Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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Oh boy, this is a pretty exciting!
Netflix has also released some photos, and revealed that they gave the season to NASA who sent it up the International Space Station for the astronauts to watch during their leisure time.
I always get a kick out of it when they do stuff like that with sci-fi series.
I always get a kick out of it when they do stuff like that with sci-fi series.
Yeah, I didn't care for that voice at all. It didn't have to sound exactly like the classic one but it should have more gusto or personality than that. Maybe they'll reprogram it or something as that's not unusual for LiS and give a different voice.Space suits and actors look great,
but I really hate the Robot's voice....
Or maybe it will grow on me like the Painbot from Teen Titans Go.
Thinking about it, I don't get why any production set 30 years in the future would use that old "Cylon voice" trick of having a human actor speak into a Vocoder to make their voice sound monotone and mechanical. After all, we already have synthesized computer voices that sound almost human. So that effect isn't "futuristic" anymore, it's downright retro. Unless that's the intent, that some character in-story chose the voice to sound that way as an affectation.
It just sounds cool. It’s entertainment, not an examination of space travel and AI. It’s a remake of a show beloved for being goofy action set pieces sandwiched between a battle of insults between a robot and a flamboyant moron.
Well, as far as the studio is concerned no one has heard about this show until yesterday...because no one, really, heard about the show until yesterday.
So, the teaser is just branding intended to cut through the noise with "Lost In Space Revival Coming Soon." It does that and they probably think it's all they need to do on the first day.
So, the teaser is just branding intended to cut through the noise with "Lost In Space Revival Coming Soon." It does that and they probably think it's all they need to do on the first day.
Orville is hardly “smart” or “premium”.
That's just my point -- it doesn't really. It sounds quite dated. It's a vocal effect that was common in '70s and '80s sci-fi, but it hasn't been used much since then, because the technology for creating real computer-generated voices has long since outstripped that simple trick for making a live actor's voice sound "robotic." So these days, the Vocoder effect just sounds quaint and kitschy.
I think you're forgetting that remakes of franchises known for being campy have a tendency to overcorrect in the opposite direction and try to be as serious as possible. See the Nolan Batman movies (and practically every Batman comic from 1986 onward), the Ron Moore Galactica, the '84 Godzilla remake and most Godzilla movies since, the recent Power Rangers feature film, etc. For that matter, see the previous two attempts at Lost in Space reboots -- the feature film, which turned the family into an unpleasantly dysfunctional mess, and the John Woo-directed The Robinsons pilot, which left out Dr. Smith altogether and tried to be an intense space war epic for some reason. Indeed, this very trailer implies the Netflix series will be a far more serious, naturalistic take on LiS than the original.
Here's an album of all of the official pictures and screen captures from the teaser.
Lost in Space 2018
Kevin Burns just said that there will be a full two minute trailer in two weeks.
Lost in Space 2018
Kevin Burns just said that there will be a full two minute trailer in two weeks.
That trailer was terrible.
It's the same bland annoying crap we get from other trailers: slow music, slow-motion scenes, meaningless jumbled excerpts, some drama around the end, and a voice.
Oh, and:
CinemaSins: "Narration." (DING)
It's the same bland annoying crap we get from other trailers: slow music, slow-motion scenes, meaningless jumbled excerpts, some drama around the end, and a voice.
Oh, and:
CinemaSins: "Narration." (DING)
Space. The final frontier.
I was surprised the voice was so mechanical sounding, since the originally wasn't really, but I don't mind it.
Considering where in the trailer we heard the robot voice, and the kinda drawn-out way it said the line, I'm under the impression that what we heard was a damaged robot, and wasn't its "normal" voice. If that's true, it wouldn't bother me either way if it stayed that way or if they fixed it to its original sound.
Which would pretty much recapitulate the Robot's development in the original series. He started off as very mechanical, not in voice but in personality (or lack thereof), and gradually developed more of a personality as the show went on.
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