Lost in Space (Netflix)

[Lencho01]

Netflix responds to fans who find the Lost in Space robot hot: ‘Y’all need Jesus

 

[TheVileOne]

I can't believe I read that and clicked on it. I feel ashamed.

 

[Lencho01]

Ok, I’ve finished the first season. If not for the possible interesting history of the Robot, the aliens, their technology and how it was stolen, I wouldn’t even bother with watching another season of this. Even if they expand on it, I don’t think I would be quick to watch.

I was just mostly annoyed with the characters while watching this. For people who are supposedly smart enough to go on this trip, they sure are idiots. Debbie came out looking better than all of them and she’s a chicken. The Robot too due to its circumstances.

 

[ironman_rick]

Ok, I’ve finished the first season. If not for the possible interesting history of the Robot, the aliens, their technology and how it was stolen, I wouldn’t even bother with watching another season of this. Even if they expand on it, I don’t think I would be quick to watch.

I was just mostly annoyed with the characters while watching this. For people who are supposedly smart enough to go on this trip, they sure are idiots. Debbie came out looking better than all of them and she’s a chicken. The Robot too due to its circumstances.

I am just watching episode 8 now (and i watched the 1st episode when it first dropped on netflix). I have binged the whole series of chalet, the rain, the alienist between episdoe 1 and 8.

Another thing was that the villain was really unlikable on the verge of irritating. The other cast members (who are not named robinsons) are just "meh".

Its just sad that the production value of every episode is good. If only they had put some of that on better writers.

 

[TheVileOne]

Ok, I’ve finished the first season. If not for the possible interesting history of the Robot, the aliens, their technology and how it was stolen, I wouldn’t even bother with watching another season of this. Even if they expand on it, I don’t think I would be quick to watch.

I was just mostly annoyed with the characters while watching this. For people who are supposedly smart enough to go on this trip, they sure are idiots. Debbie came out looking better than all of them and she’s a chicken. The Robot too due to its circumstances.

Yup. This is pretty much how I felt. The Robinsons were way too unlikable.

 

[Lencho01]

Yup. This is pretty much how I felt. The Robinsons were way too unlikable.

Penny was the only one who didn't fully annoy me at some point.

The whole deal with Dr. Smith only works when you have characters act dumb and have a lack of communication of very important information.

 

[Inhuman117]

is Season 2 Confirmed or need yet to be announced?

 

[Primal Slayer]

TBA. Its way to early to know.

 

[Kaleb]

Renewed for season 2

No word yet when the show will be back, but 2019 seems like a safe bet.

Also, no word yet on Netflix’s other big sci-fi drama of 2017, Altered Carbon, which premiered two months before Lost in Space yet hasn’t received a verdict on whether it will continue.

 

[DrCosmic]

I've only seen the first couple episodes but I really really like this. Of course, I kinda just LOVE the concept of LiS on a fundamnetal level, so I'm a bit easy, but all the updates seem really smart, including the Robot being alien. I love seeing a really intelligent family operate. I felt like there was a little deus-exiness in the first ep, when they come up with a really cool solution to a problem, and it all winds up wasted. I don't think those kinds of plots are as clever as they think they are. But by that time I was liking the characters. My first impression of Dr. Smith is fine. I think she's setting up to be a great foil. We'll see how that unfolds, but overall, I'm keenly interested in this universe and these characters, so kudos.

 

[ironman_rick]

I actually liked the last 2 episodes much better than the others. Also liked how they ended the series.

Have to say.....i am excited for the new season.

 

[flickchick85]

Eh, I'm not excited, but I'll watch it. The family got a bit more tolerable as the series went on, but I still wasn't all that invested in them. Don was a bit more likable, but the only part that genuinely interested me was the robot. It was fine, and a decent foundation to (hopefully) improve upon.

 

[Teelie]

I only just got to this the day before yesterday and finished it last night. The show was good but its flaws definitely showed through.

While no one was Prometheus level stupid when it was convienent to the plot, they still had people doing stupid things which given the circumstances were at least believable. There were some moments that were dumb, like Don demanding payment to effectively save his own life or how their elected official was incompetent (though in the end that mostly gets explained away and rectified).

The one major problem I had was how Dr. Smith was a cardboard cutout sociopath who somehow manages to outwit everyone without suspicion for so long. I get it, she's manipulative and conniving, willing to do whatever it takes to escape justice which ironically involves risking her own life and the lives of everyone else who might actually save her life from doom. Though in the end she kind of redeems herself, you know that is just going to turn out to be another manipulation (as it should be) but knowing who/what she really is ought to give the family a pause to consider her completely untrusthworthy.

She was also my absolute least favorite character. More irritating and annoying than interesting or a character you love to hate.

The robot is an interesting take too. It is definitely more than merely a robot with A.I. There is something deeper at work with them (like how one of their engines ended up on Earth). And ending up in Will's "danger zone" galaxy, we will learn more.

The family were realistic enough that I wasn't eye rolling at any of their relationships though the need to heighten the friction between the parents and sisters felt excessive given everything else going on. And needless, because of course there is no married relationship in the world that isn't on the verge of divorce anymore. Kind of tired of every single married couple having not just problems but divorce-level problems that threaten everything in virtually every series that isn't a comedy these days.

Overall I think it did well. There were plenty of times they could have done a much more obvious and stupid thing in the story but avoided most of that. Any time they could have turned a scientist into a blithering idiot they didn't.

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm watching the first episode at the moment. Why are all Netflix shows slow?

And is Judy Robinson meant to be adopted or did Mrs Robinson have an affair with someone else?

 

[Thome216]

Adopted. It's the nuclear family.

 

[RockSP]

And is Judy Robinson meant to be adopted or did Mrs Robinson have an affair with someone else?

There was no affair. She's Maureen's daughter from a relationship prior to meeting John.

 

[Teelie]

Yeah. It isn't explained until a later episode but at first I had no idea either.

 

[Chris B]

I just finished this and overall thought that it pretty decent. I use to watch the reruns of the original show on the Sci-Fi Channel as a young kid in the 90's and even saw the Matt LeBlanc movie in theaters at the time so I was obviously familiar with the franchise.

But I thought this did a good job of updating the concept and characters while maintaining the essence of the original show. I think they did a good job making the other Robinsons that weren't Willm, as well Don West, useful as they were always just kind of there in the original show.

Parker Posey as a gender-bent Dr. Smith worked I felt. They were never going to top Jonathan Harris, so why not try something a different. Granted, I probably wouldn't have gone with the name being only an alias had it been up to me. Likewise, I think they did a good job updating the Robot.

I'll definitely watch season 2 when it comes around. Based on the ending, I imagine that it'll skew a bit closer to the old show. The big question for me is [BLACKOUT]how they'll bring back the Robot since I would imagine that he isn't gone for good[/BLACKOUT]. And on a somewhat related note, I would like to see them try and have some version of the Will-Dr. Smith-Robot dynamic the old show was known for, granted that could fall into the camp territory if not done right.

 

[Thome216]

I just finished this and overall thought that it pretty decent. I use to watch the reruns of the original show on the Sci-Fi Channel as a young kid in the 90's and even saw the Matt LeBlanc movie in theaters at the time so I was obviously familiar with the franchise.

But I thought this did a good job of updating the concept and characters while maintaining the essence of the original show. I think they did a good job making the other Robinsons that weren't Willm, as well Don West, useful as they were always just kind of there in the original show.

Parker Posey as a gender-bent Dr. Smith worked I felt. They were never going to top Jonathan Harris, so why not try something a different. Granted, I probably wouldn't have gone with the name being only an alias had it been up to me. Likewise, I think they did a good job updating the Robot.

I'll definitely watch season 2 when it comes around. Based on the ending, I imagine that it'll skew a bit closer to the old show. The big question for me is [BLACKOUT]how they'll bring back the Robot since I would imagine that he isn't gone for good[/BLACKOUT]. And on a somewhat related note, I would like to see them try and have some version of the Will-Dr. Smith-Robot dynamic the old show was known for, granted that could fall into the camp territory if not done right.

Seeing as now both Will and Smith have been in control of the Robot they could do a good back and forth dynamic between the three.

[BLACKOUT]As to how the Robot could come back, the other alien robot left his ship in orbit. It's very possible that the Robot was able to reach it or called it to him, allowing him to follow the Jupiter 2 to his home world.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm on episode 4 right now. How can they not think Dr Smith is a villain? If I met her in real life she would automatically seem a bit deranged or disturbed. Parker Posey even looks that way herself.

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm starting to wonder if this series is really like Lost in Space, or if it's actually more like "Lost" in Space - ie the JJ Abrams series "Lost" but set in space.

Was the original about them being marooned on a single planet and having to survive all the pitfalls, and encountering other survivors and monsters?

 

[Teelie]

Watch it through to the end. Won't spoil anything but this is not going to end how you think.

 

[C. Lee]

Was the original about them being marooned on a single planet and having to survive all the pitfalls, and encountering other survivors and monsters?

It's been a while since I saw the original series, but this is what I remember. In the original 60's series.....there wasn't multiple families and ships that got lost....the Jupiter 2 was launched with the Robinson family, co-pilot Don, and Dr. Smith who was on board by accident. Although most people remember Smith as the goofy comical coward....he was very different in the first few episodes. In the first episode, he was paid by a foreign power to cause their mission to fail. While on board working on this, he is knocked out by accident, and is on board when it lifts off.

For the first few episodes they are having trouble in space....then they crash on a planet. For most of the first season they stay on that planet, endure crazy weather, animals, and itinerant aliens. Then I believe in the last few episodes of season one and continuing into season two they manage to travel to several more planets and get into more adventures with aliens.

 

[Dark Raven]

I finally finished watching this series. It got better after the first few episodes (which were quite slow). It was fairly entertaining at the end.

The opening credits remind me of Star Trek Enterprise. Did it not have opening credits for every episode? Some seemed to have and some didn't.

I didn't like Dr Smith. She feels like she belongs in an entirely different movie like Misery or Fatal Attraction. As I've said before, even looking at Parker Posey, you'd think she was insane. There doesn't seem anything really likeable about her as a villain. She's such a sociopath and unstable that you want her to be killed off as soon as possible because she gets far too annoying. I would rather have had a Dr Smith who was a villain but more of a lovable villain that you'd still like to root for. I never felt that for this version.

I was hoping after Robot

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stepped off the cliff and broke apart that he'd eventually be rebuilt into the 60s version. Hopefully that happens in Season 2.

So where have they ended up in the finale?

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Is that the robot's home world? Where did that other robot come from when they were fighting at the end? And why did Robot have a change of heart?

 

[Thome216]

....

I was hoping after Robot

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stepped off the cliff and broke apart that he'd eventually be rebuilt into the 60s version. Hopefully that happens in Season 2.

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I really hope that does NOT happen!t: I remember the movie version Robot was so cool looking - and then they dinked it up to look kind of like the old one from the series. Very disappointed. But that's just me.

So where have they ended up in the finale?

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Is that the robot's home world? Where did that other robot come from when they were fighting at the end? And why did Robot have a change of heart?

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Yes, that the Robot's home world. And the other Robot was also following the Resolute since that ship was using a stolen FTL drive from the robots. As to the change of heart, I think the Robot was getting to know them, especially Will and was possibly growing past its programming.