Can someone please, please, tell me what was so great about the Knight Rider tv movie? Why on earth would NBC actually consider turning this into a series? Was it really that good? Did I miss something?

I honestly thought it was utter crap. Sure, the car was pretty neat, but you need more than a cool car to make a show work. And this 'pilot' didn't have anything more to give.

Let me list the problems I had with the episode.

• The Lead Actor. He was bland. Really, they should have gotten someone with, oh, charisma. Or a woman driver. That would have been different and interesting.
• It was a 2 hour car chase. Nothing more.
• The bad guys. Stereotypical. It was like the writers took out "TV and Movie Bad Guys for Dummies" and just copied right out of it.
• Predictable. Like you didn't see the end coming.
• As bland as the leading man was, the rest of the cast was pretty bland, too.
• You need emotional connections to the characters. Instead, we get a dull car voice and lots of technology. That doesn't cut it