Okay, I'll admit... the original 1980's show was cheesy. But -THIS- show is plain awful. And it isn't just this episode, the whole "reboot" in general sucks. I tried to like it, but I just can't, it has too many strikes against it for it to even compare to the original. No Trans Am (not even a 4th gen? c'mon those are still around), KITT morphs into a truck, and instead of the permanent near-indestructibility of the Molecular Bonded Shell, KITT is only protected from damage when his nanobot technology is turned on? Hollywood really needs to stop trying to 'recreate' my childhood. Or if they absolutely must, atleast -TRY- to do it right. The writers seem like they don't even know what they want to do, or what's going on ep to ep. They don't know whether they want KR08 to be a "continuation" or a "re-telling" if it was the latter, then the previous incarnation's events wouldn't matter (for the new characters) and the inconsistencies could be forgiven. But if its a "continuation," and everything in the 80's version happened, the obvious question is "Why re-make KARR when they knew the history of the first one and him being programmed for self preservation instead of the preservation of human life? And if they knew about 80's KARR's flaw, why repeat the same mistake in the new version?Also, the pre-ep build up for KARR showed him as only being some Johnny Five thing, and I guess the writers realized at the last second this would annoy fans. What they gave us was even more irritating. I'll admit, Peter Cullen voicing KARR gave it cool points, atleast they managed to get somebody from the original show (too bad they couldn't have gotten William Daniels instead of Val to voice KITT) but the whole Transformers tie-in was stupid and un-necessary, same goes for the weak tech humor in some lame attempt to be modern "KITT's AI is embedded in the binary of some mp3's on a website and some kid's EXBAWKZ in Portland!" Also, how the hell is agent Torres still in one piece and talking after KITT had just rammed right through KARR's lil Gundam Suit cockpit with him still inside? Wouldn't he have been, gee I dunno, KILLED INSTANTLY AND CRUSHED INTO A UNIDENTIFIABLE MANGLED CORPSE?The ep ends with Graiman via Obi-Wan hologram, talking about re-activating F.L.A.G. and how it's what "Wilton Knight" would've wanted, but why didn't they just do that from the beginning? WHY even bother with the whole Knight Industries + FBI group / Mike Tracer was in Iraq as part of a project everyone knew would fail anyway crap? Why -not- just rewrite the whole story and events in their own separate universe apart from the 80's version? Then the writers could do whatever they wanted and nobody would've had any expectations or reason to complain about silly little things like "continuity."

I love the show knight rider... this episode was awesome! it shows the mysterious KARR and the action. The thing that didn't surprise me was that Alex Torres betrayed the team and Dr. Graiman's work :(... can't wait to watch the next episode!