Knight Rider Rides Again

Knight Rider is back

I’ll admit I was a geek as a kid. I wanted to be cool, but I just wasn’t. End of story. But I sure did love Knight Rider and The A-Team. If the popular kids liked those shows as much as I did, I reasoned, then maybe I was cooler than I thought. But then, those cool shows went off the air. It wasn’t too long before people were making fun of my beloved cool barometers. Michael and Kitt, it started to seem, were to be ridiculed rather than venerated. I guessed my brush with cool hadn’t been as close as I’d hoped.

Life went on. I settled into a comfortable understanding of myself – that really, I’m just some guy. No more, no less. I’m one of billions. Decent with words on occasion, empathetic, a decent draftsman, and the potential to outlive my parents. Those were good years, and there were many of them.

Today, though, it all came to an end. Today, while I was at home working on a UX analysis for a friend, I happened across a link to — gasp! — the new Knight Rider. NEW, as in KNIGHT RIDER 2008.

Panic struck. Could it be, I wondered, that one of my old competitors for cool is behind its reprise? Could Keith Power or Mark Capasso, or even Jason Jordan, be responsible for this – the return of Kitt??? And if so, what would that mean? Maybe I lost faith in Kitt too soon. Maybe I was a wannabe, while here the real things labored in seclusion to bring about the return of the most amazing self-conscious car the world has ever seen. Maybe my dismissal of cool was premature! If only I had hung in there a little longer! If only I really had what it took to see a legend through to its inevitable revival!! If only!!!

Then again, maybe it’s just a friggin car that talks already.