Class is very good, but it bugs me because the constant gruesome deaths…really don’t need to happen. Just close the school? Why is the school still open when people are dying literally every day? Why aren’t people freaking out more? Why are people listing Rachel as ‘missing’ when she was obviously killed by the aliens that everyone saw? Why bother keeping that secret?
Like, all anyone would have to do is announce, ‘Okay, the school was hit by an alien attack, they killed a student, everyone is leaving this area and UNIT will come in and monitor it.” Everyone knows about aliens, Earth has suffered at least four alien attacks already! Why are these kids stuck defending the school, and stuck having to watch people constantly be killed in front of them, when there are hundreds of people – Kate, Osgood, Martha, Mickey, UNIT, Torchwood, multitudes of ex-companions – who could help them?!
It’s the Sunnydale effect. Horrible, explainable things happen, school children are murdered left and right and everyone just shrugs and carries on.
Unfortunately that’s one my least favourite tropes ever, so I suspect that as great and relatable as I find the Class characters, I’m gonna find the actual show kinda hard-going. :(