User Reviews

How do trees grow so tall and thick and only have one ring of aging cycle? Ialso dont understand how scientists that are supposedly so intelligent wouldnt want to tell the leaders of the expedition that the planet is dying when they are planning on settling down (before they went to look for the fuel). Smiths character i know is supposed to be unlikable but she is also very annoying. It feels like they try to throw in these plot twists when they really arent necessary. It makes no sense that Vijay would keep one of the biggest secrets of all time because he was embarrassed of a poem he wrote. To impress a girl he never even met before??? At least Don found that picture. "badass princess" might be the best piece of writing in this episode. The robot broke apart like it was a mr potato head figure. Based on how resilient its been so far doesnt make sense either.

...but in this episode, I just want to know what Naoko said to Dom! Anyone out there who can translate the Japanese? "Naoko: {SPEAKS IN JAPANESE}" is such a bogus caption. We've seen her speaking English; obviously she's trash-talking Dom somehow.

Knowing what she overheard Penny plans a romantic hike that doesn't go as planned. Anglea is sickened that the Robot that killed her husband is part of the team. She finds a gun with a little help from Dr Smith still up to her manipulation. Robot gives Will a high-5 while Don and Judy with others retrieve rocket fuel from desert. Emotional episode for several reasons. Enjoy.

This was probably the worst episode of the series so far, certainly the one I was most distracted when watching. Ironically, it does have a game changing revelation at the start and an end that presumably will have to be undone in the remaining four episodes, or else the show really isn't "Lost In Space" anymore.

Anyway, the episode opens with Maureen telling John what her revelation from the last episode was. There is a black hole in the solar system that is going to destroy all life on the planet within the next few weeks. She and John then struggle to decide whether to share this information with the rest of the group. The group have two other items on their agenda though, what to do about the Robot and whether they should head for the ship that Don crashed in, to salvage the fuel and get off the planet. Meanwhile "Dr Smith" continues to probe various members of the group looking for weaknesses to exploit, for whatever end she ultimately has.

Despite peaks at either end a great lull in the middle dragged this episode down for me. The debate over the fate of the robot felt pointless, as there's nothing they could do to it, regardless of what they decided. Only Will is able to assert any influence over it, as we saw at the end - whilst we're discussing it, sad as though it was, couldn't he just have returned the robot to the cave - as per the plan for last week. The fuel mission also left me cold, maybe that it was mostly made up of characters that haven't really been introduced yet, or I don't like - like the ineffectual leader Victor. Judy seemed to be going on the trip for no particular reason, given that she's the most effective doctor they have it would have made more sense for her to stay with the larger group and I really don't want to see her relationship with Don go any further than friends.

Again, there's another large questionable science part to this. If the black hole has previously destroyed all life on the planet, so much so that the trees are only one year old, how come it's managed to evolve enough that there are complex life forms like the bear/bore/tiger things from last week's episode. (Even accounting for a much longer "year" than Earth's, we're still talking thousands of years of evolution to get to that point). Also, and I know this is pedantic, but in my defence the show made a big deal out of it, the rocks where Don's ship crashed were supposed to be razor sharp and they needed to swap boots to cross it. . . yet in this episode he crawls over the cliff edge with no cuts or grazes, or even damaged to his clothes.

The series is starting to feel like a show without a controlling voice ironing out the story kinks and more like a bunch of different writers working to their own visions. I'm persevering, but I'd like an improvement soon.

While the show started promising episode after episode things starting to get silly. Dr. Smith is doing random conspiracy moves and.... well... by a magic hand all is going as planned even though the probable outcome should be much different. Everyone else seems plain stupid. Lets change the scene magically where angry crippled, lady dad and robot are in line so we can prepare for the next scene where dad gets hurt. Let me put myself between an angry 500kg robot and its target. What could go wrong. Hey robot is protecting itself and the family. I should command it to its death. And what is that black hole physics? I do not expect real physics but writers should consider hiring an astrophysicist instead coming up with this crap.

I think the black hole about to destroy the planet plot point is bogus. It's obvious that the planet has been there for a long time and would have been destroyed long ago. It's clearly in a stable orbit. I wish they had come up with something more realistic.