Y'know what I hate? When marketing campaigns opt to spin an angle on a book, movie, TV show or what have you as something quite different from what they really are. Starship Troopers was a political satire promoted as a crazy sci-fi action flick (a mild example); Kung Fu Panda was marketed as a silly, goofy slapstick comedy rather than as a conscientious "follow your dreams" story with a true and earnest love of martial arts (medium example); Kingdom of Heaven, a historical disseration of faith, human nature and all things knightly, got the rip-roarin' action-adventure spin with Orlando's twinkling eyes. These sorts of things make me sad.
This particular example of this, however, hurts my soul a little less . . . check out this early pitch to get people on board the North American arrival of Sailor Moon:
Needless to say, this promo is crazy early in the process of bringing the series over and many things changed. But yeah . . . as the trope doth say, "never trust a trailor".
