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The new Knight Rider...
Nov. 16th, 2008 12:24 am... is entertainingly awful.
I downloaded a random episode (the Halloween one, as it turned out) just to see what it's like. This is definitely not a show where a goddawful remake is going to ruin my enjoyment of the original; I loved it as a kid, but as an adult, I kinda love it for its cheesy horribleness and not much else. The new one has all the cheesy horribleness of the original, with the added bonus of two main characters I want to drop-kick down an elevator shaft (at least based on one episode plus a few clips on the official website). As an ensemble show, though, I kinda like it; it reminds me of a sort of Torchwood!lite, minus most of the gay (it doesn't help that one of the characters was dressed up as Jack Harkness for Halloween, complete with the other characters teasing him for it). And there is actually an overall plot arc, which pays homage to the original while still being kinda its own thing. The characters are stunningly dumb (one of the main aspects of the plot involved a running countdown to a self-destruct that only the person who activated it could de-activate; naturally, the bad guy activated it and then ran away laughing) but I'm still finding it weirdly, hypnotically fun.
It didn't make me want to run out and download the rest of it, but I might check back in a few episodes to see where it's gone (and if the two main characters, guy and girl, have started to annoy me less). Now I'm wondering if it's worth downloading an episode of the new Life on Mars to see if it's awful or not.
I downloaded a random episode (the Halloween one, as it turned out) just to see what it's like. This is definitely not a show where a goddawful remake is going to ruin my enjoyment of the original; I loved it as a kid, but as an adult, I kinda love it for its cheesy horribleness and not much else. The new one has all the cheesy horribleness of the original, with the added bonus of two main characters I want to drop-kick down an elevator shaft (at least based on one episode plus a few clips on the official website). As an ensemble show, though, I kinda like it; it reminds me of a sort of Torchwood!lite, minus most of the gay (it doesn't help that one of the characters was dressed up as Jack Harkness for Halloween, complete with the other characters teasing him for it). And there is actually an overall plot arc, which pays homage to the original while still being kinda its own thing. The characters are stunningly dumb (one of the main aspects of the plot involved a running countdown to a self-destruct that only the person who activated it could de-activate; naturally, the bad guy activated it and then ran away laughing) but I'm still finding it weirdly, hypnotically fun.
It didn't make me want to run out and download the rest of it, but I might check back in a few episodes to see where it's gone (and if the two main characters, guy and girl, have started to annoy me less). Now I'm wondering if it's worth downloading an episode of the new Life on Mars to see if it's awful or not.