Jessica1977

You have to watch a show like Saved by the Bell with your brain off. It was stupid back then, and it's still stupid now. Just don't take this show seriously. It's campy and silly Saturday morning fluff that is loaded with continuity errors and all kinds of other goofs. It was not well acted. It also featured some rather terrible sitcom direction and horrible writing. But it remains entertaining for what it is---a silly 30 minute diversion from everyday life.

I started watching the show when I was 12 years old back in 1989 because the gang was only a couple of years older then me, and the series seemed like goofy fun. And I remembered the Good Morning Miss Bliss show that was on the Disney channel based on the same characters from the year before. But I never took this dumb show seriously. Even back in those days, I knew it was fake, fake, fake. Just don't expect serious drama or good comedy from a TV series like this. It's just nonsense----still very entertaining---but utter nonsense.

This was my favorite show during my teen years. I think it's a great time capsule of the early and mid 1990's. Though I think the series should have ended in 1997 when the characters were supposed to graduate college. A nice 7 year run from 1990 to 1997 would have had the show leaving on a high note.

90210 already lost a lot of popularity by '97 anyway, and most of the primary audience were moving on or had moved on. Unfortunately 90210 dragged on for 3 more wretched years and lasted until 2000, where it was well past it's prime and getting beat up on by newer teen shows like Dawsons Creek and Felicity. This was a teen show/youth series that should have been about characters that were never older then age 21. When the characters became adults in every sense and even graduated college, it lost some of it's mystique. The series stayed on the air in the Late 90's and 2000, and became a ridiculous soap opera about 20 somethings.

Knight Rider is a show that is basically only good for 80's nostalgia. Watching it makes me feel like a kid again, back when I had no worries in life beyond going to elementary school and doing homework. Knight Rider is as 80's as Mr. T, Punky Brewster, Run DMC and WHAM! Michael and KITT give me that warm feeling inside and they take me back to my childhood. Unfortunately this is not a show with much substance or intelligence. It is true that this series does not feature the best acting and writing around, and it caters to children and the kind of crowd that love movies like "The Fast and the Furious" or "Armaggedon". Yes, this is a kiddie show.

But after reading many of the comments here I feel that people are just being waaaaaay too hard on Knight Rider. Now that 80's kids have grown up, we're adults and we are looking back at this show through adult eyes. So a lot of people are really slamming Knight Rider for being a stupid goofball series and I think that is very unfair. I think Knight Rider is entertaining fluff. Just take your brain out, ignore the toy model cars and bad stunt doubles and simply enjoy the show for what it is. A fun 1 hour diversion from the hardships of daily life, and a brief nostalgia trip to the 80's.