K-9 movie coming

[Doctorwhovian]

Well, this is a bit odd.

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/k9-to-battle-omega-in-movie-timequake-77281.htm


Also, it will see the return of

Spoiler: returning who villain

Omega, who I guess Bob Baker owns because he wrote Three Doctors?

I think it's going to be based on the TV show from Austalia, which was generally not well received by WHO fans (Sort of an extremely watered-down and not nearly as good Sarah Jane Adventures).

 

[The Wormhole]

Well that's certainly weird. Also, what's the point of using that villain if you can't properly use his backstory? That is, since this isn't a BBC production, I doubt they'll be incorporating his significance to the Time Lords or Gallifrey.

 

[StCoop]

If this actually gets made and receives anything more than a token cinema release I'll eat my Tom Baker Face underpants.

 

[The Wormhole]

If this actually gets made and receives anything more than a token cinema release I'll eat my Tom Baker Face underpants.

Make sure to include a video on YouTube.

 

[StCoop]

If this actually gets made and receives anything more than a token cinema release I'll eat my Tom Baker Face underpants.

Make sure to include a video on YouTube.

It'd probably get more viewers than a K9 movie!

 

[Captaindemotion]

If this actually gets made and receives anything more than a token cinema release I'll eat my Tom Baker Face underpants.

You could probably get away with vowing to eat Tom Baker's underpants, to be honest.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Man, they never give up on this whole K-9 thing, do they?

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

While this is non-canon, I fear it might cheapen the eventual return of Omega to Doctor Who.

 

[StCoop]

Man, they never give up on this whole K-9 thing, do they?

The funny thing is Bob Baker doesn't even need the money with everything he's made from Wallace & Grommit.

I will say this though, if he throws the Axons, the Mutts, Eldrad and the Nucleus of the Swarm in there too then he'll have a Blockbuster on his hands.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Meh. Just meh.

While this is non-canon, I fear it might cheapen the eventual return of Omega to Doctor Who.

Not really. For one, it's an Australian production and I doubt it'll have a major release behind it. Like most here, I never bothered with the series because it looked and sounded (on paper) like complete rubbish.

 

[Christopher]

Like most here, I never bothered with the series because it looked and sounded (on paper) like complete rubbish.

A few years back, Syfy did a marathon of the whole K-9 series, and being a completist, I watched the whole thing. Here's my review from the time. It was indeed pretty bad.

Also, it changed K-9's personality. Not only did he become more "cool" and less prim and proper than before, but he kept insisting that he was not a dog, but a mobile artificial intelligence (or some such thing -- I forget the exact wording). The original K-9 never had a problem with being called a dog or treated like one. Although, granted, the conceit was that he'd "regenerated" Time Lord-style (using circuits the Doctor had built into him, I guess) to produce his new design, so maybe he underwent a personality change like the Doctor too (though John Leeson still did his voice). But the new K-9 just wasn't as fun a character as the original.

 

[sidious618]

While this is non-canon, I fear it might cheapen the eventual return of Omega to Doctor Who.

I think his appearances in the original series have already done that.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The day that movie hits the big screen will be the day I'm announced as both the new showrunner *and* the new Doctor!

 

[Mr Light]

Congratulations! When are you bringing back Gallifrey?

 

[Lonemagpie]

Congratulations! When are you bringing back Gallifrey?

Let us not go to Gallifrey- 'tis a silly place.

 

[Mr Light]

Only the hats.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The emphasized legs in the new design and the flying just highlights what a static model K-9 is. That's OK when he's the Doctor's little buddy and Tom Baker can sell it with an exuberant "K-9!" but on his own it's pretty dull. At least they got rid of that stupid bone collar.

 

[wamdue]

Man, they never give up on this whole K-9 thing, do they?

whilst I have no interest in this movies or the previous K9 series, Sarah Jane Adventures has shown us a couple of times, that K9 can be a worthwhile supporting character in a kids show, whilst its not ideal that he will only ever be a supporting character, I do understand why they try, but I would say its always going to be better when he is the Whoverse K9, not any other K9.

 

[Christopher]

whilst I have no interest in this movies or the previous K9 series, Sarah Jane Adventures has shown us a couple of times, that K9 can be a worthwhile supporting character in a kids show, whilst its not ideal that he will only ever be a supporting character, I do understand why they try, but I would say its always going to be better when he is the Whoverse K9, not any other K9.

I think that K9 played a similarly supporting role to the human leads in his self-titled series. At the very least, they were the Clyde and Rani to his Sarah Jane, as it were, getting at least as much screen time as the title character and being the identification figures for the audience. So it's not like the show centered completely on him. The original characters were just as important to the show -- although I can hardly remember anything about them now. I guess they weren't very memorable.

 

[wamdue]

never even bothered with the K9 show