heyitsrachel

But then again, maybe they did it on purpose to get some big hype for the spinoff.

Vixen in Violet

I see 90210 as a failed show, so I would say whatever they were trying to do to get everyone hyped only backfired. That's my simplistic view, and I'm sticking with it.

msstock87

Nothing wrong with that view. I tried to watch the spin off and no disrespect towards it, I just could not get into it.

heyitsrachel

Me neither.

Vixen in Violet

Different topic - I think it's funny how often the fact that Brandon takes honors English comes up. In fact, I always chuckle whenever the characters refer to their class as "AP English." I didn't realize the AP program was around back then, but I do know that we only referred to our AP classes by their subject name in school, not "AP ____." I think that would've sounded pretentious in my school, lol.

Also, I wonder if he and Andrea took other advanced classes? If West Bev is as competitive a school as the principle said in the pilot, then I would've assumed both he and Brenda would take mostly AP courses.

heyitsrachel

^ I agree. I've never taken any AP classes before and I have no regrets. I usually see the AP students carry around those books that looks like SAT Prep books....but it has the words AP on them. I guess those were SAT books.

msstock87

I never thought of that until you mentioned it. Although in my high school, we did refer to AP classes as AP, but we had AP and honors classes too.

heyitsrachel

So did mine.

AP
Honors
Regular
ESL

Vixen in Violet

Haha. I don't think I ever referred to my AP classes as such unless I had to clarify the class level. The books were probably prep books for the AP exam, which gives you college credit if you do well on them. Always a "fun" time of year.

heyitsrachel

Wow...I never knew you get college credit for them. But I guess that's what Clare may have gotten in S4 when she was a senior in high school. When she enter college, she said she gotten enough credit to be a sophomore.

Vixen in Violet

That makes sense. I was a sophomore soon after entering school because of AP credit. It's great for getting to graduate early and getting certain major or grad requirement classes out of the way, but the one downside is having to declare your major earlier when you've racked up enough credit; sometimes you just don't know what you want to do yet.

heyitsrachel

Cool. Graduating early like David Silver.

I agree with not knowing what to do yet. I still don't know.

msstock87

I think our AP classes you could get college credit for too.

heyitsrachel

That's cool. I would've love to graduate early from college. I didn't like my college experience at all.

msstock87

I don't remember how much credit it counted for to be honest.