Class ep 3 now up.
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What did you think?
Interesting idea, bit of "Fathers Day" about it. Not sure I'm keen on the relationship between the two boys, but perhaps it will have some point later in the series...
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Interesting idea, bit of "Fathers Day" about it. Not sure I'm keen on the relationship between the two boys, but perhaps it will have some point later in the series...
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The American influences annoyed me. We do not have Amish in England. They are not allowed to fly or travel by boat. How did they get here? I do wish Patrick Ness was more careful in his scripts.
Plus we don't call Games Masters "coach". That annoyed me!
It also annoys me that April is made unpopular because she is nice? That simply would never be the case in 2016.
When I was at school April would be called "Goody Two Shoes"!
Yes, she wants to pretend she's cold and detached but I sense there's a heart in there somewhere!
Nah, she totally deserved it. ;-)
Considering what happens next week it seems everyone has had sex at some point. Tanya is the only one not to get laid. I'm sure Patrick Ness and the others in charge are patting themselves on the back with how adult and edgy they're making it.
Shock horror, young adults have sex.
Shock horror, episode 3 involved a sex scene that lasted all of five seconds...of which about three of those were simply bedsheets being moved about.
The question for me though in all of this was after all we'd seen so far of Charlie and Matteusz as a pair (which is very little) how such a scene came about in episode 3? They've barely been together in any of the episodes and its gone from nothing to sex within such a short space of time.
Where was the blossoming romance or actual character development between the pair to get to that scene?
It came out of nowhere if you ask me...
Well they established the two of them have been dating for the better side of a month by the episode. Maybe the issue is with what hasn't been seen rather than what has - namely Matteusz being largely absent from the second episode (which though I still enjoyed I think is the weakest of the three without doubt). The closeness between the two in that second episode is only implied by the fact Charlie is the one to address Matteusz's absence when taking on the coach.
The developments of this third episode make perfect sense and fit, but I'll say that the second episode should have done something more to get us to the point we were at, rather than the third episode leaving it as more of an implication. I wouldn't say it came out of nowhere though, it just jumped from A to C. We all know B happened in between, and the dialogue even points it out but I'll concur that the pacing of their relationship has been flawed. Hopefully the rest of the series will balance things better.
I do think the lack of what we've seen has been my real bugbear with all of this. Even if they've been dating for a month, it certainly doesn't feel like its been that. Say, if what had happened in episode 3 between them actually happened in episode 5, I don't think I've have had much of a problem with it. It would have felt a much longer and natural progression of time. There's just not been enough on-screen development for me to make it feel right. It's just kind of there...
And as a side point, I still think for them to have been dating that long (or little) and then be having sex kind of surprised me. I'm not exactly an old fuddy-duddy either or anything, I'm only 24, but it all seems rather quick....
Didn't think episode three was as good as the first two.
In one of the episodes Miss Quill springs a surprise "quiz" on the pupils. We always said "test"; I've only seen "quiz" used in this way in American books or programmes.
There may have been more. Of course, for all I know terminology may have changed.
Btw, April was musing on the meaning of "Prom". What does it mean? Another pernicious and unnecessary Americanism.
We have proms at my school. I also throw the odd quiz. It's all very well reminiscing about our pasts but the current situation in schools across the country has changed, for better or worse, and has been influenced by other cultures. Language is ever-changing and ever-evolving. It's futile not to embrace that.
The only line in Class I haven't liked was "Holy mother of Kanye"...I could have done without that one.
Thank you for the lecture. Maybe you will quiz me on it later?
OK, I didn't realise the American terminology re "quiz" had crept in.
I know everyone has Proms now (rather tiresomely imo, but then I'm a grumpy old git who doesn't see why a dance isn't just called a dance) I was wondering what it actually meant. As a word, that is, not an activity.
Promenade, maybe?
(End of term disco in my day!)
Yep
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-08/opinion/ct-perspec-0508-prom-20130508_1_school-prom-purchasing-dresses-american-girl
April was wondering what the word 'prom' means in the episode, funnily enough. She wonders if it derives from the notion of 'a night of promise' before thinking 'promenade' is more likely