BBC America released an entirely different trailer for the new Doctor Who series, and I'm a little late showing it:
Now, what can we learn about this? What does BBC America think Americans actually like? (Because why else do a different trailer?)
1. Being told that they might want to watch the show because it is a "phenomenon" and apparently popular with certain people who have "credibility".
2. Compliments about their powerful country and its powerful capital.
3. Mark Sheppard. He's a "name" British actor working in U.S. genre television Fans of Firefly, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Warehouse 13 and Supernatural will be especially appreciative.
4. More pirates. Those yanks love that Pirates of the Caribbean twaddle.
5. Catch phrases.
Now I wanna see a Canadian trailer with maple syrup.
Now, what can we learn about this? What does BBC America think Americans actually like? (Because why else do a different trailer?)
1. Being told that they might want to watch the show because it is a "phenomenon" and apparently popular with certain people who have "credibility".
2. Compliments about their powerful country and its powerful capital.
3. Mark Sheppard. He's a "name" British actor working in U.S. genre television Fans of Firefly, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Warehouse 13 and Supernatural will be especially appreciative.
4. More pirates. Those yanks love that Pirates of the Caribbean twaddle.
5. Catch phrases.
Now I wanna see a Canadian trailer with maple syrup.
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And while my father and I were never close (I'd go as far as to say "estranged") I do remember watching Hand of Fear with him when I was, like, 12.
But if you were watching in 1963, no doubt from behind the couch in your squalid London flat, you probably now have children and grandchildren with whom you can have heartfelt arguments about why the Mechanoids aren't better remembered today. And if your mother and father are still alive, no doubt in some squalid London nursing home, they too might qualify as fans. That's four generations' worth, cor blimey.
I mean, I'm a French-Canadian anglophile, so a natural Whovian, no pandering required.