On Being a fan in the past and future
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:05 am
When i first watched Knight Rider in Australia i was about 9 years old.
I felt this show was made for ME and every other kid in my age group.
At school we would 'play' Knight rider. Many kids in my primary school acted as if they were Michael and their desks were KITT.
In this day and age how many kids run around the playground pretending they are lost on an island? Or that they are a group of hot older ladies living suburbia? None. Tv doesnt have that effect on people anymore.
All the boys swore they would own kitt when they grew up, most of us never acheived that.
I remember as a lad getting dads car and talking to it
Now I am watching all four seasons again and yes, i do realise that the show wasnt great and was quite silly in some places, but frack it..when you are 9 or 10 you just dont care. We thought KITT was real, we thought KITT was OUR buddy.
MY 6 year old has been watching KR with me and he loves it. He calls it the "Michael show" and every black car he sees he asks if thats kitt
He asked me if we could make our ford wagon fly like kitt did ( TURBO BOOST)
I showed him the two minute trailer for the new show and he says " that isnt the real one. i like kitt"
God bless him for that
I honestly believe that the new show will not have the same effect on his generation as the original did on mine.Tv people these days just done understand the magic the 19809's had.
We all played at being Michael, or Macgyver or Hannibal et al.
In 12 months time do you really think kids will say " hey, i'll be mike tracer and you be charles whatsisname".
Why did we love KITT when we were kids?
He was like nothing there was out there. Of course there were black transams...but to us kitt was the only one in the world. A talking car? wow, incredible. If it was a talking monaro or something i doubt we would have cared really.
Now all these years later we have a talking mustang. Big deal. I just saw a movie with a talking police car and a talking truck..both would squash that mustang in a minute.
This new car doesnt look special, it doesnt stand out and it doesnt give kids a reason to fall in love.
There are many who say the transam would have looked silly. I dont agree.
How many kids would know a transam now? not many. To them it would look futuristic, it would look special.
Kids would want one.
Put the transam and the mustand side by side and which one would look special or like something most people had never seen before ( IM talking about young folk here)?
Unless some radical changed are made i dont think the show will last past a year.
They need to create some real magic, and not just an illusion.
Oh yeah, twas my first post..sorry for the ramble
I felt this show was made for ME and every other kid in my age group.
At school we would 'play' Knight rider. Many kids in my primary school acted as if they were Michael and their desks were KITT.
In this day and age how many kids run around the playground pretending they are lost on an island? Or that they are a group of hot older ladies living suburbia? None. Tv doesnt have that effect on people anymore.
All the boys swore they would own kitt when they grew up, most of us never acheived that.
I remember as a lad getting dads car and talking to it
Now I am watching all four seasons again and yes, i do realise that the show wasnt great and was quite silly in some places, but frack it..when you are 9 or 10 you just dont care. We thought KITT was real, we thought KITT was OUR buddy.
MY 6 year old has been watching KR with me and he loves it. He calls it the "Michael show" and every black car he sees he asks if thats kitt
He asked me if we could make our ford wagon fly like kitt did ( TURBO BOOST)
I showed him the two minute trailer for the new show and he says " that isnt the real one. i like kitt"
God bless him for that
I honestly believe that the new show will not have the same effect on his generation as the original did on mine.Tv people these days just done understand the magic the 19809's had.
We all played at being Michael, or Macgyver or Hannibal et al.
In 12 months time do you really think kids will say " hey, i'll be mike tracer and you be charles whatsisname".
Why did we love KITT when we were kids?
He was like nothing there was out there. Of course there were black transams...but to us kitt was the only one in the world. A talking car? wow, incredible. If it was a talking monaro or something i doubt we would have cared really.
Now all these years later we have a talking mustang. Big deal. I just saw a movie with a talking police car and a talking truck..both would squash that mustang in a minute.
This new car doesnt look special, it doesnt stand out and it doesnt give kids a reason to fall in love.
There are many who say the transam would have looked silly. I dont agree.
How many kids would know a transam now? not many. To them it would look futuristic, it would look special.
Kids would want one.
Put the transam and the mustand side by side and which one would look special or like something most people had never seen before ( IM talking about young folk here)?
Unless some radical changed are made i dont think the show will last past a year.
They need to create some real magic, and not just an illusion.
Oh yeah, twas my first post..sorry for the ramble