1-- Special effects: Really Good. And yeah, you have to ignore the hand-wavium of little details like Fuel and Do they or Don't they have Artificial Gravity.
2-- Story Line is basically a retread of the old 60's version. Earth is choking so these Space Pioneers are off to re-settle a new world...except now it's a whole FLEET of Jupiter's. (To be honest, sending ONE Nuclear Family off to colonize a planet was kinda dumb!)
3-- John Robinson is now the bumbler but stalwart when needed. Maureen is the no-nonsense cracker-jack smarts of the Family. Penny is now a regular pre/post-teen figuring her place in the world. Judy is the capable, skilled young adult.... and Will Robinson is now just an incredibly ANNOYING KID.
4-- But Dr SMITH is the Diamond of the bunch. In actuality Parker Posey is playing Dr Smith the way the ORIGINAL Series had THOUGHT the character was to be played...except back then Dr Smith was coming from the angle of being a subversive spy/collaborator from a Soviet-like power. Ms Posey's Smith is a sociopathic conniving survivor. She's utterly Believable. You DO NOT LIKE HER. But just like in the old 60's series-- Half of my watching the show is to see WHAT IS DR SMITH DOING NOW?
And unlike the 60's series that went camp-idiculous... this series stays on the edgy side of drama.
A number of people are ragging this show for various reasons...but principally, I see a show that has been calibrated to remain 'Family-Friendly'. Thus there's a lot more 'Talking Thru' and 'Threshing out of feelings' than Sci-Fi viewers want to be sitting thru. And I do agree, I think the show dials the Robinsons Interconnectedness stuff up to 11 too many times.
Okay. We get it. They're a Family. They Love each Other. Nobody else comes between them. Robinsons Together. Forever. And Will Robinson is Button Cute. And everyone worries about him. Especially the Robot/Creature. Oh...Gag!
Thus, everything centering around Will Robinson and the Robot/Creature, instead of the expected non-stop ZAP-BREEEP-Sha-BOOOOM lightshow some folks may have been pining for.
All that said-- This Will Robinson Annoys the heck out of me. Thankfully, I can just Fast-Forward thru the drecky, Touchy-Feely-The Robinson-Family-Is-All dialogue
2-- Story Line is basically a retread of the old 60's version. Earth is choking so these Space Pioneers are off to re-settle a new world...except now it's a whole FLEET of Jupiter's. (To be honest, sending ONE Nuclear Family off to colonize a planet was kinda dumb!)
3-- John Robinson is now the bumbler but stalwart when needed. Maureen is the no-nonsense cracker-jack smarts of the Family. Penny is now a regular pre/post-teen figuring her place in the world. Judy is the capable, skilled young adult.... and Will Robinson is now just an incredibly ANNOYING KID.
4-- But Dr SMITH is the Diamond of the bunch. In actuality Parker Posey is playing Dr Smith the way the ORIGINAL Series had THOUGHT the character was to be played...except back then Dr Smith was coming from the angle of being a subversive spy/collaborator from a Soviet-like power. Ms Posey's Smith is a sociopathic conniving survivor. She's utterly Believable. You DO NOT LIKE HER. But just like in the old 60's series-- Half of my watching the show is to see WHAT IS DR SMITH DOING NOW?
And unlike the 60's series that went camp-idiculous... this series stays on the edgy side of drama.
A number of people are ragging this show for various reasons...but principally, I see a show that has been calibrated to remain 'Family-Friendly'. Thus there's a lot more 'Talking Thru' and 'Threshing out of feelings' than Sci-Fi viewers want to be sitting thru. And I do agree, I think the show dials the Robinsons Interconnectedness stuff up to 11 too many times.
Okay. We get it. They're a Family. They Love each Other. Nobody else comes between them. Robinsons Together. Forever. And Will Robinson is Button Cute. And everyone worries about him. Especially the Robot/Creature. Oh...Gag!
Thus, everything centering around Will Robinson and the Robot/Creature, instead of the expected non-stop ZAP-BREEEP-Sha-BOOOOM lightshow some folks may have been pining for.
All that said-- This Will Robinson Annoys the heck out of me. Thankfully, I can just Fast-Forward thru the drecky, Touchy-Feely-The Robinson-Family-Is-All dialogue