Sometimes I can only suspend my disbelief so far, especially when the overall setting is mildly plausible like Knight Rider
While an AI controlled talking car you can believe to be possible one day, you don't expect it to for example be casting spells or whatever. I was just trying to be funny when I talked about leaving your brain at he door.
Anyway, she saw what I was looking at and she was like "Oh did you watch Knight Rider last night? I thought it was awesome!" My jaw must have been sitting on the floor because she was like "I used to love the original show when I was a kid."
She's from Kenya? I have a few friends from there.
At the age of around ten, even though I lived in the Middle East (where we had local American TV channels, as well as satellite TV), I did pay a couple of visits to Pakistan, where satellite and cable TV hadn't hit weren't available at the time. There were three state run channels in Pakistan, one of which would run popular American shows like McGuyer, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Airworlf etc. once per evening. Everyone we visited was fascinated with such shows of course, partially because they were new and exciting for them.
I assume that's pretty much how it was in most poor countries. In countries where there was less choice in what to watch, it didn't matter if you were man, woman or child. Of course nowadays, cable TV is popular in every corner of the world.
These days, when it comes to my young female cousins, they watch all the girlie Nickelodeon shows, while their brothers stick to more manly programming. I think that just has to do with there being a 100 cable channels in Pakistan now.
Of course this could also be because your Kenyan friend just grew up around boys. For example, while my sister is very obviously a girl, among her favorite games are Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Unreal Tournament, and Max Payne. Of course she plays The Sims 2 every day as well... she is still a girl after all.
It's just not what I expected at all from not only a girl, but her especially.
Well, to be honest, people of a country can afford to make choices based on their sex when they grow up with more choices. I have no idea what the background of your coworker from Kenya is honestly, but I suspect that like my female cousins, she found Knight Rider fascinating because compared to the local choices, it was a fascinatingly big budget show.
It is like your comment in the past about the
Yaris being a chick car. I realized that it was a very fair observation for most people from rich locations like the Middle east, Europe or North America, but in this part of the world, where there is less freedom in choie, most guys drive the car for more economical reasons.
