KITT!!!!!!!!! . . . And, y'know, the rest of the show
I adore KITT.
I adore him and love him and want to cruise around the Bonneville Salt Flats with him (which is better than sex, though if we figure out how then I'm up for that too) and he's got a sexy voice and is just all-around perfection.
As to the rest of the show, I'm cautiously optimistic. Mostly.
Here's my impressions halfway through, while they were establishing who everybody was and what KITT could do and so forth:
"But the rest of the show so far? OMG, utter nightmare of contrived uber-luck, ridiculously narrow escapes, and oh-so-convenient solutions in sequence. It's not so much a fight between protagonists and antagonists, as a choreographed dance between the protagonists and chance. It plays out like James T. Kirk's final exams, a series of problems thrown out so that people can show how talented they are by solving them.
"And Michael Knight? The Average Guy Who Has Everything from any TV sitcom---except he's missing chunks of his memory. I'd feed him through the Mary Sue Litmus Test, but I don't know which I'd break first, my desk or my skull!"
After that very painful, elaborate just-barely-escaped weirdness, though, it did get better. Enough that I've mostly ceased worrying that the thing'll get cancelled in short order; there appears to be a decent explanation for the memory-loss and whatnot; the plot has ceased being "look what implausibly amazing talent somebody can pull out of his ass at the last second" and started being, you know, an actual plot . . . I'm definitely going to keep watching.
There are four women, at least, that appear they're going to be regulars with speaking parts; they're portrayed as competent professionals in their fields and productive, valued members of the team (or the enemy, as the case may be). No "fiesty" bullshit, and they don't appear to be afterthoughts written in for sex appeal or romance (there IS a love-triangle element, and I'm vaguely annoyed by the lack of competition for the attention Mike gets (unless KITT turns out to provide it ^_^), but I don't see too many signs of Bond Girl syndrome. Although it's quite possible I was too busy ogling KITT to notice if there was any.) The big annoyingly-sexist moment was right before the show, when they featured an image of KITT with Val Kilmer voice-over during the schedule update, and had KITT appear to be commenting on the attractiveness of the women on Lipstick Jungle. I'm torn between being annoyed with the objectification and being insanely happy about KITT being into human women.
I know I'm going to pair him with Sarah and Zoe. Probably going to slash him with Michael, too, although I don't really see Michael in much of a sexual fashion. Also, a thousand Transformers crossovers are making themselves known to me.
So, gonna go listen to Roshi on the radio and pay attention to the chat room.
I adore him and love him and want to cruise around the Bonneville Salt Flats with him (which is better than sex, though if we figure out how then I'm up for that too) and he's got a sexy voice and is just all-around perfection.
As to the rest of the show, I'm cautiously optimistic. Mostly.
Here's my impressions halfway through, while they were establishing who everybody was and what KITT could do and so forth:
"But the rest of the show so far? OMG, utter nightmare of contrived uber-luck, ridiculously narrow escapes, and oh-so-convenient solutions in sequence. It's not so much a fight between protagonists and antagonists, as a choreographed dance between the protagonists and chance. It plays out like James T. Kirk's final exams, a series of problems thrown out so that people can show how talented they are by solving them.
"And Michael Knight? The Average Guy Who Has Everything from any TV sitcom---except he's missing chunks of his memory. I'd feed him through the Mary Sue Litmus Test, but I don't know which I'd break first, my desk or my skull!"
After that very painful, elaborate just-barely-escaped weirdness, though, it did get better. Enough that I've mostly ceased worrying that the thing'll get cancelled in short order; there appears to be a decent explanation for the memory-loss and whatnot; the plot has ceased being "look what implausibly amazing talent somebody can pull out of his ass at the last second" and started being, you know, an actual plot . . . I'm definitely going to keep watching.
There are four women, at least, that appear they're going to be regulars with speaking parts; they're portrayed as competent professionals in their fields and productive, valued members of the team (or the enemy, as the case may be). No "fiesty" bullshit, and they don't appear to be afterthoughts written in for sex appeal or romance (there IS a love-triangle element, and I'm vaguely annoyed by the lack of competition for the attention Mike gets (unless KITT turns out to provide it ^_^), but I don't see too many signs of Bond Girl syndrome. Although it's quite possible I was too busy ogling KITT to notice if there was any.) The big annoyingly-sexist moment was right before the show, when they featured an image of KITT with Val Kilmer voice-over during the schedule update, and had KITT appear to be commenting on the attractiveness of the women on Lipstick Jungle. I'm torn between being annoyed with the objectification and being insanely happy about KITT being into human women.
I know I'm going to pair him with Sarah and Zoe. Probably going to slash him with Michael, too, although I don't really see Michael in much of a sexual fashion. Also, a thousand Transformers crossovers are making themselves known to me.
So, gonna go listen to Roshi on the radio and pay attention to the chat room.