Three-Way War: The Chronic Complainers vs. The Killing Eve Promo Team and The Absolute Apologists.
In the wake of the Killing Eve promotional team’s odd decision to drop a cryptic video on Thursday of waving red material flapping in the breeze with one word displayed: “TOMORROW” the takeaway came down to one thing. The trailer for Season 3 was finally going to be dropped.
So people went to bed and woke up and began to wait. They waited on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and Tumblr and any other place where when the trailer appeared they would be ready.
Ready for disappointment as it turned out. Instead of a trailer, or even a teaser we got a “things change” post and a picture of Kenny and another of Niko.
That’s all. It wasn’t enough. Not even close. Nobody likes to be trolled. A few weeks ago it was the Killing Eve team that saw a flood of behind-the-scenes photographs taken from a production team member’s account. Many sites received complaints of copyright infringement and those unauthorized photos have vanished into someone’s personal documents. Someone trolled the KE team hard. Now it’s the fans turn and as to be expected they are split. On one side you have The Chronic Complainers who have been whining and moaning for weeks on how we deserve to get a proper trailer. On the other, there’s The Absolute Apologists who will overlook how the KE promo team seems to find it amusing to dunk all over the expectations of fandom and insist there’s a good reason for no trailer and whether its the virus or for reasons unknown to any, we need to simply cool out and be respectful to the KE brain trust. To The Absolute Apologists for KE, I speak as a Chronic Complainer. I have two words: Fuck. That.
Your willingness to sit back patiently and wait for whatever the KE promotional team doles out and be grateful when they do bespeaks to your superb patience and aplomb. BUT... That dirty little trick they played Thursday fed the trailer frenzy. They could have ended it at any time by saying the trailer will be released on March XX,2020 or April XX, 2020. DONE. They didn't do that. They played the fandom with a way-too-early April Fool's Day "joke" and it wasn't funny. It was mean-spirited. While some fans will say "Hey, they never promised us a trailer. That was YOUR expectation!" there will be others who say, "Yes, I know they didn't promise us a trailer. But they certainly FED the expectation with that announcement on Thursday." Between the chronic complainers and the absolute apologists, this bizarre slow-walking of the Season 3 trailer has given both sides ample ammunition for their respective positions. Currently the complainers have more evidence on their side things are kinda shaky than the apologists do that all is well
I know you don't agree with that, but that's okay. We will all being firmly nestled in place on April 26 waiting for the show and all these teasers and false starts will be ancient history.
Just don't pee on my head and tell me it's raining. I'm not into that sort of thing
