joanna-emd *Spoilers are be present in this overview*I bought Class based on my love of quirky sci-fi, Doctor Who, and my faith in the quality of British television. This is basically a teen soap opera masquerading as sci-fi. The non-stop focus on the love lives of the Prince & that polish guy, the girl who plays violin & the guy who plays soccer and crying about said love lives is nauseating. I didn't even bother learning their names. I hated the prince's boyfriend from the moment he showed up. Every time he was on the screen I was like "Why is this guy always hanging around?" All he does is plead and cry the entire series. The one teen-aged black student dislikes white people for no apparent reason. The only interesting people on the show are the adults, but the focus is on the insipid teens. Misfits - the first 2 seasons of which are some of the best sci-fi ever made IMO - is about teens. Teens are fine but these characters on Class are boring, whinging and poorly written.The entirety of the last 3 or 4 episodes was spent hoping all of the characters in relationships would be killed off. If they only kept "The Quill" lady, the shape shifting guy, the hot coach with the dragon tattoo, the governess, the robot and the fourteen year old brainy teen while losing her baseless race issues and got rid of everyone else then we might have a decent show. The season ending was so bad that the writer should be embarrassed. The Shadow King physically throwing shade at the prince... WTF? The Shadow King killing the soccer kid's dad, and the brainy kid's mom with no problem but not killing the prince's boyfriend. The Quill lady teaching the brainy kid how to "fight" in like two minutes and then somehow the kid can help do battle with Shadow warriors? And the top prize for total crap writing - the "Freaky Friday" ending where the violin girl ends up in the Shadow King. Just a stinking dumpster fire of a show.I hate watched this since I purchased the program on faith, and it seemed a waste of money not to finish it. Seriously, after watching the last episode, I feel like I should be able to sue for my money back and compensation for my time spent watching this show. The writers took what should have been a really cool story framework and turned it into a steaming pile of garbage. Did they hire a team of twelve year old fan fiction writers? I don't know, but it pretty much feels that way. It is just shameful.

westsideschl Can't tell which was worse - the robotic acting with it's dumbed down script that would make a middle schooler almost want to jump off a cliff to escape it all (for its inaneness), or the CGI of the so-over-used-many-times-before creepy shadows and evil thingys turned into powdered swirling gray stuff when dispatched. Then there is the CGI of the volcanic underworld with the usual throne for the underworld king evil, besides failing middle school basic science if you think about it (which they don't want you to) it too is another over-used ripoff. Then there is the ever-present zapping gun; and the ever-present mysterious box full of … (you fill it in). And to think BBC is responsible for this!

elliest_5 The main influence of this series isn't Doctor Who but Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There is a long list of similarities, from the high-school grounds being the center of adventures, to the teen angst, and to easy parallels between the two monster-fighting gangs (prime example: the reluctant ally who would hurt the main characters if it wasn't for a brain implant). The show does well to openly acknowledge this influence (mentioning the similarity to Buffy's "Hellmouth" in the very first episode), which is actually part of a very good start: at first, the show doesn't seem to take itself too seriously, throwing in lots of jokes and pop-culture references.This good start is later spoiled by the very wrong pacing, which makes the show run out of steam and out of ideas remarkably quickly. It's as if the creators decided to condense 22 episodes into 8. The development of the characters and of the dynamics among them skips several steps, there's hardly any bonding, team-building and character-developing episodes, since almost every single episode past episode 3 addresses the main story arc and feels like a finale. The rushed nature of the whole season is so obvious that I can't help but thinking it was for external reasons (budget cuts leading to a much shorter season than originally planned maybe?). In any case, a good opportunity has been missed in this show. It *could* recover if a second season returns to a normal pace, but there are a lot of rushed plot lines that need to be fixed for this to work.

s3276169 Class is yet another spin off from the Doctor Who universe. This time around its teen angst in the Time Lords world replete with college romance, issues of friendship and fitting in. I'm well past this stage in my life but my biggest issue with this show, isn't its teen demographic focus. The reality is the sci fi action is far too thin on the ground. The result is a series that feel more like Adrian Mole, with a few not too close encounters thrown in. Unlike Sarah Jane, the excitement is simply absent from Class, leaving a series that might appeal to youngsters on the emotional front but has little more to offer. Five out of ten from me.