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Now I know they were up against the strike, and they had limited time and limited budget, so I can't fault them for what they did, they did what they did and now we're just going to take it to another level. When I came in, I went look, here's the deal. There was the original Knight Rider series which we all love, there was the 2-hour movie, and now there's the new series. And they share in common a car named KITT, different car in some cases, and there's going to be some people from the 2-hour movie who are carrying over to the new series. And we're going to see some new faces too. That's sort of what I told NBC when I came in. I said look, if you're going to do the 2-hour again this isn't for me and if you're going to do that on a weekly basis I'm not your guy. I'm the guy who wrote The Fast and the Furious, I have a reputation, and that reputation's going to be on this show so I need to make it cool.

They had talked to me about it during Vegas, but I was too busy doing Vegas and I was doing other development and writing features as well. I think they were just asking what I thought, if I had thoughts on it. And then after I guess the 2-hour... Some time during the strike I think it was first floated that hey, there's this thing we want you to look at. And I'm like we're on strike so we can't really talk. And then the strike killed Las Vegas which is my show, and I sort of became a free agent and there were a couple of studios and networks who wanted me and they said would you take a look at this Knight Rider thing. And I did, and they asked my opinion, and I said do you really want my opinion? Because that's always a loaded question in Hollywood when they ask your opinion. Most of time it's like we want to hear how good it was. And I told them if you really want my opinion I'll tell you what I think, OK? And so I told them, it didn't really look like you advanced anything. You need to reinvent this. If you're going to go to series, you need to reinvent it. It's really got to be something cool. And something cool every week. So we started talking about what to do, and they really kind of just said how would you make this a series? And I said this isn't making a series.

There is... and the problem is... look, I read your stuff, I read other things, some people didn't like it, some people did like it. Some people liked this character, some people didn't like that character. It's very hard to judge exactly what they did and didn't like, or who they did or didn't like. It's so much easier to say, that was then and this is now. That was the 2-hour, and now we're making the series. The series will have some elements that are the same, and a lot of different ones.

cazman101 wrote:Whats really confused me now is if it isn't the same Then have they changed who Mikes father is aswell or are they still intergrating it and this Karr was just confused at the name michael knight. I mean it could still be written around. Don't forget this Karr would have if they had used the sofware from the damaged unit that was left at the end of KITT VS KARR would have had mayjor gaps and glitches in the system so it would be no suprise that KARR would be confused. So its still possable to write it so that the show fits with the original show its just a question of whether they want it to fit.

Lexicon wrote:

cazman101 wrote:Whats really confused me now is if it isn't the same Then have they changed who Mikes father is aswell or are they still intergrating it and this Karr was just confused at the name michael knight. I mean it could still be written around. Don't forget this Karr would have if they had used the sofware from the damaged unit that was left at the end of KITT VS KARR would have had mayjor gaps and glitches in the system so it would be no suprise that KARR would be confused. So its still possable to write it so that the show fits with the original show its just a question of whether they want it to fit.

The new KR series follows the basic mythology of the original KR. All that means in the context of the new show is the following:

1. Michael Long became Michael Knight.

2. There was a Knight Industries Two Thousand and it was driven by Michael Knight.

3. The Foundation For Law And Government existed and was funded by Wilton Knight and Knight Industries.

Yes they could write the show to better fit in with the original but they may want flexibility to do what they need to do without having to refer to act 2 of episode 6 of season 3 to see if they are violating the sacred continuity.

KnightRider87t/a wrote:Not even a shred of reference of the old series or KI2T or the old KARR come on!
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The only that really came out good out of this episode is that F.L.A.G. is coming back

K.A.C.I. wrote:The stunt in question was, from what I can tell from the Behind-the-Scenes video we were shown, meant to be used for when KARR swiped Torres off the ground before stuffing him in his cockpit.

KnightRider87t/a wrote:Not even a shred of reference of the old series or KI2T or the old KARR come on!
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The only that really came out good out of this episode is that F.L.A.G. is coming back

Two things:
1. Am I the only one seeing a contradiction here? You say "not a shred of reference to the old series", and in the same post you mention FLAG, which was one of the central elements of the original KR.
2. SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW?! There was NEVER any direct, concrete connection between the current KITT and its predecessor other than vaguely similar background history, so why the hell would KARR be any different?

cazman101 wrote:Well I would say that this KARR is probably based on the old KARR AI. Dr Graiman was against it all the way but seemed to be under pressure from the NSA to complete the project. He knew what KARR was and kept procrastinating about finishing the job. That's not to say that the original KARR module was installed in this, more like a botched Cloned AI unit. I figure the original KARR is still locked in storage somewhere in the Knight safe archive.