History Film / LostInSpace

* FutureSpandex: The ''Jupier II'' crew wears form-fitting space clothes.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Smith's contact in the Global Sedition tries to do this to him early on, right after he's completed his sabotage of the ''Jupiter II''. Later, the mutated Smith himself tries this on grown-up Will. It doesn't work either time.]]

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The end credits have one, courtesy of Music/Apollo440, updating the original theme into a techno-rock mix peppered with lines from the film.

* WhamLine: See the third line of the page quotes.

* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler: Spider Smith hates Past Smith for his "crude ambitions." He also mentions that he never liked himself anyway. He almost kills Past Smith when he meets him. This could have been a TooDumbToLive moment, considering that if he kills his past self he'd be erased from existence, but John had already openly reflected that the nature of the current temporal paradoxes meant that actions in their time wouldn't affect this future directly]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Why John doesn't kill Smith. [[spoiler: At least, not until Smith becomes a literal monster.]]

* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: It's implied a hyperdrive without a gate will send you anywhere in our own galaxy.

* DullSurprise: John Robinson, notoriously. He's been even described as [[http://ew.com/gallery/bank-roles-25-i-did-it-money-films-0/#12-william-hurt-in-lost-in-space-1998 looking stiffer than the movie's robot]]. Unfortunately he has the most screentime. In fact, the rest of the crew qualify too, apart from perhaps Major West, and certainly [[LargeHam Penny and Dr. Smith]].

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted. The hyperdrive ''can'' go faster than light, but it ''can not'' aim. It requires a PortalNetwork to do that instead. Presumably, they don't have a SubspaceAnsible either, so it's probably intended to use the drive to come back and tell people "get packed, it's time to go." It's used similarly to ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'s'' Stargate; an "OhCrap Get me out of here!" button that just might get you into worse trouble...

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series takes place in 1997, but in the film likely take place at some point in the 21st Century.

* LargeHam: Gary Oldman, as Dr. Smith.

-->'''Penny''': ''(to her video diary)'' Ouch. Could he be cuter? [[EatingTheEyeCandy ''(she tilts her head, watching him go)'']] I don't think so.

* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler: Spider Smith hates Past Smith for his "crude ambitions." He also mentions that he never liked himself anyway. He almost kills Past Smith when he meets him. This is kind of a TooDumbToLive moment considering that if he kills his past self he'd be erased from existence.]]

* SequelHook: In the movie, the crew are forced to use the warp drive without a gate again, sending them to potentially anywhere in the galaxy. The commentary has Akiva Goldsman excitedly talking about his plans for the sequel, which comes off as rather sad now, especially since it sounds like he was saving a lot of his better ideas for it.

* CollapsibleHelmet: Major West has a cool military-issue one that covers his head in steel armor.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the film, John Robinson informs us that the Earth has ended all war and conflict... [[ImmediateSelfContradiction then immediately afterwards, comments on the Global Sedition who like to perform terrorist attacks on their installations.]] Err, run that by us [[SelectiveObliviousness again]], Doc? Smith even tells Major West that he himself served in the "Millennial Wars" which just shows that it can't be ''that'' long the world has lived in peace. Maybe Robinson isn't counting terrorism. Technically, he says the "warring nations of Earth". Just because governments have united doesn't mean their citizens are.

->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGMOCHo0bg I love you, wife.]]"

* AlienBlood: The spiders have blue blood. [[spoiler: As does the mutant Dr. Smith.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Global Sedition is an terrorist organization responsible for hiring Smith to sabotage the crew's ship, but defeating them isn't the purpose of the plot.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Although Bruce Broughton wrote his own theme for the movie, the third-season theme still appears in a techno form during the end credits.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The spiders seem to be made of metal and can heat their teeth up to the point they can melt through bulkhead doors. They can also, simply by scratching a victim, infect them with TheVirus that hybridizes said victim with their DNA and causes them to become a gestator for their young, ensuring their subsequent offsprings will be adapted to the survivor's environment.

* GovernmentConspiracy: The government lied to the populace that the recycling technologies will work, so the departure date was moved up.

* AlienBlood: The spiders have blue blood.

* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler: Spider Smith hates Past Smith for his "crude amibtions." He also mentions that he never liked himself anyway. He almost kills Past Smith when he meets him. This is kind of a TooDumbToLive moment considering that if he kills his past self he'd be erased from existence.]]

* RecycledSoundtrack: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIZTkLfLqY main title]] sounds very similar to composer Bruce Broughton's piece "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwDshj4uj_A Cody's Flight]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. This is even more apparent in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBo6I9CxEg The Launch]]".

* RecycledSoundtrack: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIZTkLfLqY main title]] sounds very similar to composer Bruce Broughton's piece "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwDshj4uj_A Cody's Flight]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. This is even more apparent in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBo6I9CxEg The Launch.]]"

--> '''Spider Smith:''' Did somebody question my subtle acting?
--> '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Come on, Dr. Smith. You about as subtle as a train wreck... on a boat.