Aside from the occasional episode from Fox’s animation block, I don’t watch very many cartoons nowadays. I suppose that’s natural when you get older. While flipping through channels the other day, I happened upon Cartoon Network which was promoting this new series. It sounded mildly interesting given my interest in cryptids so I decided to tune in.
The story is fairly simple: there is a group called The Secret Scientists which researches anything that is deemed secret or unusual. This includes everything from UFOs to cryptids. A group within the Secret Scientists is the Saturday family, a family which researches and documents cryptids, a group of animals believed to be more at home in folklore and stories than actual animals. These include Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, etc.
Doc and Drew Saturday have an eleven-year-old son named Zak who has a special ability to communicate with these cryptids. This becomes useful during research because Zak can control the animals for periods of time, keeping the family safe. With no other children, the family has two crypids: Komodo, a komodo dragon, and Fiskerton, a 7-foot-tall gorilla-cat.
The two-hour series premiere was quite an adventure for the Saturdays. They had to fight V.V. Argost, the series’ main villain, who is after a powerful stone that The Secret Scientists stole from him to protect the world. The stone was cut up into three pieces and split up amongst the scientists for safe keeping. Argost manages to get all three pieces together, providing a map of sorts to Kurr, which will end up giving Argost great power.
Zak was important in this episode. He’s still learning his powers and those powers will be increasingly important as the series proceeds. He’ll need to control the crypids if he and his family are to defeat Argost. Thankfully Argost hasn’t used the map yet, but it’s only a matter of time until he does so.
I don’t know if I will continue to watch The Secret Saturdays. There aren’t many things wrong with it, actually. It’s just the show is obviously geared more to kids aged 9-12 or thereabouts and isn’t really something I would find as engrossing as someone Zak Saturday’s age.
It’s a very family-friendly show. There’s plenty of action to keep a child interested. The action contains a number of fighting scenes, but there isn’t any blood or gore, making it a very nice show for children to watch.
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