What you say may be true, but it was not a tenth as bad as Team Knight Rider...blech!!!
-See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and George Clinton? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Mon, 9/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Knight Rider" Premieres on NBC Tonight--Awful! To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 11:20 PM Oh my gosh what a waste of time! The show was horrible from the first--the very first--scene! It was poorly written, poorly directed, unengaging, cliched, predictable, and boring. The new male lead was a dude, the show's overloaded with young women met as eye candy, who for some reason seemed more irritatingly unbelievable in their roles than usual. The camp/crap factor was really high, as they conspired to find a way to get the lead actor and actress to strip down to their underware in the first ten minutes! (Some junk about Kitt being on fire due to a napalm attack, and unable to open the doors, so the hapless duo had to strip down to avoid dying of heat stroke). And on top of all that, the camera work actually made me sick, it lurched back and forth so much in an attempt to convey "action". And I thought Michael Bey brought amateurish video music camera frenzy to his work! A high school kid with a handheld could have done better than the herky-jerky mess I saw. After trying to stick with it, I snarled with anger and flipped the channel, exactly fourteen minutes into the show. Will I watch it again to see if it gets any better? Quoth the raven , "Nevermore". ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Anyone else gonna waste a few brain cells on this? Well, I'm going on four decades pretty much watching everything scifi or speculative fiction related that premieres on TV, so I guess this is no different. Although the TV movie sucked beyond belief, although it actually made the Hasselhoff show from the '70s look *better*, Imma be a sucker and watch the "Knight Rider" series debut tonight. It looks really bad: bad plotting, cliched characters, lame music. But I could use a bit of amusing distraction nowadays, so hopefully it'll provide some camp fun, full of laughable moments, implausibilities, and outright ludicrousness to groan at and criticize. And if not--there's always the Prez's speech following! ************ ********* ********* ********* http://www.nbc. com/Knight_ Rider/about/ On the heels of NBC's hit movie, the iconic 1980s television classic comes roaring back to life as a reinvented, updated and super-charged action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand). Absolutely the coolest car ever created, KITT is equipped with an "AI" (artificial intelligence) that is capable of hacking almost any system. Its weapons systems match that of a jet fighter, and its body is capable of actually transforming into other vehicles and using sophisticated holographic imagery to elude villains. "Knight Rider" stars Justin Bruening ("Cold Case"), Deanna Russo ("NCIS"), Sydney Tamiia Poitier ("Veronica Mars"), Bruce Davison ("Breach"), Yancey Arias ("Kingpin") and Paul Campbell ("Battlestar Galactica"). David Bartis ("Heist," "The O.C."), Doug Liman ("Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "The Bourne Identity") and Gary Scott Thompson ("Las Vegas," "The Fast and The Furious") are executive producers. Based on characters created by Glen Larson, "Knight Rider" is from Universal Media Studios and Dutch Oven Productions. Credits Day & time: Wednesdays (8-9 p.m. ET) on NBC Original premiere date: September 24, 2008 Starring: Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison Recurring: Smith Cho Executive producers: Gary Scott Thompson, Dave Bartis, Doug Liman, Matt Pyken Based on characters created by: Glen Larson
