“Knight Fever” (se05,ep06)

I wasn’t really sure why NBC decided to run an episode of “Knight Rider” on New Year’s Eve. It seems like a really bad time to air a new episode of any show – much less one that’s struggling in the ratings.

After watching it, however, it seems to make perfect sense. This episode is by far, the worst of the season – so running it on a night when most people won’t see it was probably a good decision.

The plot of this episode revolves around a techno virus that infects anything with a chip in it. This was originally supposed to be an episode much closer to the pilot (like episode 2) and that’s pretty clear, even though heavy reshoots have been added to place it after the reveal that “KARR” from a few episodes back.

The virus leads Sarah, Michael, and Sarah’s dad to an ex-boyfriend of Sarah’s that ends up being responsible for the whole thing. The virus attempts to get on the Internet to spread all over the world, KITT ends up getting sick…you get the idea.

Every hoaky thing that people have complained about since day one of this show is all here. There’s even several references that seem to indicate the original series never happened.

This episode is bad enough to have been an episode of “Team Knight Rider”.

It pains me that a good actor like Bruce Davison is leaving the show soon while the absolutely god awful Smith Cho is staying on. I WANT to like her character, but the performances are so bad I just can’t. I can’t wait for next week – the episode HAS to be better than this.

The “reboot” can’t get here fast enough.