Lost in Space

Halfway through and it's a slog. I'll probably get around to watching the rest of it at some point but it's just so mediocre and not terribly engaging. I really wish they'd decide if they want it to be grim or campy.

on ep5 now.

in regards to the guns. I just have no idea. went out to eat with my brother and his wife, they binged watched it, and brought up the gun issue and grim vs campy issue himself without any prompting.

Mom is anti-gun for dumb reasons. Other Jupiter landers are intact and have replicators. none of THEM build a gun for some fucking reason, up to this point. Which, again, guns in space, ok. bad idea. Guns on alien planet? yes. fucking yes..

Lost in space is a "swiss family Robinson" remake in space. not a secret.
THIS version of it, takes that and... ""The iron giant". The robot in this is the iron giant. which itself has something to say about guns.

so here we are in episode 5, when two alien monsters come to camp. And Will needs to tell the Iron giant, that no, Iron giant, are not superman, you are in fact a gun, so shoot those alien monsters in the head with your laser cannons.
I have no idea what this shows stance on guns are. I don't think they do either. I have to think, any anti-gun messaging, etc, is not actually intentional. they just needed a plot excuse for guns to not solve a shit load of problems.

Mom is anti-gun for dumb reasons. Other Jupiter landers are intact and have replicators. none of THEM build a gun for some fucking reason, up to this point. Which, again, guns in space, ok. bad idea. Guns on alien planet? yes. fucking yes..

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The show established why they couldn't build a gun normally with the printers. The expedition/colony government put restrictions on what was allowed to be printed with them. They demonstrated this with the father tried to use his own personal schematic to have the printer make a gun and it rejected the schematic because it didn't have approval from the people in charge. The robot was able to make the gun because presumably leet alien hax0r tech > human computer restrictions.

Unless that Victor guy had the clearance, then they were fucked. The ship in orbit couldn't communicate with them properly, so if one of them had authorization, they couldn't relay it to the people on the ground. And if it rested with the people at the colony in Alpha Centauri, then they really couldn't do anything about it since they aren't even in the Milky Way. Short of someone being an ultra hacker and being able to bypass the restrictions, they didn't have much choice in the matter.

As for why are there restrictions? Who knows, the show doesn't get into it (like has been pointed out, it creates more danger for the colonists and thus more drama), but my pet theory is given the super conspiratorial element hinted at the end, why would you want your civilian population to have weapons? My theory

End of episode 8 made me want to punch my TV.

Only watched the first.episode and it was fucking terrible. Hoping it gets better.

Most of the show was just kind of a "so-so". Few tear jerkers here and there. The last few episodes really started to ramp up and be interesting. I wished that the rest of the season was similar to that. I strangely enough think that season 2 will be better than season 1, which is odd. Just feels like they were just putting their feet in the water with season 1 before they drop any real cash on it.

The political vibes for the guns and violence were bleeding through loud and clear though. But yet, you can also make the comparison to the...


I think the show is very watchable.. just wish the agenda's werent so easy to see.

lol, you're fucking reaching on that one in the spoiler

You guys have made more about the no guns thing than the show did.

Harshaw said:

You guys have made more about the no guns thing than the show did.

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Yeah, it seems kind of silly. From a space travel thing, it makes sense to not allow them at all. Not allowing them after crashing on an alien planet seems a bit fucking stupid though. There would have to be some sort of emergency override protocol that would allow it.

On episode 4 now. Really enjoying the series. Not super familiar with the original; only caught a few episodes here and there.

Ladro said:

Yeah, it seems kind of silly. From a space travel thing, it makes sense to not allow them at all. Not allowing them after crashing on an alien planet seems a bit fucking stupid though. There would have to be some sort of emergency override protocol that would allow it.

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I hand-waved it away as the military leader on the ship having the ability to override it and that their lack of communication prevented it from being done. That or the Indian Colony Leader should have had the ability to do so and I would have the second giant murder lizards showed up.

Rime said:

I hand-waved it away as the military leader on the ship having the ability to override it and that their lack of communication prevented it from being done. That or the Indian Colony Leader should have had the ability to do so and I would have the second giant murder lizards showed up.

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Same here. I just assumed, since it was never really brought up again, that they needed military authorization from the Resolute.

Finished this up. Have to agree, the last couple of episodes are redeeming and worth the others. The last scene definitely sets up season 2 very nicely; I’m in and will watch the next one. The production value alone was worth watching this in 4K HDR, hopefully they have the same budget or more going forward.

Couple things...

I finished this off the other night. Really didn't care for it. The entire season is an origins story and the only way I could make it through it was to completely fast forward through every scene with "Dr Smith"
Maybe now that they're done with that they can make an actual Lost in Space series.

Ladro said:

Halfway through and Parker Posey's character is getting tedious.

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Worst part of the show for me, awful character and acting. What a terrible cast choice.

Even the kid's have their moments, Smith is just awful in every way.

Zapatta said:

Meh Capt Flynt is a fucking 1 trick pony even playing a father all he does pirate scowl face.

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He does it well though.

Caliane said:

on ep5 now.

in regards to the guns. I just have no idea. went out to eat with my brother and his wife, they binged watched it, and brought up the gun issue and grim vs campy issue himself without any prompting.

Mom is anti-gun for dumb reasons. Other Jupiter landers are intact and have replicators. none of THEM build a gun for some fucking reason, up to this point. Which, again, guns in space, ok. bad idea. Guns on alien planet? yes. fucking yes..

Lost in space is a "swiss family Robinson" remake in space. not a secret.
THIS version of it, takes that and... ""The iron giant". The robot in this is the iron giant. which itself has something to say about guns.

so here we are in episode 5, when two alien monsters come to camp. And Will needs to tell the Iron giant, that no, Iron giant, are not superman, you are in fact a gun, so shoot those alien monsters in the head with your laser cannons.
I have no idea what this shows stance on guns are. I don't think they do either. I have to think, any anti-gun messaging, etc, is not actually intentional. they just needed a plot excuse for guns to not solve a shit load of problems.

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I can sort of understand it given the shithole that apparently the earth turned into and a number of wide ranging conflits. I can sort of see somebody adverse to having weapons but what is fine for a known colony world that is already settled should not be applied to unknown environment you crashed into. Even if you dislike weaponry they should have still made some for dealing with large predators if nothing else.

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