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Last week's episode

Feb 25, 2009 22:30

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 ( Read more... )

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madeleinestjust February 26 2009, 07:13:45 UTC

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 February 26 2009, 07:23:44 UTC

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 February 26 2009, 12:17:29 UTC

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 February 26 2009, 13:28:02 UTC

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.

madeleinestjust February 26 2009, 14:22:36 UTC

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.I think it just reflects the average shelf life of 'Hollywood' actors - there seems to be this horror of casting anyone over 30, whereas I think it would add to the show. Casting 'kids' in their twenties suggest that the show is aimed at a particular demographic, and tends to alienate anyone older - perhaps that's the intention, I don't know. But despite the limited technology and infantile comedy subplots, I can still watch the Knight Rider of twenty five years ago because the characters give the audience something to relate to. KR2008 sounds like a flimsy copy for a new generation, which is fine - but the purist in me is rebelling against the pretty, nubile cast and the overabundance of CGI! It's great that Knight Rider is obviously still a workable concept, rehashed every ten years or so as it has been, but I'm not sure I fit into either the 'cult-fan-who-will-watch-any-related-product' camp or the ' ( ... )

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