YMMV / Lost in Space (2018)

• Awesome Music: John Williams' iconic theme song is given a heroic, brass-heavy makeover.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Bordering on Foreshadowing; When Maureen travels to the upper atmosphere to investigate the source of the planet's decaying orbit, any viewers who know what Hawking Radiation is will have figured out the source of the problem long before Maureen explains it to John (and the audience).
  • Also coupled with Foreshadowing: The Resolute clearly looks designed to use Centrifugal Gravity, but the Jupiters are docked on the inner surface of the rings. If using centrifugal gravity, the "floor" would be the outside surface of the ring, meaning anyone boarding a Jupiter would have to climb "up" into it. Instead, they can walk in through a hatch in the wall, showing that "down" is the bottom surface of the ring, towards the engines. Meaning the Resolute has Artificial Gravity that has nothing to do with rotation.
• I Knew It!:
  • 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 Heroic Sacrifice 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.
• Like You Would Really Do It:
  • It is unlikely that anyone thought Judy would die in the pilot. Especially given that the same scenario played out roughly the same way in two previous iterations of the show.
  • Even with the Darker and Edgier tone, odds are no one was surprised the Robot's destruction wasn't permanent.
  • Suddenly killing off John Robinson and Don West, two iconic characters of the series? Not even Will Robinson believed they were really dead.
  • Will floating off into space during the climax, a scene spoiled in the trailer, is obviously not going to result in his death. Rather, it sets up the reveal that Dr. Smith fired the harpoon a second time to rescue John and Don. ^note Realistically, he'd drift right back to the Jupiter on its next orbit, but the show plays a bit loose with orbital mechanics and they're on a time limit anyway.
  • Clearly played with when it comes to the planned destruction of the unique and irreplaceable Resolute during Season 2, which would put the survival of everyone left on Earth by that point at jeopardy. Surprisingly, they actually went through with this one, the situation having passed the Godzilla Threshold at that point.
• Narm: The scenes with the gun would be considerably more effective if the gun's design didn't made it seem like a child's toy rather than a weapon. It's less of a problem when you know that 3D-printed guns really do look like this due to the constraints placed on constructing a firearm this way.
• Older Than They Think:
  • The first season got some complaints for being set entirely on a single planet, when this is exactly how the original series was done, only becoming the space-faring show everyone remembers in Season 3.
  • Dr. Smith being a manipulative Chronic Backstabbing Disorder sufferer had always been there, especially early on in the show. It was Jonathan Harris' own choice to make Smith undergo Flanderization from an Obviously Evil character into a (slightly more) Lovable Coward to prevent the Fridge Logic of why the Robinsons and Major West don't just apply Pay Evil unto Evil upon a Smith that would deserve it from killing the audience's suspension of disbelief.
  • The Imported Alien Phlebotinum that the Resolute (and the Jupiter 2 later on) uses that was taken from an alien ship? This came from a short-lived 90s comic book run that continued the original series, and was usually a plot point when Bill Mumy was the book's main writer.
  • The Robot being the cause of the family getting stranded was a key plot point in the original series and the 1998 movie.
  • A difference of 200 pounds of person plays a large factor in the 1965 Jupiter 2 getting lost, and an attempt by the modern Jupiter 4 to get rescued.
  • People's mischaracterization of Will Robinson and how he's easily manipulated by Doctor Smith in the show, as well as his action of following Smith making things worse. Doctor Smith in many episodes of the original show manipulated Will to go along with any of his plans, despite Will being very smart and forgiving of Doctor Smith throughout the original show's run.
• Remade and Improved: With great production values and a focus on storytelling, it worked as a serious sci-fi story as much as the original did as a Fantastic Comedy.
• Squick: Maureen's leg is broken in the initial crash, which then develops compartment syndrome, and circumstances force the amateur Penny to operate.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • The marital problems suffered by John and Maureen have not endeared them to some sections of the audience, as their source doesn't paint them in the best light. To wit...
    • Maureen, once it is revealed that the reason she and John were headed for divorce back on Earth was his decision to re-enlist in the military to help with the global catastrophe when he didn't have to. The fact that she basically intended to take the children on a one-way trip to another star system and leave him to rot on Earth over such a selfless act really rubs a portion of the audience the wrong way, especially those who have family members serving in the military.
    • Conversely, the fact that John not only went behind her back to get recalled to active duty, but then lied about it (saying he was involuntarily recalled) and the fact his alternative seemed to be "keep his family on a dying planet" strips him of some of his moral high ground in this.
  • Will's habit of making things worse for everyone around him can make him increasingly annoying as Season One progresses, and his youth can only excuse so much of it. He does a lot of incredibly stupid things (like telling the Killer Robot he befriended to walk off a freaking cliff, freeing the Obviously Evil Dr. Smith after his parents detained her on the Jupiter, lugging some very noisy equipment into a cave filled with predators that hunt by sound, and so on), has awfully bad timing in others (like guilt-tripping his mom about how he made it aboard the Resolute while she's desperately working to save their lives), and can be a pretty obnoxious brat in general on occasion.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Just as much as Altered Carbon, you could easily mistake the show for a feature film with how beautiful the effects are.

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