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On thing that I missed in the new show was seeing Kitt blast through a wall or some other obstacle.

I was kinda hoping we where gonig to see Kitt blast through the doors when geek-boy couldn't get them open in time.

Does anyone know if we will get to see those kinds of stunts in this new version of the show?

Absolutely, it showed how KITT was basically indestructible, it was one of those things like that really built it up so when he was damaged, at least the first two or three times, it was a bit shocking. It's kind of like when Superman was "killed" by Doomsday.

Not to mention it was very exciting to just see KITT smash stuff.

I was half-hoping he would, in fact, crash through the doors of the KITT-cave, when he was coming in with Sarah and Michael (damn hypocrite, pretending he cared about keeping them alive, after cutting off their oxygen supply), but it would probably be a bad idea to spend all their budget in their first episode. All that CGI must've been expensive.

i agree, i need to see kitt crash through something, or turbo boost through something, hopefully we will be seeing that soon.

Indeed, crashing through objects is quintessential Knight Rider!!!!

--Brian

Can this KITT do that? It isn't the 2000 where it has a MBS, it is self healing.....So if the 3000 crashes into something, and since it isn't indestructible, if it crashed into something TOO big, isn't it conceivable that it can be damaged beyond self repair?

They should have just had 3k have MBS and been done with it.

Kram061-1 wrote:Can this KITT do that? It isn't the 2000 where it has a MBS, it is self healing.....So if the 3000 crashes into something, and since it isn't indestructible, if it crashed into something TOO big, isn't it conceivable that it can be damaged beyond self repair?

They should have just had 3k have MBS and been done with it.

I suppose in theory if an object was too dense for the nanotech to regenerate quickly enough to penetrate undamaged then as long as the CPU and occupants were protected, Kitt could just use the body of the car as a 'crumple zone'. With the CPU protected, the car would be able to regenerate when it was away from the collision...

So I would say the new car CAN go through things but not always land in one piece but then regenerate (straying into Dr Who territory with that unintentional phrase...) when Kitt had landed...

Of course i would imagine that the car would be vulnerable following a seriously heavy assault from a collision followed by a systems hacker...

Actually thats a good point.

In the pilot movie, when the SUV runs into KITT we see Kitt repair itself after the crash. I don't recall seeing any smashed windows and such, which you would normally get from a smash like that, but you have to ask yourself, if they will follow that line in the series, or just make Kitt more like the old Kitt.

Also when the bullets are fired, they don't actually go right through and then the hole gets repair, the bullets are actually stopped, so there must be some kind of extra strength in the nano-skin.

Well, the way I saw the bullets hitting the car in the way it did was to absorb impact to prevent ricocheting. I see no reason why they couldn't "explain" how the nano skin can realign itself to become stiffer or more resistant to giving away on impact.

That, and in the first ep, Charles mentioned that the Knight 3000 used just enough energy to withstand the missile. If he can do that for a defensive measure, surely he can do that for breaking through a wall.

Rockatteer wrote:On thing that I missed in the new show was seeing Kitt blast through a wall or some other obstacle.

I was kinda hoping we where gonig to see Kitt blast through the doors when geek-boy couldn't get them open in time.

Does anyone know if we will get to see those kinds of stunts in this new version of the show?

I don't think so, blasting through a wall might mess up Val Kilmer's hair.

hillstones wrote:I don't think so, blasting through a wall might mess up Val Kilmer's hair.

LMAO!

Charles mentioned that the Knight 3000 used just enough energy to withstand the missile. If he can do that for a defensive measure, surely he can do that for breaking through a wall.

yeah, I just realized that....If KITT can withstand a direct hit by a missle, how come bullets were penetrating the windshield (self healing)

I don't understand WHY they didn't have KITT blast through those doors...it would have been a lot more climactic. It's not like it especially expensive, just make a big ol' foam wall, lol.

I hope so! I love practical stunts and smashing through walls or what have you isn't hard to do (and using the right materials for said "wall" would do minimum damage to the car).

cloudkitt wrote:I don't understand WHY they didn't have KITT blast through those doors...it would have been a lot more climactic. It's not like it especially expensive, just make a big ol' foam wall, lol.

I just guess they don't want to put too much into the first episode.They have to save stuff for later,too.

After the intro for Knight in Shining Armor, the first thing CG says is about diverting energy at the right time to take the impact of the missile so it backs up the idea that KITT could drive through obstacles no problem, just diverting the energy temporarily to the front of the car...

Sky_Blue_Civic wrote:

cloudkitt wrote:I don't understand WHY they didn't have KITT blast through those doors...it would have been a lot more climactic. It's not like it especially expensive, just make a big ol' foam wall, lol.

I just guess they don't want to put too much into the first episode.They have to save stuff for later,too.

Yeah but they certainly crammed a whole lot of more complicated things into the episode.

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Sky_Blue_Civic wrote:

cloudkitt wrote:I don't understand WHY they didn't have KITT blast through those doors...it would have been a lot more climactic. It's not like it especially expensive, just make a big ol' foam wall, lol.

I just guess they don't want to put too much into the first episode.They have to save stuff for later,too.

Yeah but they certainly crammed a whole lot of more complicated things into the episode.

Plus,like Rockatteer said,it will mess up KI3T's-I mean Val Kilmer's hair.

I wonder if launching cars into the air is something of the good ol' days. Certainly in Knight Rider and Dukes of Hazard, they went through plenty of cars to portray the jump scenes. And it looked awesome too. I'm wondering if budgets are just too costly or (in this case) Ford is too stingy with letting the show launch actual star cars through the air or have them smash through walls, etc. How many cars are they given to wreck or beat up in order to get some great shots? Looks like CGI has taken the place of what should be left to the old school days of filming. At least lets see an actual Mustang perform Ski Mode.

Also, not to change the topic. But Ki3T should be able to turbo boost without Attack Mode.

There are plenty of factors that make me feel like there is still fresh oil on KI2T's dip stick. KI2T in many ways still seems more advanced than KI3T.

Kram061-1 wrote:Can this KITT do that? It isn't the 2000 where it has a MBS, it is self healing.....So if the 3000 crashes into something, and since it isn't indestructible, if it crashed into something TOO big, isn't it conceivable that it can be damaged beyond self repair?

They should have just had 3k have MBS and been done with it.

Thank God someone else has figured this out. I was starting to believe I was the only one that had an issue with the nanotech replacing the MBS being unbelievable, even for Knight Rider standards.

I remember an interview with the Hoff.....I think it might have been Season 1 DVD....anyhow, he said, or maybe it was Glen Larson, who said there was a train derailment, and the train had all car carriers with new Firebirds on it, and when cars are on a train, and it derails, GM cannot sell them, so they must be destroyed, but in this case, there were like 100 or so cars involved, and half went to Knight Rider, the other half to The Fall Guy.....so that could have maybe given the show some more freedom in wrecking the Trans Ams in jumps and wall crashes...etc

I think the Nano can actually harden itself though can't it? When we see the smash at the end of the Pilot movie, there wasn't much damage done to Kitt at all. The skin did regenerate itself, but I reckon that was more to repair the damage sustained while Kitt was shut down.

And in the first episode they talked about diverting enough power to protect against the missile impact, so that kinda sounds like the Nana can harden itself up when needed.

Although the fact that it's all controlled by Kitts processors in itself is quite a vulnerability I think. But maybe it's a planned plot device for future episodes.

To add to my above post, when-ever we see a bullet hit Kitt, it doesn't actually go right through. So the Nano-skin is hard enough to stop the bullets, so that too lends itself to the idea that the nano-shell would be able to withstand the impact of going through walls etc.