welshKITT wrote:Gary Scott Thompson
GST may have thought that fans may not have liked it if he kept everything the same hence why he made it different from the original so even if he did make it a direct copy of the original then fans would have done a 'already have 4 seasons of this, bye' and switch the TV off. It is known fact that the first season or so of any show is called the teething season/s, working out what works and what doesn't. There is a possibility that GST has seen other TV shows that have been sequel shows but were different from the originals.
Well worded post, first of all, and you have a point here. There will always be those fans who are displeased no matter what is done, and that goes for any franchise. The solution would be to pick the lesser of two evils, apparently. Instead, it seemed more like an ego-driven mentality of somebody wanting to do everything their own way.
welshKITT wrote:NBC
NBC didn't do much advertising according to the people in the US which showed they didn’t care about it. Also NBC put it up against American Idol, what a retarded thing to do. That is the big difference between US networks and UK networks, UK networks never put their popular shows up against reality shows simply cause well they are not stupid. US networks basically copy off many of our shows so they should copy the way we broadcast them too.
Only after the show was beginning to receive real negative word-of-mouth. It's true that perhaps it received that from the get-go, but not to the extent of even after the first episode and how poorly written it was. The backdoor pilot was panned by critics and had mixed reviews from audiences and fans. The new series had overwhelmingly negative reviews from
both critics
and audiences. But there is a flip side to this coin as well. For the people who will complain no matter what, there are also those who loved the show no matter what they came up with, and were apparently pleased with anything possibly perhaps because the name
Knight Rider was on it. What started out as "little" advertising ended up becoming
no advertising. As Showrunner, Gary Scott Thompson assumes responsibility for the direction, image and concepts of the show. Thus, he is
mostly and/or "officially" to blame.
NBC, if anything, had to step in after the trainwreck to try and salvage what was left of the season, hence the so-called "reboot." NBC obviously wanted this show and franchise to succeed or they would have never resurrected it in the first place and wasted their money. Now, you can certainly argue the reasons
why they resurrected it, which is a topic for another thread. Even if it was all about the money or preventing Glen A. Larson from going ahead with his motion picture, they are the ones who even brought this franchise back in the first place.
welshKITT wrote:Audience
The audience simply compared it to the original which meant that they wanted it to fail from the get go. The way the audience reacted to it showed that they weren’t open minded about it much, you can’t really blame GST and others for trying to make it different. This is why many spin offs and remakes of other shows fail, fans of originals always compare them to the originals. But on the other hand if they made it exactly like the original from the start the audience would have said ‘why don’t you make it different, we already had four seasons of this’. Either way you can’t satisfy the audience no matter how hard you try.
Some did, yes, which is why I said:
Lost Knight wrote:He had ambition, it's just that all of his ideas were wrong.
The problem here is that even those who
did begin being open minded about it were left supremely disappointed, such as myself.
looking forward to rest in UK and KRO doing excellent job supporting.. 
I am confused is Knight Rider canceled or not?
