{"id":232,"date":"2007-10-31T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:12:45","slug":"sja-the-new-k9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"SJA: The new K9?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"K9<\/a><\/p>\n

Something extremely obvious has only recently occurred to me [‘me’ as in JE]. When the Sarah Jane Adventures<\/em> were announced, we were all wondering about K9 and if the SJA would just become the next iteration of K9 and Company<\/em> (dee dee dede dee dee dede K9!). Certainly School Reunion<\/em> enforced the expectation that K9 was with Sarah Jane and back better than ever! (Despite being the older model version with several problems.)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Then came Invasion of the Bane<\/em>, and K9 merely got a token scene where we found out that he was dealing with a black hole. Wow! Talk about your powerful super-dog! Able to collapse a black hole! Now that\u2019s the stuff of K9 Adventures! But this did mean that there\u2019d be no John Leeson crawling about the set during the series. Oh woe is us, said the fans. We wants our K9!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Actually, we do have him. He\u2019d just be \u201cre-invisioned\u201d for the new century and for NuWho (NuSarah?). Features retained: awkward with social situations, doesn\u2019t understand the more subtle points of speech, can interface with new tech with the easiest of ease, can perform complex computations in his head. Features revised: can move about a lot easier, doesn\u2019t have a nose blaster, doesn\u2019t have access to encyclopaedic knowledge for every plot point, can be identified with by the viewing audience.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>No, not Mr. Smith. That would be silly. I\u2019m talking about Luke, of course! (As if the picture didn\u2019t give that away.) Luke is Sarah\u2019s new pet, has many of K9\u2019s qualities (see above), but is now a little boy so that the children can either go \u201che\u2019s silly\u201d or \u201cI feel just as socially isolated as the representation of myself as presented in this children\u2019s programmed aimed at children just like me\u201d (which you hear kids doing all the time, these days).<\/o:p><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

So don\u2019t despair K9 fans, K9 is back and is cuter than a button! But something will have to be done about the lack of a nose blaster\u2026<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something extremely obvious has only recently occurred to me [‘me’ as in JE]. When the Sarah Jane Adventures were announced, we were all wondering about K9 and if the SJA would just become the next iteration of K9 and Company … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sja-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}