Comic book fans we are living in an era where anything that's a comic book could be adapted heck i'm surprised that Santa Claus vs Nazis hasn't been adapted. Syfy have released the pilot episode for there comic book adaptation of Deadly Class so here we go.
The plot of the pilot episode is Marcus Lopez Arguello finds himself being the newest student of King's Dominion a school that pretty much teaches it's students how to kill people. Yeah in terms of plot there's really nothing in this episode but it does possibly set up something for future episodes but I will say that the set up does seem unique enough and so i'll forgive the pilot for not really having a plot but one needs to present in future episodes.
Starring in the pilot was Benedict Wong as Master Lin , Benjamin Wadsworth as Marcus Lopez Arguello , Lana Condor as Saya , María Gabriela de Faría as Maria , Luke Tennie as Willie , Liam James as Billy , Michel Duval as Chico , Taylor Hickson as Petra and Ryan Robbins as Rory. In terms of the acting for a pilot episode the acting I thought was pretty good I admit I wasn't expecting the acting to be great going into this pilot just because the acting so rarely is good in any pilot.
I'm not sure what decade this show is meant to take place there's alot seen in the show to suggest it's the eighties but I can't find anything anywhere on the internet to confirm that. This isn't a knock against the show since the comic book might very well state very clearly when the show is set but it would have been nice for them to say when it's set in the show.
SYFY did something that is so rarely done in the world of TV and that's release the pilot episode online for the world to watch. Well I say the whole world they uploaded it to there Youtube page and made sure that you can only watch it if your in America to me that defeats the point of releasing a pilot online. If your going to release a pilot online then why not make sure everyone in the world can see it since there might be people outside of America who might want to watch it.
The series is based on the comic book of the same name written by Rick Remender and published by Image Comics. As of this writing there are thirty five issues. The series is still being published on a monthly basis so it will be interesting to see if the TV series catches up to the comic book series at some point and they do catch up to each other how will they handle that fact. Since any anime fan will tell you that if an anime catches up to the manga the anime produces a filler episode so will that be the case here.
This series is not without it's comic book pedigree tho as working on this show are current Marvel darlings The Russo brothers. Now depending on where you get information from they are either listed as the show's creators or as the show's executive producers I can tell you tho that the show was created by original created Rick Remender and Miles Orion Feldsott The Russo's are the executive producers on the show so they have very little say about what's in the show.
Even tho this show does indeed air n SYFY there's nothing science fiction about it at all. Which is odd if you think about because you'd think a show that's airing on SYFY would have some elements of science fiction in it but no there's nothing that screams science fiction in this pilot at all. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that since like i said it does feel weird watching a show airing on SYFY but has no elements of science fiction in it but on the other hand if your watching a show on SYFY then one expects there to be some syfy elements in there.
Overall in terms of pilot episodes this one isn't that bad but it's also not that good but you guys can make your own minds up by checking the pilot out right now on the SYFY Youtube channel and if you don't live in American you can find out on "other" websites. This pilot is due to air on January 16th on SYFY so you have plenty of chances to check it out and since this is a pilot i'm not going to give this episode a rating.