Original Judy Robinson was played by the Scandinavian Marta Kristen...
“Fans of the original show should know we maintain the core of what was special about that experience of watching that as a child...”
Somehow, I don’t remember Judy being black or Dr. Smith being a female or Major West being hispanic.
I guess we should feel lucky the Robot isn’t transgender... or maybe I’m presuming too much.
Diversity will be Lost In Space
I’ll keep an open mind. I’m just glad that Netflix isn’t insisting on token lgbt.
Original Judy Robinson was played by the Scandinavian Marta Kristen...
Can I scream “cultural appropriation”? I’m a white male, and I feel like they are stealing an important part of my childhood by turning a title, plot, and characters I grew up with into something I don’t recognize. It should not be allowed. /sarc
Actually I have to laugh because a group of “diversity-oriented entertainers” can’t beat what old white men did 50 years ago, so they have to appropriate the content rather than produce good original ideas (which they must not have). Seems like those old white men who made the original should be proud, not offended that their ideas are being appropriated by lesser minds.
From the trailer, it looks like the expedition was originally supposed to involve a large number of colonists in a very large starship, composed of a bunch of modules, one per family. There is some sort of event damaging the starship, and the Robinsons’ module/landing-pod makes it out and lands on a nearby planet, where they are marooned.
This makes a bit more sense than being “lost” in space, while having a starship which manages to wind up at a new star system every week.
Similarities: Lost in Space & Gilligan’s Island
1. Gilligan’s Island & Lost in Space both ran for 3 seasons.
2. Both had 1 B&W season & 2 color seasons
3. Both were from the mid 1960’s
4. Both were on CBS
5. Both were about 7 stranded castaways.
6. Both had 4 male characters, 3 female characters.
7. Both had 1 married couple
8. Both had a character with the title “Professor”
9. Both had visits from other “Wanderers” potential rescuers that never panned out.
10. Both series ended without resolution.
11. Both series were cancelled even though their ratings were pretty good.
12. Both were critically panned but had a devoted fan-base.
13. Both appealed to children.
14. Both varied their opening themes/Visual openings.
15. Each had a character who constantly messed things up.
16. Both series had a pilot episode which wasn’t seen by the public until the 1990’s.
17. Both pilots had footage used in early episodes but needed to be matched carefully due to some different characters.
Some episode similarities:
1. Both had at least 3 stories (in which at least 3 main characters) had exact look-a likes.
2. Both had an episode in which a robot was found in thick brush each robot turned out to be functional.
3. Both had an appearance of then child actor Kurt Russel. (Also Struther Martin was in both)
4. Both had early (first 6 or 7) episodes which had to run in sequence to make sense.
5. Both had an episode with this very similar sequence:
A) Lost in Space with a wish machine. Dr Smith wishes for a complete Jupeter 2 so everyone may go back home - Although the wish is granted, it turns out that the new Jupiter 2 is less the two feet in diameter, and therefore useless as transportation.
B) Gilligan’s Island with the robot. The robot is instructed to build a complete boat so that everyone may go home - Although the robot builds the boat, it’s less then 2 feet long and therefore useless as transportation.
6) Both had an episode where two characters left, and wound up in an unknown location only to discover, they were in fact in a different part of the same location and thus, still stranded.
http://lostinspaceforum.proboards.com/thread/1287/similarities-lost-space-gilligans-island
I can see a female Dr. Smith.
West should have beat up Zachary Smith at the end of every episode. A female antagonist should be able to get away with such.
The original “Lost in Space” started out as a serious big budget sci-fi series, but morphed to compete with “Batman” into a sort of other-world sitcom.
No.
The women were prettier in the original. Dr Smith is a man and not a women. The robot is different too. The trailer shows scenes similar to what was in the bad movie that was made before. If not for the title I would say the trailer looks good.
Why does Hollywood take a show we like and screw it up with some update that does not fit?
Is Netflix worth the subscription?
Another show that, instead of going for originality, attempts to hijack an already existing fan base and spitting on them by calling it a “contemporary” remake.
Looks awesome. I grew up on the original show. The movie was rancid tripe. This looks fabulous. I will probably wait until season 4 and then binge it. Since everything I love gets cancelled, this will probably not make it to Season 2.
Looks really good.
I’ll tune in, to see.
Here’s a clickable link to the youtube trailer....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzmM0AB60QQ
In the original Series first Season, the Robot was a threat because Dr. Smith had reprogrammed it to destroy the Robinsons. Later it would only obey him.
As the Show got more cartoonish in its later Seasons, the Robot became a cast character with a personality.
As an aside, I was watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on MeTV. One of the first season shows featured an Alien Spaceship that crashed into the Ocean.
It was the same Spaceship used in The Day The Earth Stood Still with a couple of modifications and lights put on the original flat bottom. I always thought it was the coolest Flying Saucer and of course Gort was the coolest Robot.
They even used the first scenes from the Movie showing the glowing Spaceship flying over D.C. I guess the Special Effects budget wasn’t that big. LOL
As LIS and VTTBOTS continued into later Seasons, you would see the same silly Aliens, Props and Sets used on both.
Looks good Simon, Thanks
The trailer looks pretty good......Anybody here have Netflex and is it worth the subscription?
I have watched the first three episodes.
So far interesting.
Observations:
A. Mary Parker is a little over the top as the Mother and Chief Scientist. She henpecks her Military husband to the point of not even allowing any kind of weapon on board their ship.
B. The multiracial component is okay, although the 18 year old as a doctor is a real stretch.
C. The new robot is sure not the old Robby the Robot but certainly more interesting and lethal.
D. Parker Posey as the sociopath Dr. Smith is different. She has some hard mile son her, I remember when she was a real ingenue.
I am going to stick with it.