The new Who trailer?

[matthewwolff]

Not so great. It's just a trailer, I don't think it's a bad sign of things to come or anything, but I really don't like it.

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One pill makes you larger, Amy...

[dreamer_easy]

I'm impressed by how you can read it quite romantically, with lots of lying together in the grass, gazing into each others' eyes, etc; or as completely sexless, just two crazy kids having a ball.

[dameruth]

I'm lukewarm about it, but I figure it was designed more to be, "Ooooooo, 3D!" than anything else, so . . . eh. :)

[lordalius]

It's sort of "Dimensions in Time" in trailer form, innit?

Not really my cup of tea either, although as you say, I don't think it's a sign of anything terrible on the horizon.

[jblum]

I think I've worked out why people like us aren't very impressed by the trailer -- it's because it's not dialogue-centered.

All the previous ones, whether "D'you wanna come with me?" or "Think you've seen it all?" or the Martha one or the Donna one, have had the dialogue running through them as a spine, with the big spectacular visuals as sort of icing on the cake. And that fits with the way we've always read Who, from the days when they couldn't afford visuals. This time, though, it's just a few words of framing material, and the rest is HUGE SPECTACULAR VISUALS. So that instinctively hits the little buttons in the back of our heads which says "huge and flashy = all style no substance"...

[matthewwolff]

That's a great point! They actually seem to shun dialogue, using the visuals to tell a pseudo narrative of what we're going to see in the season instead.

[nanbolein]

When does the new series start in the US?

[matthewwolff]

I haven't heard a definite date yet, but it's supposed to follow closely behind the UK premier this time, which is Easter.