Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"

[Galileo7]

The visual design on this is really cool and pretty plausible looking.

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Of course everything is brand new. They're only just launched.

Netflix LOST IN SPACE looks great. I am more excited about this than I was with Star Trek Discovery. Albeit, I am as excited about the Netflix Lost In Space as I was about the J.J. Abrams Star Trek 2009 (films).

 

[B.J.]

Oh man are we getting some movie style timey-wimey too? I wasn't expecting that.

What timey-wimey? I didn't get the impression that there was any time travel.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'noS]

At the very end when they show the writing on the cave, "The Robinsons were here," my first reaction was that they discovered it...but now that I think about it I suppose that could have just been a scene where they write it in the first place. It seemed cryptic enough that I thought perhaps they stumbled upon evidence of their future actions that happened in their relative past, like in the movie when they find the graves of all the sisters.

Wait, it's been so long since I've seen the movie, how did the time displacement even work? They crashed on the planet in the past but then crashed on it again in the future? What caused the ships to duplicate?

 

[Galileo7]

On the original series Lost In Space "Welcome Stranger" episode this was cut into a rock wall with a laser gun.

 

[JD]

At the very end when they show the writing on the cave, "The Robinsons were here," my first reaction was that they discovered it...but now that I think about it I suppose that could have just been a scene where they write it in the first place. It seemed cryptic enough that I thought perhaps they stumbled upon evidence of their future actions that happened in their relative past, like in the movie when they find the graves of all the sisters.

Time travel never occurred to me there, it looked to me like they had just put it there before the trailer cut in.

 

[Gary7]

Definitely has a nice modernized feel to it... but like others have pointed out, the robot is a disappointment. Too humanoid. I'd have preferred it to be more like the LiS 1998 movie version, much more machine than human looking. The whole stranded on a deserted planet narrative looks well explored in this new version. Looks very promising.

 

[Christopher]

like others have pointed out, the robot is a disappointment. Too humanoid.

I saw a bit more footage in a behind-the-scenes video, and it's clearer now that the Robot starts out much less human-shaped (though still bipedal) and morphs itself to better resemble the Robinsons. So maybe it will go through other transformations.

 

[Gary7]

I saw a bit more footage in a behind-the-scenes video, and it's clearer now that the Robot starts out much less human-shaped (though still bipedal) and morphs itself to better resemble the Robinsons. So maybe it will go through other transformations.

That's intriguing... and helps with the plausibility factor. Is it supposed to be completely alien in origin, or future tech that was sent back in time?

 

[JD]

The impression I got from the trailer is that it was alien.

 

[Christopher]

I see no reason to suspect any kind of time travel here. Just because the dumb movie did it, that certainly doesn't mean the series is obligated to follow. This is a show about being lost in space, not time.

 

[Mudd]

The "dumb movie" was less dumb than the old TV series, or for that matter most of Irwin Allen's TV shows.

You can make excuses for the old show but you can not credibly defend it as either drama or science fiction. This is not an "agree to disagree" matter, just a fact.

 

[Mudd]

 

[Santa Kang]

That set makes me think they might want to keep an eye out for hitchhiking xenomorphs.

 

[Starscream2112]

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I Wonder if Bill Mumy was just visiting the set or if he has a cameo in the show?

 

[Tallguy]

That set makes me think they might want to keep an eye out for hitchhiking xenomorphs.

I was going to say the same thing (in a much less clever way).

 

[JD]

IGN's David Griffin saw the first episode at WonderCon and he has given it a 9.1/10 in his review.

 

[Christopher]

I'm not encouraged by the mentions of the family having more "realistic" problems and conflicts. The worst thing about the LiS movie was that it tried so hard to make the Robinsons "realistic" that they ended up being pathetically, obnoxiously dysfunctional and totally lost the charm and appeal of the original cast. Characters don't have to be broken to be interesting. Even well-adjusted, healthy, loving families can have meaningful and interesting conflicts (see Black Lightning for an example).

 

[Mudd]

It's called "drama."

The original TV show has spaceships and robots and was funny, but it wasn't any good. They can't help but improve it.

 

[Gary7]

It's called "drama."

The original TV show has spaceships and robots and was funny, but it wasn't any good. They can't help but improve it.

Agreed. The original TV series was fine for its time and context... but it did not age well. The only redeeming quality is the nostalgia. If you look at it like a current production, independent of the cheesy SFX, it's tremendously stupid and insulting to science (at least with Star Trek, they invested a lot of thought into plausibility... Irwin Allen was notorious for hardly considering it, because it was all about the short term accomplishment--entertaining kids).

 

[Christopher]

If you look at it like a current production, independent of the cheesy SFX, it's tremendously stupid and insulting to science

Got news for you -- most current productions are every bit as stupid and insulting to science. SFTV shows that pay the slightest attention to plausible science are as rare today as they were 50 years ago. The Expanse is pretty much the only one now, just like Star Trek was the only one in its day. (Though we are in a golden age of feature films with reasonably good science, e.g. Gravity, Europa Report, Interstellar, The Martian, Ex Machina, Life, etc.)