# Lost in Space reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295 "2018-02-21T21:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/1 "2018-02-21T21:09:54Z")
[Somehow I missed hearing about this one until now](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space_(2018_TV_series)). Looks like Who isn’t the only 60’s SF doctor who has been gender-flipped. [A teaser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwBI_NNHb8) has just come out, looks like they are going with a more serious feel. They’ll have to try really, really hard to make it suck as much as the original. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/2 "2018-02-21T21:18:10Z")
Parker Posey as Dr. Smith? I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/3 "2018-02-21T22:46:55Z")
Awesome! Can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/4 "2018-02-21T22:56:42Z")
does anyone in hollywood have an original idea? ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/5 "2018-02-21T23:19:16Z")
Is it going to have pet Space Monkey? It just won’t be Lost In Space if there is no Space Monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/6 "2018-02-21T23:19:40Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > does anyone in hollywood have an original idea? Sure. I’ll focus on TV shows: The O.A. Bojack Horseman The Leftovers(though this was a book, most of it was original) Black Mirror The Good Place Rick and Morty Stranger Things(OK, this one is heavily inspired from other things, but still new) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/7 "2018-02-21T23:32:03Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > They’ll have to try really, really hard to make it suck as much as the original. Did you not see the movie? I don’t think it takes any effort to suck. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/8 "2018-02-21T23:56:41Z")
I read the OP as “Lost in Space robot” and got all excited there for a minute. Now I have to go change my pants. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/9 "2018-02-22T00:00:47Z")
(Also, how do you do a **Lost in Space** trailer without including either Dr. Smith or the Robot? Why do they think the original fans were watching it…for the awesome thespian talents of Guy Williams and June Lockhart?) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/10 "2018-02-22T00:07:37Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > (Also, how do you do a **Lost in Space** trailer without including either Dr. Smith or the Robot? Why do they think the original fans were watching it…for the awesome thespian talents of Guy Williams and June Lockhart?) Apparently Guy Williams thought so :D. Rumor was he was not so pleased at being quickly upstaged as the heroic pater familias by a tween kid, a guy in a robot suit and an a very _affected_ older fellow playing a pathological coward. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/11 "2018-02-22T01:26:00Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > (Also, how do you do a **Lost in Space** trailer without including either Dr. Smith or the Robot? Why do they think the original fans were watching it…for the awesome thespian talents of Guy Williams and June Lockhart?) Some of us (of the appropriate age) watched it for Angela Cartwright. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/12 "2018-02-22T01:26:26Z")
Both were there. Dr. Smith was the blonde woman, and the scratchy voice at the end was (I assume) the robot. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/13 "2018-02-22T01:39:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Both were there. Dr. Smith was the blonde woman, and the scratchy voice at the end was (I assume) the robot. The voice was definitely the robot, but the blonde woman was Dr Maureen Robinson, not Dr (Zelda?) Smith. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/14 "2018-02-22T01:43:07Z")
I have only seen a few of the original episodes, though probably a few episodes in total in clips. I got the movie free with my DVD player. It was not good. Since it won’t cost me more than not watching I will give it a shot. Brian ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/15 "2018-02-22T03:08:38Z")
Bloop! Bloop! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/16 "2018-02-22T03:21:49Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [A teaser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwBI_NNHb8) has just come out,… Was I the only one thinking “those kids are gonna outgrow those spacesuits.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/17 "2018-02-22T05:28:58Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > does anyone in hollywood have an original idea? I say the same thing a lot, but in truth there are hundreds of original movies and TV shows that come out each year and don’t do very well, despite critical acclaim. Familiarity provides a built-in audience at a minimum, and that’s a lucrative thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/18 "2018-02-22T11:29:02Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Some of us (of the appropriate age) watched it for Angela Cartwright. Others watched it for Marta Kristen. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/19 "2018-02-22T11:42:36Z")
I am so going to watch this! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295/20 "2018-02-22T11:42:56Z")
Probably a few watched it for Bill Mumy. (Danger! Danger Will Robinson!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-in-space-reboot/809295.md?page=2)