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Class ep 3 now up.
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... K |
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I watched the first two. They were fun to watch and time drifted by.
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! |
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I watched the first two. They were fun to watch and time drifted by.
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! |
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It also annoys me that April is made unpopular because she is nice? That simply would never be the case in 2016.
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I really enjoyed episode 3. Decent acting all round, we learned a bit more about the characters, and the effects were quite good.
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I really enjoyed episode 3. Decent acting all round, we learned a bit more about the characters, and the effects were quite good.
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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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I really enjoyed episode 3. Decent acting all round, we learned a bit more about the characters, and the effects were quite good.
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![]() 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. |
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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, episode 3 involved a sex scene that lasted all of five seconds...of which about three of those were simply bedsheets being moved about. |
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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. 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... |
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It appears to have performed even worse than the last two on the iPlayer. It never made the top-10 and quickly dropped right out of the top-40 all together. Not a good sign for a show that's only available on the iPlayer.
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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... 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. |
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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. 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.... |
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I get what the above posters say about using the American rather than British vocab at times.
Didn't think episode three was as good as the first two. |
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It's all good fun, I think. I'm finding the storytelling a little simplistic but overall it's very enjoyable.
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I don't understand any of the comments about Americanisms myself. That's speaking as an English teacher at a secondary school. Different schools have different vernaculars. Academies refer to their head as a principal and it was also made clear that the "coach" in episode 2 wasn't in fact a P.E. teacher, just their football coach. What other word do we have for the person who trains a football team? As for the Amish reference, that's a bit of a silly point and not an Americanism. British people are more than aware of the Amish and their nature.
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I don't understand any of the comments about Americanisms myself. That's speaking as an English teacher at a secondary school. Different schools have different vernaculars. Academies refer to their head as a principal and it was also made clear that the "coach" in episode 2 wasn't in fact a P.E. teacher, just their football coach. What other word do we have for the person who trains a football team? As for the Amish reference, that's a bit of a silly point and not an Americanism. British people are more than aware of the Amish and their nature.
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. |
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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. |
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We had surprise quizzes in schools, as well as surprise tests. They were a bit different in nature, as per the terminology really. We also has proms in Year 12 and Year 13. We had PE teachers, but then when my PE teacher also began running our hockey team we referred to her as the coach. There are a few other references to American culture (such as the Amish reference) but it didn't feel out of place... I can't speak for how it used to be but western cultural awareness knows few borders in schools - speaking as someone who was in sixth form a handful of years ago and is currently prepping to be a teacher myself.
The only line in Class I haven't liked was "Holy mother of Kanye"...I could have done without that one. |
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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.
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We had surprise quizzes in schools, as well as surprise tests. They were a bit different in nature, as per the terminology really. We also has proms in Year 12 and Year 13. We had PE teachers, but then when my PE teacher also began running our hockey team we referred to her as the coach. There are a few other references to American culture (such as the Amish reference) but it didn't feel out of place... I can't speak for how it used to be but western cultural awareness knows few borders in schools - speaking as someone who was in sixth form a handful of years ago and is currently prepping to be a teacher myself.
The only line in Class I haven't liked was "Holy mother of Kanye"...I could have done without that one. 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. |
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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.
(End of term disco in my day!) |
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Promenade, maybe?
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The American prom has its roots in the 19th-century debutante ball, when well-to-do young women were introduced to polite society — and to potential suitors. "Prom" is short for "promenade," the slow walk that debutantes did at their "coming out" ball.
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I was wondering what it actually meant. As a word, that is, not an activity.
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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.
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