It's not even as out-there as "bending light": KITT can change his exterior color. He could just change it to project whatever's on the other side. Call it "Chameleon Mode".

Amen Judd. People who happen to be both homophobic and Christian should really stop insisting that *all* Christians should share their homophobia.

I have to agree. Knight Rider is fantasy and KITT needs the "wow" factor to make you think that the car is more like an alien starship than a black Mustang. In my opinion, realism will not work for Knight Rider. There's a difference between realism and reasonability. I want to be "wo...

You didn't look close enough. When KITT rams the SUV, his driver's side headlight is smashed, and there's visible damage to the fender. It's not visible in all of the shots, probably just because of the way it was edited.

No cheap stunts. No ski mode, jumping only if it can be done properly; I don't want to see anyone hucking a matchbox car over a train model, nor do I want one of those cheesy slow-motion shots like something out of Dukes of Hazzard. No pulling the cliche thing where at the beginning of the episode, ...

Honestly, other than turbo boost, I think all the things you mention from the original pilot are kind of "gimmicky" and putting them in a 2008 show would have looked like a cheap stunt rather than making the car cool. Also, the whole "scrambling the signal" thing doesn't even mak...

I agree that the reasons you point out are not good reasons to be upset about the pilot, but there are other far more severe problems with the pilot. Firstly, you're correct to point out that complaining purely over the choice of Ford is unfair, but I'll assert that the product placement angle *did*...

k300au wrote:Have you guys heard "manual over-ride"

Yeah. I saw it happen when he turned KITT off. And then *he turned KITT back on again*.

I really liked Knightrider 2000 back when it first aired, but it has not aged well. I think that it really beat out the new movie in terms of High Concept -- it tried much harder to be something "new", whereas Knight Rider 2008 just doesn't have that much to distinguish it from any other t...

By the way, something that's been eating at me forever now...in Junk Yard Dog, didn't Bonnie assemble the team that originally built old KITT? Graemon wasn't mentioned at all! Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence. The only way this would be a mistake or even unusual would be if Bonnie named e...

KITT was under manual control.... Meaning Mike was in control. Agreed, but the hypothetical was if KITT could have reasserted control since the computer was back up. I'm merely stating even under that circumstance he would not have had enough time to completely get out of the way. Yeah. Way back in...

Far as I know, no official announcement has been made yet, but for a pilot like this, which was clearly designed so that it could be split up and aired as a two-parter later in reruns (As opposed to a 3 or 6 hour "miniseries" pilot), it would be very unusual to release it separately. I'd s...

That doesn't really bode well for KITT if he couldn't react in time to prevent the crash... Well, what I meant by that was simple physics. If KITT had turned and stopped, he would realize at that moment what Mike was thinking. However, there were what, maybe 3 to 5 seconds for him to do anything? E...

I'm inclined to disagree. From what little we've seen of the nanoskin's operation, I'd say that the collision with Goliath would not have disabled the Knight 3000. When the Blackriver SUV struck KITT sidelong, KITT didn't so much as move. Had KITT been thrown by the force of the impact but not serio...

Thee is another way to interpret the scene. By the time KITT "realized" what was happening, it was too late. His AI was basically left powerless to do anything. There was no time for him to speed off and have the SUV miss him completely and if he turned off his nanobots there still would ...

Perhaps it's a dead horse too, but there's one "mistake" that strikes me as really troubling. We establish early on that KITT is programmed, like his namesake, to protect human life, but we are given the answer to a long-standing question when KITT tells Sarah that his directives allow him...

- Sorry I do not agree with you because this is a continuation, not a remake. Therefore respecting and referencing the past designs should be a given. Even the sci-fi Battlestar Galactica had respect for the original design principles. You can honor what came before (not dismiss it) and still come ...

- With all due respect Harold Belker insulted every Knight Rider fan when he stated he didn't have any desire or respect to watch the original series. It's not only a slap in the face to the fans, but Michael Scheffe as well and that's all I will say on this matter, Mike. Pretty much every time a s...

I wish they added more cosmetic changes to the inside of the car 1. Additional LCD display... (in this age of pimped out cars with 3 or 4 LCD displays Ki3t looks remarkably stock) Actually, it seems like the current movement for "pimped out" isn't 3-or-4 displays, but finding a way to do ...

One thing that really bugged me plotwise was the infeasability of one of the basic conceits: that the pentagon would use a drone control system with a backdoor known only to Charles Graiman and that he'd be allowed to keep the code for it on his personal hard drives. Something like that would have t...

It can't just fade in and out like it appeared to in the show. We need to see the struts extend up off the bottom spoiler and then the wing extend out from either side of the struts.. or something. I don't think it was meant to look like it was fading in and out, more like it was "growing"...

Guess I disagree with this, though I concede it may be a personal taste in the types of story I enjoy. The first teaser scene tells us that he's the victim, that the Black River guys are the bad guys (thanks in part to the callous attitude towards Ben's death). Part of the mystery of the movie is w...

Dorianx.... am I hearing you correctly that you thought Voo Doo Knight was better written than, or on par with, Knight Rider '08? I understand a lot of the criticisms of the new show, but wow I can't see that comparison at all. For that matter, when was the last time you watched Goliath? Goliath ha...

A writer also has to convey the gravity of a situation. The fact that Graiman, a good man who would hide his family to protect them from harm, would actually abandon someone like that means the stakes are high. Good guys, even heroes sometimes have to make the hard choices - and that can sometimes ...

They were a lot like the good ole' days when Superman could literally do anything he wanted to. Not all that easy to write a compelling story once you've established that it's only an incredibly exceptional set of circumstances (like Kryptonite) under which the hero is in any danger of death, injury...