Calling all HATERS
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:00 pm
Ok, so I'm responding to the people who are trashing the show all over the forum, so I thought why not call them out on a thread of my own. First, let me make it clear, I LOVE the old show, as big a fan as there can be. There are two types of Knight Rider fans right now, the OG's, as I like to say, who grew up watching it, collecting memorabilia, playing with the toys, people who never let it go, and then there are the Newbies, who are just getting into it and know about it because Knight Rider is a part of pop culture, and unless you live in a cave in Afghanistan, you know about it.
With that being said, what was it about the old show that attracted us, most of us who were kids? THE WOW FACTOR!!!!..all you guys, who are sitting here dissecting the story line, picking apart the editing, bla bla bla, were KIDS when you first saw Knight Rider. Have any of you guys seen it recently, sometimes it can be hilarious, that's how silly the old show was, but we let it go because we grew up with it and it holds a special place in our heart. We didn't pick it apart, or gave a damn about Michael and KITTS emotional connection, we saw a talking car jumping over stuff and were amazed by it. We loved the stunts, we had eye candy in Bonnie and April and the "chick of the week", it had cool music.........THINGS THAT THE NEW SHOW HAS IN SPADES...do you get my drift?
I gathered a bunch of kids, put the tv tuner on, and we all saw the show, and these kids can't stop talking about it...they are absolutely bonkers over it....they don't care that the fenders flip for no reason, or that the wing is too big therefore it hinders KITT rather than help him, or that the CGI isn't up to snuff. Did you care that there was a visible arm coming out of the seat every time KITT was in AutoCruise? Or that KITT BROKE INTO PIECES every time he landed from a Turbo Boost? Probably not.
MY point is, we are nitpicking about things in the new show that the original show had tons of, and it doesn't make any sense.
With that being said, what was it about the old show that attracted us, most of us who were kids? THE WOW FACTOR!!!!..all you guys, who are sitting here dissecting the story line, picking apart the editing, bla bla bla, were KIDS when you first saw Knight Rider. Have any of you guys seen it recently, sometimes it can be hilarious, that's how silly the old show was, but we let it go because we grew up with it and it holds a special place in our heart. We didn't pick it apart, or gave a damn about Michael and KITTS emotional connection, we saw a talking car jumping over stuff and were amazed by it. We loved the stunts, we had eye candy in Bonnie and April and the "chick of the week", it had cool music.........THINGS THAT THE NEW SHOW HAS IN SPADES...do you get my drift?
I gathered a bunch of kids, put the tv tuner on, and we all saw the show, and these kids can't stop talking about it...they are absolutely bonkers over it....they don't care that the fenders flip for no reason, or that the wing is too big therefore it hinders KITT rather than help him, or that the CGI isn't up to snuff. Did you care that there was a visible arm coming out of the seat every time KITT was in AutoCruise? Or that KITT BROKE INTO PIECES every time he landed from a Turbo Boost? Probably not.
MY point is, we are nitpicking about things in the new show that the original show had tons of, and it doesn't make any sense.