DBSnappa wrote:
Sir Taxalot wrote:
I'm quite enjoying Lost in Space, I think it's a pretty good re-imagining of the original series, which I have fond memories of.
The new robot design is cool. And in a sign of my aging and possibly the changing times, I find the mum character to be far more... ahem... visually appealing than any of the other characters.
Let me know how it finishes will you? I got really pissed off with the old plot mechanic where all the jeopardy relies on the cast being really fucking stupid and blind to the nefarious characters actions. I stopped at ep7 I think. How did they resolve the storyline with the robot?
Yes, and it got a lot worse with stupid decisions being made (and improbable rescues! - no one from the Robinson family gon' die).
Let me see... I can't remember which episode was which really so I'll summarise in a brief and slightly moronic way.
The crashed Jupiters
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All got back into space to meet up with the mothership, powered by some alien cave poo poo that they turned into fuel in a few hours
The robot
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Came back under Dr Smith's control and was kinda menacing. It put the beat down on the Robinsons and then at the last minute before delivering a killer blow it remembered it was friends with Will and just chilled. Then it fought with another robot that appeared OUT OF NOWHERE and they both got sucked into space. I suspect he will somehow return
The Robinson family
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had a few near misses in orbit. Dad floated away for a bit, then he got saved just before he ran out of air, and then he saved Will who had also managed to float away a little bit too.
In the middle of all this, in a series of Lost style flashbacks, it is revealed that the mothership had some SEKRIT alien technology on it and that's probably why the robot came in and trashed it in the very first place.
Then, wrapping up, just as the Jupiter 2 was about to meet up with the mothership AT THE LAST SECOND JUST BEFORE THE MOTHERSHIP WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE ORBIT, the magic space drive from the robot's crashed ship (snuck aboard the Jupiter 2 by Dr Smith), came to life and warped the Jupiter 2 and the classic-series characters (so the family + Don and Dr Smith) to some far far away place where now they are truly in some shit (not really, they'll survive).
I'll probably watch the next series though, just to see what other scrapes they get into through their own fuckwittery and miraculously escape from.