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I am finding myself getting a little frustrated that every character is unable to communicate essential information effectively, everyone is lying about something, constantly.
It sort of feels like the show runners hired some reality TV script writers to fill in the spaces around the major beats.
Yah. Poor communication is an easy way to add drama and tension. It's one of my annoyances in a lot of stories.
If you can look past it here, there is some interesting stuff.
Over all, the series is perfectly fine. Nothing great, or terrible.
I don’t think I even finished the first season. The show frustrated the hell out of me.
Yeah... we are in space! We are on a new planet! Everything is new and fascinating. Why are we spending 80% of the screen time on somebodies sisterhood jealousy issues?
Like if hunt for red october was all about the frustrated love life of the command staff's distant shore families
That stupid robot forgets how to talk as soon as it matters
Still glad they didn't cancel it prematurely....
Didn't like it. Didn't hate it.
It was basically unremarkable in every way. Not bad, but not good either. Like much of Netflix's fare, it's basically average right across the board.
Wait wait wait. Season 2 Episode 2
The swiss family robinson take a 100m fall over a waterfall into knee high water... and live.
That is some really soft plot armor.
Season 3 - Plot
Ahh, alien race makes AI machines, machines kill their masters
The big twist this time is now the AI are on a no-masters abolitionist kick, they cannot suffer a AI to be controlled. That explains why they keep coming to free their kin.
I knew the humans using enslaved AI to control the engine was the "evil" arc, but I didn't realize we were setting up ROBOT as a uncle tom stockholm syndrome victim.
FWIW - The AI abolitionists seem to leave other species alone, they left the old explorer ship alone after scanning the crew. They only seem to get involved when their own people are enslaved.
Pet Peeve - The big mcguffin in the final episode is the FTL engine can blow up planets if started in the gravity well, and they may well be true. But any FTL civilization can destroy planets kinetically fairly trivially. For the Lost In Space abolitionists they simply need to jump to some place with some asteroid that has a huge relative delta-v vs the target planet, then portal that rock into a extremely high delta-v collision with a planet... no muss no fuss.
Planet We Never Bothered To Name.... is a good name for a planet.
Hot Take - Dr Smith is actually a less punchable character then Kai Wynn
I'd rather be stuck on a space station with Dr. Smith
Season 3 is just a exercise in poor decision making. What is the best way to achieve our goal? We can't do that because of FAMILY!!! again, and again, and again.
Comparing this to season 3 of "Colony" the family drama is high in both, I would say Colony could execute plans better, where was Lost In Space is literally trapped by family. It's literal D&D style side-quests. Oh, we have to cross this large room with no threats, or obstacles, to achieve our goals and be forever happy? I wonder what could go wrong
Gambling isn't a problem, if you don't lose. hahaha