Question about KARR
Is the KARR in this show the same KARR from the old show in a new body?
Also hang on if Karr can transform like he did and is essentially the same as KITT why can't Kit transform in the same fashion?
No, it was not meant to be the same K.A.R.R from the original series. It's something fans of the old series absolutely hated about the new version. The made another Knight Automated Roving Robot, and it was again a prototype of K.I.T.T (3000). It's probably the thing fans slam most about the 2008 series.
In this series KARR was supposed to be some sort of ultimate weapon of a computer than could learn, and he started learning so much he could figured out how to program himself and no one could stop it. Mike Tracer was the original driver or pilot, and his memory was wiped of being apart of it when the project failed. The FBI guy wanted to try and revive the KARR project because he thought he could control KARR, and instead KARR was uncontrollable and then destroyed in the blink of an eye in a Dukes of Hazzard style victory. Just jump it, or in this case, into it, and the say is saved.
KITT was built as another KITT, and not for military purposes. So KITT has no need to become a transformer.
That's the story of it... but it was stupid to name it KARR, and the whole blanked memory thing first was when Mike was in the Gulf War, then it turns out it's because of KARR... the writers/producers really effed that story up.
it sounded like that....... But all through the series there were hints about KARR up till this episode.
The end fight was a huge WTF? kind of moment..
Yeah they where talking about this series version of KARR. Because it programmed itself and began to think on it's own, it became a problem. They never really explained what happened tho... Tracer was it's original driver, and they wiped his memory, but never gave any explanation as to why? They just mentioned the previous.
shareThe funny thing is that even though KARR is different from the TOS counterpart, he's voiced by Peter Cullen, who provided the voice of KARR in the original series (episode "Trust Doesn't Rust", as he was voiced by a different actor, Paul Frees, in "KITT vs. KARR").
However, in the new show that KARR was the prototype for KITT (3000 series), it is never mentioned if KARR's programming was built from scratch and the same end result occurred, or if it is the same program that was recovered from the processor seen flashing at the end of "KITT vs. KARR", updated and then put into a new body (I suspect this may actually be the case, as in the TV movie, we see parts of the original KITT in the garage and the new KITT's voice box {if you look closely under the waveform} has the similar flashing voice box lights similar to that of the TOS KITT's voice box).
Of course, I'm speculating this as we never get the full story about KARR in the new series (including where the program in the new vehicle came from). But seeing that Dr. Charles Graiman is suppose to be KITT (3000)'s creator, he also said that he created the original KITT as well, so it is plausible that since he worked on the new KARR he may have had a hand in the creation of the original KARR as well.
But this one's eating my popcorn!
it was like they changed it from a continuation of the original to a reboot/remake mid-show. No mention of the original KARR, who was NOT a f-ing transformer.
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