General / Off-Topic Lost in Space series 2

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
Huh, I thought it was cancelled for some reason... I quite enjoyed the first one, obviously you have to suspense your science senses, but still pretty entertaining show.
 

[VR] Merkir

[VR] Merkir
Me and my three teenage kids just binge watched season 1 again in preparation. Good holiday fun. Merry Christmas everyone!
 

Pyrotiger

Pyrotiger
Really enjoyed the first two episodes, looking forward to the rest.

Wifey can't believe the luck/ingenuity of the Robinson clan. I said that's nothing compared to the old A-team!
 

Matt168

M
The second series is rather good. Just the final episode to go for us now and, trusting that it remains open, I really hope they keep on making this. The resemblance to the original version is pretty slim now, but I don't suppose that format would really cut it these days.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Matt168 said:
The second series is rather good. Just the final episode to go for us now and, trusting that it remains open, I really hope they keep on making this. The resemblance to the original version is pretty slim now, but I don't suppose that format would really cut it these days.
Click to expand...
I started watching the original last year . Trust me when I say I have a high tolerance for dated stuff (also been watching Dr who from the start Inc the partially missing episodes and have so far made it till half way through McCoy.... But lost in space was too much.
The 1st series was ok. Some tolerable sci fi bit once it got to the colour episodes my god it was poor more like the Walton's than sci fi, so I gave up on it. I even watched the last 15 mins of the last episode and it does not even wrap up. In short..... Other than reminiscing the original lost in space has nothing going for it imo.

(Watch the pilot / or 1st couple of episodes though they are decent enough)
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
I am..... 4 i think episodes in now. (no spoilers)

some of the shots in that really do make me pine for a proper new space game to get my teeth into.... ideally that would be an Elite update but anything really.... Some of the shots (being vague) just make me think "that would be cool to see in <insert your fave space game here>"
 

Matt168

M
Mad Mike said:
I started watching the original last year . Trust me when I say I have a high tolerance for dated stuff (also been watching Dr who from the start Inc the partially missing episodes and have so far made it till half way through McCoy.... But lost in space was too much.
The 1st series was ok. Some tolerable sci fi bit once it got to the colour episodes my god it was poor more like the Walton's than sci fi, so I gave up on it. I even watched the last 15 mins of the last episode and it does not even wrap up. In short..... Other than reminiscing the original lost in space has nothing going for it imo.

(Watch the pilot / or 1st couple of episodes though they are decent enough)
Click to expand...
The original was of its time. Waltons in space is kind of how I think of it too. Each week something new(ish) would happen in the same three pieces of set purporting to be entirely different parts of this planet, always resolved neatly and never to be referred back to again. The garish outfits in the colour episodes looked like they were just designed because colour was now an option and they were damned well going to put as many of them on the screen as they could at once. Dr Smith became a perfect pantomime character and not one of the others developed at all. To be fair, I originally watched them as repeats on a Sunday lunchtime about thirty years ago and loved it on the basis that it was so bad it's good - even so, I still say I loved it. I might prefer the original robot too.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Matt168 said:
The original was of its time. Waltons in space is kind of how I think of it too. Each week something new(ish) would happen in the same three pieces of set purporting to be entirely different parts of this planet, always resolved neatly and never to be referred back to again. The garish outfits in the colour episodes looked like they were just designed because colour was now an option and they were damned well going to put as many of them on the screen as they could at once. Dr Smith became a perfect pantomime character and not one of the others developed at all. To be fair, I originally watched them as repeats on a Sunday lunchtime about thirty years ago and loved it on the basis that it was so bad it's good - even so, I still say I loved it. I might prefer the original robot too.
Click to expand...
The robot was good, and Dr Smith was good... the 1st series was ok like i said.... My understanding is series 1 was aimed at an older audience and they wanted it to be a gritty scifi but then they realised that the vast majority of their audience was far younger so they changed it for later seasons.

In the reboot i like that they have slipped in some past members (I instantly recognised the "real" doctor smith as Will Robinson)
regarding the original robot..... it would be cool to have that in the background at some point somehow... Not sure how, possibly very subtle a bit like how Yul Brynner's android was in Westworld series 1 as an easter egg (very very briefly)
 

Matt168

M
I completely missed Bill Mumy's part, even though I had half expected him to appear somewhere in the background. The old robot, physically, would only make a good water cooler or something. I had hoped the current one would become a bit more communicative - which it has to some extent, I suppose. Maybe the situation they are in for the start of series three will be conducive to it adding a few more words to its vocabulary? More sass, less strong and silent, please.
 

Morbad

Morbad
I thought it was alright, overall. I know it's more of a family oriented show, but but the relative reluctance of everyone, excepting only the overt 'bad guys' and then only in desperation, to engage in violence felt incongruous. In particular I didn't like the scene were think Dr. Smith revealed some of her plans and then blackmailed Don...you don't threaten someone and what is effectively their entire family, in a situation where they know the most tidy and straightforward solution to all the problems you pose is for you to die on the spot and get to walk away without a real conflict. Scene would have been better if Dr. Smith had been more subtle, so Don could have convincingly fooled himself into letting the threat she posed slide.

Another thing that bothered me is how needlessly absurd some aspects of being exposed to space are being depicted as...the 'cold' of space in particular. This was the second Netflix Series I watched in as many days where space was some magical actively-cold place that could suck heat out of objects many orders of magnitude faster than radiation would actually allow.
 

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Mad Mike said:
The robot was good, and Dr Smith was good... the 1st series was ok like i said.... My understanding is series 1 was aimed at an older audience and they wanted it to be a gritty scifi but then they realised that the vast majority of their audience was far younger so they changed it for later seasons.
Click to expand...

Oh yes, this is correct. In the first episode Dr. Smith was a formidable saboteur and spy, with absolutely no compunction about murder. The robot was a real powerhouse of a menace too. That all completely changed, and the series lost a lot by season 2.

If you skipped a few, you might have missed Crush-Kill-Destroy.


It's now a remixed meme song, and the reference is lost. It's made the tropes list too:
tvtropes.org

Crush. Kill. Destroy! - TV Tropes

Robot Buddy Instruction Manual Congratulations kid! You've got your first Robot Buddy, Ridiculously Human Robot, or Do-Anything Robot! But before you start playing with it and going on magical adventures together, there's a few things you need to …
tvtropes.org tvtropes.org
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom