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First Casualty of the Season: Knight Rider
After the 2 hour special last spring, I had high hopes for Knight Rider. I thought the special was quite well done and showed alot of promise.
After just two episodes, however, I have removed the new series from the DVR queue. It is, quite simply, the most horribly written show I have seen in… well… in a long damn time. The dialogue is awful, the pacing horrendous, and the 2 plots I watched insanely predictable. Oh, and the super-car capabilities they have instilled in Kit are utterly asinine. I’m not even going to give the show a graphical rating because I neglected to make an icon representing the shards of a shattered coffee cup scattering across the floor. (Hmm… that actually sounds like a neat idea for an animated icon. I have a Must Read category… perhaps I’ll do that for a Must Avoid category).
And there you have it. My shortest review ever.
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on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
You liked it that much? I didn’t give it that much credit.
Luckily, my expectations weren’t high. I didn’t see as much promise in the pilot.
It’s most frustrating when a show that I loved in my youth is bastardized for the least common denominator of the current populace.
My preference would have been if the writers took the original concepts that worked in the 80’s show and brought them to that original audience.
on October 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
My expectations were pretty low for the pilot last spring, which resulted in my being pleasantly surprised. Had the first two episodes showed signs that they would improve and mach that level of surprise, I would have been content, I think, and may have actually enjoyed the show. But they settled on going for the Transformers crowd and, if episode 2 was any indication, the Bay Watch crowd. It is all gimmick and no substance. Kinda like Reality TV, only without the Reality.