Impact
- Episode aired Apr 13, 2018
- TV-PG
- 1h 4m
On the way to a space colony, a crisis sends the Robinsons hurtling towards an unfamiliar planet, where they struggle to survive a harrowing night.On the way to a space colony, a crisis sends the Robinsons hurtling towards an unfamiliar planet, where they struggle to survive a harrowing night.On the way to a space colony, a crisis sends the Robinsons hurtling towards an unfamiliar planet, where they struggle to survive a harrowing night.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDon West's chicken Debbie is named after Penny's space chimp (alternately called "Bloop") in Lost in Space (1965).
- GoofsEverything about the temperature around the lake makes no sense. The speed the water freezes when Judy is in the ship suggests a source of EXTREME cold beneath the floor of the lake. Nothing natural could do this underground without breaking the first law of thermodynamics. The lake should freeze from the top down and at a much slower rate. Also, whatever caused such a rapid freeze would also drop the air temperature above it to where you could not have exposed skin for more than a few seconds without issues and minutes without frostbite. Rain would be completely impossible and even snow highly unlikely at those temperatures.
- Quotes
Penny Robinson: I know we're not doing secret Santa this year, but I want to get a gift for Dad in case he shows up... he's done it before.
Maureen Robinson: I just don't want you to be disappointed again.
Penny Robinson: Well, it's a good thing I've got thick skin.
Maureen Robinson: You shouldn't have to have thick skin.
Penny Robinson: He's been in the worst of it for two years. Mom, he's made sacrifices. So should we.
- SoundtracksDrift Away
played by Dobie Gray.
In this version, the Robinson family consist of patriarch John Robinson (Toby Stephens), who appears to have been in the special ops of the Army, prior to his family's enrolment in the pioneering space colonisation programme. His wife Maureen (Molly Parker ) is a scientist involved in spaceflight programme and their three kids Will (Maxwell Jenkins) and older sisters Judy (Taylor Russell) and Penny (Mina Sundwall). This first episode focuses mostly on the family, as they crash land on an icy planet following the destruction of their mothership.
Via flashbacks we get some more backstory both regarding the mysterious asteroid impact that has seemingly damaged the Earth's atmosphere to the point that the human race had decided to leave and the more personal issues, John and Maureen's marriage is/was failing and that Will was deemed unsuitable for the mission, but that this was changed to allow them to go. Not explained is the animosity between Judy and her (presumably adopted) father.
It's an expensive looking show and the effects are really good. Particularly the scenes involving the robot towards the end. The kids though, aren't great, particularly Will. I appreciate that his seizing up under pressure is a character flaw that is a key to the show, but it's none the less annoying when it happens for the third time in the first 45 minutes. There's time for them to grow into their roles though. The science is sometimes a bit questionable and times and distances portrayed not always super realistic.
I like the idea of Parker Posey playing "Dr. Smith" but we don't see enough of the character in this episode to get any appreciation of how she's going to portray her.
As I said, it's not a great opening episode but enough to make me give it another shot.
- southdavid
- May 2, 2018
Details
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1