History Trivia / LostInSpace2018

* IKnewIt:
** Despite Netflix's best efforts to hide it, when Russell Hornsby was announced as being cast for the third season, most guessed that he was playing Judy's biological father, Grant Kelly, which turned out to be right.
** Additionally, despite her supposed HeroicSacrifice at the end of the second season, many suspected that Parker Posey's June Harris ("Dr. Smith") character had faked her death and was still around. When it came time to seriously promote the third season, Netflix didn't even bother to hide this one, both putting her at the end of the trailer ("I thought you were supposed to be dead.") and releasing publicity images of her character. Additionally, she appears almost right at the beginning of the first episode.

* IKnewIt: Despite Netflix's best efforts to hide it, when Russell Hornsby was announced as being cast for the third season, most guessed that he was playing Judy's biological father, Grant Kelly, which turned out to be right.

** Taylor Russell, like Judy Robinson, was born to a Black father and White mother.

* DawsonCasting: While Maxwell Jenkins (11-12) plays Will Robinson (11) and Creator/MinaSundwall (16) plays Penny Robinson (16), Taylor Russell (23) plays Judy Robinson (18), and is at one point mistaken for 17 in-universe. However, those actors portray the same characters up to three years earlier in the story's timeline during flashbacks, and little effort is made to make them look any younger, making Will undoubtedly the tallest third-grader in his school, Penny by far the most mature-looking 13-year-old, and Judy a high-school student who must have been held back about six grades.

* ActorSharedBackground: Maxwell Jenkins, who plays Will Robinson, is a lover of science fiction and robotics in real life who describes his favorite movie as ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', and was so excited to play the role that he demanded his parents allow him to audition. So joyous is his performance that it almost feels like he isn't acting.

* DawsonCasting: While Maxwell Jenkins (11-12) plays Will Robinson (11) and Mina Sundwall (16) plays Penny Robinson (16), Taylor Russell (23) plays Judy Robinson (18), and is at one point mistaken for 17 in-universe. However, those actors portray the same characters up to three years earlier in the story's timeline during flashbacks, and little effort is made to make them look any younger, making Will undoubtedly the tallest third-grader in his school, Penny by far the most mature-looking 13-year-old, and Judy a high-school student who must have been held back about six grades.

* ChannelHop: The original show was made by Fox and broadcast by CBS, this one is Netflix. And it's the third time in the franchise, given [[Film/LostInSpace the movie]] was made by New Line.

* UnderageCasting: With both the actor ''and'' the character, as the 23-year-old Taylor Russell portrays the 18-year-old Judy Robinson, who qualified as a medical doctor prior to departing on the ''Resolute'', albeit one without any actual practice experience. Lampshaded InUniverse by Don West, who asks if she's 17.

** Subverted for Will and Penny, whose actors (Maxwell Jenkins and Mina Sundwall) are the same ages aa their characters, for Season One at least.

* UnderageCasting: With both the actor ''and'' the character, as the 23-year-old Taylor Russell portrays the 18-year-old Judy Robinson, who qualified as a medical doctor prior to departing on the ''Resolute'', albeit one without any actual practice experience. Lampshaded InUniverse by Don West, who asks if she's 17.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: During interviews about the filming of the first season, Creator/MollyParker and Creator/TobyStephens remarked that they did ''not'' have the stereotypical bad experiences with child actors (Max Jenkins and Mina Sundwall were 11 and 16 at the start of filming, respectively). The problem with children, they said, is most often not with the kids themselves but their parents, and both young actors' parents were quite well-behaved.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: During interviews about the filming of the first season, Creator/MollyParker and Creator/TobyStephens remarked that they did ''not'' have the stereotypical bad experiences with child actors (Max Jenkins and Mina Sundwall were 11 and 16 at the start of filming, respectively). The problem with children, they said, is most often not with the kids themselves but their parents, and both young actors' parents were quite well-behaved.

* DawsonCasting: While Maxwell Jenkins (11-12) plays Will Robinson (11) and Mina Sundwall (16) plays Penny Robinson (16), Taylor Russell (23) plays Judy Robinson (18), and is at one point mistaken for 17 in-universe. However, those actors portray the same characters up to three years earlier in the story's timeline during flashbacks, and little effort is made to make them look any younger, making Will undoubtedly the tallest third-grader in his school, Penny by far the most mature-looking 13-year-old, and Judy a high-school student who must have been held back about six grades.

* DawsonCasting: While Maxwell Jenkins (11-12) plays Will Robinson (11) and Mina Sundwall (16) plays Penny Robinson (16), Taylor Russell (23) plays Judy Robinson (18), and is at one point mistaken for 17 in-universe. However, those actors portray the same characters at least three years earlier in the story's timeline during flashbacks, and little effort is made to make them look any younger, making Will undoubtedly the tallest 8-year-old in his class, Penny by far the most mature-looking 13-year-old, and Judy a high-schooler who must have been held back about six grades.