Reply #14: Well as a kid, I was a big fan of the show. I watch for purely nostalgic reasons. [View All]

[The Animator]

To be honest, I really enjoyed it. Instead of trying to completely re-invent the story and tell it, again from the very beginning they instead, decided to make it a continuation of the original series' storyline. A sequel to the original series, much like Star Trek: Next Gen was the continuation of that universe, 75 years after Kirk and Spock. As opposed to the new Battle Star Galactica series, where you spend the first four episodes wondering why the hell Starbuck is a girl.

There is enough new stuff to keep it interesting, the incorporation of new technologies that would make sense to include into a K.I.T.T. vehicle made today, active camouflage, nanotech self healing armor, access to the internet and other research tools. But they don't try to deny the existence of the original K.I.T.T. that I know and love. He was the Knight 2000. This new one, the Knight 3000, is the result of continued research based on the success of it's predecessor.

Sometimes a complete overhaul is a good thing though, for example: Batman Begins.. so much better to just wipe the slate clean, pretend the previous movie series didn't exist, and re-envision the whole thing, only with 98% less suck 2% coolness reserved for Jack Nicholson's Joker.

However sometimes this approach can be really bad.

Catwoman... case closed.

Need more convincing... Godzilla..

That kind of approach is often not fair to the original show's fans... like the show they watch years ago wasn't good enough, so here's a new improved version of the show that your kids will love because they've never heard of it before, and it's new to them.. but it's nothing like the original series, those who loved it before, in all it's retro splendor, feel down.

Sometimes the original doesn't need to be improved... sometimes you just want to see what happens next. Sometimes we don't want a remake, sometimes we want a sequel.