Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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The first episode is credited as being based on "No Place to Hide", the original pilot; I don't believe that any other episodes had "based on episode X" credits.
Assuming the Wikipedia episode summaries are correct, then the first season of the reboot as a whole is only very loosely based on the opening arc; I only recognize one specific event/concept that was realized in the reboot.
Hollywood science (TM)
I think we're being too hard on the show. They're actually trying something close to science, unlike the original. We can start complaining when a person turning into lettuce or they try to pass off a chimp in a hat as an alien.
I call it Space:1999 syndrome. The sets and props look fantastically believable. But the dialog and plot doesn't really live in the same world. I mean it's not TERRIBLE. And better than the original LIS or Trek TOS.
But when you have schmutz in your eye your eyes water. Just like happened to Chris Hadfield when he got stuff in his eye on a spacewalk, an incident that LIS seems to have directly copied. (They probably saw it in the press materials for The Martian which they also pretty directly copied.) Problem is when you have tears in space they stick to your eyes!
You just have to remember that this isn't really "that kind of show" even if it occasionally sounds like it wants to be. (I thought they were going to do something MUCH cooler with the black hole.)
I was suggesting that it was a friendly drive rather than a date night. Or maybe the brothers were driving to meet their respective dates, Rosie from The Jetsons and Rhoda from My Living Doll.
Hyperintelligent plot water that freezes when the plot needs it to. It's camera shy too.
I recognize the planet having a weird orbit that made it super hot one time and super cold the other, and that was in the first 5 or so episodes of the old show.
I didn't see it as "programming". To me the robot grew attached to WIll because Will helped/saved it, so it realized he was "okay". Smith later tells the robot that it can't trust Will, and what does Will do? Walk him off a cliff. So now it gets reassembled because of Smith, so now it goes, "oh, my real friend. But when it sees Will in actual danger its attachment to home overrides everything else.
Yeah, there's stuff that doesn't make sense, but the robot's motivations were not part of that.
Yeah, there's stuff that doesn't make sense, but the robot's motivations were not part of that.
The Robinsons Were Here
A very good episode, realistically protraying the effects of fear (from Judy, regarding the Robot). The conversation between Maureen and John beneath the satellite dish was also well done. 8.5/10.
Transmission
8/10.
Eulogy
A very good episode, particularly the scene between Will and John at the cairn. 9/10.
Pressurized
A lot of interesting developments. One scene in particular is confronting, but well worth seeing. 8/10.
A very good episode, realistically protraying the effects of fear (from Judy, regarding the Robot). The conversation between Maureen and John beneath the satellite dish was also well done. 8.5/10.
Transmission
8/10.
Eulogy
A very good episode, particularly the scene between Will and John at the cairn. 9/10.
Pressurized
A lot of interesting developments. One scene in particular is confronting, but well worth seeing. 8/10.
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed with that. My first gut reaction, when Maureen discovered the Hawking radiation was „time dilation“. I thought she‘d deduce that the messages they received from Resolute were just delayed by that effect and it was long gone and therefore couldn‘t receive the replies. Basically a Sound of her Voice scenario.
And the closer the planet got to the Black hole the more centuries earth time passed them by.
Instead they just treated it like a generic space hazard.
I suppose it would have been pretty dark to have all the Jupiter‘s escape the planet and get stranded in space or caught in the black hole gravity well while the Robinsons only escape because they got the FTL drive aboard.
And the closer the planet got to the Black hole the more centuries earth time passed them by.
Instead they just treated it like a generic space hazard.
I suppose it would have been pretty dark to have all the Jupiter‘s escape the planet and get stranded in space or caught in the black hole gravity well while the Robinsons only escape because they got the FTL drive aboard.
Just how much damage did the Resolute suffer because there's a great chunk of it on the planet and the antenna dish, yet in the last episode it tries to scoop them up and looks all but fixed?
Spoiler just in case people missed the final episode.
they could eventually come back to it and discover that the Resolute timetraveled and crashed on the planet eventually. Not expecting it, but could be possible.
It was a taste of "Voyager syndrome."
Yeah, when that alien craft rammed into the Resolute in Episode 1, it looked like about 25% of the ship was cleaved off the hull, and we certainly see a good bit of debris on the surface of the planet... what survived the tortuous heat of reentry, that is (so it should have been even more). The huge communications dish mostly intact? Pretty unbelievable. And actually, I was thinking
wouldn't it have made sense to cut it into a few sections and place in the cargo holds of a couple Jupiter ships so that it could be reattached to the Resolute once they achieved rendezvous?
Finished the series today. I enjoyed it.
Not quite as much as the 1999 movie, though
Not quite as much as the 1999 movie, though
They were quite in a hurry...
That's legally as much damage as they could inflict.It was a taste of "Voyager syndrome."
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Legally?
Hey fun speculation time.
They were watching a promotional video for the Alpha Centauri colony which showed a row of Jupiter ships all parked near each other like some kind of flying RVs which is essentially what they are. Anyway that looked so utopian and nice but I can't shake the feeling it's a lot darker then what they show.
For one thing people like Don are not allowed to land there and live but it's fine to use them to haul your stuff from Earth and anyway he has a nice side job bringing them all their vices with his smuggling. But it seems he won't be allowed to live there and that was based on how disgruntled he was with them and dialog.
So I get the feeling it's all really stinky what they are doing and for all we know there isn't a colony at all but something darker.
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