We haven't seen all ten episodes yet, but up to the first 3 or 4 the new version of The Robot is about as talkative as a pet dog. That's not necessarily something to get worried about. Since it's easy to forget that during the first season of the original series, The Robot was pretty much a dullard also. Before finally becoming its more familiar, sarcastic and wise-cracking self later on. (Most of us hopefully watched that show in syndication during our childhood of whichever decade, due to fact that it becomes brain-damaging to try to do so once growing older.)
I vaguely recollect one episode where The Robot actually brought this up, referring to that period as "before I acquired consciousness" or something along that line. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of the title of the earlier episode where that amazing transition supposedly happened, or how.
There is a bit of pessimism that is warranted in expectations about the The Robot of the rebooted "Lost in Space", though. Barring some major surprise about its origins, it appears to be the product of an alien civilization (not from Earth as the original was). Not only does that present a cultural divide in terms of its potential personality, but Hollywood's projection of the "noble ET" trope upon some space-aliens (the industry's phobia of appearing to be xenophobic) might prevent The Robot from ever developing into a risky, "cool dude" exchanging barbed remarks with Dr. Smith.
Lost in Space (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Sp...TV_series)
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I vaguely recollect one episode where The Robot actually brought this up, referring to that period as "before I acquired consciousness" or something along that line. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of the title of the earlier episode where that amazing transition supposedly happened, or how.
There is a bit of pessimism that is warranted in expectations about the The Robot of the rebooted "Lost in Space", though. Barring some major surprise about its origins, it appears to be the product of an alien civilization (not from Earth as the original was). Not only does that present a cultural divide in terms of its potential personality, but Hollywood's projection of the "noble ET" trope upon some space-aliens (the industry's phobia of appearing to be xenophobic) might prevent The Robot from ever developing into a risky, "cool dude" exchanging barbed remarks with Dr. Smith.
Lost in Space (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Sp...TV_series)
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