# Could someone explain this old "Lost in Space" episode please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865 "2008-11-03T14:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/1 "2008-11-03T14:42:16Z")
“Space Creature” or “The Space Creature”, season 3 episode 10. I tried to look this up online and it was like the episode was cursed or something. Link after link after link gave me pages that wouldn’t load, video clips that I haven’t got the bandwidth for, one-sentence synopsises that don’t tell me anything, and a couple of rambling reviews that didn’t actually describe what happened in the episode. Basic plot: crew of Jupiter II start vanishing one by one. But I don’t remember why or what happened ultimately. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/2 "2008-11-03T15:24:29Z")
Purple despair hovercraft. Else? ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/3 "2008-11-03T15:25:29Z")
Hell, just watch it. > **[AOL Video - Serving the best video content from AOL and around the web](https://www.aol.com/video/)** > > The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos. Oops… I see you have bandwidth problems… and I’m at work. Can someone else watch it and tell him? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/4 "2008-11-03T18:12:21Z")
It’s available on DVD. It also looks like you could buy the [script](http://www.bookcity.net/TVScripts.php?otter=Ht0IUT1dkNLqBbkMtvVAqO11dl8tA9jf). Watching an entire episode of **Lost in Space** is a lot to ask of another human being. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/5 "2008-11-03T18:28:45Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > It’s available on DVD. It also looks like you could buy the [script](http://www.bookcity.net/TVScripts.php?otter=Ht0IUT1dkNLqBbkMtvVAqO11dl8tA9jf). > > Watching an entire episode of **Lost in Space** is a lot to ask of another human being. ’ It’s too much even for the Robot. DANGER! DANGER, Will Robinson! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/6 "2008-11-03T18:31:07Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > … > > Watching an entire episode of **Lost in Space** is a lot to ask of another human being. The six year old me would have done it happily. Actually I haven’t watched the show in years, I would be curious what my impressions of it would be now. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/7 "2008-11-03T18:45:27Z")
A little more detail from one of the fan sites. > [@](#): > > Jupiter 2 is locked into orbit around a planet which harbors a creature that feeds on fear. In order to create its life-food, the being causes the Robinsons to disappear from the ship one by one, leaving a psychotic Dr. Smith, who is trying to murder Will. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/8 "2008-11-03T18:50:10Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A little more detail from one of the fan sites. Pretty much the same plot as every week. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/9 "2008-11-03T19:36:16Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > Pretty much the same plot as every week. Were there giant carrots in this one? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/10 "2008-11-03T19:45:51Z")
Dr. Crusher realizes she is trapped inside a warp bubble and goes toward the light to escape. What? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/11 "2008-11-03T20:01:14Z")
I was going to try but only made to about 45 seconds. It’s really bad. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/12 "2008-11-03T20:58:49Z")
I haven’t seen the episode in decades, so I’m trying to make sense of one part that I (mis?)remember. Everyone but Will and Dr. Smith have vanished, and Will is confronting Smith (or something possessing Smith, or borrowing Smith’s likeness?) in the JII’s engine core. And the Smith-creature screams to Will “I’m YOU! Thirty years from now!” If this is an accurate recollection, than WTF is going on here? This episode didn’t actually establish that Smith was a time-warped Will Robinson, did it? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/13 "2008-11-04T00:53:25Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I haven’t seen the episode in decades, so I’m trying to make sense of one part that I (mis?)remember. Everyone but Will and Dr. Smith have vanished, and Will is confronting Smith (or something possessing Smith, or borrowing Smith’s likeness?) in the JII’s engine core. And the Smith-creature screams to Will “I’m YOU! Thirty years from now!” If this is an accurate recollection, than WTF is going on here? This episode didn’t actually establish that Smith was a time-warped Will Robinson, did it? There was something like that in the movie version that came out about 10 years ago. Are you thinking of that? ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/14 "2008-11-04T01:10:57Z")
OK. I bit the bullet and watched it on hulu. I don’t know if spoilers are necessary for 60’s TV shows, but… This is LiS’s version of Forbidden Planet – the monster claims to be Will Robinson’s id. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/15 "2008-11-04T01:29:11Z")
> [@2nd\_Law](#): > > OK. I bit the bullet and watched it on hulu. I don’t know if spoilers are necessary for 60’s TV shows, but… > > This is LiS’s version of Forbidden Planet – the monster claims to be Will Robinson’s id. Ah, sort of Revenge of the Mumy, then? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/16 "2008-11-04T01:32:09Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Ah, sort of Revenge of the Mumy, then? 😃 You’ve been waiting to use that, haven’t you? ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-old-lost-in-space-episode-please/470865/17 "2008-11-04T04:33:04Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Ah, sort of Revenge of the Mumy, then? 😃 Well played, sir!