Keep your scanners peeled.

I haven't seen it yet, but the new Knight Rider looks bad.

Painfully bad.

It looks so bad that I have no desire to see it. I mean, it could be very good, but I don't think so. Which is a shame because I LOVED the original. What's not to love about The Hoff cruising around in a talking car and fighting crime? It's pure cheesy 80's goodness. When I was little, I dreamed of being shot in the face and then nursed back to health by a dying rich guy and given his face and then the key's to the BEST CAR EVER. What little boy doesn't dream of that? I don't think I want to know a little boy who doesn't. Not that I want to know little boys... anway... I digest.

What makes the new series look bad is well... everything. It looks too spyish for one thing. Michael Knight was not a spy. He was, *takes on a deep voice* "A lone crusader in a dangerous world." The new KITT is too flashy and looks like he doesn't even need a pilot, he could just rid the world of criminals who operate above the law himself. Michael Knight and the original KITT had a symbiotic relationship. Michael Knight could do what KITT couldn't and vise versa. Michael could go undercover as a drug dealer to save the governer's daughter and KITT could launch a rocket at a wall to give him a quick exit. And another thing, Mr. Feeny was a better voice than Val Kilmer. He sounded enough like a computer but still had that british sassyness that could put Michael in his place. Val sounds like HAL from 2001. Boring.

Bottom line, America?

If you want to watch a kick ass Knight Rider, go back in time to 1982.

Or... you could get the four seasons on DVD.