Post by matthewsee on Sept 17, 2010 23:02:05 GMT -5
Penultimate episode of season 1.
The title refers to none other than K9 himself. Unlike other monsters who had their names in story titles like the Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans, the Korven were a complete no-show for this episode.
The episode instead has Thorne offering a deal to K9 for K9 to give Thorne his regeneration unit in exchange for K9’s memory chip.
However K9’s memory chip turned out to be a bomb. K9 as a bomb has been set to explode upon encountering his target, that of a Jixen.
Jixie (as named by Starkey as individual Jixens don’t have names to distinguish themselves from one another) soon revealed that the Jixens were actually peaceful emissaries who came to warn Earth about the invasion of the Korven and that K9 has been used to destroy the Jixens hence the bomb.
This was the second episode in a row written by series developers Shayne Armstrong and SP Krause which was why the storyline about Darius’ father Harry Pike from the previous episode The Last Precinct had been used as the setting point for Thorne presenting his deal to K9.
Prior to the debut of K9 the titles for the first and second half of the 26 episodes were revealed within a short period of time. So it would seem that Armstrong and Krause had decided from the outset to make the Jixens made to appear as the bad guys only for them to be revealed in this episode as the good guys all along.
The resolution of K9 as a bomb was not bad and a good lead-up to the season finale Eclipse of the Korven.
The title refers to none other than K9 himself. Unlike other monsters who had their names in story titles like the Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans, the Korven were a complete no-show for this episode.
The episode instead has Thorne offering a deal to K9 for K9 to give Thorne his regeneration unit in exchange for K9’s memory chip.
However K9’s memory chip turned out to be a bomb. K9 as a bomb has been set to explode upon encountering his target, that of a Jixen.
Jixie (as named by Starkey as individual Jixens don’t have names to distinguish themselves from one another) soon revealed that the Jixens were actually peaceful emissaries who came to warn Earth about the invasion of the Korven and that K9 has been used to destroy the Jixens hence the bomb.
This was the second episode in a row written by series developers Shayne Armstrong and SP Krause which was why the storyline about Darius’ father Harry Pike from the previous episode The Last Precinct had been used as the setting point for Thorne presenting his deal to K9.
Prior to the debut of K9 the titles for the first and second half of the 26 episodes were revealed within a short period of time. So it would seem that Armstrong and Krause had decided from the outset to make the Jixens made to appear as the bad guys only for them to be revealed in this episode as the good guys all along.
The resolution of K9 as a bomb was not bad and a good lead-up to the season finale Eclipse of the Korven.