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I loved season 1 and was eagerly waiting to see where the series goes next. As most of the shows do, now-a-days, the end of a season if left on a huge cliffhanger – I used to hate this, but now it is just getting a bit boring. So, a lot of lose-ends from season 1 are resolved in this season, but the show again leaves us with questions and half-explained lore, but more on that later.

The second journey of the Robinsons, takes us to explore – no wait, tease, yes tease – the lore of the mysterious robots even further. We are explained why the robots were interested in the resolute in the first place (this is kind-of a foresight of writers from the first season, not giving away the main plot point in their first story, but waiting a whole year to reveal why things went awry in the first place.)

Friendship is not a one-way street.

– Implied by the mysterious/dangerous/low-on-vocabulary/deadly robot.

That is the best line from this episode. Not only cause it is a good line, but cause the way it is presented to us – again, this is also something which is built up through episodes from the first season all the way to the episodes in this season. The connection of events from the first event all the way to a critical point in this season is extremely commendable.

Talking about the flow of events between the seasons, the characters have grown from when we first see them landing (read: crashing) on the unknown planet in the very first episode, but at their core, they still behave exactly the way you’d expect them to. No one has changed so much that you can’t recognize them anymore – no wait – okay, there is one character who surprises us (more in the spoiler section – (i)) but that was believable to some extent.

This season doesn’t give us a lot of time with the Robinsons alone, mind-you it is still a Robinsons series (plus the other two supporting actors from season 1) but its not just them in here – which at first did make me a bit doubtful – but it all works out for the best!

The ending is the only place where I have issues, it doesn’t feel very coherent – a bit far-fetched. Same thing happened at the end of season 1 as well – where in the end, all seems to be going too well and “boom”, there is a cliffhanger. I am not a fan of this method and I am definitely deducting points for that.

The season has excellent character building on the already excellent characters from the first season. It answers a lot of questions that the previous season raised and it doesn’t spoil the story while doing so. I would go as far and say that a re-watch of season 1 will be enhanced by this season.

Since everyone is in space, they take liberties where they have to, and that is understandable. They don’t try to over-explain scientific stuff, which I really appreciate.

My main cons are the ending section (explained more in spoiler section (ii)) and the face that sometimes stakes don’t seem very high when it comes to the main characters, cause we know they are not going to die. But, that could be something that bothers just me – I am a huge fan of the story telling in Game of Thrones (books) where you never know when a character could just die – there was tension there which Lost in Space completely lacks.

I would just say, why put characters in extreme (near-death) scenarios if you are not going to kill any of them – ever. (continued in spoiler section (iii))

Final judgement:

I would totally recommend this for Sci-Fi fans, hands down. But, for those of you who are fans of family drama, there are things here for them too.

Positives: Great characterizations and strong acting; a rich plot that builds on its previous entry;

Negatives: No real stakes for main characters; Far-fetched ending

Spoiler section:

So, the main antagonist(y) person from the first season, Smith, has her backstory scratched at in this season. We are explained her issues and how exactly she got in the position she currently is in. There is a very heart felt dialog between her and “Father” Robinson where we see a bit of her changing/growing moment.

Family

– Supposedly by the mysterious/dangerous/low-on-vocabulary/deadly robot.

But, having said that (i) it is a bit hard to digest how her character changes at the end of the season (by only one word said by the low-on-vocabulary robot) – no doubt, the entire story line, from the middle (cause at the start she is still exactly like she was in season 1) to the end does have an emotional (PG-13) conclusion, and in the moment, I was totally on board with her having a change of heart, it was difficult to believe, while I was thinking about it later on.

But, I am still not deducting any points for this – cause while watching the show, it was fulfilling enough to not matter right now. They could have done that in a number of ways which would have been far worse!

The main reason I deducted the rating was the ending – the fact that none of the characters sat and thought about the stupidity of everything that happened in the last few episodes.

Here comes the Rant: The people in-charge of the resolute wanted to run away and send a rescue team for the people stranded on the planet. Instead – the “hero complex” having Robinsons hi-jack the resolute and get all the stranded people back to the ship – only to realize that in doing all this, there are some unknown ships going to attack the resolute and their only chance of survival is to send a jupiter with 90 something children to the final destination.

I am okay that this happened. But no one sits back and mourns on the fact that the Captain of resolute had said that there is only one resolute and it is very difficult to build a ship like this. It is so important to all the people who are still stranded on earth that this ship remains unharmed.

Well, saving people is a good thing, if you succeed. If you don’t – at least someone should have had a moment of realization and understood their mistake. That would have made all the unnecessary back and forth a little but more realistic.

I just hate when people/characters are shown to make decisions and have no remorse when their decisions screw things up.