Being the child of the 80s I am, I watched the new Knight Rider movie on Sunday evening.  And was pleasantly surprised.  For once, a revival of a campy show seems to have gotten it right.  Just enough of the nostaglic things mixed up with all the updated tech.  I missed the TransAm at first, but quickly grew to like the new Mustang.  The actors were good.  The plotline was fairly decent.  Good connection with the old series.   There were minor things that were different but probably in a good way -- earpiece instead of watch comlink, jet instead of semi (a jet makes it actually kinda nifty since I'm guessing this means Mike and KITT can go anywhere now).

I loved that they kept the highly identifiable theme which I cheered at when it started.   ~grin~  Updated, yes, but those first few bars were just lovely.  I wonder if that'll be released as a single anywhere.  And if it gets picked up as a series, if there's going to be a voiceover.

My only real quibble was the voice of the new KITT.  Val read it kinda flat.  I really missed William Daniels and his lovely KITT personality.  Also, no matter where Val was talking, it sounded like his voice was everywhere, rather than coming from a device or the car.  *However*, considering that the movie had all of a week to recast and revoice the role because of the previous actor's conflicts, I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt.  I bet Val had one, perhaps two, read-throughs and that was it.  If the series gets picked up, perhaps this issues will be addressed.

And, of course, the guest appearance of "The Hoff."  I liked seeing Michael, though I was looking for a shadow of the TransAm somewhere.  I noted no one ever said what happened to the the original KITT.  If I remember correctly, he was still around after the last tv movie (whenever that was).  It would be kinda cool if DH and his KITT could make a larger appearance in a series; only if William Daniels would agree to do the voice, though.  Anyone else would just be wrong.

After watching this, I got further nostalgic and had to go reread my favorite Knight Rider fic again.  So I thought I'd rec it here in case anyone is interested and hasn't seen it.
Soul Survivor by elfin (found at this site) -- I loved this when I first read it and still love it now.