Which got me thinking of course about Knight Rider. Being of the same sort of mold as the original BSG, I kind of wonder what would happen to this fandom if there was a movie that was a lot more on the adult side of things.
My love of Knight Rider is pretty firmly rooted in nostalgia. I loved it as a kid -- it was the television version of comfort food for me. So I still love it today because of that. I don't know that I would be able to get into it if I saw it for the first time today. Which isn't to say that I don't love it, or that it wasn't a great show for it's time, it just has it's fair share of the cheese that was more common during it's time. So I think I'd be a bit disappointed if a movie had the same tone as the original. And I'd be afraid that it wouldn't do very well at the box office without at least a little bit less formula and a bit more of an edge.
But I could be wrong. There seems to be a gap right now in entertainment for kids who are a little bit too old for cartoons but a little too young for most movies. Maybe Knight Rider would fit into that gap nicely. If it did well, I wouldn't begrudge it for being what it was. But I wouldn't be able to help being disappointed a tiny bit.
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Personally, I'd love it if Knight Rider were given the same sort of updating and demographic shift as BSG. I think it would be harder to do because there is an inherent darkness in the idea of humanity almost being wiped out and being on the run for their lives that a man and a talking car just doesn't have. But, for instance, I'd love to see a more adult take on the issue of what sort of place a sentient but artificial creature would have in our world. This is one way that I see it making sense to bring KARR back for a movie -- that could be very, very interesting.
But I also have a feeling that a lot of peope would be very upset about a darker, edgier version of Knight Rider. So I'm just kind of curious what the break down would be. For the purpose of the poll and for the people who haven't seen the new BSG, BSGed in this case means edgier, darker, more adult.