In article <hhkOg.59616$OI1.5409@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, lraszewski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(L.
Ross Raszewski) wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:59:36 +1200, Anybody
> <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >In article <i50bg2tnf9pr0ec4m27pq6i87eh3q1cult@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ed Chilada
> ><nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:02:32 +1200, Anybody
> >> <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >In article <0nu7g2tkjkvqies8uo382pfo7p3p9pc4n2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ed Chilada
> >> ><nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:43:07 -0400, "Wombat-Pipex-News"
> >> >> <wombat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Just dont think that a vampet up plastic molded peace of ****e
> modern car
> >> >> >will do the trick. The Trans-am styling was almost Perfect.
> >> >>
> >> >> For 30+ years ago!
> >> >
> >> >It's still a great looking car. Most of the "supercars" are far too
> >> >wide and many of today's more normal s****ts cars are simply ugly.
> >>
> >> Whether it's great looking is irrelevant. It's *dated*
> >
> >It doesn't look "dated" though. It is still a great looking car (of
> >course that's just opinion-based, so your's may be different).
>
> Of course it's great. But it's great in a classic way. Which means
> that, beautiful though it may be, it's no longer a design which
> "works" as "the car of the future". If you tried to pass off an '82
> Trans Am as the "car of the future" these days, you'd be consigning
> yourself to the realm of parody, just like if you tried to make a
> science fiction movie where everyone wore flares, space ****ps looked
> like V2s with tail fins, and every noun had the modifier "space-" in
> front of it.
>
> The details of what Knight Rider was were right *for its time*.
> Trying to do it now without making it right *for this time* is a
> terrible mistake.
KITT is a "car of the future", but only in terms of the abilities it
has. The actual car is a normal car, not a "futuristic" car.
Even ignoring that, KITT is a major character of the show, changing it
to a different car is completely ridiculous. If they change the car,
then they're changing the character and therefore changing the show ...
no doubt they've already got all sorts of other inane ideas to "update"
the idea and therefore make a version that's barely recognisable, like
all the other garbage coming out of Hollyweird these days that uses the
old name, but is totally different to the original. :-(
If they change the car the it will NOT be the same show - it's that
simple. KITT is and will always be that particular model of TransAm.
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