It could have been The Robot, but given the shot of the Chariot with it underneath, that alien device was put there by either Smith, or as she worked it out earlier, the mum.
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It was the robot. On the wiki page it says the robot put that under the chariot.
Yes, sounds likely that the alien robot brought it along for self-preservation, as a power source for recharging. That's what caused the on-board gravitational effect when the Juptier 2 reached orbit high enough for weightlessness. But last shot of it, as I recall, it was still in the cargo bay. Did you see it get swept out when the hatch was opened?
You see it later on moved into the engines and it wires itself into the engines and sends the ship off to somewhere else.
OK funny picture...... Robot has date night.
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She's a con artist. One got into the White House, why is she so hard to buy?
Yep. Without a birth certificate (sealed) or college grades (sealed), et al. Obama did get in to the White House.
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Trouble is one is AC and the other is DC. (Old joke from The Jetsons.)
But... Robby the Robot and B-9 have the same creator (Robert Kinoshita). Doesn't that make them brothers?
There seems to be a lot of overlap between those of us who were disappointed by Discovery and those of who enjoyed the LiS reboot. LiS certainly had much more of the wonder, adventure and, well, discovery that I wanted from Discovery. The tone was much more to my liking as well. It was fun, and it took the story seriously without taking *itself* po-faced seriously.
I was skeptical about the Jupiter 2 being stuck on one planet with a bunch of other humans all season, but the show did a great job building out that alien world. I can kinda understand the complaints about the relentless stream of crises, but that's what I imagine it would be like to crash land on an alien planet.
And isn't that basically what the first 5 episodes of the original show were like? Since they were expanded from the original pilot, they were basically one long serialized story with the family facing multiple successive crises. I haven't seen the Netflix show yet, but it sounds like it's largely based on that opening 5-parter.
I binged watched this last week. I thought it was pretty decent
I assumed that alien device was the mysterious object behind the ship doors that caused everyone's hair to stand on end, which was first shown on the Resolute. Maureen and not-Smith both discovered it aboard the crashed robot ship. So Robot and/or not-Smith might have been responsible for bringing it to the Jupiter.
It is. The Christmas Star was an alien craft, NASA figured out how to use the engine and began colonizing another planet. The robot attacked the Resolute to recover it.
There are so many moments where there's "wandering dialog" between people that has nothing to do with the context. That's fine if it's for about 20 seconds. But minutes? I get impatient and fast forward. And those two kids with their budding love interest... I really don't think people under that kind of stress are going to spend time "date chatting". Seriously, how could anyone be in the mood, especially after a parent may have just died? Many disjointed context of moments. Parker Posey's acting isn't very believable. I think she was badly cast for June Harris (initially posing as Dr. Smith). Max Jenkins is doing OK as Will Robinson, but the writing for him is weak. Brilliant kid in some respects, utterly stupid in others. He realizes there's something "off" about Dr. Smith. His mother locked her up. But he releases her after Dr. Smith somehow convinces him that his mom isn't quite right in the head? Uhhhh... Will knows his mother better than that.
This LiS reboot seems to struggle with how to keep tethered to the original show, while innovating in other ways. Take for instance the reprogramming of the robot. That happened in the original series pilot, but was quickly resolved. The reboot made it a much larger plot device, but implemented it in a peculiar way. Why would simple physical detachment of parts or running down of power cause the robot to lose all memory and "start over"? Doesn't really make any sense. I could understand it happening with the ship crashing... some kind of electromagnetic surge from the ship. But falling off a cliff? At one point the robot touches a piece of ship debris and suddenly it relives its memory of the original mission, hunting down humans. Face panel turns red. But it's "transient", as after letting go of the debris, the robot goes back to "blank." But then later... after Dr. Smith took over, Will is able to break through it by pleading with the robot. And suddenly, miraculously, the robot turns on its other companion robot. That's just screwed up logic. Core firmware would have info about its nomenclature and trusted hardware--other robots. That would override everything. Just not believable.
And don't get me started on that wacky rapid-freezing of water. When it started happening, my jaw dropped with a big WTF. Water doesn't do that! Doesn't matter what planet. Besides, if somehow, some insane temperature drop took place to cause it, then everybody trying to help Judy would've become instant ice pillars. Their skin was exposed! How the hell... Now maybe, just maybe, there could have been some special compound in the water never before seen that has a peculiar capability of freezing water rapidly below a certain temperature. But at least have someone discover that using a sensing device. Oh and last but not least... in order for water to freeze, it needs to be nearly still. Why didn't Judy keep thrashing about to delay the freezing of water around her? She's supposed to be so incredibly smart.
I was wondering about Robot's programming as well. How could an AI construct like him/it be easily controlled by mere reassembly after having been dismantled in some way? And yet his memory appeared to be intact when he defended Will from the other robot. Hopefully, the next season will shed more light on his homeworld and how all robots function.
Yeah, I assumed it will. If we don't eventually get answers to why the Robot acted as it did, I'll agree with the criticism. But, personally, I liked that they didn't tie everything up in a tidy bow the way Discovery did. They managed to tell a complete (and, for me, fulfilling) story while telegraphing that we're only now starting to see the big picture unfold.
Sounds like most kids.
The robot was apparently developing a psychic link with Will and capable of learning and feeling emotion so it's not completely fair to judge it based on current devices. Even if we were, I've had quite a few where the "hard reset" is the expected way to get the device going again with much less traumatic conditions.
I liked how they wrote Will. Bright, but not a genius. Not so good under pressure. Filled with self doubt. But good-hearted and willing to trust in others, even alien robots, in a way that he won't trust in himself.
They already made Judy an 18-year-old doctor, so having Will be another prodigy might have been unbearable. At the least, I expect that people would have complained that the family was unrelatable.
They already made Judy an 18-year-old doctor, so having Will be another prodigy might have been unbearable. At the least, I expect that people would have complained that the family was unrelatable.
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