It's the greatest piece of media of all time. When K9 said "It's K9ing time" and K9ed over everyone and everything, I knew that God was dead and had died of joy at this piece of television airing. Thank you Bob Baker for letting us achieve pure intellectual and entertainment bliss for the whole K9 series.

This feels very Power Rangers coded, which I like! Intrigued as to where the series will go, as this is a nice little intro to the story.

I went into this skeptical but open-minded.  Sarah Jane Adventures were clearly intended for a younger audience but is still pretty damn good and fun even as an adult.  The K9 series is that kind of lowest common denominator of kids TV.  It's made on the cheap, doesn't have a ton going on story-wise, and just kind of goes through the basic beats of a story without much creativity.  It reminds me a lot of the shows I used to watch in Canada on our public broadcasting network - fine content for children, but nobody else.  I don't think even kids would find this show that funny, especially these days.  This is easily the worst Doctor Who spin-off.

It is alarmingly hilarious how bad K9 looks when compared to his original appearance.  There is some potential with these characters but all the K9 elements of the show feel like a cheesy gimmick.  I worry what the rest of the show could possibly be like because rather than improve, I feel like the low effort sense I got out of Regeneration would have only gotten worse over time.  This at least had a bit of fun in the silliness of the K9 reveal.  What more could a show possibly offer so thoroughly divorced from the rest of the franchise?  K9 is not the kind of character that could ever carry a series on his own.  People barely seem to like him as a companion, even though I think he can be fun in the right context.  This is the opposite of the right context, though.

For a first episode it doesn’t give much to be invested in. The characters basic motivations are all established, but it didn’t make me really care about them. The world building doesn’t feel coherent yet either, which makes some of the characters motivations harder to follow.

The child characters didn’t appeal to me at all, and they make up most of the main cast it seems. The dialogue and acting was often very strange.

Every time the main alien villains of the episode moved they became really weird and jittery, which was very distracting and made scenes with them hard to follow.

There were, at least, a few enjoyable parts, mostly just that I found the professor to be a likeable character, and I like this K9 design… which may not be a popular opinion.

If watching something a bit terrible for a laugh is what you’re looking for I’d recommend this first episode at least. I can’t speak for any of the others, I only watched this cause it’s free on YouTube.

The amnesia is certainly convenient. Who does he think he is, Eight?

Not big on the model they used here for his post-regeneration.