I am rewatching Knight Rider

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  1. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Oh thank you for reminding me NOT....... I watched that whole series and the first season of Seaquest was passable but that 3rd season was full of filler episodes.

    I just found a nice connection to Knight Rider. In the movie "Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone" he drives the same car that was used in Knight Of The Juggernaut.

    That was the season 4 opener for Knight Rider and it was kind of a stinker. The vehicle had a battering ram on the front used to do robberies and also to destroy KITT. It did that with some funky spray that was put on the battering ram to disable his special molecular bonded shell. Ugh that I even remember all that........

    I couldn't decide if I liked Bonnie or April ..... I liked both.

    Also the 2008 series was actually not that bad and it should have been given a chance. I really liked it towards the end and that bank robbery episode was a great episode.
     
  2. Skipper

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    Perhaps I'm misremembering, but the S.P.M didn't use rockets?
    These little red circles.
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    No they were more like little red tail lights. Those huge bits of white looked like foam. Hell they probably were foam.
     
  4. Christopher

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    Yeah, I didn't care for Super Pursuit Mode. It was just a bunch of overly busy frippery that made KITT look a lot worse. I've never been much of a car guy, but I thought KITT was a really good-looking car, all sleek and black and streamlined. Super Pursuit Mode ruined that.
     
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    According to Wikipedia (yes, I know...)
    So, in-universe, it used rockets....
     
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    ^ Ah....... OK wiki to the rescue..... So in universe those were rockets. Hmmm still makes no sense, rockets would make the car a little hard for a human to control.

    There was also a gimmick with a parachute that comes out of the car when it jumped off cliffs, but that was a one episode thing.

    Wikipedia is a great place to find stuff. I'm not so turned off by it.
     
  7. Christopher

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    And turbo boost wouldn't let a car jump over things. It was a live-action cartoon. We're not talking Hill Street Blues here.
     
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    I've never seen Spacehunter, but yeah, that's definitely the same vehicle. The huge metal grille does a very nice job of covering the very Jeep-like front end of the original truck.

    Actually, the destabilizing agent was sprayed on KITT by a street cleaning truck right before their confrontation with the Juggernaut. Without the MBS KITT was just a normal car.

    And yes, I know it's a "live-action cartoon," but you'd think there'd have to be some special materials used in KITT's frame and body... they can't just expect their magic spray to hold the car together through all the stuff they do to it. Following the plot of the episode, Bonnie develops Super Pursuit Mode because they don't have more MBS to spray on KITT after they've repaired him. And if the MBS is what holds KITT together during these stunts, how is he able to turbo boost over a gas tanker truck and a building when luring the Juggernaut to its doom at the climax of the episode, without breaking into a million pieces either while "in flight" or upon their usual bone-jarring landing?

    Fuck it, I love this show anyway. :p
     
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    Actually I believe that in a couple of episodes they explicitly said that an explosion powerful enough would have destroyed the interior of the car leaving the exterior intact.
     
  10. Gingerbread Demon

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    EEK!!!!! OH & S
     
  11. Skipper

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    Fortunately KITT used the Passive Laser Restraint System ™®!
     
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    Super Pursuit Mode, I could excuse, as a kid who loved Transformers. But, for me, the emergency braking system was horrid.

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    Oh for sure. Those air brakes wouldn't have worked that well ..There's other magical things that happen. For instance what happens to the cars trunk when it transforms, does it just vanish to accommodate those rockets?

    It's like the show Viper where the car changes from a red RT10 Viper to a coupe and suddenly there's a compartment for a drone that wasn't there before, so did that just "poof" into existence hehe. I know suspension of disbelief and all..
     
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    Oh, Viper, I did enjoy it. But even if you could buy the idea that the car could "morph" shapes, you are right, it wouldn't have the ability to have a drone!
     
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    I can buy Super Pursuit Mode. I can buy convertible mode. I can't buy them together in the same car.
     
  16. Gingerbread Demon

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    Well it's no worse then shows like Streethawk.....
     
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    I liked Street Hawk...:(
     
  18. Christopher

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    Wasn't Street Hawk the one that was a blatant knockoff of Knight Rider, but with a motorcycle?
     
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    Well they were both very similar shows...... I don't think either ripped the other off. I'd say I enjoyed that one about the same as Knight Rider, though the 2008 series is my favourite incarnation of the show.
     
  20. Christopher

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    I said "knockoff," not "ripoff." The latter is an accusation of theft; the former merely denotes imitation. And trust me, every post-1982 TV series about a crimefighting hero with a super-advanced vehicle was an attempt to copy Knight Rider's success, because that is how Hollywood has always worked. One success invariably spawns a spate of imitators.