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First of all, from the very beginning, we always planned to make Mobius Kyle's
father. We set up that Kyle's father was a traitor in HOME AWAY FROM HOME.
He turned on both his country and the Russians. Also, in ET TU, DANTE?,
Mobius referred to Kyle as "My son." Dan Filie (executive at Universal), however, wasn't too keen on
the idea of Mobius being Kyle's father, so we were throwing around alternative
ideas towards the end of the season, but in my opinion, TKR's formidable foe
turning out to be the team leader's father was always the best resolution of
the Mobius arc. He had built a crime empire after he went into hiding and
that was how he was able to recruit such TKR villians as Kayla Gordon
(E.M.P.), Max Amandes (SKYONE) and Starr (THE IRON MAIDEN, ANGELS IN CHAINS).
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The fact that the Shadow is KITT was an idea that came late to us as we were
developing scripts. Our initial intention was to make the Shadow Michael
Knight. But we thought it would be far more interesting if the Shadow was
actually a hologram that was inside SkyOne all the time. The computer chip of
KITT. We hadn't figured out who placed it in there, but it does seem to make
sense that it was Michael Knight, who shows up at the very end of LOD. As
cheesy as some viewers seem to think, it was our intention to have Jenny be
Michael Knight's daughter. We pretty much resolved this mystery that began in
FALLEN NATION in ANGELS IN CHAINS. Also, the Shadow (KITT) helps Erica in
that episode rescue Jenny from a life in prison. We wanted her father to be
somehow watching over her, protecting her. If we had a second season (and
hopefully the cooperation of David Hasselhoff-- a long shot as you know), we
would have had a reunion between the two. The two characters bridging the two
series.
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We hadn't thought yet how we would have rescued KITT from Mobius' clutches.
That was something we would have worked out if we had a second season. We
were planning, however, to bring back Garth Knight (perhaps as Mobius if Filie
wouldn't allow us to reveal him as Kyle's father) as well as Goliath. We
really wanted to establish our own vehicles and villians in the first year,
then reintroduce the history of the franchise as we went along. We didn't
want to blow our whole wad so to speak in the first season.
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We were really hoping to flesh out our characters more next season. Erica was
a very controversial character simply because of her attitude. Our intention
was to create someone you might not expect to see on a team of heroes. She
worked for some people, and not for others. We tried softening her in
episodes that revolved around her (INSIDE TRAITOR, RETURN OF MEGAMAN), and we
feel we hit our stride with her in ANGELS IN CHAINS. Next season, we wanted
to introduce her husband, her ex-partner in crime, the man who sacrificed her
to save himself after a major con. Naturally he would have popped up as a TKR
foe.
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We also hoped to introduce Trek's parents, and delve more into Duke's past as
a Chicago cop. Of all the characters, we feel Duke got the least amount of
episodes. Duane Davis is a terrific actor with a lot of range, so our hope
was to really flesh out his character and give him more episodes centered
around him.
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We probably would've still danced around the Kyle/Jenny attraction. After
all, pay it off too soon, and you have the last season of MOONLIGHTING. We
had a lot of fun with Jenny when Kyle and Kayla met in both EMP and LEGION OF
DOOM. So we probably would've brought in more beautiful women to threaten
her. Also, though the episode wasn't one of strongest, we liked Jenny's arc
in THE IXTAFA AFFAIR. We got to see how the choices she made brought her to
where she is today. And that Kyle is probably the man she's been waiting for.
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I voted in your favorite episode survey. I picked THE BLONDE WOMAN. An odd
choice, I know, but for some reason, I liked the character comedy in that
episode. I felt the team and the cars were all playing nicely off each other
in that one.
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As for future projects, we're negotiating to write an animated movie for
Universal right now, and we're meeting on a few one hour adventure shows for
the fall, but nothing is definite yet. We're also hoping to develop for the
1999-2000 season, but we'll see.
Sincerely,
Rick Copp
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