Last week's episode

[gumnut]

Okay, this is a worry :D No episode comment by anyone? I only managed to see it yesterday, so I'm way behind (and it took a day off work to manage it things are so crazy here at the moment). What did everyone think? (I usually watch it and run here to find out what everyone else thought...and yeah, I know, I'm not a big commentor, but I've read

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[backtothelight]

Personally, I haven't reviewed the last two because I've had about fifteen other things going on, but I have my episode notes lurking about. I'll probably review both in one later, since both get general stamps of approval from my direction. I even commented on the oficial KR writers blog with my appreciation.

[gumnut]

What? A life outside of KR? This is not permitted! :D

Of course, I can not talk. RL eats me on a regular basis...though I will admit to giving it indigestion just recently :D

And yeah, I'm really short on sleep and sense at the moment :D

Nutty
(bed beckons)

[gumnut]

Oh, and an official writers blog? Where? ::looks around lots::

Nutty
(busy weekend and three nights of barely any sleep and this is what I turn into)

[backtothelight]

The writers blog is here: http://blog.nbc.com/knightrider/ The latest entry has been... rather spammed due to people not understanding that lag does not mean to push the 'submit' button manymanymanymany times to make sure it goes through.

[madeleinestjust]

Hey all. Indulging in my annual de-lurk here. Hope to have a fanfic to contribute soon, but in the meantime, may I bombard the community with a long line of questions about the 'new' Knight Rider?

At risk of being told, 'Read the comments!', I live in the UK and I'm curious about this series - can anyone provide a brief summary? For instance, who are all these secondary characters? Mike and Sarah are fairly self explanatory, but is the 'cast of thousands' necessary? Also, KITT (who will have to work hard to earn those lower case letters in my opinion): is the new car an improvement? Looks ugly as hell, but the CGI might help! How about Val Kilmer's voicework?

I might never get the chance to watch KR2008 outside of YouTube, but is it worth bothering with in the first place? I only gave KR2000 one chance, and mostly left TKR alone, but I consider myself a diehard fan of the original series. Thanks for any clues!

[backtothelight]

The cast of characters is as follows:

Mike Traceur. Michael's son by a woman named Jenny in the pilot. (I have a theory as to who Jenny really is, to make her more canon, and it involves witness protection.)

Sarah Graiman. Charles Graiman's daughter, genius in her own right. Something of a spoiled brat. Mike's ex.

Charles Graiman. Programmer of Karr and Kitt. Appears via trans-anal location, but if you name him Breeland and give a few excuses, he might fit too.

Alex Torres. In charge of the FBI section of the SSC. Knows about Mike's past and is an all-around shady character.

Carrie Rivai. Secondary FBI head. Doesn't know about Mike's past, but is acquainted with Charles.

Billy Morgan. The male Bonnie of the series. Kinda cute, socially awkward, worth keeping.

Zoe Chae. Something of a smartass, linguist, apparently contracted via the FBI

[almightyhat]

I think it's worth it, but until things start to hit their stride you should probably be prepared to yell at the screen?

The pilot movie was really good, but I think what happened was, Gary Scott Thompson decided he had this specific story he wanted to tell before things went the old-school way. The story arc isn't bad, it's just... long and not paced super-well. Once you're through that (an additional twelve episodes of pilot, basically), the show takes a hard left turn and suddenly it's Knight Rider instead of Secret Government Agency That Hires A Lot Of Inexplicably Young And Improbably Hot Experts

[madeleinestjust]

Thanks to both of you, I think I'm prepared now! (I was under the misconception that Sarah was the new Bonnie, so at least I have that straight!) I'm a terrible purist, however, so I would have to battle with my nostalgia-fuelled adoration of Michael and Kitt ('You've obviously developed a deep psychological bond towards me') before I sat down and gave another rehash a fair chance ;) Oh, and the 'Inexplicably Young and Improbably Hot' cast might still stick in my craw - at least the Hoff looked as though he had enough years under his belt to have been in 'nam and the police force (just), and Bonnie could easily have a handful of degrees!

But thanks anyway!

[backtothelight]

Sarah was probably supposed to be the new Bonnie, but she's ended up the new Devon (and I don't really think she's that good at it, honestly). But yes, do as you see fit. The way I see it, every one of these is yet another AU, another 'what if'. In some universe, Russell Maddock was hired and he pulled his shenanigans. In another, they had to create five cars to make up for the changing times and ended up with Dante, Domino, Attack Beast, Plato, and Kat. In yet another, Michael sired a son in his first year of work with FLAG and a couple decades later, that son ends up taking his father's place. It's a little like the many iterations of Transformers or the thousand retcons of DC and Marvel. In the end, I think you can pick and choose your AU and which one you like best or even make up your own. I think all of them have parts to recommend them, but it's all a matter of personal taste.

Maybe it's a Burger King philosophy to Knight Rider. Have it your way. (:

[gumnut]

At least one of the advantages of having plotholes the size of canyons in canon is the fun of filling them in with fanfic. Eventually the story will get written the way it should...in a variety of fun and different ways.

Who would have thought that the internet could give the fan the power to compete with the professional canon writer for interest?

Nutty
(it's my universe and I'll screw with it if I want to :D)

[almightyhat]

The fun part of the show is watching it critically, noting what's wrong, and then realizing that they're fixing it as they go along. I mean, it starts off very bad, and then at the episode ten mark it's just suddenly... things start coming together.

When it hits the right notes, it hits them beautifully but boy does the band take a long time to warm up.

The youth of the cast bothers me in some ways but not in others. Mike has to be a certain age to be Michael's kid, Sarah needs to be about Mike's age... Zoe's age is irrelevant (she speaks nine languages, which takes talent as much as study), so she could've been older, and while Billy (who has six degrees) ought to be older for his level of education, he's such a geekbucket that it's easy to imagine him doing accellerated learning all through school and having a really funky social life because of it. It's fine for each individual character to be so young, but it just feels odd for ALL of them to be so young, is what I'm saying.