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I attempted to watch the first episode of the season tonight on NBC.

While everything looks great in HD, there are so many flaws that I have seen Nickelodeon shows with teenage actors do better.

Mike driving straight while road is obviously twisting

Bad, bad CGI effects

Acting is so rigid and scripted

I could go on, but its just full of FAIL.

Thank you Orange!

My best example is one scene where he is following a blue sports car that has a man he is after. The road is twisty and full of banked turns,

but as the dialogue continues inside KITT, his hands are driving the car straight as an hour, even though the view out the window is constantly

shifting left to right and vice versa.

Bad news for the haters, good news for the lovers!

It's not a back-nine pickup, but it's a start: Fox has ordered two additional Sarah Connor scripts, so says someone on this site. NBC, meanwhile, has ordered four more Knight Rider scripts.

[Source]

I watched the episode last week when they're at that mansion and that girl steals the car wearing a bikini. She is the only great thing about the show. The rest of the show seems very childish, if they could mature it up abit it would be pretty good.

Not to say I won't be watching it again. ;)

It is like this: Anyone that has watched the original show will feel disappointed. The reason is that the majority of the viewers tune in because of the nostalgia of the 80's but that quickly wears off once you are confronted with the drastic changes that have been made to the show. The theme song has been mutilated, the sexy sleek KITT that had a human element to it is now a cold, bulky looking KITT. Not to mention the bad acting, the horrible story line and ridiculous amount of CGI.

- They should have had a better KITT. The Mustang just doesn't cut it. It is neither sexy nor elegant.

- Better writers. Nuff said!

- The original voice of KITT.

- Cut back on the CGI

- Enough of the "hawt" women that are there just to "be there" and enough with the constant cheesy one liners.

- Bring back the original theme song. This "remixed" rock version is horrible. This theme song is a classic along with the star wars one, Beverly hills cop and so on.

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I only watch it because of the car. Girls are great and all but really, if I wanted to see girls in bikinis I washed another kind of show.

I hope NBC realizes and browses through forums and noticed the bad direction the program is going, and fix it in time off course

Possible Spoilers Below!

UPDATED 7/25/08: KARR will make an appearance sometime within the first 13 episodes.

- Creator Gary Scott Thompson has spoken with David Hasselhoff about appearing on the show; however, Hasselhoff has been very busy and the first eight episodes have already been written without the original Michael Knight.

- Thompson seems open to having other characters from the original Knight Rider on the series, such as Patricia McPherson; unfortunately at the moment he has been unable to find contact information for them.

Source - KITTsite

Girls are great and all but really, if I wanted to see girls in bikinis I washed another kind of show.

I hope NBC realizes and browses through forums and noticed the bad direction the program is going, and fix it in time off course

It's Definitely going to get canceled!!! Not even Hotties can save this show!

These writers DON'T have what it takes! :(

Enjoy the Girls while we can! :D

Good thing XBL Marketplace had the pilot in HD for Free download! I'll skip buying it!!! :yes:

Edited by JediXAngel

Knightrider gets full season!

Eh, who needs good reviews? Not Knight Rider!

NBC's critically-maligned reboot of the '80s campfest has nabbed a full-season pickup, sources confirm to me exclusively. Producers were informed that the Peacock was ordering the show's "back-nine" this evening.

Despite middling ratings, KR has remained competitive in its Wednesday/8 p.m. time-slot, particularly among young men.

"middling ratings" Couldn't they at least get a review with some proper English.

I suppose if young teens are watching this and there are enough of them, maybe thats the ratings they were hoping for to keep it alive. I for one have avoided

watching it and will continue to do so. Usually people start petitions to bring shows back, well, let's start one to get rid of a show :D

That car is Meh!

All stupid CGI/stuff... the Deanna Russo is what's keeping me watch it!

At this point, cancel it or not. I don't even care.

But they better NOT replace it with some WORSE, either.

Edited by JediXAngel
That car is Meh!

All stupid CGI/stuff... the Deanna Russo is what's keeping me watch it!

At this point, cancel it or not. I don't even care.

But they better NOT replace it with some WORSE, either.

Not up for Crusoe getting a night change then :p

  • 3 weeks later...

Knightrider is going to be Rebooted!

NBC will completely overhaul its Knight Rider continuation.

The show, recently granted a season order by NBC, will drop three of its cast regulars - Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison - and draw more parallels with its '80s predecessor.

Showrunner Gary Scott Thompson told The Hollywood Reporter: "It's a reboot. We're moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen."

The rejigged Knight Rider will debut as a two-parter in January, with the first part slated to air after a Sunday night NFL match and the second on the following Wednesday.

The show will not add any new cast regulars, instead focusing on the characters of Mike (Justin Bruening), Sarah (Deanna Russo), Billy (Paul Campbell), Zoe (Smith Cho) and KITT.

Finally, Knight Rider is now a train wreck so hopefully they get it back on the rails.

Scirwode

"middling ratings" Couldn't they at least get a review with some proper English.

What term would you have used?

That car is Meh!

All stupid CGI/stuff... the Deanna Russo is what's keeping me watch it!

At this point, cancel it or not. I don't even care.

But they better NOT replace it with some WORSE, either.

But the ACTING is So gReat!!!!!! How Can you Hate IT????? :( :( :(

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