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  Lost in Space Movie (Warning: Spoliers)

   • Stargazer
     11/04/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     Was Bill Mumy the grown-up Wil?

     I don't know -- but I would like to know why the hell he had so much

     make-up on! He looked like a long-haired caveman!

     Was June Lockheart the principal on the holophone?

     Yes -- tres amusing

     Why didn't the Robinsons activate all those robots on the Proteus?

     Hmmm...that's true, I didn't think of that.

     What happened to its crew? The ship seemed unbelievably undamaged if the

     Spiders destroyed them - maybe they were in another (now obliterated)

     portion

     of the ship, but how come they didn't activate the robots?

     Obviously eaten, but yes why didn't the spiders just eat the whole damn

     ship?

     Where did the mascot come from? The alien ship? The ship had been

     abandoned

     for maybe 15 years - how did it survive? Maybe since it was just a
     critter

     without technology, the Spiders just ignored it...

     Yeah, they even said it was a baby, but a 15 year old baby? I think the

     whole mascot thing was a disaster...the worst animation I've seen in
     along

     time. _Roger Rabbit_ had better animation and how long ago was that?!

     They didn't rationalize the escape through the planet. Nor the jump at
     the

     end: even with Nav data, they're still jumping at random. (They might be

     able

     to jump until they land within crawl-range of Alpha Prime and repair the

     hibernaculums). They should have explained the gates better: they

     presumably

     create a conduit or wave-guide.

     Stupid but fun. The jump at the end was still random, but with the data

     at least they could figure out where they are.

     I too found the Lost in Space movie better than expected. The review I
     read

     in the local paper really panned it. Gary Oldman was really great as Dr

     Smith!! (loved the costume) Matt LaBlank (sp?) was surprisingly good as

     West. I was very disappointed in the looks of the Jupiter 2. It was a
     nice

     kick-ass ship with teeth, but looked like a flying CD player. I think
     the

     greatest disappointment was that they hardly included the robot at all.
     The

     most popular part of the TV show was when Will, Dr Smith and the robot

     wandered off and got in trouble giving the robot and Dr Smith ample time
     to

     insult each other. But the robot was absent for much of the plot and so

     there was none of that (except one line where Smith calls him a
     mechanical

     moron, but at the time the robot is being remotely controlled by Will,
     so

     who is he talking to?). At the beginning it was nothing more than a
     remote

     control toy, then we see Will starting to rebuild him, and the end we
     skip

     to the future robot which is all screwed up patched together with
     different

     parts. There's never any time for Will and the robot to develop the

     friendship which saves them at the end.

     --

     --Doc

     "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

     --Sarah Williams

       • j********o@***.com
         13/04/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <6goioi$4i4$*@n***.********k.com>, "Stargazer"

         writes:

           >>Was Biily Mumy the grown-up Will?

         No. I checked the credits.

         >They didn't rationalize the escape through the planet. Nor the jump
         at the

         >end: even with Nav data, they're still jumping at random. (They
         might be

         >able

         >to jump until they land within crawl-range of Alpha Prime and
         repair the

         >hibernaculums). They should have explained the gates better: they

         >presumably

         >create a conduit or wave-guide.

         > Stupid but fun. The jump at the end was still random, but with the
         data

         >at least they could figure out where they are.

         It's occurred to me that the Gateway at Alpha Prime may be
         operational by then,

         so they might be able to make a plotted jump there. They wound up
         stuck in the

         intermediate future (which may in fact be decades after the launch -
         we just

         know that in one version of events, they were trapped there, and the
         final time

         frame of the grown-up Will was 20 years later than _that_).

         I really liked that movie. I didn't think it was stupid, although
         the

         alternate histories can't be unraveled. The shape of the new ship
         does take

         some getting used to: I find the look of their tech to be
         Uplift-like (no

         doubt because the Brin books have the same OMNI alumni illustrator
         who inspired

         the movie's look).

         Gorno