remake of Knight Rider? & Kitt is a Cobra this time

[English Paul]

And I thought that the new KITT was a Mustang. How naive us Brits are
A mate of mine is a huge Knight Rider fan (he has a replica Trans Am) and was heavily involved in the UK Knightcon this year. When I asked him about the car he said "there will be another" as well which I presume will be a movie.

[ctc]

>Your posts (in many respects, if not all) come across as negating any idea that
vaguely resembles another as if that's a sin unto itself---

My biggest problem with most entertainment is intellectual inbreeding. Doing something that resembles something else isn't bad in and of itself. Neither is re-doing something... but the problem for me is that I get the same few ideas over and over and over. A lot of times when something is brought back like this it's brought back in only the coarsest terms, and slapped over whatever the current standard is. THAT'S what I hate. Not only are you getting the same old same old, but you're getting it under the pretext of something that was (mostly due to when it was made) different.

So a remake doesn't IMMEDIATELY count as something bad to me, but it does send up warning flags. Like I said; the idea that they'd go with an established property over something actually new shows a reluctance to innovate. They haven't been remaking so many old shows lately 'cos they've come up with a brilliant new take on "The Wild Wild West;" they do it 'cos they're hoping enough folks will say "Hey! I used to LOVE that show!" and watch. Maybe nobody will notice that it bears a surprising resemblance to the current buddy cop formula....

One of the reasons I like older shows so much is 'cos they're different from what I see now. Not because they're better or anything; but because they were made thirty years ago, with different formulae and different ideals. Remaking them holds no inherent appeal to me 'cos it strips away those differences.

>Replacing the "other buddy" with a car = GREAT IDEA...

The 80's (and the 60's) seemed to have this weird sense of experimentation: they made all sorts of weird shows. And I love that sort of thing, but they never seemed to follow through. Once you got past the premise, the shows were usually pretty standard. ("Don't die on me pal!" "He COULDN'T have done it chief! He's one of the good guys!" "You can't break up the team chief!")

Don C.

[JPkempo]

Video clips
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=47690
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...d=47690&type=0