#k9 (2009)

[boanerges20]

Suzuki GSX-R1000 Yoshimura [K9] 8 Hours Suzuka, 2009

[walks-the-ages]

Everyone always says Doctor Who needs to be constrained to a shoe -string budget to be good again, but no one ever articulates *why*.

It's because show runners, without access to ~beautiful amazing stunning CGI~ to prop up their episodes would instead have to rely on actually telling meaningful, coherent stories , not just having CGI scenery.

Good writing and characters can make a cardboard set held up with duck tape meaningful and heartrending because the writing brings meaning to the setting.... But the most beautiful, breathtaking CGI in the world can't save a boring and unintesting story or it's flat characters.

You could have the most breathtaking special effects, but if your story is shallow people are going to be snoozing during the climax or so bored they "watch" the whole thing twice over but still can't remember the plot.

It's not a bad thing that Doctor Who has a higher budget than it started out with, but it DOES allow writers to hang onto the coattails of CGI effects and looking pretty instead of being able to hold meaning and significance by the weight of the writing and performance.

[rjalker]

The K9 episode "The Fall of the House of Gryffyn" is just. filled with flashing lights.

The opening for the show itself is also very flashy. I'd recommend skipping it.

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Doctor Who (1963) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Charles Crichton & Sarah Jane Smith, K9 & Sarah Jane Smith Characters: K-9, Sarah Jane Smith, Charles Crichton, Original Characters, Winifred Bambera Additional Tags: United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (Doctor Who), Torchwood One, 1980s, 1980s UNIT, 1980s Torchwood, Original Character-centric, Original Character Death(s), Case Fic, Action/Adventure, Military, Aliens, Plot, Cliffhangers, Angst, Zombies (sort of), Infection, Peril, Explosions, Period Typical Attitudes, (here and there anyway), and one lost victorian housemaid Series: Part 1 of 1980s UNIT Summary:

April 1985: Good scientific advisors are hard to find. Dr Webber discovers why when he's expected to deal with zombies, aliens and Torchwood on his second day, and his only help is a tin dog and a ghost. Colonel Crichton and Sarah Jane are planning an exit strategy of sorts, while Captain Bambera is trying to keep her men from joining the opposing forces. They'll all be lucky to stay alive.

[walks-the-ages]

Fantastic that this came across my dash as we're watching K9 (2009), a show almost no one has heard of and those that HAVE heard of it have most likely never watched it and consider it "cursed" from looking at promopics of K9s redesign and nothing else -- completely missing out on a very fun and well written, creative show set just slightly to the left of Doctor Who Canon, that's allowed to world build instead of keeping the present day always locked in step with the real modern world instead of having continuity from the constant, global alien invasions

And we're only on episode 6 so far :)

You’ve heard of doctor who canon get ready for doctor who apocrypha

[stargazerlily7210]

Do new Whovians know about Chameleon Circuit?

Not the chameleon circuit, the ever broken TARDIS mechanism.

Chameleon Circuit, the fan band from, like, 2009-2011?

Because their music honestly still holds up. I'd forgotten about them until the 2023 specials threw me right back into my DW hyperfixation head first. But damnit if they're not at least as good as I remembered. Some of the songs are even better than I remembered!

Now, unfortunately, they only made the two albums in 2009 and 2011. Therefore, most of their songs refer specifically to events and characters from series 4 and 5, the ones that don't are more about the general lore.

So I wouldn't recommend checking them out unless you've seen series 4 and 5.

But they're on YouTube and Spotify, if you're interested in some utter bops.

May I recommend:

Gallifreyan History 101, The Sound of Drums, Mr. Pond, K9's Lament, and The Doctor is Dying/Still Got Legs (yes they're two different songs but I like listening to them together)

To start you out

You're welcome.

[legok9]

The Saga of K9

1977: Bob Baker and Dave Martin create K9 for the Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy. He was only supposed to be in that serial, but production made him a companion as he would be popular with kids.

After four seasons as a companion, K9 became an icon of classic Doctor Who. Due to a quirk of character rights at the time, Bob Baker and Dave Martin owned K9 as a character. This spawned decades of attempts to make a spin-off featuring K9...

1979: The Adventures of K9 and Other Mechanical Creatures:

1980: The Adventures of K9 books are published. K9 fights the Time Lord "Omegon" in one:

1981: A pilot episode is made for K9 and Company. The BBC does not pick it up for a full season:

1982: The K9 Annual 1983 is published:

1997-98: DWM 253 announces a four-part pilot for a K9 series is being developed. DWM 269 reveals concept art made by Rory McLeish:

2006: K9 returns to Doctor Who in School Reunion:

2007: K9 is relegated to small cameos in The Sarah Jane Adventures as Bob Baker is still developing his own K9 spin-off:

2007: Dave Martin passes away.

2009-10: A K9 spin-off series is finally made in Australia, independently from the BBC. K9 had to be redesigned because the BBC owns his original design. The series has mixed reviews at best and lasts one season:

2015: The Essential Book of K9 is published. It features another redesign of K9 in the comic Short Circuit.

2015: A film titled K9: TimeQuake is announced and slated for a theatrical release in 2017. It will feature K9 fighting the Time Lord Omega.

2017 comes and goes with no news.

2018: A multi-million dollar K9 TV series is being developed to lead into K9: TimeQuake:

2020: The anthology book K9: Megabytes is released and promoted as a prequel to TimeQuake.

2021: Bob Baker passes away. His obituary mentions he has written scripts for a K9 film and TV series:

2023: Concept art for K9: Omega Rises is shown at the conversion Invasion Blackpool. The concept art shows K9, a new male character, Omega, Matter Beasts, and Dinodragons. The status of this project is unknown.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

An Awful Lot Of Running

Gallifreyan History 101

Count The Shadows

Shipwrecked

Type 40

Blink

Exterminate, Regenerate

K9's Lament

Journey's End

Friends Of The Ood (Acoustic)

Exterminate, Regenerate (Demo)

Spotify | YouTube

[bikebound]

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[davidtennantontwitter]

#DavidTennant Daily Photo!

David with Elisabeth Sladen and K9 when he filmed The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2009

#DoctorWho

[gohandinhand]

today on this day of spotify wrapped i would like to explicitly state that the evil jukebox in my brain has been playing the short version of the 2009 k9 advantix commercial jingle for twelve hours

[balloons-and-shadows]

December Advent Calendar

December 14 - Gävlebocken

For the second day of the advent calendar, I will introduce you to my most favourite christmas tradition ever; Gävlebocken.

Gävlebocken is the Swedish Christmas goat. Turns out the Swedes have the tradition to erect a statue of a goat made of straw in Gävle, at the beginning of the Christmas period. That’s the official tradition. However, since its start in 1966, a second unofficial tradition has started; to try and destroy the christmas goat. As of this year, 38 out of the 56 goats have already been destroyed. 

Because of this, the group of people that were originally responsible for building the goat stopped for a few years. During this time, the local natural science club decided to build their own miniature version of the goat. However, this one also got destroyed most of the time. 

That’s why the goat is under constant surveillance every year since 2017. It has double fences, cameras, 24-hour CCTV and guards along with a K9-unit. There is a sentence of 3 months in prison for destroying the goat. This, however, doesn’t stop people from trying to destroy it. These are the most bizarre attempts at vandalizing it;

1973: Someone stole the goat and put it in his backyard

1976: A car drove into one of the legs and the goat collapsed

2001: An American tourist was imprisoned for two weeks for setting the goat on fire, claiming “his Swedish friend had said it was okay”

2005: a group dressed as santa and gingerbread men fired flaming arrows into the goat

2009: hackers disabled the cameras and set the goat on fire

Also, in 2010 a guard has claimed to have turned down a bribe to let 2 men use a helicopter to fly away the goat.

You can can see the live footage of the goat here

The goat in question: 

For the second day of the advent calendar, I will introduce you to my most favourite christmas tradition ever; Gävlebocken.

Gävlebocken is the Swedish Christmas goat. Turns out the Swedes have the tradition to erect a statue of a goat made of straw in Gävle, at the beginning of the Christmas period. That’s the official tradition. However, since its start in 1966, a second unofficial tradition has started; to try and destroy the christmas goat. As of this year, 38 out of the 56 goats have already been destroyed. 

Because of this, the group of people that were originally responsible for building the goat stopped for a few years. During this time, the local natural science club decided to build their own miniature version of the goat. However, this one also got destroyed most of the time. 

That’s why the goat is under constant surveillance every year since 2017. It has double fences, cameras, 24-hour CCTV and guards along with a K9-unit. There is a sentence of 3 months in prison for destroying the goat. This, however, doesn’t stop people from trying to destroy it. These are the most bizarre attempts at vandalizing it;

1973: Someone stole the goat and put it in his backyard

1976: A car drove into one of the legs and the goat collapsed

2001: An American tourist was imprisoned for two weeks for setting the goat on fire, claiming “his Swedish friend had said it was okay”

2005: a group dressed as santa and gingerbread men fired flaming arrows into the goat

2009: hackers disabled the cameras and set the goat on fire

Also, in 2010 a guard has claimed to have turned down a bribe to let 2 men use a helicopter to fly away the goat.

You can can see the live footage of the goat here

The goat in question: 

[walks-the-ages]

For Screen readers, this is a poll.

The question is, does this link allow you to watch the video?

Option one is "yes" (please list country in tags)

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the link in question is

^please click the above link, and if applicable push 'play' and see if the video loads, or see if it says "not available in your country".

I was trying to find where to buy/stream the Doctor Who unofficial australian spinoff, K9 (2009, and completely unrelated to the K9 and Company spinoff of the 70's/80's that only had a pilot episode) , since Pluto TV only has the first episode now, and after ordering the DVD, I discovered that the show creators are intelligent since the DVD and have the entire series, all 26 episodes, available to stream completely for free on their website!

If you have not watched K9 (2009) yet, or if its been years since you've seen it, this is your sign to watch it !

the poll is because someone said the link said it was unavailable in their country, so now I'm curious who gets to also watch K9 for free :)

Don't forget to reblog to share the Doctor Who love :)

[rjalker]

[ID: Three versions of drawing version of K9 from the show K9 (2009), in front of different pride flags: Nonbinary, xenogender, and xenogender nonbinary. K9 is a light blue dog-like robot with grey ear-like antenne and a red plate for eyes. End ID.]

:)

[blondetwinsisters]

I want them all to gng bng me. I think im in love with with their outfits and war guys becuz when i was younger I used to play cod and I had a crush on the call off duty character soap

Call of duty 4 2007 lol and then obviously ghost mw2 2009 I searched it up cuz I missed these games and then the k9’s anyways. Real life I want them to do anything they want to me 🖤

[lakelandg]

Lakeland Police Department K9s Drax, Judah, Kodiak, and Summit have received donations of body armor

Lakeland Police Department K9s Drax, Judah, Kodiak, and Summit have received bullet and stab protective vests thanks to a charitable donation from non-profit organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. All vests were sponsored by Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. and embroidered with the sentiment “In memory of K9 Hobbs, Des Moines, IA – EOW 12/12/23.” Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., established in 2009,…