LOL Class
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All I have seen is that short 360 degree video introducing the cast. I am still very unclear what "Class" is going to be and how it related to Doctor Who other than the iconic location of course. Are these kids going to solve weird doctor who-ish mysteries every episode? Are there going to Doctor Who villains who show up and threaten the school? Or is the show basically going to be a British "Saved by the Bell" just with a few Doctor Who references thrown in?
Many have speculated the show is just Patrick Ness's idea for a YA sci-fi series sandwiched into Doctor Who continuity. Which isn't really anything new, RTD had been developing Torchwood for nearly a decade before altering it to fit into Doctor Who continuity and make it a spin-off.
So, aside from taking place in Coal Hill with a possible cameo by the Doctor, I don't expect any kind of serious connection to the greater Whoniverse. With the small possibility of a Hoix cameo.
The introductory video has been embedded on the Doctor Who forum over at TV Tropes. The first thing they did was criticise the main cast for being too Caucasian. The discussion then trailed off into other 'Who stuff, including three pages of debating whether the Doctor, as a Time Lord, demonstrates too much aristocratic privilege.
I think I'll stick to Trek BBS for the time being.
I think I'll stick to Trek BBS for the time being.
Are the SarahJane Original Villains property of Doctor Who or RTD? Does that make them available for Class? I wouldn't mind seeing the Trickster again, and SarahJane was able to use the Judoon. I'd kinda like to see the Bird people from Death of the Doctor again, though presented a bit less silly.
It would depend on how they're contracted, but they would either be owned by the BBC or the writer. If the writer was tasked to create the character(s), it's owned by the BBC; if the writer created them from the ground up for their own story, the writer owns them. Further uses would need to license them; it's why Terry Nation is credited for the Daleks, as well as other aliens/characters' original creators.
Yes, he is.
Remember Torchwood started on BBC Three, as did In The Flesh, The Fades, Being Human, Thirteen, etc. Just because BBC Three is the "Youth" oriented channel that doesn't mean children's TV.
Looks like the cameo will happen in Class:
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/class/37676/class-new-filming-pic-reveals-exciting-cameo
Not totally unexpected but nice to see it confirmed...sort of.
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/class/37676/class-new-filming-pic-reveals-exciting-cameo
Not totally unexpected but nice to see it confirmed...sort of.
In the broader scheme of things, Clara was a blip.
Given that Capaldi looked like this a couple of days ago, the Alchoholic Tramp look for the character doesn't seem to be going away.
"Don't you think he looks tired?"
Sure feels like it'll be over 1000 years between the end of last season and the start of next, with only this year's Christmas special and Capaldi's Class cameo as a respite.
Well....The Seventh Doctor likely made it past 1,000 years old (from the birth of the First Doctor) before TVM. The Eighth Doctor ran around for quite some time before dying on Karn. I take the Doctor's stated age of 900+ years old from Rose onwards as 900 years after Karn (his second life). This means he spend 800 years or more fighting in the Time War and justifies the War Doctor's aging from Karn to the end of the war and his death from "wearing a bit thin" like the First Doctor and later Eleventh Doctor after a thousand years or so since regenerating from the Tenth Doctor.
The Doctor is so old that not only is he lying about his age, he's forgotten if he's lying about his age for sure. So I imagine he is at least 1,200 years older than he says he is to take into account the Seventh and Eighth Doctor's runs, since the Seventh Doctor was in his mid-950s or so when he started.
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