new show review: Knight Rider
September 25th, 2008
I won’t waste your time or mine. I only watched fifteen minutes, and I haven’t seen all the new shows yet, but I’m ready to declare Knight Rider the worst new show of the season.
- KITT is now evidentally a Transformer. He literally transforms from a car into a truck at one point (though not for any particular reason.) Did you see the Transformers movie? Knight Rider looks like it will have about that level of substance.
- In the overblown command center, one of the perfectly multi-ethnic beautiful people beams, “This just got interesting!” Evidently, she’s quite pleased that her friends are about to be destroyed by a heat-seeking missile.
- The heroine has a “reason” to strip out of her cocktail dress before the end of act one. She was still in bra and panties when I gave up on watching.
- The technology strains believability so incredibly far that “cartoon” is not an apt analogy. The original Knight Rider may have been aimed at twelve-year-old boys. But the average eight-year old watching this newest incarnation will stand up and yell, “Shyeah! Like THAT could ever happen!”
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