And the Trek one, natcherally.
As The Great Bird continues to whir madly in his grave.
Full trailer. The robot has been humanoidwashed.
Wow, that robot design is just horrible.
I headed to IMDB after you mentioned her and enjoyed this quote from her bio
I just realized–I’ve seen it before.
And apparently the Robot is something Will Robinson found on an alien planet instead of part of the Jupiter 2’s cargo manifest. :dubious:
So I just finished episode 1. This feels like even more of a reimagining than Battlestar Galactica was. The family dynamics are a lot different from the original series (or even the move).
I couldn’t make myself finish ep 1. I might try again since I was fairly drunk. But a lot of things irritated me. Most of which I can’t remember now.
I just finished ep 1, and it dragged a bit as they had to set up the characters and family dynamics, but it had a couple of good twists at the end. The downside is the science in this sci-fi show is laughable and the plotting is somewhat ham-fisted. I’ll give it a couple more eps and see how things go.
I binged all 10 episodes since the weather is absolutely miserable here with freezing rain.
Without spoilers, I actually enjoyed it. Parker Posey is creepy as all hell and most of the characters have flaws which makes them more real. The fact that Judy doesn’t look like the rest of the family is a bit odd, but there is an explanation!
Some of the tech appears out of date for something set 30 years from now. I expect Bluetooth headsets, not coiled mics from a 70s CB radio while the displays are all future-y looking.
I also binged it and, despite the many flaws. I enjoyed it.
[Spoiler]When they said that their fuel must be similar to the eels normal food source my first thought was that they needed to find that food source and see if it would work as fuel. In fact I was sure that that was where the writers were going.
That never happened and the fact that the thought apparently never even crossed any of the characters’ minds strikes me as dumb.[/spoiler]
Just finished watching the first two episodes…it’s okay I guess. The score is a little too over-the-top melodramatic for my tastes, and the robot has zero personality. What a letdown it was to hear it utter the show’s most famous line with such a complete lack of…I don’t know, panache, maybe? Parker Posey does make a good psychopath though.
I just binged it, and I didn’t find it that bad. Like someone said upthread, the flashbacks from Earth were some of the most interesting parts of the show. I liked how, at times, someone has a flashback to something in the past that they didn’t understand then, but now it makes sense. If there is a season 2, I will watch it.
Also, this is much closer to Irwin Allen’s original pilot that was not shown on TV until the 30th anniversary. Dr. Smith was originally an evil spy who wanted the Robinsons to fail, and it was played much more as straight Action/Adventure.
And, did anyone notice who played the real Dr. Z Smith in the first episode?
Bill Mumy!
Spoilers for all season episodes within:
[spoiler]Yeah, there’s some holes in this show. The lapses in logic and science remind me of the original show more than anything else they’ve done. I was inordinately happy when they had John and Maureen speaking in helium voices after interacting with all that helium. My bar was that low at that point.
Parker Posey has always been the woman I hated to hate. Just want her out of my shows/movies.
I hate the robot’s origins/story, but I accept the need for a redesign. The original would have looked even WORSE than what they came up with at this point in our culture. It’s a pity they couldn’t find one feature they could have lifted from the original robot as a nod to his past, but I get it. They needed to cut that tie as it was just too hokey these days - a literal 50’s-60’s sci-fi icon plopped down in the middle of modern retelling would be jarring. The more humanoid shape lets him move around easily without wondering how he got up those stairs, etc. Also, with advances in technology, that imagined form is more realistic to us than the old one, if you put aside the Mighty Morphin’ Battle Bot part, the amazing self-repair abilities, and the fact that he apparently carries around something more powerful and compact than a nuclear reactor to power him.
The actor playing John Robinson at turns reminds me of Karl Urban, John C. McGinley, and Bruce Boxleitner in looks and voice.
I didn’t care for the direction the early episodes were taking with all the survivors and the colony leader. Felt like another Battlestar Galactica in the making, and I didn’t like that after the first couple seasons. I do not crave more soap opera/political maneuvering at this point. I’m glad the colony leader wasn’t a stereotypical power-hungry dick by the end, and I’m even more glad they’re off on their own now.
The actress portraying Penny was good in her scenes with Will and Judy, I thought. She had a natural, childlike/teen quality that is sometimes missing in child actors. Well, to me. To be fair, I don’t really have a lot of interaction with that age group. I didn’t have a problem with any of the actors or casting but for Parker Posey. Don West’s re-imagining threw me at first, but he’s growing on me, as time goes on and they develop him. I’m growing to like his working-Joe persona and his quirks and his pet chicken. Also, his mechanic skills sets him apart, making him something different than just a younger John Robinson, which is how I thought of him on the original series.
The show is kind of joyless, cold, soulless. I suppose I’ll watch it again next year, but I know Dr Smith is going to be let free because of some horrible circumstance in which it can’t be avoided, and she will continue to stab them in the back every. single. time like a low-rent Loki. She’ll also show just enough humanity that they don’t print a gun and shoot her in the face. Such a stock character that it’s got to be a TV Trope, but I’m not going down that rabbit hole tonight.[/spoiler]
heres some thoughts …MSN
Molly Parker… Not Parker Posey.
We got to the water freezing scene and shut it down. Still smarting from trying to watch The Titan to the end.
Both are on the show, and Parker Posey portrayed the unstable one. . .unless you’re trying to say Molly Parker was unintentionally creepy.
You shut it down before Parker Posey’s “Dr. Smith” character appeared.
Halfway though the first episode. It’s nice to see they’re keeping up the tradition of ludicrous science set by the original.
Oh, and it’s looking less like Lost in Space and more like Ice Age 3.
Plus the fact that they seem to think the concept of hybrid corn is futuristic.
I’m willing to give bad science a pass, but not when it’s made up just as a crutch for the writers.