Netflix Lost in Space, season 1, sucks.. BIGTIME..

Having grown up steeped in, and adoring, the magical, Shakespearean, tongue-in-cheek, brilliance, of the original Trek and Lost In Space, both scripted by some of the best in science fiction writers of that era, I eagerly awaited the Netflix reboot. After all, Netflix has done some pretty good sci fi, right..?

Yeah.. Not this time..

The show starts out great (with one MAJOR red flag – see detail below) but it then gets worse with every episode. I'm on episode 7 and can barely watch it because the script is nothing but a continuous series of ridiculously contrived 'emergency' 'race against time' moments interspersed with absurdly cartoonish angst-ridden human 'impossible choice' dilemmas designed only to artificially manipulate the story line and emotions to amplify cheap melodrama, instead of creating real drama.

For example: The Robot as 'Old Yeller'..?

Really?

They also did: Ship is about to fall off a cliff after crash landing (twice). Quicksand (in this case quick-tar). Crew member gets pinned under heavy object (several times). The space tether launched to rescue the two men trapped in orbit can't reach them by three feet. Fuel is about to run out (or vehicle is malfunctioning) making it impossible for us to reach the mother ship or home base before we get killed by something (several times). And so on..

Why don't they make the show more clear to everyone by simply renaming it "Lame, Tired-Ass Clichés In Space".

I'm not going to watch the next season if it is like this.

If I had been much wiser I would have taken the one really ridiculous moment in the first episode (a huge water lake almost instantly freezing into solid ice around one of the main characters) as my warning sign not to watch this idiotic program.

I'm so pissed off by this nonsense that I literally just paused streaming the episode to stop and write this review on their page.

God forbid they should create well written meaningful stories like the original scripts in the 60s (which were very similar to Twilight Zone scripts) for a show with this budget.

So massively disappointed.

UPDATE - It became profoundly worse..

I just finished watching the whole thing - mainly by skipping through all of the constant lame bs with the 5-seconds-forward function, so that I could just see the conclusion.

If you haven't started watching it, don't.

It just keeps getting worse and worse until the end; an end in which one of the plots is that: a bunch of space farers stranded on a planet literally transform (in less than 24 hours) enough dinosaur shit from a cave into fuel, such that their ships can launch in time to catch a mothership which is about to leave without them. The entire show really is that frigging asinine.

It is one of the stupidest, most infuriating wastes of 10 hours of my life (minus about 1.5 hours thanks to fast forwarding) I have ever had to sit through.

Netflix should be forced into bankruptcy for creating this utter pile of trash.

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Eric Brooks is a grassroots environmental and social justice organizer with a background in journalism, ecology, energy and climate, music, and live theatre acting. He is an avid speculative fiction fan and writer, grew up in the desert mountains of California and the woods of the midwest, is currently cooking up plans for humans going to the stars, and lives in San Francisco.

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