By now we've all seen the pilot episode of KC Undercover. Unfortunately it raises many more questions than we can hope to see answered anytime soon.
Most disturbing of all is the implication that, however you slice it, either Lincoln Treadwell (Trevor Jackson) or KC (and her parents) are foreign agents.
Recall the setup for KC's mission: she must recover from Lincoln's phone a code for a virus that jams cell towers and renders mobile devices useless. If that is true, then this isn't corporate espionage or some other cop-out. Lincoln's employers can only be a foreign sovereignty or a terrorist group.
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| Aren't they great together? Let's hope they both survive. |
Conceivably some twist could reveal that it is the other way around. Recall that KC's mom called Lincoln's employer "the other side" without specifying a country. Perhaps KC's parents recruited her knowing that her ignorance will earn her lenience in the justice system. And it's possible that all this intrigue is actually the result of an inter-agency feud, but is that any less disturbing?
Ultimately, someone must answer to the law of treason and the threat of capital punishment. One imagines that Disney Channel is setting up a romantic dilemma: will KC betray her country for her boyfriend? Realistically, now that Lincoln has been identified, and knows he has been identified, he must understand that the U.S. government will want to apprehend him immediately. Lincoln has already admitted that he is ready to murder KC, if so ordered.
How can this plotline continue? Will KC protect his identity because she likes him, thereby exposing herself to charges of aiding a foreign enemy? It is unclear where Disney Channel is going with this. In the end, someone is going to be executed or sent to Moscow in a prisoner exchange.
Worse is the revelation that the sassy kid role in this show will be performed by a robot character who will be revealed in the second episode. As with Lab Rats, the premise is Frankenstein turned on its head. Recall that in Lab Rats, the Hal Sparks character created three funny teenager androids and then decided to destroy them when he realized that keeping them would be inconvenient. These robots survived only because his stepson befriended them. Their creator later came to love them as his own children.
As of now, the implication in KC Undercover is that KC's parents created the android child to perform risky espionage missions too dangerous for a person. Otherwise, why spend the extensive resources needed to develop a convincing humanoid robot? KC's parents are unashamed to ignore their son. Are they going to love this new child at all?
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| Can a simulacrum deserve to be loved? What does this mean for humanity? |
Speaking of questionable parenting, KC's mom admitted that she worried whether "testing" KC was the right thing to do. You don't say? Was taking the risk of traumatizing your daughter with what was essentially a simulated kidnapping necessarily the right thing to do?
Furthermore, is no one else disturbed by the fact that KC's glasses allow her to see people naked in detail that would make a TSA agent blush, and that she has no qualms about doing this? Is surreptitiously checking out boys in the nude supposed to help her overcome her nervousness in talking to them?
And finally, let's notice that both Ernie's and KC's memory of the day was erased right before the episode ended. It appears that their parents erased Ernie's memory deliberately, so that their espionage can be revealed to him again in a later episode. But then KC erased her own memory in order to forget having watched her parents make out. Was this last part a just a silly gag that we're supposed to disregard, or are we going to go through this all again? Disney Channel is pushing the bounds of continuity with this one.
So where are we going with this, Disney? Is KC going to continue protecting a traitor, abusing technology, and disregarding privacy? Leave a comment and tell us what you think!
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