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It is really striking just how many of the Super Bowl commercials this year have had a sci-fi focus \u2013 and one fits the category of fantasy, featuring vampires. Which was your favorite? The Star Wars one has a pretty good twist, I thought, but the Chevy post-2012-apocalypse is my favorite of the ones I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,86,91],"tags":[232,702,1772,2060,2062,2451,2777,7175,12058,13454],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science-fiction","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-232","tag-apocalypse","tag-chevy","tag-commercial","tag-commercials","tag-darth-vader","tag-dog","tag-mayan","tag-super-bowl","tag-volkswagen"],"yoast_head":"\n
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