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New Knight Rider VS the old Knight Rider

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Hi all,has anyone catch the new Knight Rider on NBC yet,personally I like the old one better.the FX are to much when Kitt morphs into a truck.the one thing I love to have is the main computer with the touch screen.I would be nice to throw my data across
the room to my other computer in seconds.The acting is ok, but it would help to have
Hoff reprize his roll time to time,or have April Curtis ,Bonnie Barstow,RC3 to appear to do a special upgrades to Kitt. Hum where's the mobile command center,I miss Kitt driving up into the semi.Now he's living in a airplane hanger.Will I hope Nbc will give the show time to progress before the programming dept exc's drop the axe and put an another reality show in it's time slot.feel free to post your opinions.

P.S. RIP Devon Miles aka Edward Mulhare.
 
Both the old and new are amazing shows, but I would like to see the original Michael Knight return to the show.

That would be nice.
 
The original had a better car...there was a magic to the old KITT, somehow. Maybe it helped that I was a little kid...And William Daniels was a more computer-like voice. He wasn't trying to sound smoky and overdramatic.


I haven't watched much of the new series. It's missing something.
 
New Knight Rider VS the old?
Verdict: The original show was good. The new show is a Saturday morning cartoon...

Both shows have a "cheesiness factor" that is common in any crime fighting show. However, the original Knight Rider was a better show by far because it had a better script.
Formula can be a good thing; they knew their audience was 8 to 25 year olds, and that is how they wrote it. But in the original show, the star of the show was the character Michael Knight, and the car, while an important partner, was really just a prop, and very believable. KITT was a talking smart car, and that's all he was.

On the other hand, the new show is ALL OVER THE ROAD! For one thing, the new show is more about KITT than the human characters. Each week, the plot surrounding Mike have taken a back seat, feeling like it was scribed in 10 minutes, while all this money and energy was spent on goofy, unbelievable special effects, and I start to wish KITT would blow an engine and get impounded. On each show is anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes of the show (if not more) wasted on KITT and ridiculous looking special effects. Worse, KITT is not even really a car any more as the Mustang is just one of the shapes he can take. The minute KITT transformed to a truck, a boat, a plane, (maybe a sea monster next?) it stopped being interesting and started being silly. Add to that the fact that the producers of the new show (in their infinite wisdom) decided they didn't want David Hasselhoff because "they wanted this to be a new show" essentially undoing everything that made the summer TV movie a hit.

The bottom line? The original show was simple good guys versus bad guys, with Michael Knight as "The Lone Ranger." The dialogue was not complicated, and it was a fun, easy to follow show. With this new version, that original simplicity has gone out the windshield! Now, there are all these characters, and this cartoonish looking high tech computer, wrapped in special effects. The whole thing is a real mess! NBC shouldn't cancel it, they should put it on hiatus, retool it, and bring it back without all those silly characters (kind of like what SNL did in 1985 with the "fire). KITT should sell all his extra parts to a chop shop and go back to being just a car.

However, NBC will probably just cancel it. Or, maybe they can put it where it belongs and move the repeats to Saturday mornings after "Jane and the Dragon?" Without "the 'Hoff," it serves them right!
 
Is this show copyright protected?
If another car company wants to copy the idea and create a new show...can they?

I doubt anyone would though...just wondering if it *could* be done.
 
Whatever the opinions, the show has been picked up for the full season.
 
Garrett said:
LasVegasRadioJunky said:
Reports say the show has been cancelled.

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/12/knight-rider-pr.html
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That's an old story already posted, and as I said before (and will say again) it's not news of cancellation, just an implication of cancellation. It is not cancelled until NBC decides not to put it on the fall schedule.

That said, it's probably done, as it should be.
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I look forward to seeing the New Knight Rider on the fall schedule.
 
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