Holy crap...
The premiere of Class may just be one of the single worst pieces of television I've ever seen...
Miss Peregrine: Silliest Movie of the Year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utta0pYyVOw
Haven't seen 'Class' myself and have no intention of ever doing so but a quick peruse of a few 'Who sites/boards I frequent sadly seems to confirm all my cynical expectations/preconceptions about it. I'd be lying if I said I was surprised, though it is just the first episode to be fair.
Still, I fully appreciate that I'm not the target audience so for those who did watch and enjoy it, good for you!
Being the unbridled optimist that I'm really not but like to think I am though perhaps it'll improve as the series progresses. That said, it was on 'shaky ground' for me when the writer was bragging on Twitter that the lead character was a non-binary, yeast-intolerant, bi-sexual, orthopaedic shoe-wearing hermaphrodite, with cataracts...or something like that.
^Priorities I guess.
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Addendum: I'm seeing accusations of reverse racism, general sh^teness and the predictable box-ticking malarky levelled at 'Class' (less) from many of those claiming to have seen it so with those sorts of alleged 'qualities' and for a bit of fun, here are the board regulars who I predict will declare 'Class' to be the mutt's nuts!:
Culfy: Attended the Cwin school of 'humour'. Still doesn't understand what the 'ignore' function actually entails. [edit: a tradition he carries on with unswerving gusto I note ξ]
Cwin: Attended the David Baddiel school of 'humour'. I'd demand a refund if I was him (David not Cwin).
The Volunteer: Mad old trout with a terminal case of the trots (politically and perhaps literally speaking).
Paul Beardsley: It seems that most people didn't like the first couple of episodes of Class......so Paul will likely declare it a peerless masterpiece to affirm his faux 'Who connoisseur' credentials. Alternatively, in the unlikely event that Class vastly improves in quality Paul will denounce it to be a load of crap instead.
Ant-Mac: Far funnier when he's righteously sermonising in earnest than when he's attempting 'banter'. That irony appears cruelly lost on him.
Goosefeather Guff: Has the unique distinction of successfully finding another orifice to speak out of considering his evidently preferred one is perma-blocked by a rolled up copy of The Guardian wedged up there. Once apologised for finding Nicola Bryant/Peri physically attractive (snigger), the savage sexist (beta) man brute.
Class....^this is your audience! ξ
Chopper Chang once attacked someone's views on Talons of Weng Chiang without going to the tedious chore of finding out what these views were.
He is now not only imagining what a show is like without bothering to view it, he is taking offense to other people's opinions without even waiting for them to be expressed.
He's become like the Master in Castrovalva creating an entire fictional world purely to be offended.
I pray that his creations don't become self aware and turn against him.
1 mark deducted for not being Curse of Fenric. Insert 'The' into previous if you are Ant-Mac
creating an entire fictional world purely to be offended.
This is what I always find the funniest (aka "the most pathetic") about these anti-PC people. They behave like caricatures of the people they love to criticize. Uglier, but basically the same (same as in watching everything through the lens of offense.)
Class doesn't seem to be getting a very good response. Too bad. I don't have access to it so I wasn't about to watch it anyways, but I still hoped it would get good reviews since the trailer looked solid.
Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse. share
I've not seen it myself and have no intention of watching it - but that's irrelevant. Chopper's already decided what my views on it are.
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I'm going to take a guess that Chopper Chang's posts devolved into completely irrelevant rants about 'political correctness' and how it's ruining the country? I have him on ignore...
Let's roll some tits up the flagpole and see if anyone gets wood.
Basically yes.
1 mark deducted for not being Curse of Fenric. Insert 'The' into previous if you are Ant-Mac
I don't think I could have put that any better.
This mad old trout won't be speaking much on the subject though. I can't watch it anywhere. π
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EDIT: How could I forget/omit two other prominent (though not in a positive sense obviously), right-on board stalwarts who'll most likely also relish Class?!:
Tricky Dicky: Indisputable proof that some turds just can't be flushed, no matter how hard one metaphorically yanks the chain....
Inglourious (sic) Sister: Very much in the 'Volunteer' mold....she may take that as a compliment if she wishes. Actually perhaps not quite as senile as V' but that's not saying much all things considered...
Class......^this is (also) your audience!
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Such is the curse of Europeans who live in more progressive countries ξ¦ Can't tell one from the other.
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As All Books Claim Eternity Has Many Universes
I wish I could say Finland is as progressive as The Netherlands... But we'll get there one day (I hope!) Anyways, yeah, I took it as a compliment. ξ
(By the way, I do know how to spell in case anyone's wondering lol. My user name has the Tarantino spelling on purpose.)
Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.
And I would say we're probably not as progressive as we look from the outside. Still some issues here and there. Happy to live here though.
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As All Books Claim Eternity Has Many Universes
EDIT (again)....actually, just remembered another, final one who'd potentially qualify:
Burun: Currently MIA on this board (?). Will profess to be a fan of Class........but only if the object of his lustful desires, Claudia Boleyn (of whom makes Volunteer look sane by comparison) awards it acclaim first!
Actually, I'm almost in a sufficiently black, nay masochistic mood to see what the less than erudite/nutter-like Ms ('I'm cruelly oppressed actually and I'm really not white and upper middle-class you know, honest) Boleyn thinks of Class.....from the deprived hell hole of her parents' Home Counties mansion.
On second thoughts nah, the experience will be just too depressing. Think I'll watch Schindler's List instead.
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"here are the board regulars who I predict will declare 'Class' to be the mutt's nuts!:"
Really?
To quote myself from another thread two days ago:
"The first episode set everything up, but it was still a disappointing mess."
"Ant-Mac: Far funnier when he's righteously sermonising in earnest than when he's attempting 'banter'. That irony appears cruelly lost on him."
Chopper-Chang: A troll I would invite to a battle of wits, if it wasn't for the fact he is completely unarmed.
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Paul Beardsley: It seems that most people didn't like the first couple of episodes of Class......so Paul will likely declare it a peerless masterpiece to affirm his faux 'Who connoisseur' credentials. Alternatively, in the unlikely event that Class vastly improves in quality Paul will denounce it to be a load of crap instead.
I really couldn't care less if my own opinions go with the mainstream or go against it. I just express my honest views.
So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side. share