Other flashback reveal that before their departure, Maureen’s husband John Robinson (Toby Stephens) was a U.S. And dialogue further suggests that war and strife were an issue over the previous 30 years.Īlso Read: Top 20 Best HBO Original Series, From 'Six Feet Under' to 'Game of Thrones' (Photos)īut just how “stabilized” remains to be seen. In one flashback, Maureen talks about how governments on Earth “have stabilized” sometime close to when she starts to consider leaving for Alpha Centauri. Subsequent clues come from direct and implied references to serious geopolitical problems. In any case, as Maureen later notes, Earth is doing badly and not getting any better. It’s also worth noting that Maureen and Penny’s dialogue makes it sound like several years have passed since the Christmas Star event. It seems likely that pollution, climate change or some other environmental disaster is to blame. There’s even a rack for people to store their masks while shopping, the implication being that this is a regular practice.īut it’s not clear what the cause of the low air quality actually is. Outside, something resembling dirty snow is falling, but both of them wear gas masks until they walk inside a store. Smith (Parker Posey) discover the truth of the Christmas Star - we’ll let you watch that for yourself - but early on it’s implied there is some kind of connection between it and the sorry state of planet Earth.Īlso Read: 'Lost in Space': Would Will Robinson's Magnesium Idea Really Work to Melt Ice?Ī second clue comes via flashback, in a scene in which Maureen and Penny (Mina Sundwall) go Christmas shopping. Falling to Earth on Christmas, the “super bolide” - a very big, bright meteor - makes news after it strikes the Earth.Īs Maureen puts it, the meteor’s presence is strange, given that a “Near Earth Object” of that size should have been detected by astronomers. The first clue is the Christmas Star, a meteor strike that happened years before the show takes place. But occasionally, “Lost in Space” flashes back to the time before, giving us clues about just what led Maureen Robinson (Molly Parker) to pack up her family and turn them into astronauts. “Lost in Space” is cagey about what exactly is wrong, and most of the first season takes places well after the Robinson family has left. It’s not particularly clear why Earth is in such bad shape, though. The answer appears to be that things aren’t going great on Earth, and humans are migrating to the stars to escape.Īlso Read: 'Lost in Space': How Far Away Is Alpha Centauri, and Could Humans Live There?
But it’s still more than 4 light years, and infinite unknown dangers, away from home. And a technological breakthrough has cut the trip there from a hundred thousand year-journey to short enough some people go there and back regularly. In this version, the Robinson family are passengers on a colony space ship headed for Alpha Centauri who crash on an alien planet and must struggle to survive.īut why were they making the trip in the first place? Yes, Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to ours. Netflix’s reboot of “Lost in Space,” like its 1960s predecessor, is all about a family who left Earth and got lost in, well, outer space. (Note: This post contains spoilers for the first season of Netflix’s “Lost in Space.”)
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