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By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 21 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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It\u2019s five years this week since Doctor Who<\/a> spin-off Class first came to our screens, creating a new youth-skewed take on the Whoniverse that saw a gang of teenagers fighting off alien threats in Coal Hill School. Sadly, despite early buzz and a cameo from then-Doctor Peter Capaldi, the series struggled to make an impact, and an expected second season never came, leaving things on a massive cliffhanger.<\/p>\n

Said cliffhanger involved the return of deadly living statues The Weeping Angels, revealed to be pulling the strings at Coal Hill and with dark plans afoot \u2013 and now, as the Angels make their big return to the main Doctor Who series<\/a>, the team behind Class have opened up about what might have happened in season two.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I love about the Weeping Angels is what I love about certain kinds of sci-fi: they\u2019re aliens who are really alien, as in not at all like us, not even sharing the same frames of reference,\u201d Class creator Patrick Ness told RadioTimes.com<\/a> as part of a wider look back at his BBC TV show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I played with the idea a little bit in the first season with the flower petal invasion: what if aliens were something we couldn\u2019t even argue with, what if they and their motives were entirely inexplicable?\u201d<\/p>

Previously, Ness had suggested season two would involve a visit to the home planet of the Weeping Angels and discover a civil war between factions of the species, filling in more details than have ever been revealed in Doctor Who about the enigmatic aliens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d envisioned the civil war and the planet like that,\u201d Ness said. \u201cSomething only comprehensible in a small way, with so much of it remaining a mystery, reminding us that there are paths we\u2019re just never going to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, that wasn\u2019t the only Weeping Angels idea discussed. Prospective season two writer Kim Curran has revealed her own pitch for the terrifying creatures, which would have involved a trip back to the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up pitching ten [ideas],\u201d Curran said. \u201cOf those ten, we were all most excited by one called Time Capsule.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have seen the whole gang blasted back in time to the 90s by the Weeping Angels, their only hope of getting [home] a time capsule they knew would be dug up at Coal Hill 30 years later. It was going to be, in the immortal words of the Doctor, timey-wimey.\u201d<\/p>\n