual viewer will form the following impression after seeing the image.
“Warning, if you want better health and don’t want to have any health risks or disorders associated with the swine flu. It is time for your flu shot. Take it now. The FDA says its use is safe and effective. Even if you are pregnant.”
A video promo for the FlashForward illustrates that it is yet another apocalyptic plot centered around a global catastrophe, conditioning us to accept the inevitability of some nightmare future “event” that the government will be mandated to protect us from.
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