The New Knight Rider – Beyond Bad!!
By stephanie - Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I’m an hour into the new Knight Rider and I’m watching only because I want to see David Hasslehoff. After that, I will never, ever watch this show again. I thought the new Bionic Woman was bad. This is a ten times worse. No, a million times worse. This has to be, in fact, the worst new show in 20 years, worse than the Blade television series.
It’s a shame too. They could have done something great with the concept. But a combination of bad writing, bad acting, and bad production just adds up to the worst new sci-fi show in recent memory.
The show started off like a soft-porn version of Baywatch. First there’s a threesome (we see our “hero” with two hot women in his bed, one naked) followed by a cheesecake shot of the lesbian FBI agent showering herself off in a bikini, only to nonchalantly blow off her female one-night stand who is still naked in her bed.
See a theme here?
Apparently, the director is a complete juvenile who has a thing for girl-on-girl action. But it is completely inappropriate and wrong for this show. Didn’t it occur to someone on the staff there that kids might be watching this show?
I was watching the original Knight Rider at age 12. I would have never been subjected to the supposedly “sexy” sexist drivel that passes for TV today back then. Can’t we have a decent action show on that kids and teenagers can watch without being subjected to adult themes like this?
So that immediately put me off the show. The following poor dialogue, dull action, and ridiculous plot didn’t help.
KITT itself is a shadow of the original. I’m sorry, but the new Mustang is absolutely lame compared to the old Trans Am. Val Kilmer plays the voice of KITT (poor Val, is this what he has sunk to?) and he does a decent job, but the car itself is lacking in excitement. The main special effect it has is to change its color. Wow.
Now let’s get to the music. They ruined the theme song. If they wanted a modern version, how about the dance version that came out a few years back? That beats this horrible pseudo grunge-rock version. How could you ruin that song? You have to work hard to do that, and yet they did it.
Worse: I’m now almost to the end and still no David Hasslehoff. I was seriously in love with him back in the day. He doesn’t do it for me now, but I have fond memories of my teenage crush and my favorite show of the early 1980s. How sad, how sad, that the legacy of Knight Rider has been sullied by this horrible knock-off. For shame!
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
This remake -IS- an injustice to the original series. It doesn’t even compare. The Mustang is a nice car, but ITS NOT KITT! Its not about “The better car” its about staying true to the original. You wouldn’t remake Herby The Lovebug with a frigging Scion Shoebox, or remake Dukes of Hazzard with a Dodge Viper. So why butcher Knight Rider with a car that looks like some fantard Photoshop? It makes ZERO sense and it alienates the hell out of the original fanbase. I’m GAY, but the lesbian cops and the “Maybe that’s why 75% of marriages end in divorce” political quip were too much, even for ME. I didn’t tune in to be preached to, I tuned in to watch a car TURBO BOOST over stuff and crash through some walls. NIETHER of these things occured throughout the entire 2 hours, thanks for wasting my time NBC. If Westboro Baptist Church protested this show, I’d actually side with them.
This would’ve made a way better KITT than that Crapstang.
(Not ‘shop, actual custom from Trans Am Nationals in Ohio)
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r243/kitsune_baka/KITT3.jpg