{"id":134858,"date":"2017-10-01T15:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134858"},"modified":"2017-10-01T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T23:45:25","slug":"alas-no-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/alas-no-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Alas, no more &#8220;Class&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134869\" title=\"class bbc\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Class<\/i> was a BBC spin-off from <i>Doctor Who<\/i> about the weird goings-on at Coal Hill Academy, involving various teens who &#8212; human and otherwise &#8212; were going through all sorts of traditional teen angst amidst alien invasions and time travel incursions and other life complications.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed it a lot. There was enough teen soap opera, enough Who-class stories and SFX, and enough interesting characters to make it enjoyable, even if at times the accents got a bit thick for my American ears to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, though it got good critical response, it languished in the viewer ratings, and has been canceled. Ah, well. A tip of the hat to the creators and actors for their brief, but enjoyable, stay.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_%282016_TV_series%29\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_(2016_TV_series)<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5079788\/\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5079788\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ta9cfoJC5hk\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hC79e3ZeJFH\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class was a BBC spin-off from Doctor Who about the weird goings-on at Coal Hill Academy, involving various teens who &#8212; human and otherwise &#8212; were going through all sorts of traditional teen angst amidst alien invasions and time travel incursions and other life complications. We enjoyed it a lot. There was enough teen soap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/alas-no-class.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alas, no more &#8220;Class&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,40],"tags":[1229,152],"class_list":["post-134858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-tv","tag-bbc","tag-doctorwho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/class-bbc.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5891,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/02\/exterminated.html","url_meta":{"origin":134858,"position":0},"title":"EXTERMINATEd","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Jul-04 4:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Alas, the new version of Dr Who will be without Daleks. 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