I happened to catch this the other day while I was looking at something different. This was one of my favorite shows as a kid, and the only show my parents let me stay up for. I wanted to be Penny and marry Will.
I can't wait!
Pershaps you can shed light on the original story for those of us slightly younger and missed the appeal, please? Honestly.
The movie that debuted last decade with that Matt guy from "Friends" TV show wasn't too bad how it started out. I think it was lame those little space roaches where the biggest issue and that annoying kid with the cool parachute pants remote controlled a very HORRIBLE old robot design. I'm just thankful this is not a earth like designed robot with some sort of garbage AI.
IF they sell the robot as an alien intelligence - not an alien sent AI they'll have something good. But some AI will just kill the appeal ... for me to be honest. The more interesting part is how deeper into the 'evolved' human psyche will be explored (I'm hoping for advances that BSG did vs the original runs of BattleStar Galactica when I was young).
Pershaps you can shed light on the original story for those of us slightly younger and missed the appeal, please? Honestly.
The movie that debuted last decade with that Matt guy from "Friends" TV show wasn't too bad how it started out. I think it was lame those little space roaches where the biggest issue and that annoying kid with the cool parachute pants remote controlled a very HORRIBLE old robot design. I'm just thankful this is not a earth like designed robot with some sort of garbage AI.
IF they sell the robot as an alien intelligence - not an alien sent AI they'll have something good. But some AI will just kill the appeal ... for me to be honest. The more interesting part is how deeper into the 'evolved' human psyche will be explored (I'm hoping for advances that BSG did vs the original runs of BattleStar Galactica when I was young).
@AlliFlowers already answered, and she touched on an important point: you really have to think about it in the context of when it was made. The show premiered in 1965, 4 years before we landed on the moon, the Jupiter 2 was supposed to have launched in 1997 (21 years ago ...)
It speculated on space exploration, computers, robotics (and AI), alien life which were all so unknown at the time, and put it into an identifiable family package with simple plots. Obv. we're still in the dark in 2018 about much of the same, but we've become so much more educated and exposed to things like space flight, computers, etc.
The first season was way more serious, it was also B&W which gave it (even today) a generally darker, scarier tone (and helped to cover some of the - by today's standards - budget F/X).
And yes, the true level of “Dr. Smith”’s sociopathy is emerging...and she’s a ****ing lunatic.
I just finished watching the first 2 episodes as well, and I echo the above.
My first impression of episode 1 was, dang I hope episode 2 tells a story and not one crisis after another.
I like the characters ok so far, and I still have hope it will improve in the story telling.
I want to be invested in the characters and their relationships and the dynamic of being, well, lost in space.
I too, remember the original well, and while I don't think they need to adhere strictly to the story, I do want a story.
I'm hoping episode 3 brings things together with the backstory and the current drama.
People making constantly bad decisions...one after another
Zero communication skills...skills that would have mitigated a LOT of problems
I hope episode 2 tells a story and not one crisis after another.
So I just finished the first season, and here are my thoughts:
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Irwin Allen also produced the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" about the same time. It was also black and white in the first seasons and was much more serious and dark. An interesting trivia is that the two shows shared some costumes and equipment while they were filming.
First episode almost “lost” me at the scene when the mother just suddenly stated “this is unlike any other planet we’ve seen” after glancing at a laptop for 5 seconds. I’m like ‘you guys just crash landed on this planet for mins’ how can you know anything about this planet to make such an assumption?!?
Hahaha, well, that's extraordinarily nit pickyMaybe the instrumentation running in the ship collected and synced data to their computers - and the latter built a simple model of the planet with a few key attributes that allows a simple, high level comparison vs. known planets.
If you get into _that_ much scrutiny you won't be able to enjoy anything outside of documentaries (and maybe not even those)!![]()
I'm not sure he was being nit picky. My take was that he didn't feel the acting was realistic in that they were not too concerned with what was around them.
Hmm, I don't know what the actual intent was (maybe it's what you're suggesting ...), but clearly, the part of the post I quoted doesn't sound like assessment of the acting, but like an analysis of the validity (in the context of the show's science) of assessing the attributes of a planet they just landed on[?]
So I just finished the first season, and here are my thoughts:
For those who haven't seen it yet or only saw a few episodes...the series as a whole can be described as a hybrid of Lost (the ABC show), "The Martian", 24 and The X Files.
While the plot is not totally implausible, the writers inflict an almost sadistic number of disasters on the Robinsons. Imagine experiencing all the perils from the Indiana Jones movies, at twice the intensity, consecutively. Yeah, it's like that.
- Lost, because it features a large number of castaways and the interaction between them.
- "The Martian", because to survive they jury-rig more things than McGuyver. There's even a variation on Matt Damon's $#!+ potatoes.
- 24, because the writers just pile crises on top of crises. This makes for very intense, riveting episodes, but honestly, it is exhausting. These people don't get any downtime because they're in mortal peril virtually every minute.
- The X Files, because there's some sort of conspiracy here. I won't be a spoiler and say what it's about.
The good part is that the character moments are wonderful. There's a moment between John and Maureen at the end of episode 7 that's actually hilarious and serves as a tension release.
Don is one of my favorite characters. He's that "charming rogue" kind of guy. Penny is the best comedy relief in the show and gets the best one-liners. And I already mentioned Maxwell Jenkins as Will.
Hahaha, well, that's extraordinarily nit pickyMaybe the instrumentation running in the ship collected and synced data to their computers - and the latter built a simple model of the planet with a few key attributes that allows a simple, high level comparison vs. known planets.
If you get into _that_ much scrutiny you won't be able to enjoy anything outside of documentaries (and maybe not even those)!![]()
You’re quite welcome.This is as good of a review as you'll read anywhere, it's just spot on. Thanks for getting my thoughts into a post![]()