Story: K-9: Liberation
Written By: Shayne Armstrong & S.P. Krause
Length: 30 Minutes
Year: 2010
So far, this series still puzzles me. It actually looks good visually. I mean for a kids show it has some decent special effects and it’s own sense of style…but as a spin-off of Doctor Who it seems like it doesn’t really fit into the right universe. Add on the fact the scripts make little to no sense most of the time. Now this is only the second episode, of what is apparently three parts, but that doesn’t mean that in the first two episodes we SHOULDN’T know EXACTLY what is going on.
There are weird things, like the two kids decide they need to go and find K-9, but there doesn’t seem to be a reason for them to do so. It always feels like there are scenes cut out and that I’m missing chunks of plot when I feel like I’m paying pretty close attention. Then you get an ending where the kid gives a inspirational speech to make K-9 not give up and carry on…K-9 just has to come with us! But the kid never once thinks “I mean I could carry you.” He just risks his life sitting there demanding the dog keeps moving.
Why didn’t they set this series in AUSTRALIA? It completely baffles me that they set it in a country they were not producing it in. Especially because it mostly boils down to several stock shots of bright London that don’t mesh well with the dark and moody sets of London they use for their sort of odd dystopian version of the city. They might have saved themselves some trouble by making it an Australian totalitarian government in the undisclosed near dystopian future.
NEXT TIME: Starkey’s Homeless
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