Lost in Space Reboot Lands at Netflix
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Searched on Netflix for it, wasn't there.
New series has not started production yet.
Good! Let's hope they get this remake/reboot right this time.
Maybe number four is the charm:
1973 animated episode
1998 film
2003 WB pilot
2016 Netflix (yeah!)
I will definitely watch LIS on Netflix.
There was an animated episode???
Good! Let's hope they get this remake/reboot right this time.
Maybe number four is the charm:
1973 animated episode
1998 film
2003 WB pilot
2016 Netflix (yeah!)
I will definitely watch LIS on Netflix.
There was an animated episode???
Yes.
http://lostinspace.wikia.com/wiki/Lost_in_Space_(1973_Animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze83qnNyDSY
Good! Let's hope they get this remake/reboot right this time.
Maybe number four is the charm:
1973 animated episode
1998 film
2003 WB pilot
2016 Netflix (yeah!)
I will definitely watch LIS on Netflix.
There was an animated episode???
I would not consider the Saturday Superstar Movie LiS special a serious remake/reboot. Unlike the animated Star Trek, which is seen as a serious continuation of TOS, the LiS cartoon was more or less a cheap knock off, like Hanna-Barbera's typically terrible Jeannie, or Partridge Family 2200, A.D.
Since that cartoon, we had to suffer through the other productions on your list, so that raises doubt about this Netflix series. I think over the decades, some (in comics or film) really do not know what to do with LiS as a property without either trying to update the content for a "more serious" audience (1998 film), or a tendency to ape what has become overused hallmarks of gimmicks from the original series (Dr. Smith, the Robot, Will, et al).
Good! Let's hope they get this remake/reboot right this time.
Maybe number four is the charm:
1973 animated episode
1998 film
2003 WB pilot
2016 Netflix (yeah!)
I will definitely watch LIS on Netflix.
There was an animated episode???
I would not consider the Saturday Superstar Movie LiS special a serious remake/reboot. Unlike the animated Star Trek, which is seen as a serious continuation of TOS, the LiS cartoon was more or less a cheap knock off, like Hanna-Barbera's typically terrible Jeannie, or Partridge Family 2200, A.D.
Since that cartoon, we had to suffer through the other productions on your list, so that raises doubt about this Netflix series. I think over the decades, some (in comics or film) really do not know what to do with LiS as a property without either trying to update the content for a "more serious" audience (1998 film), or a tendency to ape what has become overused hallmarks of gimmicks from the original series (Dr. Smith, the Robot, Will, et al).
Agree.
Of course, the animated episode was just a recycle in 1973 of the original LIS that ended five years before on CBS. Albeit, it is among the three prior attempts to reuse the property.
Maybe Netflix will get the Space Family Robinson/Swiss Family Robinson frontier adventure theme correct. I welcome the attempt.
If they're going in that direction definitely drop both Smith and the Robot. I'd also age the characters a bit making the youngest (Will) 17. That's young enough to still be something of a prodigy but old enough that it doesn't feel silly.
I'd also make Judy John's kid sister rather than daughter.
Or scrap the family idea completely and make the crew a team of professionals on a pathfinder mission.
I'd also make Judy John's kid sister rather than daughter.
Or scrap the family idea completely and make the crew a team of professionals on a pathfinder mission.
I'd rather it continue to be a fun, rollicking space adventure, and that they don't try to reinvent too much about the show. And in fact I think the '98 movie actually came pretty close to having the perfect style and tone for LiS-- all it obviously needed was some much better writing.
But the original Lost in Space was a serious show. At least the first season before they went all Adam West campy.
True. Season one was serious, except for several slightly "camp" episodes. Unfortunately, the "camp" made a permanent foothold for season two and the majority of season three.
Irwin Allen's next series Land Of The Giants (1968-70) was not "camp" and was done serious. I guess he learned from Lost In Space (1965-68).
The silly side started in season 1, with Smith no longer being a sinister cutthroat, but a screaming sissy using the robot, and manipulating Will. 1st season disasters such as "The Space Croppers" (space hillbillies), "His Majesty Smith," "The Sky Pirate," or "Welcome Stranger" (lost astronaut in a cowboy hat--and this was episode 6) was setting the Allen formula for junk/kiddie LiS in place.
Actually, his next series was The Time Tunnel (1966-67), and in its short, 30 episode run, most plots used the "race to avoid a disaster / personal conflicts along the way" pattern that would be repeated with massive success in his 1970s films, The Poseidon Adventure & The Towering Inferno. Land of the Giants may not be as silly, but Allen certainly tried to mirror the Smith / Will relationship with Alexander Fitzhugh / Barry Lockridge.
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