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Smith is a female in this....


....wonder if she will be played as a Tom Boy...

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Oh geez. That'll be weird...

I haven't watched many episodes of the old show, but my aunt and uncle loved it and so sometimes I would get roped into watching an episode or two. All I really remember is that Dr Smith is a coward and the robot that says "Danger, Will Robinson" and really bad special effects (which were probably good at the time it was produced).

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They're re-remaking it?

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Yup. Netflix next year...

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Part I'm trying to figure out is how Will and Penny, and both John and Maureen Robinson are all white, but Judy Robinson is black...

Forcing diversity for the sake of diversity is kinda stupid. They just as easily could have made Smith a black female.

Oh, wait: Smith is the villain- they're not allowed to make black villains any more.

..Joe

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She could be adopted, you know. I'm sure that will still be happening in the future.

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You mean the token poor black girl saved by the nice white family and raised as one of their own?

Never happen in Hollywood: That's too much white racism for them.

..Joe

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If the wanted to change just one character to black, logically it should be Judy's boyfriend Major West!

Speaking of things that never happen in Hollywood...

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Yes, VERY GROTESQUE of Hollywood forcing down our throats, SJW diversity! I'm actually SHOCKED that Will Robinson is NOT transgender! PATHETIC COWARDS........

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Take your pill.

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Take your liberal bullying somewhere else!

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Ha! You flipped out and ranted and now you are crying that you’re being bullied because someone called you on your behavior? You’re entertaining.

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My guess is that she'll be played as a camp diva, which might not be a bad thing. One if the few merits of the old show was that it was as camp as all hell.

Still, I'm dubious. If they wanted to change one if the major characters to female, why not Prof. Robinson? Make her a single mother, let her try to cope with a Maj. West who thinks he should be in charge, and a son who's desperate enough for a male role model that he'll listen to a jerk like Dr. Smith. Which would both set up some interesting family dynamics, and eliminate the wife character who spends most if her time in outer space doing laundry.

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"One if the few merits of the old show was that it was as camp as all hell."

Although when I was watching the show as a kid I very much enjoyed the campiness of it (before I even knew what "camp" was), watching it again as an adult I find my favorite episodes to be the very early ones in season one (the black-and-white season). I liked that Dr. Smith then was more devious and menacing and definitely not a whimpering clown, and that the Robinson's predicament of actually being "lost in space" was more perilous and fraught with danger than the cartoonish adventure it soon became.

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You certainly understand LIS!

But as for the later, goofier, utterly ridiculous episodes, there is the appeal of the ridiculous and camp. I mean a guy in a carrot suit turning Doctor Smith into a clinging orchid is ludicrous, but it's as funny as hell if you're in the right mood.

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He was being turned into a stalk of celery, not an orchid. Everybody knows orchids aren't funny. Sheesh. ;)

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Well we now know Smith is indeed NOT a female in this...

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It's a human skin wearing Troglodyte :)

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