I'm with you, MB, and I would further say that my interpretation of Tim's words is that he refuses to put the film into a neat little box. If he brands it as something, "comedy", "gothic" or whatever, then fifty thousand bloggers and entertainment sites will pick up on it and repeat it until everyone treats it as gospel, and I think that he is deliberately refusing to do that. I guess I could be wrong, though
As for KLS, I didn't really see a problem in her answer. She is pointing out some differences from the OS, for instance that Victoria rather than Maggie is the Josette figure (and of course, that is a big point from her perspective, for obvious reasons
), and that there is more emphasis on Barnabas adjusting to a new era, as we all already learned. So she's obviously not going to say that the movie is completely faithful to the series, because it's not. Also, she doesn't want to give away everything because she wants people to buy her book to read more. I do agree with Phil that there is going to be a bit of a spin factor, but that was going to be true no matter what- everyone involved with the franchise has a bias, and that's understandable.