I read your opinion about ...
Question: I read your
opinion about
Knight Rider and I have to disagree. I thought it was fun. Now, it's not going to win any awards for best show, best actor, best actress, etc., but it wasn't a complete waste of time, unlike some others I can think of (and yes, I know I'm probably going to get flamed by your other readers). Also, there wasn't anything else on (that I wanted to watch) so I watched it. I will say this: If it comes on again and it's on at the same time as
Lost, I wouldn't watch it, and won't if it interferes with any of my obsessions. At any rate, I noticed that the show isn't on NBC's schedule. Was the premiere just a "test run" to see what people would think of it? Is there any word from the NBC people that they plan to bring the show on regularly? Thanks for your thoughts.... and please don't flame me for having fun with
Knight Rider.
Answer: Trust me,
Knight Rider will be back as soon as NBC can turn it around and put it back on the schedule. (Why wait for fall if you're truly doing the 52-week dance?) It's the perfect synergy of mindless entertainment and corporate greed — the movie was little more than an endless car commercial, which should have rankled any conscious viewer — in other words, just right for NBC in its current creatively impoverished state. As I noted in the earlier
Prison Break question, I've got nothing against harmless escapism, and I wouldn't argue with the person who commented on my Dispatch that not everything on TV should have to be
Masterpiece Theatre. And I can even appreciate the appeal of a family-friendly fantasy-adventure that has a lighter touch than last fall's hopelessly gloomy
Bionic Woman retread. But still. Honestly, folks. This was almost as bad as Sci Fi's wretched
Flash Gordon in terms of casting, writing and overall stupidity. I won't flame you if you won't flame me for maintaining at least a minimal critical standard here. I grew up on
The Wild Wild West,
Batman,
The Green Hornet and assorted other junk food, and by comparison, this claptrap just felt to me like it was running on empty. Once the novelty wears off, I'm thinking the upgraded KITT has every possibility of joining the new-and-unimproved Jaime Sommers in TV Icon Hell.
