I find Big Bang a very cruel parody of nerds... It's not funny without the laugh track
Lost In Space.... Robinsons and breeding.
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It's hilarious and often spot on
There are a few delightful ways one can look at this, apart from the very special episode where Don and John duke it out over who gets to go for Maureen first... 
Thankfully, Maureen barely showed interest to John and both seemed rather happy and she showed none to Don... unless... unless... they all subconsciously knew who would have the best offspring - Dr Smith - a dingbat so immense that he doesn't realize that sabotaging the ship isn't doing his (unnamed enemy state of origin, but being based during the cold war it's not hard to guess) any favors either... but dominant and recessive genes prevailing, if not random chance, a Dr Smith could still end up being 50% responsible for a shiny new hero for the next generation to praise...
Thankfully, Maureen barely showed interest to John and both seemed rather happy and she showed none to Don... unless... unless... they all subconsciously knew who would have the best offspring - Dr Smith - a dingbat so immense that he doesn't realize that sabotaging the ship isn't doing his (unnamed enemy state of origin, but being based during the cold war it's not hard to guess) any favors either... but dominant and recessive genes prevailing, if not random chance, a Dr Smith could still end up being 50% responsible for a shiny new hero for the next generation to praise... - They're guinea pigs to be first exploring a shiny new frontier and the oingyboing for mass colonization was never a serious intent; the Robinsons would eventually phone home and say that their destination planet really is great and to get the fleet with all 10 million families in ((just how many ships??)) going now...) For an overpopulated planet, just sending away one lab experiment in a flying saucer/petri dish isn't entirely efficient unless the destination planet was sufficiently questionable that they would start small...
- It's otherwise a bit of a given that Major West was going to get major excited over Judy Robinson, though having to churn out ((just how many kids?!)) - and with rather a limited genetic pool to dive into, it's a bit improbable... even then, all the kids would hit puberty and would start sleeping with ea-- um, this is getting a tad disturbing
- Or maybe not; they're really just good friends and he's a monk and this loops back to point 1 above
- This ties into #2, but the gene pool is still limited and would return to that other lovely issue of inbreeding, as human history was replete in proving in the past. Amazing what happened to people and yet we demand our pets be so purebred that generations of them came about from... inbreeding too and, much to my shock, someone actually postulated pros along with all eight zillion cons --> https://www.dogbreedinfo.com/inbreeding.htm (Not only do they mention other species like cats, they also mention a scenario not dissimilar to what you had between Don and the three women... there's no way a kid show was going to begin to discuss these ramifications, and based on the how the characters acted, they'd be more than shocked if Don was going to go Alpha on them all...)
- Best. Nightmare on Elm Street sequence. Ever.
There are a few delightful ways one can look at this, apart from the very special episode where Don and John duke it out over who gets to go for Maureen first...
- They're guinea pigs to be first exploring a shiny new frontier and the oingyboing for mass colonization was never a serious intent; the Robinsons would eventually phone home and say that their destination planet really is great and to get the fleet with all 10 million families in ((just how many ships??)) going now...) For an overpopulated planet, just sending away one lab experiment in a flying saucer/petri dish isn't entirely efficient unless the destination planet was sufficiently questionable that they would start small...
- It's otherwise a bit of a given that Major West was going to get major excited over Judy Robinson, though having to churn out ((just how many kids?!)) - and with rather a limited genetic pool to dive into, it's a bit improbable... even then, all the kids would hit puberty and would start sleeping with ea-- um, this is getting a tad disturbing
- Or maybe not; they're really just good friends and he's a monk and this loops back to point 1 above
- This ties into #2, but the gene pool is still limited and would return to that other lovely issue of inbreeding, as human history was replete in proving in the past. Amazing what happened to people and yet we demand our pets be so purebred that generations of them came about from... inbreeding too and, much to my shock, someone actually postulated pros along with all eight zillion cons --> https://www.dogbreedinfo.com/inbreeding.htm (Not only do they mention other species like cats, they also mention a scenario not dissimilar to what you had between Don and the three women... there's no way a kid show was going to begin to discuss these ramifications, and based on the how the characters acted, they'd be more than shocked if Don was going to go Alpha on them all...)
- Best. Nightmare on Elm Street sequence. Ever.
An R rated version of LIS directed by Quentin Tarantino
I think it is quite a brilliant show and its portrayal of nerds is, unfortunately, cruelly accurate.
She certainly surprised me when I attended Dixie*Trek '92. (At least I think it was 1992.) Ms. Lockhart was the guest of honor and she served as master of ceremonies on the first evening of the convention. Towards the end of her stage monologue, somebody presented her with a miniature of June Robinson, I believe cast in pewter maybe 4 inches tall, painted and placed in an acrylic display box. The maker, almost out of range of Lockhart's mic wanted to draw attention to the effort put in the eyes and other facial features. Lockhart stunned the audience by observing, "Hey! It even has tits!" Here was the mother of Timmy from "Lassie", the 1960s TV ideal of virtuous motherhood describing mammary glands using a very earthy colloquialism that couldn't be spoken in broadcast television probably into the 80s! Had I been drinking anything, I would have performed a slapstick spit take! There was a collective hush in the ballroom for the briefest moment and then the audience roared with laughter, hoots and wolf whistles!
I can picture June doing that from the interviews I've seen, and her driving a red fire truck around everywhere there was stories about that too.
June Lockhart is a riot. Her answer to the question on this game show was a hoot.
You should watch the Australian version of this.. June was funny in that clip.
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Just use the Netflix cast, Maureen and Smith can get it on.
Well hmmmmmmm.. There was a meme going around in 2020 about the Netflix robot being sexy. OK Maureen can have a fling with that if she likes only if it's fully functional.
From a biological point of view, sex with robots or between people of the same gender is not going to preserve the species. However, perhaps the Jupiter II could have cryogenic stores of ova and sperm or even fertilised ova or blastulae that could be implanted in the Robinson women as surrogate mothers (or brood mares). I think the Netflix-depicted Smith aka June Harris is probably past the menopause but could still bear an implanted child. It's a very Tleilaxian solution.
But not past the point of having sexytime fun.
Although yeah your comments reminded me of that other space movie Interstellar. How exactly was Brandt going to raise a colony all on her own? Yes she had the gene banks from her ship but on her own?
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