Yeah, I had a short review in my own journal, but a somewhat more detailed one over on Hulu.com where people were slamming the ep left and right. I look at it in the perspective of the original show, which while it had way more heart and soul than this one so far, was hardly more believable in its plots, dialogue or the character's reactions to serious things like death. This series is being even more ridiculous on the subject, but this new Mike is just not the old character, which he shouldn't be really, but it would be nice if he was more...interesting or sympathetic. Like you said, while the actors are okay, it's the script that's really failing them right now. I really hope things improve as time goes on, and that Mr. I-can't-be-subtle KITT won't get himself blown sky high >_And uh...yeah seriously, if it's 125+ degrees inside a car, you're gonna be doing more than just sweating slightly, and no amount of stripping for cheap sex appeal's gonna save you. Just saying, series, you need to do better next time :P
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Mike called it right on the nose when he said that it was incredibly stupid. The plot was something directly out of TKR, and Mike saw it. But I can't complain about plots. Many of the original KR plots were ridiculous, but the warmth of the characters carried it. So far, the writers are failing in bringing that warmth back. They want to make it brand new and sci-fi and shiny, and they're missing what made people love the original show
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Hehe your icon seriously made me laugh out loud ;) Poodle perm! Totally in agreement on the lack of warmth in the characters, that's my biggest worry. You can have all the shiny action shots and CGI-enhanced car in the world but if your characters don't connect with the audience, you're in for a short run.
You know, I didn't really register the lack of blood until you mentioned it. That was definitely the case for the original show too, but I don't remember anyone's thumbs getting cut off >_> And um...coding stuff in DNA. What? Just...WHAT? The science errors, they burn!
Hmm well if KITT was incorporated into this new one...I just wonder why they would have taken KITT apart in the first place. Even in the KR 2000 movie they didn't bother to say why poor KITT had been mothballed.
The DNA thing, I took as the guy having made a certain section of the GATTACA-typing for his DNA be the key to the cipher. But of course, they never mentioned just what cipher he was the key to.
In KR2k, Russell Maddock mentioned Kitt basically being a money sink, and that was why he was disassembled and sold - so they could get some money out of him somehow. If we accept that Devon died in the mid-nineties, it's possible that the Foundation, as it was, ran out of money and could no longer keep up operations. Then comes the question of ownership. Michael is handed a pinkslip for Kitt in Knight of the Phoenix. From that point on, there's no real way to know just who Kitt belonged to. If the original was integrated into the Three-Thousand, then there were some strange loopholes in getting to Kitt to disassemble him, and then comes the question about why Michael would let them do it.
All in all, there are a lot of story threads that were left untied.
... On the other hand, the whole transform and roll out and turbo boost and turn into Attack Beast thing could actually help plausible deniability. Unless they know they're looking for a supercar, who'd believe those guys? If I were their boss (were they working for the consulate or the Mystery Baddies who wanted Mike?), I'd start the drug testing at 'and then the car took off like a Pimp My Ride rocket and flew right over us!'
I am not on board with the F-150 thing, though, I'll say that right now. Michael Bay realized that the mass-shifting thing was stupid and so reserved it for the only moment in Transformers where it could possibly be awesome. Mass-shifting on a regular basis makes me headdesk. But then we knew from the SUV ramming Kitt in the pilot that this would be a series where the laws of physics are told to sit down and shut up.
First, they were consulate security. Second, yeah, there is the you're-insane argument, but they know more about what to expect if they ever see that car again - and seeing as how they don't seem so fond of the multicolour trick anymore and they work with the FBI, there's a likelihood that they'll see that car again.
The mass shifting -- that's ridiculous. Like I said, I could happily do without it. The colour changing, I was much more acceptant of. But the shapechanging needs to gtfo.
I missed the color changing! And the nifty crackle-nanite effect. The whole sliding-panels deal feels like someone said "You know what we could do? We could try to cash in on Transformers. People LOVED Transformers." I get the attack mode thing, I'd get it if they had an armored mode and a superfast mode. I don't so much get the 'hey, Kitt, I need to haul a couch' mode. But yes, you're right, if they're consulate security, the smart thing for Kitt to do would have been to just sit there quietly and not flash displays up on his windshield. Mike told him to get un-detained, though-- I'd be interested in knowing what Kitt's thought process was on choosing to transform rather than just drive straight at people at a speed where they could still get out of the way
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High temperatures work differently in a natural environment than they do in an enclosed environment. Your body naturally gives off heat, just as air naturally moves in an open environment. In a closed car that must stay closed, there isn't only the heat from outside but the heat that builds up from your body just existing in that space. There's no opportunity for air to circulate as it would even in the desert to offer a bit of relief. The oxygen matter, however - they'd already been unconscious for quite a while by the time Kitt made that statement. The time, of course, I can't vouch for. Time moves in crazy ways when it comes to TV shows.
I agree on the rest of what you said, though. Her necklace should've been off, and the data transfer could've waited.
Okay. I liked it too, and I saw and pondered all the stuff that the Mythbusters could have a field day with. *g* AT the end, I wanted to care about these characters, and I must say that I didn't right up until the end when Mike Traceur was 86'd. He took it a bit more readily than some would have (maybe cause his dad had the same thing done to him, and he knew it might happen
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The original Kitt could easily outdo 377 mph, and from what I've been able to gather from techspecs that have been posted, he also had better gas mileage. (Says something about the old days, doesn't it?)
The whole thing does rather smack of TKR, and while I admit a slight weakness for TKR, that show lasted only one season for a reason.
Sarah's role in the Foundation - good question. I think she's supposed to be the equivalent of Bonnie, but she's fallen far short of that. In the movie, she was shown as a nanotechnology expert, so she may just be filling the role of Random Scientist #3 and Love Interest. Which should be an also-ran, in my opinion, and not a starring role.
Furthermore - can someone please lose the whole Battlestar Galactica scanner!?!?! - please stop stealing lines (and titles) from the original series?!The original creator of Knight Rider was also one of the creators of the original Battlestar Galactica series, which he made before KR. The one idea he kept from BSG that he really liked was the red cylon-style scanner, and really it's KITT's signature thing, and really breathes life into the car when it's just sitting there. I honestly would have been pretty annoyed if they hadn't carried that scanner into this new series
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This may come off as a tad haughty, it's not meant to be - BUT - I've been in this fandom since it's inception - I also watched the original Battlestar Galactica when it originally ran - I know a great deal about Glen Larson - that being said - Kitt always had his own scanner 'sound' - they managed to make it unique while still utilising the the 'Cylon' concept. To me, this new Kitt's scanner sounds are far too BG. I liked that Kitt always had a way to express himself through how his scanner sounded and how it moved. It was far more subtle in its 'I have a big red light swaying on my prow' way :p
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Keeping this short because I have class in ten minutes . . . I thought the whole first half was ridiculous, campy, over-contrived; this was where they were establishing who everyone was, what they did, what they're capable of, and they blew it---it was not so much a fight of protagonists against antagonists as a carefully choreographed, cooperative dance between protagonists and chance, with chance on their side putting on a good show and making sure not to do any damage.
The second half improved markedly, but I was worried, because if they kept it up it was gonna get canceled fast.
Dammit, I was gonna make Knight Rider icons last night.
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You know, I didn't really register the lack of blood until you mentioned it. That was definitely the case for the original show too, but I don't remember anyone's thumbs getting cut off >_> And um...coding stuff in DNA. What? Just...WHAT? The science errors, they burn!
Hmm well if KITT was incorporated into this new one...I just wonder why they would have taken KITT apart in the first place. Even in the KR 2000 movie they didn't bother to say why poor KITT had been mothballed.
Guess we'll just have to watch and see!
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The DNA thing, I took as the guy having made a certain section of the GATTACA-typing for his DNA be the key to the cipher. But of course, they never mentioned just what cipher he was the key to.
In KR2k, Russell Maddock mentioned Kitt basically being a money sink, and that was why he was disassembled and sold - so they could get some money out of him somehow. If we accept that Devon died in the mid-nineties, it's possible that the Foundation, as it was, ran out of money and could no longer keep up operations. Then comes the question of ownership. Michael is handed a pinkslip for Kitt in Knight of the Phoenix. From that point on, there's no real way to know just who Kitt belonged to. If the original was integrated into the Three-Thousand, then there were some strange loopholes in getting to Kitt to disassemble him, and then comes the question about why Michael would let them do it.
All in all, there are a lot of story threads that were left untied.
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I am not on board with the F-150 thing, though, I'll say that right now. Michael Bay realized that the mass-shifting thing was stupid and so reserved it for the only moment in Transformers where it could possibly be awesome. Mass-shifting on a regular basis makes me headdesk. But then we knew from the SUV ramming Kitt in the pilot that this would be a series where the laws of physics are told to sit down and shut up.
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The mass shifting -- that's ridiculous. Like I said, I could happily do without it. The colour changing, I was much more acceptant of. But the shapechanging needs to gtfo.
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I agree on the rest of what you said, though. Her necklace should've been off, and the data transfer could've waited.
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The whole thing does rather smack of TKR, and while I admit a slight weakness for TKR, that show lasted only one season for a reason.
Sarah's role in the Foundation - good question. I think she's supposed to be the equivalent of Bonnie, but she's fallen far short of that. In the movie, she was shown as a nanotechnology expert, so she may just be filling the role of Random Scientist #3 and Love Interest. Which should be an also-ran, in my opinion, and not a starring role.
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The second half improved markedly, but I was worried, because if they kept it up it was gonna get canceled fast.
Dammit, I was gonna make Knight Rider icons last night.
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