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Style of The Robot in the new "Lost in Space" tv series

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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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(Apr 27, 2018 10:00 PM)C C Wrote: 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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Starring Nathan Lane as Dr. Smith? Smile
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(Apr 28, 2018 04:05 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Starring Nathan Lane as Dr. Smith? Smile


Now that would have been an interesting choice.

Instead they've got Parker Posey playing a faux version of the Robinson family's scheming, domestic nemesis. Bill Mumy had a brief cameo as an injured Zachary Smith, but a deceptive colonist called June Harris -- the name of Posey's role -- stole his uniform and identity and eventually wound-up with the Jupiter-2 crew. (No mystery where the creators got the name "June Harris", or what it's a combination of.)

I was a tad shocked that Parker Posey is 49 years old. She doesn't look it from a distance, but up close I guess that contributed to why I occasionally felt "she very slightly resembles Jonathan Harris at times".

Even though the reboot is criticized as bland, I saw somewhere that the ratings were good enough in the first month that it will probably complete the expected three seasons.

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