Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"

[Christopher]

Maybe I need to go back and watch some of those episodes again, but what evidence is there that the ship or meteor's crash was what caused the extinction level event other than people were told it was?

The people were told it was an asteroid impact, and that the spaceship technology for the colonization program was a homegrown human invention. Over the course of the season, we got hints that gradually revealed that the "asteroid" was actually a spaceship and that the Resolute's space drive was secretly salvaged alien tech. Strictly speaking, that full backstory hasn't even been revealed to the main characters yet; it's something we've been able to piece together from the clues we've been given, but much of it is still a mystery. So the alien ship crash already is the secret explanation behind the official story of the cataclysm.

 

[theenglish]

The people were told it was an asteroid impact, and that the spaceship technology for the colonization program was a homegrown human invention. Over the course of the season, we got hints that gradually revealed that the "asteroid" was actually a spaceship and that the Resolute's space drive was secretly salvaged alien tech. Strictly speaking, that full backstory hasn't even been revealed to the main characters yet; it's something we've been able to piece together from the clues we've been given, but much of it is still a mystery. So the alien ship crash already is the secret explanation behind the official story of the cataclysm.

Yes, that is what I remember.

 

[Psion]

Because the alternative is that the robots are *really* bad drivers, obviously.
I mean it's difficult enough to hit a tiny planet in the vast emptiness of the cosmos on purpose, but to do it by accident is just a special kind of incompetent.

Allow me to introduce you to the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Shiaparelli lander.

There are lots of ways such a crash could occur by accident without reflecting poorly on the pilots.

 

[Reverend]

Allow me to introduce you to the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Shiaparelli lander.

There are lots of ways such a crash could occur by accident without reflecting poorly on the pilots.

So you're saying an incredibly advanced race of machines autonomous capable of interstellar travel have functionally identical navigation capabilities as a pair of tin cans thrown into space by a species so primitive that it can only barely escape it's own atmosphere? Yup. Totally legit comparison...

Seriously though, that's like comparing a hollowed out log canoe to a nuclear submarine.

 

[Psion]

So you're saying an incredibly advanced race of machines autonomous capable of interstellar travel have functionally identical navigation capabilities as a pair of tin cans thrown into space by a species so primitive that it can only barely escape it's own atmosphere? Yup. Totally legit comparison...

Seriously though, that's like comparing a hollowed out log canoe to a nuclear submarine.

Oh YEAH?!

Well why dontcha go marry your stupid machines if you love them so much?!

Seriously, though, they're machines, not gods. Have a gander at "The Stuff of Life" by Mark Schultz to see how wondrously complex our own inner workings are. It's mind-boggling by the time you're about twelve or thirteen pages in! And yet we still can't help screwing things up all the time. I can easily imagine the LiS robot race mucking about with whoopee cushions at the wrong moment or getting drunk on cosmic rays while making planetary flybys!

 

[JD]

I watched the finale this morning, and I really enjoyed it. The whole reveal of the alien tech being the basis for their ships was a cool twist. Definitely looking forward to seeing where they take things in Season 2.

 

[Christopher]

The whole reveal of the alien tech being the basis for their ships was a cool twist.

I pretty much saw it coming because the '90s Lost in Space comic did much the same thing. No surprise, since it's the easiest way to justify near-future humanity having interstellar capability, an idea that '50s and '60s audiences had more credulity toward than modern audiences do. In the early Space Age, progress seemed so fast that it felt inevitable that we'd be colonizing the Solar System by the 1990s and reaching the stars soon after that. But once the Apollo program ended and the space program shrank down to a few robot probes and low-orbit space trucks with wings, the idea of a rapid journey to the stars in the near future seemed unlikely without outside help.

Another factor is probably that the "Roswell UFO crash" myth had entered pop culture starting in the late '70s and early '80s (it was just a forgotten headline about a weather balloon until a late-'70s UFO researcher found an old clipping and imagined a vast conspiracy around it), so the idea that there might be a crashed alien ship with tech the government could secretly reverse-engineer was popular by the '90s.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Lost in Space season one coming to blu-ray and dvd June 4th

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Lost in Space season one coming to blu-ray and dvd June 4th

Yes please...... This makes me so happy

 

[JD]

Do we know if/when we'll get Season 2?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Do we know if/when we'll get Season 2?

I thought they were filming already this year.

 

[Kelso]

Maxwell Jenkins recently tweeted that they have already filmed season two.

https://twitter.com/MaxwellJenkins8/status/1120651602325639168?s=20

 

[Velocity]

Great news! I am excited to see the new season!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Fantastic news

 

[Starbreaker]

Cool. I still need to watch the last half of S1. I liked it but wasn't obsessed with it like I thought I would be.

 

[Tallguy]

Cool. I still need to watch the last half of S1. I liked it but wasn't obsessed with it like I thought I would be.

I think it's the only Netflix show I've watched twice.

 

[Reverend]

This is going to sound disparaging, but I honestly forgot this show existed until this thread popped back up on the front page. Either that's a sign that it didn't make a lasting impression on me, or simply more evidence of my inevitable decline into senility. Maybe both.

It's strange really, since what I do remember of it is mostly positive. I should probably do a rewatch before the new season comes out.

 

[Photoman15]

No....it's that they make so little episodes then take so long between seasons. It's getting as bad as British TV.

 

[Christopher]

No....it's that they make so little episodes then take so long between seasons. It's getting as bad as British TV.

I'm glad they take the time to get it right rather than having to cut corners to fit a strict schedule.

 

[Scout101]

So yes to both of your points. It's nice to have tighter writing, less padding, and some planned, coherent storylines, but definitely breaks things up and lets you forget about them more when releases are more scattershot and take long breaks between seasons. Broadcast TV has the benefit of a somewhat regular schedule, so you can't forget it. Streaming shows show up all at once on some random date and then disappear for a year or more.

Add to it that the streaming experience has become very broken up/distributed, and it's getting hard to keep track of what is where, when it's coming back, etc. everyone wanted a piece of Netflix instead of going through them, so now there are a million different subscription services to sort through, each with usually only 1-2 shows I'm interested in, so always bouncing around, trying to figure out what to buy and what to cancel, etc. Hanging on to regular cable tv (well, Fios), so not paying double for all of the a la carte services too. Can't wait until some of this flames out and someone starts consolidating these things into a couple platforms again, something has to give. Whether it's the streaming services or giving up on 'regular' tv, we'll see.