There’s lots of Alice in Wonderland about recently. I saw the Tim Burton trailer which looks unsuspiciously Tim Burton-like, and also something slightly more interesting was the SyFy (haw) channel’s marching about of white rabbit heads in a New York PR stunt.

I liked this since Alice in Wonderland has nice potential for interpretation and because, in the same way Dr Who sometimes manages, they’ve pulled off the eerie enemy quite well (aside from the slightly awkward dancing, above). Perhaps combine any sort of eye-obscuring object with a suit, and you’re sorted on the evil front (The Matrix for one).

Happily the show ‘Alice’ happens to be up on YouTube, and I like it. It’s silly good fun. Universally appealing, I thought (and really quite interesting after the first five minutes) until the boy looked at it from an uninvolved point of view and pointed out it was girly. For example it’s got romance and a ‘quirky English chap’ type Hatter character who is not only very good but coincidentally fills the “swooning” criteria. So perhaps it is.