When people at work cleanse their cubicles of unwanted books, comics, DVDs, and other detritus, there’s a table in the employee breakroom where stuff<\/i> is invariably piled high. It’s not uncommon to find magazines mixed with manga, comics mixed with catalogs. The table is nothing but a mess.<\/p>\n
Sometimes there’s something interesting on the table.<\/p>\n
Like Monday. I found the San Diego Comic-Con Torchwood<\/i> screener DVD.<\/p>\n
Don’t get excited. It’s actually quite unimpressive.<\/p>\n
When I picked it up off the table, my immediate thought was that it would have a complete episode of Torchwood<\/i> and\/or Robin Hood<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Instead, what is has is six trailers and short scenes from six series coming (at least, as of July) to BBC America either as new series or with new seasons — Jekyll<\/i>, Doctor Who<\/i>, Torchwood<\/i>, Life on Mars<\/i>, Robin Hood<\/i>, Afterlife<\/i>. And then four trailers for upcoming DVD releases — Jekyll<\/i>, Torchwood<\/i>, Who<\/i>, Life on Mars<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The audio synching is terrible<\/i>. The Jeckyl<\/i> clips are unwatchable due to the several second lag between image and sound.<\/p>\n
As a hype machine, though? The DVD works. I’ve never seen Robin Hood<\/i>, and I think I want to now. Who<\/i> and Torchwood<\/i> I know — and the trailers for those are cut extraordinarily well. (Except for the one shot of Abaddon in the Torchwood<\/i> trailer — fuck, Abaddon looks so<\/i> fake.) And though I’ve never seen Life on Mars<\/i>, either, I think I’d get a real kick out of the trippy, phildickian mindfuck the trailer showed.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s a pointless little nick-nack, but now it’s my<\/i> pointless little nick-nack. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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