My second-best Christmas present
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heisenbugKnight 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.
Some odd things from early in the first season: the first couple episodes didn't have the opening narration, and the first half of the season was missing a couple other standard features: K.I.T.T.'s symmetric red VU-meter "mouth" and the big black truck with the chess knight painted on the side that K.I.T.T. would pull into while it was still moving (instead there was a single pulsing red light and a white truck that was stationary whenever K.I.T.T. went in or out). Of all those things, the only one I remembered in its earlier version was the mouth thing; I think I may not have seen most of the really early episodes.
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).
I'm only up to episode 14 of 22, but I think I might need to get Season 2. For one thing, Season 2 is the one with April instead of Bonnie, and I'm curious whether I still prefer April. I suspect I probably won't. Oddly enough, I think the reason for my preference was not that April wore cutoffs instead of a baggy coverall; it was that she wore glasses.
But the second and more important reason I want to see Season 2 is that, based on this episode guide, it contains what I think must be the 2-part story that I only saw the first part of. All I remember is it had this mysterious guy who was some type of renegade crime-fighter kind of like Michael Knight, except that he didn't need a special car because he was such a great athlete; he used sort of parkour-like techniques to get out of bad situations. It was implied that he worked directly for the US President. And that's about all I remember, except that I really wanted to see the second part and I missed it. I think it was most likely "Mouth of the Snake", although it's possible it was the season premiere for Season 3 or 4 instead.
Oh, and Season 2 also includes two 2-part stories featuring Garthe Knight and Goliath. What else could you possibly need?
Some odd things from early in the first season: the first couple episodes didn't have the opening narration, and the first half of the season was missing a couple other standard features: K.I.T.T.'s symmetric red VU-meter "mouth" and the big black truck with the chess knight painted on the side that K.I.T.T. would pull into while it was still moving (instead there was a single pulsing red light and a white truck that was stationary whenever K.I.T.T. went in or out). Of all those things, the only one I remembered in its earlier version was the mouth thing; I think I may not have seen most of the really early episodes.
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).
I'm only up to episode 14 of 22, but I think I might need to get Season 2. For one thing, Season 2 is the one with April instead of Bonnie, and I'm curious whether I still prefer April. I suspect I probably won't. Oddly enough, I think the reason for my preference was not that April wore cutoffs instead of a baggy coverall; it was that she wore glasses.
But the second and more important reason I want to see Season 2 is that, based on this episode guide, it contains what I think must be the 2-part story that I only saw the first part of. All I remember is it had this mysterious guy who was some type of renegade crime-fighter kind of like Michael Knight, except that he didn't need a special car because he was such a great athlete; he used sort of parkour-like techniques to get out of bad situations. It was implied that he worked directly for the US President. And that's about all I remember, except that I really wanted to see the second part and I missed it. I think it was most likely "Mouth of the Snake", although it's possible it was the season premiere for Season 3 or 4 instead.
Oh, and Season 2 also includes two 2-part stories featuring Garthe Knight and Goliath. What else could you possibly need?
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Date: 2007-01-22 05:52 pm (UTC)