A freaking smart phone can do most of what he did back in the day
So a smart phone can go 300-plus miles per hour, turbo boost, throw its driver onto rooftops, crash through walls and barricades without getting so much as a scratch, fight crime, have completely spontaneous and engaging conversations with its driver, operate itself without any human or remote or physical input, and be completely self-autonomous and capable of unsolicited thought?
By the way, most of the Knight Rider knockoffs over the last couple of decades have failed because they are trying to emphasize the "sci-fi mythology" of the concept rather than the simple back-and-forth banter between car and driver and the pure action-adventure that made the original series a success.
The 2008-2009 "sequel" series sucked because the writing and the acting was terrible (no, David Hasselhoff is not an acting genius, but the acting on this show was ridiculous, especially that of the backup control staff). Even the interior of the car was lame and mostly CGI. Look at the new commercial with the original KITT. That early-80s dashboard is still more futuristic than anything we have in cars now.
The closest any of the spinoffs came to the original series was Team Knight Rider, because that show, although it focused a little bit on the "sci-fi mythology," was primarily a cartoonish, lightweight, action-adventure show like the original, and the five vehicles had distinct, entertaining personalities just like KITT. The actors were also silly fun in a Hasselhoff kind of way.
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The-Phantom-2040
11 years ago
So a smart phone can go 300-plus miles per hour [and so on]
I did say a smart phone could do most of, not everything, KITT could do. Futz with electronics, scan computer systems without being wired into them, so on and so on. That said, I do kind of see your point, but would counter with none of that really mattering.
most of the Knight Rider knockoffs over the last couple of decades have failed [because they lost] the simple back-and-forth banter between car and driver [...]
I'd agree with that; though, regarding the Hoff, I think he really was a better actor than people give him credit for. he was reacting to some random schmuck reading from a script off-camera and really sold the idea that the car was talking to him.
That early-80s dashboard is still more futuristic than anything we have in cars now.
I disagree. Look at all those buttons. Cars now have things all streamlined into a touch-screen. Besides, KITT screeches to a stop suddenly, and the curve of the dashboard is going through a passenger's chest. ;)
I stand by my original statement that they really couldn't update the show and make it interesting. I think completely starting over would rile the fans up too much, and trying for another "next generation" sort of thing wouldn't work any better now than it did a couple-few years ago.
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