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21:15 - Waste of perfectly good pixels
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/18/nbc-releases-first-episode-of-knight-rider-online
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Wow... this is the kind of show they can bring to market in a world where the standard for prime-time TV series is set by the likes of Mad Men, Sopranos, Arrested Development and CSI?
I never saw the original Knight Rider, so all I know about it is what I've gleaned from the horrified comments on this Autoblog post—it was allegedly campy, but apparently not anywhere near this campy. I mean, this is just silly. There are lines of dialogue in there that can only have been written by someone who is knowingly trying to exploit well-understood clichés and retardo-tech babble. My favorite line of the whole thing was when Mike asked KITT, "Can you zoom in and enhance?"
Of course he can. They can always zoom in and enhance.
But there were so many runners-up. "Yeah, my car talks to me too. It's called GPS." That ten-year-old "Zip drive" joke. The plot point that you can put out napalm flames by going 377 mph. Which should be no problem for a car that carries enough equipment to transform into an F-150 and has something called "Turbo Boost" that means it can fire flames out its thrust-vectored exhaust and catapult over things. Right?
I feel embarrassed for that Spyker for getting involved in a project like this. I'm sure they'll have to figure out a way to superimpose it as a CGI model from now on, because I can't imagine it'll want anything else to do with these people in person.
Seriously, though. That's 40-something minutes I want a tax-deductible receipt for.
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Brian Tiemann
