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As someone who grew up obsessed with the original Knight Rider series, I'm forced to watch the new incarnation simply because they say a sufficient number of buzzwords such as "Knight Foundation" and "KITT" and "talking car." I say forced because it's physically painful for me to watch it. Instead of the Hoff as a lone gunman serving up justice in too-tight pants, they have a doofus with 50 some odd support people running around in circles at what looks like an abandoned aircraft hangar. The "one man can make a difference" mantra that made Knight Rider so great has been replaced with "many dorks accidentally solve problems." Worse yet, the constantly changing plot points and unbelievable chain of events makes me dizzy. It's like they're trying to cram 2 hours of unrelated none sense into an hour of unrelated nonsense. I'd like to say KITT is the one redeeming factor, and the eye candy is smack on, but the execution is all wrong. Too often KITT is conveniently flawed for a useless plot development that I'm left wondering what it accomplished. Fortunately there is a live blog written by someone who feels exactly the same way, and if you watch the episodes it's hilarious (click on each one for the synopsis). I think everyone who is a fan of the original series secretly hopes it will return to the lone gunman format, but as the creators have stressed many times it's targeted at a new audience and not supposed to be a remake so I can only assume we'll all be suffering for the remainder of it's existance.