A very good looking car that has aged well. From a UK perspective I think it helps Trans Am has never really been a big brand here so to all intents and purposes it is just KITT rather than what your dad drove you to school in, gives it a bit more class and mystery.
I watched all of Knight Rider earlier in the year (generally good fun but The A Team stands up better through adult eyes because the cast are clearly in on the joke of it being a ludicrous show and are having great fun with it. The Hoff seems to think he's genuinely making serious television and will often try acting) and three KITT specific thoughts I had:
1: The opening narration is probably the most inaccurate opening narration of any TV series ever made. It doesn't remotely describe what the series is about. Michael Knight is not a "Lone crusader", he has a talking car as a partner.
oh, and Devon.
And Bonnie/April.
And a large charitable foundation that seems to have limitless resources.
2: Sending KITT on most of the cases Michael investigates is a huge waste of resources. Now, don't get me wrong, I get part of the point of the show is everyone matters and you should help the little people. But you don't need an indestructible super car to deal with cattle rustlers or a protection racket. The Foundation could really just send A Guy to deal with 98% of the episodes.
3: For an indestructible car, KITT sure gets destroyed a lot. It's especially silly that he gets wrecked at the start of season 3, in the middle of season 3 and then again at the start of season 4 (having already been crushed by Goliath at the start of season 2).
Junkyard Dog is comfortably the best of the "KITT gets destroyed!" episodes (OK, you can see now it's a toy KITT being lowered into the "Acid", but that traumatised me as a kid!), and is the only one they seem to have made just for the hell of it rather than because there was a new model Trans Am to introduce.
I watched all of Knight Rider earlier in the year (generally good fun but The A Team stands up better through adult eyes because the cast are clearly in on the joke of it being a ludicrous show and are having great fun with it. The Hoff seems to think he's genuinely making serious television and will often try acting) and three KITT specific thoughts I had:
1: The opening narration is probably the most inaccurate opening narration of any TV series ever made. It doesn't remotely describe what the series is about. Michael Knight is not a "Lone crusader", he has a talking car as a partner.
oh, and Devon.
And Bonnie/April.
And a large charitable foundation that seems to have limitless resources.
2: Sending KITT on most of the cases Michael investigates is a huge waste of resources. Now, don't get me wrong, I get part of the point of the show is everyone matters and you should help the little people. But you don't need an indestructible super car to deal with cattle rustlers or a protection racket. The Foundation could really just send A Guy to deal with 98% of the episodes.
3: For an indestructible car, KITT sure gets destroyed a lot. It's especially silly that he gets wrecked at the start of season 3, in the middle of season 3 and then again at the start of season 4 (having already been crushed by Goliath at the start of season 2).
Junkyard Dog is comfortably the best of the "KITT gets destroyed!" episodes (OK, you can see now it's a toy KITT being lowered into the "Acid", but that traumatised me as a kid!), and is the only one they seem to have made just for the hell of it rather than because there was a new model Trans Am to introduce.
I never got that far with it.