Danger Will Robinson...

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Super excited about the Lost in Space series on Netflix. Don't call or text me on April 13th! I absolutely loved watching the 1960s series when I was young. I was totally jealous of this kid having his own robot – ok, still am. And I'm completely fine with reboots as long as they are done well. I think they can help keep a story and characters alive, and in some cases, revive the original.

I don't think the 1998 movie version did either. In fact, the only thing I recall enjoying about it was Will's Robot, especially when controlled by Will... Robot's voice, "Mom says, get the hell out of there!" Of course, I went into it with low expectations and they were met.

The trailer for the Netflix series doesn't show us much, but at least it looks as if they took a serious approach. There appears to be some character updates, though we obviously don't get to see all of the main cast here since it shows them boarding the Jupiter One (if it's still called that) and not everyone got on board that way.

Of course, I was watching for the Robot, which we only get as a tease at the end with the classic line, "Danger Will Robinson." The voice that delivers that line sounds a bit more like it should be saying, "By your command," but I'm going to hod off on passing judgement for now. I haven't added a robot to my collection for some time now. I suspect there will be one in the near future.

Did cause me to pull out a few Lost in Space pieces I have in my collection.