"Some people deserve to die."

[viridian5]

Having watched the first episode of Deadly Class, the show about teens being trained as killers at a secret school, at this point I'm giving it more of a chance based on its soundtrack--the Cure ("The Holy Hour" is a deep cut choice), Echo and the Bunnymen, the Sisters of Mercy, the Damned--and occasional fun 80s references--the greatness of the Dark Phoenix saga and thus Chris Claremont and John Byrne--than its characters or plot. Part of the problem is I am so bored of the protagonist/audience surrogate being some needy teen guy with manpain, especially since the big first lesson he gets onscreen is that girls are treacherous and will play with his emotions (and hormones). And that poor goth girl--whose makeup and style scream, "Don't bother me"--gets physically objectified by two different guys she's shown zero interest toward in about five minutes. Sure, it seems that all the students threaten each other in various ways, but I don't want to see so much of that kind of thing directed at girls.

Though I got a good laugh at one character saying his ultimate kill target is Ronald Reagan.

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