If you had made Lost In Space.. What would you have liked in it?

[FredH]

Two separate remake options I'd consider--

1. Rather than being about the Robinson family characters who left Earth, I'd make the series about their grown-up grandchildren (i.e. two generations after Will/Penny/Judy, presumably after having met improbable space humans), still in the now-old Jupiter 2 and increasingly questioning the family obsession with finding the area of space that includes Alpha Centuries and/or Earth.

2. A reimagining of the original characters, but in this version they aren't pioneers; they're a normal (if Jetsons-level) family living in one of the thousands of mobile space habitats orbiting Earth, until some weird event on Earth they had nothing to do with unexpectedly displaces their habitat to a far region of the galaxy. After plot events in the pilot lead them to obtaining a stardrive, though, they rise to the occasion, determined to find their way home, however long it takes.

In neither version does anyone ever say either "Danger, Will Robinson!" or "Oh, the pain, the pain."

 

[Xerxes82]

I honestly loved the new Netflix version. Only change I might make is less Judy, who I never cared for until this last season, and more Penny. Penny was criminally underused.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Two separate remake options I'd consider--

1. Rather than being about the Robinson family characters who left Earth, I'd make the series about their grown-up grandchildren (i.e. two generations after Will/Penny/Judy, presumably after having met improbable space humans), still in the now-old Jupiter 2 and increasingly questioning the family obsession with finding the area of space that includes Alpha Centuries and/or Earth.

2. A reimagining of the original characters, but in this version they aren't pioneers; they're a normal (if Jetsons-level) family living in one of the thousands of mobile space habitats orbiting Earth, until some weird event on Earth they had nothing to do with unexpectedly displaces their habitat to a far region of the galaxy. After plot events in the pilot lead them to obtaining a stardrive, though, they rise to the occasion, determined to find their way home, however long it takes.

In neither version does anyone ever say either "Danger, Will Robinson!" or "Oh, the pain, the pain."

The robot does say "Danger Will Robinson" a few times but he's not very vocabulistic like us

 

[thribs]

My biggest gripe about this series, they were never really lost, and only time it was really good when they were alone.

I agree completely. They were the best episodes.
To answer the incest question, Don West isn't related to anyone. Judy could hook up with him and have kids.

 

[Jayson1]

You want to go dark, real dark I can make the incest thing work. The ship crashes in the pilot killing mom and dad and Major West and Judy. The Doctor is alive but the Robot realizes he is a danger to the children Will and Penny and locks him up, keeping him alive only for use of medical skills. The Robot raises young Will and Penny but it's a Robot and doesn't fully understand all things human. All of this while stranded on a Alien planet. We cut to the future. Will and Penny are now adults and kind of messed up, not being around humans. They even had a romance because what would incest mean to them.

The Robot took 40 years but it's finally got the ship working. With the help of zombie like clones of the mom and dad and West and Judy because it needed a crew of sorts. The Doctor has also died but had his memories downloaded into another clone body. He has gone insane over the years. Anyways the ship is ready to blast off and we follow the adventures of our twisted love couple of Will and Penny, the Robot and the ships zombie family crew as it explores a unknown galaxy with all sorts of weird aliens. To do this correct I have even have chosen the perfect casting for Old Will and Penny. NIck Cage and Maria Bamford.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Apparently a lot of people are interested in seeing inbred children.

I personally liked the ‘97 film and would have loved a series stylistically based on it.

I liked the movie as well and I like what we got on Netflix but I wouldn't have minded something with that style and approach and presumably more hopping to new worlds, more of the core adventure idea of the old series but with less corniness.

 

[Jayson1]

Apparently a lot of people are interested in seeing inbred children.


I liked the movie as well and I like what we got on Netflix but I wouldn't have minded something with that style and approach and presumably more hopping to new worlds, more of the core adventure idea of the old series but with less corniness.

Incest has it's art appeal. From dramatic like Flowers in the Attic, Lonestar to comedic like Back to the Future and Arrested Development.

 

[valkyrie013]

More of an adventure.
Something like the anime Astra. (Which I recomend if you like Lost in space)
They know where they are, but it's a long journey and have to stop occasionally for supplies and fuel. So more planet of the week/few weeks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Lost_in_Space

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It would have been neat had the spiders from the movie made a cameo to munch on people