Two things of note about this raggedy, mostly-Canadian sci-fi series called "Starhunter": First, this series must have set some kind of record for production companies, the credits for which play out for something nearing five minutes: Danforth Studios/Le Sabre/Alliance-Atlantis/TMN/Super Channel in association with Space and bunch of others... It's actually quite amusing when you see this show to think that a dozen production companies each chipped in what looks like about $(CDN)1,000 for any one threadbare episode.
Second, Tanya Allen as Percy is absolutely wonderful and makes the show eminently watchable. On paper, her part looks like the clichéd "space brat," right down to the gum-cracking, but Ms. Allen (also excellent in the Canadian classic "The Newsroom") invests the role with so much wit and so many sharp character bits that she becomes the best companion Doctor Who never had. Here for once is a character you can truly believe is that young, cute, and smart. And that studied kind of nonchalance that she effects is as adorable as it is endearing. She blows everyone else off the screen by just standing or slouching around that it makes you long for her to turn up starring in her own Percy series of space adventures. She's that good!
Second, Tanya Allen as Percy is absolutely wonderful and makes the show eminently watchable. On paper, her part looks like the clichéd "space brat," right down to the gum-cracking, but Ms. Allen (also excellent in the Canadian classic "The Newsroom") invests the role with so much wit and so many sharp character bits that she becomes the best companion Doctor Who never had. Here for once is a character you can truly believe is that young, cute, and smart. And that studied kind of nonchalance that she effects is as adorable as it is endearing. She blows everyone else off the screen by just standing or slouching around that it makes you long for her to turn up starring in her own Percy series of space adventures. She's that good!