I mean in Season 4 i though RC was given the job as the new driver but in a few episodes he is talking in the rear with Devon, Bonnie and Michael and it is still moving.
I'm confused, who drove it before anyway?
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LMAO!!!Michael Pajaro wrote:The driver of the semi was named BJ McKay, played by Greg Evigan. While Michael and KITT were out on their adventures, BJ also went around helping people along with his pet monkey, Bear.
Mike
I'm joking.
The reason why several members of the board do not accept the novels as actual cannon is because:Army_F_Body wrote:Great find, but some members of this board don't count the novels as actual cannon. I don't know why, since most were written by Glen Larson, but since most concepts never made it to the small screen they are not excepted.
I quite enjoyed what was revealed via the novelisations, because the one thing the actual show lacked was character depth or history, particularly with Bonnie, Devon et al. I don't know about most of the books (although I would love to learn), because I only have 'Trust Doesn't Rust', but I thought the 'introductory' banter between Michael and Devon, KITT's perspective (especially at the end, reviewing his meeting with KARR), and the added affection between the partners was better than the episode itself. The characters just seemed more rounded in the book. But I guess I've always preferred books to filmsknightimmortal wrote:
The reason why several members of the board do not accept the novels as actual cannon is because:
1) Not all members have access to the novels.
2) The novels were created after the scripts, and do not reflect the script writer's intentions. In many cases, some of Larson's writings later on conflict with what we saw on the screen. Just because he was the creator doesn't mean that his word is gospel in the novelization arena. The way Larson originally had it set, there was no K.A.R.R. or even a Garthe. He wrote it in the novels later, but the parallels didn't match the eventual scripts that most of us know.
It is a lot like taking the novelizations of Star Trek, which have added history, and in some cases, change the storyline altogether. It is a lot like a fan fic writer changing history. We can do it, but not everybody should accept it as canon.
KI
The creator didn't have KARR created in the first place. But when TDR came up, he went and created back history that went over his own thoughts and principles. Originally, Larson did want KITT to be Michael's car, but then KARR existed, so that sort of screwed up what Larson wanted from his very own pilot episode. Same thing about Garthe. Originally, Michael was supposed to look like a young Wilton, then some script writer came up with Garthe. Glen Larson wrote to try to make up some history to comply, but it went against his initial wishes that were on the screen.SadArticle wrote:But I think the creator might have had a better idea about how he saw his characters than the scriptwriters who picked up the baton after he set the ball rolling (how's that for mixing metaphors?) That's why I think, in this case, the novelisations should be allowed into the Knight Rider canon. I know that Knight Rider was created as an idea for a television show, and not a series of books, but as I said, Glen Larson had a hand in both, and the books merely approach the episodes with greater narrated detail than the series allowed.
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