Poor Alice, indeed.
But like you've said, anyone who hasn't really seen DS since it was originally on is going to easily confuse what the storylines were like - and I suspect you're completely right in thinking that those sorts of past fans may be a portion of the potential audience that Burton & Co. and Warner Brothers are hoping to attract.
Thanks for providing the YouTube link.
I think the video was linked through some other link that had been posted to another Web site. But as I always say, it's so much better to have multiple links to something than to have missed something entirely.
167 days 7 hours 33 minutes 12 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!