Comments on: Knight Rider: The Ballad of Stevie and Michael, Part 3 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497 Devoted to savoring films at the very bottom of the Cinematic Bell Curve since 1997 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:08:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13418 Andrew Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:33:01 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13418 Is it just me, or does the low resolution dot-matrix image make it look like they are hunting Tom Berenger? Is it just me, or does the low resolution dot-matrix image make it look like they are hunting Tom Berenger?

]]> By: Andrew http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13417 Andrew Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:09:43 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13417 "(And although she never learned this, she also would have been ready had she ever learned that Michael Knight had an evil twin ‘brother.’)" You mean "The Return of Garthe Knight"? “(And although she never learned this, she also would have been ready had she ever learned that Michael Knight had an evil twin ‘brother.’)”

You mean “The Return of Garthe Knight”?

]]> By: Eric http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13410 Eric Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:51:57 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13410 My favorite parts of these reviews is the pictures of Hasselhoff trying to act. The one where he sees Stevie, where he's biting his lip, looks more like a "oh GOD, I just realized I have diahera" emotion. And where he's holding Stevie after she's been shot is great. He looks more like he's slightly confused. And the "rage" picture just looks like someone kicked him in the balls. Except he's not opening his mouth to scream "MY BALLS!" "MY NUTS!" "MY TESTICLES!" "YOU HAVE CRUSHED MY MALE GENITALIA, AN ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE PART OF A MALE BODY AND EASILY CRUSHED, WITH LITTLE FORCE. THIS IS PAINFUL. I SHALL DESCRIBE IT IN GREATER DETAIL, FORTHCOMING" or anything like that. My favorite parts of these reviews is the pictures of Hasselhoff trying to act. The one where he sees Stevie, where he’s biting his lip, looks more like a “oh GOD, I just realized I have diahera” emotion. And where he’s holding Stevie after she’s been shot is great. He looks more like he’s slightly confused. And the “rage” picture just looks like someone kicked him in the balls. Except he’s not opening his mouth to scream “MY BALLS!” “MY NUTS!” “MY TESTICLES!” “YOU HAVE CRUSHED MY MALE GENITALIA, AN ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE PART OF A MALE BODY AND EASILY CRUSHED, WITH LITTLE FORCE. THIS IS PAINFUL. I SHALL DESCRIBE IT IN GREATER DETAIL, FORTHCOMING” or anything like that.

]]> By: Falcion http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13403 Falcion Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:27:29 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13403 Too bad Ken doesn't have a time machine, he could go back and become one of the writers. His ideas sounded alot better than what these guys came up with. Too bad Ken doesn’t have a time machine, he could go back and become one of the writers. His ideas sounded alot better than what these guys came up with.

]]> By: fish eye no miko http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13396 fish eye no miko Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:15:56 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13396 <i>[Michael deflates, lowers his fist and drops the unconscious Durant to the floor. He staggers over to KITT and exhaustedly drapes himself over KITT’s roof.] Michael, with extra husky voice: "Thanks, buddy!"</i> ...and then KITT backs up, knocking Michael off him, swerves around him, and rushes forward, smacking Durant's head into the wall. [Michael deflates, lowers his fist and drops the unconscious Durant to the floor. He staggers over to KITT and exhaustedly drapes himself over KITT’s roof.]
Michael, with extra husky voice: “Thanks, buddy!”

…and then KITT backs up, knocking Michael off him, swerves around him, and rushes forward, smacking Durant’s head into the wall.

]]> By: Danjo http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13388 Danjo Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:57:40 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13388 My dad is a model airplane enthusiast but not the greatest pilo tin the world. He's had to put several back together and has found that the just the weight of the tape will cause the plane to fly erratically as they're little more than kites with a motor on the front. I doubt a plane filled with explosives would get off the ground much less fly. Though it is possible and very easy to fly out of the controller's range. So it's feasible that the bad guys wouldn't be able to pull the plane back if they were trying to keep thier distance from the house, though the plane would probably shut off. My dad is a model airplane enthusiast but not the greatest pilo tin the world. He’s had to put several back together and has found that the just the weight of the tape will cause the plane to fly erratically as they’re little more than kites with a motor on the front. I doubt a plane filled with explosives would get off the ground much less fly.

Though it is possible and very easy to fly out of the controller’s range. So it’s feasible that the bad guys wouldn’t be able to pull the plane back if they were trying to keep thier distance from the house, though the plane would probably shut off.

]]> By: PCachu http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13387 PCachu Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:14:31 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13387 <blockquote>“NO ONE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME, MICHAEL. NO ONE.”</blockquote>The only thing more awesome than the Jealous Psycho Roadie? The Jealous Psycho Supercar. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

“NO ONE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME, MICHAEL. NO ONE.”

The only thing more awesome than the Jealous Psycho Roadie? The Jealous Psycho Supercar.

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

]]> By: Greenhornet http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13383 Greenhornet Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:31:03 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13383 <i>A cautious sort (albeit also “easily bored”), Durant orders that their clients be informed that there will be a delay in the information transfer (????) until this situation is taken care of. “Michael Knight has to be eliminated first [before the stolen secrets are delivered],” he commands, for no apparent reason whatsoever. "It's In The Script" or maybe "Idiot World". KITT certainly is a "Nut-O-Fun"! </i><i>He calls Michael over the communicator, and Michael groggily asks where he is. “In the parking lot, Michael,” KITT replies. He reports that he’s been parked there ever since Michael was brought in, nine days ago. I would really like to see a timeline for this episode, just to see how much time the "super villain" wasted when he could have compleated the job and moved on to the next. "Easily bored"? "Obsessed" is more like it!</i> A cautious sort (albeit also “easily bored”), Durant orders that their clients be informed that there will be a delay in the information transfer (????) until this situation is taken care of. “Michael Knight has to be eliminated first [before the stolen secrets are delivered],” he commands, for no apparent reason whatsoever.

“It’s In The Script” or maybe “Idiot World”.
KITT certainly is a “Nut-O-Fun”!

He calls Michael over the communicator, and Michael groggily asks where he is. “In the parking lot, Michael,” KITT replies. He reports that he’s been parked there ever since Michael was brought in, nine days ago.

I would really like to see a timeline for this episode, just to see how much time the “super villain” wasted when he could have compleated the job and moved on to the next. “Easily bored”? “Obsessed” is more like it!

]]> By: Piet http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13378 Piet Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:45:56 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13378 Using "As Time Goes By" in a story about the conflict between love and duty: yet another insult to Casablanca. Using “As Time Goes By” in a story about the conflict between love and duty: yet another insult to Casablanca.

]]> By: Charles Goodwin http://jabootu.net/?p=1497&cpage=1#comment-13376 Charles Goodwin Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:08:16 +0000 http://jabootu.net/?p=1497#comment-13376 Actually there is another well-used television and movie trope that could have been employed here at the denouement: once KITT talks Michael out of killing Durant and Michael turns away from the battered villain, Durant pulls out the trademark bad guy's hidden weapon (tiny pistol, throwing knife, etc.) and prepares to use it on Knight's back... KITT then either fries Durant with his amazing electro-ray or kayos him with some other probably-never-to-be-seen-again power, thus 1) saving Michael's life and strengthening that all-important guy/super-car bond, 2) gaining revenge and/or justice for the killing of Stevie, and 3) preventing Michael from having to lose his spotless hero status by actually killing someone. This way Durant's death could be justified by being defensive, as opposed to cold-blooded. Killing bad guys was fairly rare in 80's television series, though (not like the 60's-- THRUSH agents' life expectancies on <i>The Man from UNCLE</i> averaged about 20 minutes, and the Germans on <i>Combat!</i>... forgetaboutit! This would probably have been too imaginative for the writers of this show, however. Hmmm... I wonder... is it possible they could be the same guys who wrote for <i>The Challenge of the Super-Friends</i>? I see similarities in the laziness of the writing style... wouldn't that be wild? Actually there is another well-used television and movie trope that could have been employed here at the denouement: once KITT talks Michael out of killing Durant and Michael turns away from the battered villain, Durant pulls out the trademark bad guy’s hidden weapon (tiny pistol, throwing knife, etc.) and prepares to use it on Knight’s back… KITT then either fries Durant with his amazing electro-ray or kayos him with some other probably-never-to-be-seen-again power, thus 1) saving Michael’s life and strengthening that all-important guy/super-car bond, 2) gaining revenge and/or justice for the killing of Stevie, and 3) preventing Michael from having to lose his spotless hero status by actually killing someone. This way Durant’s death could be justified by being defensive, as opposed to cold-blooded. Killing bad guys was fairly rare in 80’s television series, though (not like the 60’s– THRUSH agents’ life expectancies on The Man from UNCLE averaged about 20 minutes, and the Germans on Combat!… forgetaboutit!

This would probably have been too imaginative for the writers of this show, however. Hmmm… I wonder… is it possible they could be the same guys who wrote for The Challenge of the Super-Friends? I see similarities in the laziness of the writing style… wouldn’t that be wild?

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