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A review by theinfiniteood
Class: Volume 1 by Roy Gill, Jenny T. Colgan, Scott Handcock
4.0
Gifted - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
As someone who really hates the fantasy genre I was surprised how much I enjoyed this story. It incorporates fantasy elements into the framework of a sci-fi story. Thomas Laneford serves as a great character to tie together the plot threads and lead both Ram and April to the climax of the story. Mab is a great villain mostly due to some great dialogue, very unsettling and predatory. She however, is the part of the climax of the story that does let it down as she is so easily defeated. The final confrontation lasts barely minutes then all is well. The highlight of the story is definitely the chemistry between Ram and April. This story is set before they got together on screen, but this story definitely adds some more meaning to them eventually doing so. Ram is given more witty dialogue, and April continues to be soft but tough, and this just makes them the perfect pairing. I really cannot fault this story in a massive way, the only thing stopping me from giving it five stars is just that I really don’t like the fantasy genre.
Life Experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
This is a story that uses the setting of a sixth form school to tell stories that feel grounded in their background, and that is clever. Ram and Tanya on work experience in a lab with a psycho and an invisible alien, a very fun premise which does deliver on the comedy and the drama, but very much not the plot. Essentially no more than a few chase scenes where the monster does nothing, and a final confrontation with the antagonist, it’s copy and paste stuff really. There’s a good five minutes of the story where they discuss whether or not the alarms are a fire drill, and from there it really drags. The story being driven by Ram and Tanya was the bit that was kept me interested as them being polar opposites makes for great comedy. The witty one-liners and jokey moments keep things interesting and drive the story. What is also nice is the narrative being a metaphor for their work experience being life experience. It’s nice to see a story used to make a message but these elements are aren’t enough to cover the fact that the plot was incredibly thin.
Tell Me You Love Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This story upon listening not for the first time still stands as a brilliant and beautiful piece of drama. Comedic elements are mixed with really beautiful and tragic character drama, resulting in a story where you really get to see from the eyes of Charlie, Quill, and Matteusz. The isolated feeling is enhanced by the sound design and the dialogue which is all resultantly metaphors for the way they are trapped in different ways, adds to that atmosphere. The performances are superb all round and I simply cannot fault this story. It neither oversteps the mark nor leaves more to be desired, but tells a beautiful tale that can drive you to tears and to laughter alternating every five minutes. If you skip straight to this story in the set I cannot blame you as it is brilliant.
As someone who really hates the fantasy genre I was surprised how much I enjoyed this story. It incorporates fantasy elements into the framework of a sci-fi story. Thomas Laneford serves as a great character to tie together the plot threads and lead both Ram and April to the climax of the story. Mab is a great villain mostly due to some great dialogue, very unsettling and predatory. She however, is the part of the climax of the story that does let it down as she is so easily defeated. The final confrontation lasts barely minutes then all is well. The highlight of the story is definitely the chemistry between Ram and April. This story is set before they got together on screen, but this story definitely adds some more meaning to them eventually doing so. Ram is given more witty dialogue, and April continues to be soft but tough, and this just makes them the perfect pairing. I really cannot fault this story in a massive way, the only thing stopping me from giving it five stars is just that I really don’t like the fantasy genre.
Life Experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
This is a story that uses the setting of a sixth form school to tell stories that feel grounded in their background, and that is clever. Ram and Tanya on work experience in a lab with a psycho and an invisible alien, a very fun premise which does deliver on the comedy and the drama, but very much not the plot. Essentially no more than a few chase scenes where the monster does nothing, and a final confrontation with the antagonist, it’s copy and paste stuff really. There’s a good five minutes of the story where they discuss whether or not the alarms are a fire drill, and from there it really drags. The story being driven by Ram and Tanya was the bit that was kept me interested as them being polar opposites makes for great comedy. The witty one-liners and jokey moments keep things interesting and drive the story. What is also nice is the narrative being a metaphor for their work experience being life experience. It’s nice to see a story used to make a message but these elements are aren’t enough to cover the fact that the plot was incredibly thin.
Tell Me You Love Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This story upon listening not for the first time still stands as a brilliant and beautiful piece of drama. Comedic elements are mixed with really beautiful and tragic character drama, resulting in a story where you really get to see from the eyes of Charlie, Quill, and Matteusz. The isolated feeling is enhanced by the sound design and the dialogue which is all resultantly metaphors for the way they are trapped in different ways, adds to that atmosphere. The performances are superb all round and I simply cannot fault this story. It neither oversteps the mark nor leaves more to be desired, but tells a beautiful tale that can drive you to tears and to laughter alternating every five minutes. If you skip straight to this story in the set I cannot blame you as it is brilliant.