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My second-best Christmas present
Jan. 19th, 2007 08:29 pmKnight Rider: Season 1 -- I'd had this in my Wish List for quite a while, with low priority, but I had a feeling that my best childhood friend, the same guy I used to watch Knight Rider with back in the actual 1980s, would know that deep down I really wanted it. He finally got it for me this year, and it's even more awesome than I remembered.
( Season 1 trivia )
Probably the best episode so far is the (first) one with K.I.T.T.'s evil twin, K.A.R.R. (Knight Automated Roving Robot). Apparently brilliant inventor and philanthropist Wilton Knight, who managed to create strong AI in complete secrecy in the early 1980s, was unaware of the first two Laws of Robotics and not clever enough to figure them out for himself. The first intelligent Trans Am he made was actually programmed to protect itself at all costs. Not that it's all that intelligent-- Michael defeats it by playing chicken with it; it bails out at the last minute to save itself, and instead plunges over a cliff, destroying itself (until early in Season 3, that is).
( more random Knight Rider crap )
( Season 1 trivia )
Probably the best episode so far is the (first) one with K.I.T.T.'s evil twin, K.A.R.R. (Knight Automated Roving Robot). Apparently brilliant inventor and philanthropist Wilton Knight, who managed to create strong AI in complete secrecy in the early 1980s, was unaware of the first two Laws of Robotics and not clever enough to figure them out for himself. The first intelligent Trans Am he made was actually programmed to protect itself at all costs. Not that it's all that intelligent-- Michael defeats it by playing chicken with it; it bails out at the last minute to save itself, and instead plunges over a cliff, destroying itself (until early in Season 3, that is).
( more random Knight Rider crap )
