Reboot, Will Robinson!
The Robinsons will be ditched into space for the third time on April 13th. Netflix is rebooting the classic Irwin Allen television show that tapped into America’s dream of the space race, and hopes to wrap the reboot in our own contemporary desires. While we struggle to accept climate change, science-fiction writers have been alerting us to our certain doom for decades. Do we ever listen? Can 10 episodes cover such urgency?
As we saw from the previous teaser, the new Lost in Space urges the human race to adapt or die. Humankind has evolved through ice ages, plagues, wars, and armageddons from above. We’ve adapted our skills, our languages, and our very bodies to keep the race alive, and if our home is no longer safe, it’s time to find a new one in the stars. Earth’s colonial space mission is a necessity, but they probably should have brought a few of James Cameron’s bug-hunting marines along with them.
Doing Star Trek before Star Trek, the original Lost In Space series was an adventure show that perpetually put the youngest traveler in danger, and used Will Robinson as the means for the audience’s education. Based on this new trailer, Netflix appears to be keeping that tradition alive, but also pushing the social science-fiction a little further.
Watch the trailer here:
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