Comments on: Class season 2; Doctor Who spin-off officially canceled after long wait https://cartermatt.com/266642/no-class-season-2-doctor-spin-off-officially-canceled-long-wait/ TV News, Interviews, and Reviews Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Namnoot https://cartermatt.com/266642/no-class-season-2-doctor-spin-off-officially-canceled-long-wait/#comment-160715 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:44:00 +0000 http://cartermatt.com/?p=266642#comment-160715 Class was not a show for young viewers. There was too much sex and too much blood and gore. It was aimed at the Torchwood viewer. Had it been promoted as such, it might have done fine. Instead people tuned in expecting it to be like Sarah Jane Adventures or on par with Doctor Who, and it turned them off. That, coupled with the fact it just wasn’t a good show. The characters were unlikeable, the plots felt recycled, and when the only moment that actually makes an impact is a cameo by the Doctor in the last 10 minutes of the first episode in which he made reference to a lost companion – basically the entire scene was aimed at Who fans, not the newcomers Class was intending to catch – that’s not a good thing.

The Whittaker thing is not exciting. Female fans are leaving to show in droves because they fell in love with a male Doctor, they aren’t interested in changing sides. And lots of male fans are leaving too because they fell in love with characters like Romana, The Rani, etc. and they don’t like the idea of them having to be played by men now too. Couple this with the fact that Whittaker isn’t that particularly good an actress – if they had to do this, I could give you a long list beginning with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gillian Anderson who would have been better choices, with Anderson giving a bonus of bringing along X-Files fans who would make up the deficit of the Who fans who are going to be leaving. A female, bisexual fan I spoke to about this (normally I don’t bring up orientation but I believe it is relevant here) described the decision as the show’s death rattle and an example of gender appropriation. I’ll just leave that here. Those aren’t my words.

]]> By: ProfRobert https://cartermatt.com/266642/no-class-season-2-doctor-spin-off-officially-canceled-long-wait/#comment-160688 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 03:02:00 +0000 http://cartermatt.com/?p=266642#comment-160688 I really despised the gratuitous violence and death. As an American, I don’t find mass killings of school children a proper topic for entertainment (and I guess everyone at BBC3 has forgotten about Dunblane). Quill and Tanya were the only characters I found interesting and cared about, though the relationship (master/slave? jailer/convict?) between Quill and Charlie did raise interesting ideas. But anything interesting and challenging was just swept away by the gorefest. I’m glad the show itself finally got a sword through the heart.

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