Feb 21, 2018 11:08 PM
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LoS was one of those sci-fi adventures from the 1960s which some (older) NASA scientists and engineers once nostalgically asserted helped inspire their future careers during childhood. Despite its ample deluge of buffoonery and pseudoscientific clichés.
In the US (at least), the reboot premiers April 13th on Netflix.
Although it's doubtless going to be more serious in tone and hopefully lack items such as talking bipedal carrots, the threadbare reviews still sound a little too much like the '60s version for comfort. I had hoped it would reload to pursue the slightly less addled conception of the series which the very earliest episodes in the first season appeared regulated by. Before Jonathan Harris caught Irwin Allen's ear and persuaded the latter to gradually make Smith more kiddie-friendly and similarly turn the whole show clownish in that respect.
On the diversity front which is of key interest to both of the troll markets of "countering white male genocide" and "warriors advancing social justice"...
There's gender-swapping with Parker Posey playing Dr Smith. If that messes with Smith's compatibility of traditionally being Will and the Robot's cowardly self-serving buddy... Then that's great in terms of avoiding the attention-whoring which smothered the other actors' roles in the original series. But don't get hopes up prematurely that it won't happen.
Ignacio Serricchio provides the character Don West with an Argentinian American makeover.
As an African(?) Canadian actress, Taylor Russell delivers the social construct conversion for Judy Robinson.
Barring a timid producer's decision to dye her hair and cosmetically obscure freckles, Mina Sundwall will be a ginger Penny Robinson.
The remaining cast seems, at surface value, to be a bevy of potential offense to some sensitive or militantly isolated group out there. Exhibiting considerable paleness, and arguably minus even a twinge of cultural Jewishness[*] to mitigate their guilty mugshots for the NYC intellectual set: Maxwell Jenkins (Will Robinson), Toby Stephens (John Robinson), and Molly Parker (Maureen Robinson).
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[*] Yeah, I know that's flip-flopped to being a negative redeeming trait for SJW land now that Israel-o-philic Donald Trump is in office. Not to mention the rarer but still effective gentile moguls of Hollywood being an advocate for Palestinians over the decades (i.e., their choice for victimhood in the region). But the impetus of outdated virtue-signaling reflexes dies hard.
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In the US (at least), the reboot premiers April 13th on Netflix.
Although it's doubtless going to be more serious in tone and hopefully lack items such as talking bipedal carrots, the threadbare reviews still sound a little too much like the '60s version for comfort. I had hoped it would reload to pursue the slightly less addled conception of the series which the very earliest episodes in the first season appeared regulated by. Before Jonathan Harris caught Irwin Allen's ear and persuaded the latter to gradually make Smith more kiddie-friendly and similarly turn the whole show clownish in that respect.
On the diversity front which is of key interest to both of the troll markets of "countering white male genocide" and "warriors advancing social justice"...
There's gender-swapping with Parker Posey playing Dr Smith. If that messes with Smith's compatibility of traditionally being Will and the Robot's cowardly self-serving buddy... Then that's great in terms of avoiding the attention-whoring which smothered the other actors' roles in the original series. But don't get hopes up prematurely that it won't happen.
Ignacio Serricchio provides the character Don West with an Argentinian American makeover.
As an African(?) Canadian actress, Taylor Russell delivers the social construct conversion for Judy Robinson.
Barring a timid producer's decision to dye her hair and cosmetically obscure freckles, Mina Sundwall will be a ginger Penny Robinson.
The remaining cast seems, at surface value, to be a bevy of potential offense to some sensitive or militantly isolated group out there. Exhibiting considerable paleness, and arguably minus even a twinge of cultural Jewishness[*] to mitigate their guilty mugshots for the NYC intellectual set: Maxwell Jenkins (Will Robinson), Toby Stephens (John Robinson), and Molly Parker (Maureen Robinson).
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[*] Yeah, I know that's flip-flopped to being a negative redeeming trait for SJW land now that Israel-o-philic Donald Trump is in office. Not to mention the rarer but still effective gentile moguls of Hollywood being an advocate for Palestinians over the decades (i.e., their choice for victimhood in the region). But the impetus of outdated virtue-signaling reflexes dies hard.
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