“It was a mistake trying to recapture my glory days…”

So the new Knight Rider isn’t very good; it’s an eighties style show with fancy digital effects thrown in to make the show look modern.

I really wanted the show to be awesome but it’s not so much. Now maybe the folks at NBC thought if they put a crappy show on it would make the recent crappiness of their popular shows, like Heroes, look better, or maybe someone at NBC liked Knight Rider as much as I did but like it or not the show is coming back for another season.
It’s not a stretch to say that without some changes, it’s not going to last very long.

Thankfully, I’ve been reading that there are some changes to the format and cast of the show in an effort to make the show better.

First, they’re going to get rid of Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poiter and Yancy Arias; out of the three, I liked Yancy’s character the best but the move needed to made, there were way too many characters and not enough screen time. What’s important about this move though is that the writers take advantage of the situation and kill these characters off properly. Imagine if you will, instead of chasing lame ass paramilitary terrorists, lame ass extreme sports terrorists or even lame ass secret agent terrorists, Michael Knight and company are after revenge and searching for the son of a bitches who killed their friends. None of the threats they’ve been up against have really put them in any sort of danger that wasn’t dumb or predictable. Enemies of consequence automatically up the tension; lame ass extreme sports oriented terrorists is never entertaining unless they can get Vin Diesel.

Second, I read rumors that they’re bringing back the Hoff. MISTAKE; nobody watches the Hoff and takes him seriously. The show wants very badly to be taken seriously and so far they’ve failed miserably; bringing in the Hoff will take away any sort of credibilty the show had. It’s like how the other celebrities on Celebrity Rehab don’t take Busey seriously when he gives them advice about their addictions; Hoff is a huge a mistake, unless they’re going to kill him.

Now, I’ve read that they’re going to try and focus their stories on less terrorists and make it more like the original Knight Rider and do more social work. MISTAKE, they have a multi-million dollar car and all they’re going to do is race some punks for slips? They have a super powered vehicle capable of mass destruction and they need to face something bigger and badder. If I were writing, the people that killed their friends are members of a rival weapons development program with fancy high-tech gadgetry like a robot. I know, it’s not the best but doesn’t it beat having KITT and Michael fighting against some corrupt sheriff? It does, the writers need to think big and think dangerous.

I like Deanna Russo, she’s hot, she’s beautififul but her character, like the rest of them, is poorly written. Most of the characters are just cardboard cut outs with hot bodied actors (well at least the girls). Deanna Russo’s sexy scientist can do almost anything because she’s a genius; one week she’s making a cure for poison and another she’s rewiring KITT’s matrix. Michael Knight is a ex-marine who really can’t seem to do much except for fist fight and look menacingly sometimes.  Smith Cho plays the genius hot asian girl who’s crazy ( and I bet the writer’s are one step away from making her a lesbian). The characters need to be thought out more, they need flaws, they need skills and they need more personality.

The only character they got right was the nerdy named Billy and even he’s just a little more than just a cut out.
Perhaps Deanna Russo’s sexy scientist wants to quit after watching her father get killed, maybe Michael Knight realizes he knows military strategy and what not and stops acting like such a jack ass and more like Jack Bauer with an awesome super power car. And well, it’s okay if Smith Cho is going to be the crazy Asian person at least give her some sort of redeeming value like you know, make her smart instead of just implying it. The show tries hard to sell us on the interpersonal romance but it just doesn’t work if you don’t care. I would care about these characters if they gave me a good reason.

I want to like Knight Rider and the show doesn’t have to be a bad show but it can’t be what it was when I was growing up.

just thinking out loud.

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