"What's wrong with us?" "Something is happening"
Throughout the concept trailer, we see the members go through a series of emotions which seem to be tearing them apart as a group.
Seonghwa looks pissed off, Wooyoung sad, Jongho first detached then frustrated, and Hongjoong deeply anxious.
And all the while, Sopro is acting up each time we cut to it trapped in its glass case. Though it's not the Sopro we know - it's not red but black, grainy, like sand, as it changes shape until it hardens back into a cube and cracks, revealing a red light shining from within.
After a sequence of Yunho dressed in red, something seems to freak Hongjoong out bad enough to make him cover his ears and curl into himself, which is when we cut back to Sopro as it does this:
Before this sequence plays (I have no clue if these squares mean something, unfortunately, but the morse code behind it sounds to me like "-....-" which would just translate to a "-"? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!):
Following this signal from Sopro, Yunho and Mingi start fighting, which Hongjoong eventually breaks up:
Meanwhile, Wooyoung opens a drawer which contains a red light-
-and as distorted whispers fill our ears and a warning siren plays, we see the members being scanned by red light until Wooyoung looks toward Yeosang and seems to make a choice:
While this isn't one-to-one what happened in the 'Golden Hour: Part 2' diary entries, it does seem to rhyme with its documented events: the members are drifting apart, an argument takes place, Wooyoung starts feeling sad and desperate to the point where he uses Sopro to bring his members back together so they can be happy again.
Perhaps what happened to A-World's Ateez back then also happened to E-World's Ateez, which would mean this concept trailer takes place pre-'Adrenaline'. And if so, this comeback might just give us an explanation as to why Sopro looked the way it did in the 'Adrenaline' music video (all deformed, spiky, and restless).
Side-note: This does make me wonder if the Sopro who shattered at the start of 'Adrenaline' was A-World's Sopro and the warped-looking one who shattered at the end E-World's. And if that's the case: rest in peace, baby bird - you had a really hard life (and I doubt E-World's had it any better).
Mayhaps we'll then also learn if the destruction of Sopro has lasting consequences, given how powerful it is.
Another thing to consider: with both Sopros now gone, A-World's Ateez will have to track down E-World's Cromer if they ever want to be able to move on to another world or return back home.
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