Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Friday, October 28
Class
Doctor Who won't be back until Christmas, but in the meantime we have the third spinoff of New Who, Class.
Doctor Who won't be back until Christmas, but in the meantime we have the third spinoff of New Who, Class.
It's set at Coal Hill School - now Coal Hill Academy - and features a group of plucky teenagers and their maths teacher (who isn't quite what she seems) facing down alien threats coming through the Hellmouth time rift caused by fifty years of previous alien threats.
So, very Sarah Jane Adventures? In fact, no; it's more Torchwood than anything else. But since this is about and targeted at teenagers, and is a British TV series, they've turned down the sex and turned up the violence to compensate.
And I'm not sure I like it. The obvious comparison is to Buffy, but the dialog in Buffy sparkled in a way that is so far missing from Class. It's not awful, and I'm not the target audience, but on the other hand I don't feel that it expands the scope of the shared fictional universe the way Torchwood managed (particularly in its first two seasons).
I don't honestly see the point of it.
I give it two blood splatters out of four, subject to later review.
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