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Shik
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Well, it kind of IS the fturue. Michael Knight's son, the Knight Industires Three Thousand...

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Daniel Butler
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Maybe they could have KITT trying to gain rights as a citizen instead of property throughout the series [Wink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Shik:
Well, it kind of IS the future. Michael Knight's son, the Knight Industires Three Thousand...

I mean evolve the premise. Team Knight Rider might have been a good idea if the production and writing standards didn't suck. Need to keep the tech a couple decades out, though. Talking car is still nifty, but in these days of On*Star and SYNC, it's not as cool a gimmick as it was in the early '80s. With all the GPS, DVD, MP3, and other assorted gadgets making their way into cars over the last twenty years, even KITT's dash-o'-buttons isn't as unprecedented as it was. It's be like doing TNG with TOS-style communicators and computer tapes, even though we already had cell phones and 3.5" computer diskettes. Push the premise. Don't retread.

Me, I'd like to see the underlying premise behind Knight Rider, Team Knight Rider, and M.A.S.K. dusted off, put together, and some coherent whole wrung from it.

--Jonah

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Ritten
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Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.

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Sol System
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Oh God, just what we need, pathos from Knight Rider. FROM KNIGHT RIDER. I can't wait for the chillingly Wagnerian remake of Automan.
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Mi-chael, who was that woman you were with last night?
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M.A.S.K?


Like, honest-to-goodness M.A.S.K? Like, the camaro-with-door-wings-is-an-airplane M.A.S.K? The playset where the boulder shot out of the mountain M.A.S.K?

Dusted off, underlying premise, coherent whole?

M.A.S.K?

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Peregrinus
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Look, just because you have issues with it... Take away some of the hokey pseudo-science and the flying Camaro, and look at what the team was about. Undercover, UN-sanctioned counterterrorism. Take KITT's Super-Pursuit Mode and add more offensive-defensive capability. Switch it up with terrain-specific adaptations. Expand the team with engineers and linguists and demolitions experts, and so forth. And then give all the vehicles A.I., a la KITT. Borrow a page from Michael Bay's version of Transformers. No, not the giant robots, but how he made them transform. Build that tech into vehicles that need to reconfigure, but not quite that drastically. [Smile]

The actual masks would be an unnecessary gimmick, in this case. [Razz]

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B.J.
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quote:
Originally posted by Ritten:
Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.

No. No we don't.
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Daniel Butler
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Peregrinus: So basically, Stargate Atlantis without the space travel? [Wink]
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V.E.N.O.M is out to get you. Get you all.
A fat, mustachioed old man in dress uniform and flying a heli-plane is watching you through your bedroom window while you sleep.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sol System:
I can't wait for the chillingly Wagnerian remake of Automan.

(SPEW!!!)

Damn, that was the last of my tea, too.

Actually, I realized something . . . I've got a GPS satellite navigator.

Check out the thingy at 1:55 in this Youtube video.

The future is now. Bloody thing even talks, though it doesn't crack jokes much.

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TRANS-AM FOREVER!!!!
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Guardian 2000
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I agree. This is Big-Nose KITT.

Part of the charm was that he looked kinda badass, but not like he was going to physically consume other vehicles. This thing looks like it has a maw that could swallow a dozen starships.

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Nim
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Was that a Doc Holiday reference? :-�)
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