Netflix put up the third and final season of Lost in Space, the reboot, and I continued to love it. Am happy to report it ended on a narratively satisfying note, too.

( Here's to you, Family Robinson! )

Since I still haven't watched Sound of Music, my first exposure to Christopher Plummer was him playing General Chang in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, and I was less than enthralled (not due to Plummer, due to all the Shakespeare quoting the script insisted on), which was my reaction to The Undiscovered Country in general. Otoh, then I saw ( Read more... )

Read: Jo Graham's and Melissa Scott's Order of the Air series, various volumes of same discussed under this tag. Starts in the 1920s, has so far reached the late 1930s, offers an endearing ensemble of characters and relationships, several of whom are not straight, adventure, magic and history. I do love it a lot.

Watch: the Netflix Lost in Space. ( Read more... )

The second season was made available by Netflix on December 24th, which fits since the first episode takes place on Christmas. I've now finished marathoning - thankfully, it's as short as the first - , and enjoyed it very much, with some nitpicks. Unspoilery impression: the show continues to deliver on the intense family dynamics, trying out new ( Read more... )

It's been a year since I marathoned the 2018 Lost in Space, which I loved. I just checked to see whether it was canceled or got a second season, and to my delight, the later is the case, though we won't get it until July, it seems. Which is as good a reason to rave some m ore about the new Lost in Space as any, and about why you should watch it, ( Read more... )

I‘ve never watched the original Lost in Space. I gathered a few things in fannish osmosis, plus I did see the movie some years back which I also gathered many of the original show fans hated, and which did not find a new audience, either, and thus flopped and disappeared from publich consciousness. (Yours truly recalls feeling indifferent.) Which ( Read more... )