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It's not easy to make a pilot episode in 24 pages, and I knew going into this I had to give it the full reboot treatment to pull it off. The only way I saw it working was to cram in the full premise of the show, relying on everyone's familiarity with A.I. regardless of whether or not the reader was familiar with the original show. I felt it was important to leave off with a clear direction of where the show was headed as well, which is what a pilot episode should do.
All that meant I had to sacrifice other areas, most notably the time that would normally be devoted to character development. Maybe that was a mistake, character is key especially for a TV show, but I thought I put in enough to at least give a sense of who Michelle was. In hindsight, I could have done more to demonstrate her character.
"What is MCU" and "What does F.L.A.G. stand for?" Both are mistakes on my part, I had the acronyms explained in the first draft but must have cut them when I lopped off sections. MCU is Mobile Command Unit, and F.L.A.G. is the Foundation for Law and Government.
I like this a lot and think it would work as a TV show today. I plan on writing out the full pilot, expanding on KITT's capabilities, highlighting that there are other KITT vehicles, establishing Michelle's character better including that field operatives aren't allowed to live normal lives and that all field operatives are Knights, and setting up Devon as the first season antagonist better.
A few days before the submission phase ended, I googled Knight Rider and saw an announcement from David Hasslehoff saying the series was going to be rebooted with him back as Michael Knight. He actually said "I can't run, I can't fight, I can't jump but I can still drive." To which I say, I don't want to see that. My idea is better, so I'm going to write it and use it as a sample, and when the Hoff's reboot fails I'll have it to show what that show should have been.
Thanks to everyone who read and commented, and thanks very much for the votes.
Good job on this. Just so well written, and I was able to follow along pretty easily. So this got top marks from me. And I didn�t want to like this either, seeing as how I wrote the other Knight Rider and all. But gotta give credit where credit is due.
And Hasselhoff will not work out well with the reboot, so that�s gonna shoot the chances of another reboot straight to heck.
I did the same thing and surfed the web for Knight Rider in development, also saw that Jon Cena is involved in a project feature that's like the 21 Jump Street reboot and, like you, I wouldn't care to see it.
Seconding Steve here, I thought your version was really good, but needs length to get he full spectrum of your vision. I wouldn't mind reading its full pilot when complete.