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Class series one discussion thread (spoilers)

Well, the only way to get kids to show instrest is with cross platforms.

the class kids should have showed up in a couple episodes of Who, or an adventure should have started in one and ended in the other.

Oh, and it shouldn't have been shit.
 
Not surprised, it was V poor when it came down to it. I only hope that's not the last we've seen of Miss Quill!
 
So I guess this is now the second shortest-lived Doctor Who TV spinoff, after K9 and Company (and not counting amateur films). The unofficial (and pretty terrible) Australian K9 series would be next, at a single 26-episode season, although apparently they're now developing a reboot movie that's largely disconnected from that series's continuity.
 
I've said t before... if my first episode of Doctor Who had been, for example, Time Flight, I might never have watched it again. The first episode of Class was nowhere near as bad as that. I watched every episode of Class and found something to like in almost all of them, and a few were quite good overall. If this is the end, that's too bad, because the enemy the first series focused on was pretty lame, while the setup for what was supposed to come next was much more intriguing. But there were enough episodes that didn't revolve around that enemy to make it worthwhile.

But then, I also liked most of Torchwood. It had some solid episodes in its first two series, like "Adrift," which was downright excellent, and "Children of Earth" was, imho, among the all-rime best Doctor Who-related TV we've ever had.

It's all Doctor Who, so I watch all of it. If there are stinkers like "Time Flight" or "Kill the Moon" or a few parts of "Miracle Day" or "Brave-ish Heart," well, the good ones make up for them.
 
It's all Doctor Who, so I watch all of it. If there are stinkers like "Time Flight" or "Kill the Moon" or a few parts of "Miracle Day" or "Brave-ish Heart," well, the good ones make up for them.

Yeah, I feel compelled to at least try to watch all of Class. Heck, I suffered through a marathon of the Australian K9 series. At least this will be shorter.
 
I've only watched seven episodes of K9 so far, and they're pretty variable. I'll power through the rest of it before too long. (Haven't seen the final two Sarah Jane Adventures episodes, but we've been saving those.)
 
Probably repeating myself here, but what the heck. Only a week and a bit until Class shows up on American TV, so... Class has some good episodes, some really good imagery, the always enjoyable Katherine Kelly, and a last episode that leaves some intriguing questions unanswered. The tie-in novels are good, too, at least the two I've read, and I've heard good things about the third.

Patrick Ness and some Moffat guy have been recently saying that Class has not been cancelled, so it's entirely possible that if it catches on in the USA there might be more. I think it's no more likely than more Torchwood, but I'd be happy to see it happen.

Warning: the Radio Times article that quotes Moffat on the possibility of a second season has big honking spoilers from the title on down. I much preferred being surprised by the season ending, but others may differ.
 
Class has promise if they cut back on the angsty teen drama, and the fact most of the main cast sucks apart from Ms. Quill and the Polish giraffe.
That cliffhanger needs to be resolved. I haven't seen the
weeping angels
appear that scary in a long time
 
I thought most of the cast was fine. The problem, I suspect, was that Ness is a novelist, not a TV writer, and some scenes and dialogue that would have worked in a book weren't quite so believable onscreen. The one book of his I read was memorably good.
 
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