The speechless character is probably the clock guy (that would make him even more mysterious)
There's only one thing about TA that makes me sad, and that's the fact we'll probably not hear that ''tension building'' DT did in Octavarium and ITPOE pt 2 (especially the latter one, building up the tension for like 9 mins, and then culminating with The Reckoning - the best 2 mins in DT's whole fuckin' career)
I mean, it could happen in TA, but I don't think it's possible if all songs are that short, and each one is ''a song for itself''
I'm ok with not much metal, ok with no long instrumental sections, even ok with the lack of the amount of melody development we get in 10+ min songs, but the thing I mentioned really makes me disappointed
still I hope it will be a great album