Did you know that K-9 was getting his own show? Yep, that's why he's not on the Sarah Jane Adventures. It's an Australian show made for Disney XD or whatever that channel is called.
At a non-specific time in the future, London is filled with robot police and young men willing to 'rebel against the system'. A young hacker gentleman and young lady trying to join him sneak into a house to avoid the cops after some cyber graffiti. There they accidentally interrupt a professor's experiment into time. He's trying to bring his family back and the young man interrupts the flow by tripping over the massive power plug for the machinery and pulling it from the wall. Plugging it back in doesn't get the professor's family but does get some weird hulking aliens as well as a robot dog, K-9. In the process of fighting off the aliens, K-9 self-destructs but then rebuilds himself as K-9 mark two. There's some conflict with the professor's young assistant, the company funding the professor's experiments, and the robot cops. It ends on a 'joke'.
It's really bad. It's not even 'I don't care for it but I can see how kids might like it', it's just bad. To be fair, it's only the first episode and it might get better, but this episode was just a bunch of things happening. I go no understanding of how the characters know each other or why the ones apparently just meeting each other bother to put up with each other. Is the cyber graffiti kid just rebelling as kids do or is the 'system' really sinister? I know you can't develop everything in one half-hour episode but this really felt like a lack of trying.
The redesigned K-9 is fine but he switches between an actual prop and a clearly CGI version. Not cool. At least the weird aliens appeared to be suits but nothing was made of their weird shimmer. I decided it had something to do with being in the time stream. I don't think they were even given names.
I was not impressed. At all.
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