Lost in Space (TV Series) Final Transmission (2021) User Reviews

Great episode, but the realism?

[gustavsingh · 8/10 · 5 December 2021]

As much as I loved this episode, the medical realism was not present.

There are quite a bit of things that I have noticed.

If the SAR stabbed Will in the heart, he would've bled out in minutes. I only saw a small stain of blood on his shirt. We are talking about the muscle that is in charge of keeping the whole body alive, which is why I don't understand how he survived. He would not have had a pulse.

Arrogance and naivety at its best!

[hawkinsuhc · 7/10 · 2 December 2021]

For the most part, I really enjoyed this episode. However, I understand that Will thought he could save his family but his arrogance amazed me. I have to remember he's supposed to be, what 13 or14, by now. Maybe they were playing him at his actual age of 16. I don't know! But it's ridiculous. I don't understand how he didn't realize they, his family, were going to look for him versus leaving him on that planet! And then the one thing they were trying to do, endure that the alien robot, SAR, didn't follow them to Appha Centauri, he kind of made it more than likely. I'm watching because I read the reviews that the final episode just tied everything together. However I'm so disgusted right now at Will.

One of the better episodes!

[fabsjellis · 9/10 · 12 January 2022]

Season 3 got off to a bit of a mixed start in my opinion. Lost in Space is a very well written science fiction show but the direction felt quite bland and generic Netflix-y with little artistic presence in S3E1 and S3E2. There's also an egregious use of a three little birds cover song that does not fit AT ALL in S3E1.

Luckily, Julian Holmes steps in as the director for this as well as S3E4 and brings back proper pacing to the show as well as cleverly composed cinematic shots.

S3E5 is also fantastically directed by Leslie Hope who adds mist, slime, goo and worms. There's outrageously over the top scenes of Don West chasing around his chicken. It's one of the funniest and dumbest episodes (in a good way) and basically does a really nice Empire Strikes Back homage leading into this episode S3E6.

In this episode the characters finally feel real. The last episode fleshed them out giving them emotional, cathartic bonding sessions and adding flashbacks to fill in gaps. This episode is full of visual storytelling, scenes with great subtext and a chance to let the actors properly continue to shine. This episode is also way more story focused, with the characters being much more prominent rather than sci-fi clichés. Each individual character, even the robots, make active decisions and push forward the narrative. The episode is also all about choice and excellently withholds exposition for great twists towards the end. The episode immediately sets a much darker, more cinematic tone and opens with shots drifting around the ship, building tension in a way similar to Ridley Scott's Alien. There's also musical homages to Alien used throughout the episode which work perfectly!!

So, while this season could go either way by the actual ending, I stand by that Lost in Space is a pretty good show. Season 1 was extremely tense and exciting with a standout episode directed by Deborah Chow (the director of brilliant episodes of The Mandalorian and Mr Robot).

Whether or not Season 3 has a good ending doesn't matter, this episode would make a great conclusion/cliffhanger to the show either way which is why I give it a 9/10- potentially could be argued for a 10.

That was wild

[marianciobanuz · 10/10 · 21 December 2021]

This episode had good action and the soundtrack was very exceptional ,i wish this series to be continued because the other 2021 space shows are looking way too weird for my taste.

30 minutes in

[deralexanderda · 10/10 · 14 December 2021]

Approximately 30 minutes in, there is an actual WTaF moment (lean forward almost fall off the couch!!). Humour, peril, the Space Family Robinson, oh; with "Dr" Smith and the awesome Robot. I love this series. 3 seasons is way too little.

"No programming, no masters"

[jimmyfalcon69 · 9/10 · 26 January 2022]

Interesting declaration from the robot. This goes true for humans, too. We are robots, too, but biological ones. An enlightened human being means he has gone beyond the programming. Nature can't control that human being through hunger, thirst, sex and other forms of programming. A conscious human being means he has the power to reprogram himself as he likes. I will meditate on this more. I want to escape my programming, too. I want to be free. I want to be my own master.

Race in Space

[southdavid · 8/10 · 24 February 2022]

Another really good episode as we approach the finale of the show. It does include an idea that the show has used before but generally it figured out some of the questions I've had recently and leads us into a tense finale.

Reunited, the extended Robinson family discuss the actions of the last few hours whilst trying to get their Jupiter operational again. Realising that SAR scanned Don (Ignacio Serricchio) which would give him the location of Alpha Centuri, the Robinsons aim to hasten their departure but Will (Maxwell Jenkins) has another plan and goes to meet SAR directly.

Shorn of the need for flashbacks as it ramps up towards the end this episode is framed somewhat by the "goodbye" messages that Will has been leaving. Intended to show his departure to his secret mission, they take an even darker turn when his meeting with SAR goes badly. We also learn that SAR is behind the death of his creators, although the specifics of that aren't really given.

Again, there is still work for the series to do to nail the landing, but in terms of increasing the tension this episode certainly ends on a high.

As Thanos said, you should have gone for the head

[fatewemake · 6/10 · 4 December 2021]

SAR went for Will's heart and even then he only damaged it slightly. If he had gone for Will's head, the brain matter could not have been repaired even with their latest technology. With all the fighting that SAR has already done I'm surprised he was too stupid to not know the "go for the head" rule.

New Character reveal, Carl

[eddietam · 8/10 · 26 December 2021]

This is one of the funniest episodes involving Don West's pet chicken, Debbie and a new character reveal, Carl, pet named by Penny Robinson. Revealed within the first forty minutes of the Final Transmission episode, Carl is a very long in-grown hair on Will Robinson's face, and is the first hair to grow on his chin marking new adventures of his early adult life. Carl lived there happily until his demise, shortly after Penny introduced him. Unknown how Will attacked Carl leading to his death.

stabbed through the heart

[Rob-O-Cop · 5/10 · 4 December 2021]

Er, we're back to silliness again. Stabbed through the heart but didn't die, and he still has a pulse? That's some strong plot armor he's wearing.

Then the dad goes nuts at the robot with a rant about how he was meant to protect Will? Well it did dismiss 2 out of three nasty bots which would have destroyed the whole family and for some reason the third vanished instead of laying waste to the family, just not good plotting and scenes. And, well, a bit out of line. I's not the robots job to do anything he doesn't feel like. They don't own him, they didn't build him. Entitled much? But more the point a heavily shoehorned emotional arc that doesn't really fit or make sense in he way it was delivered to put the dad against the robot so they can enable the plot later I suppose.

Disappointing, like being stabbed through the heart.

Very silly

[schatel · 4/10 · 4 January 2022]

So SAR's only goal is to kill Will, he stabs him through the heart rather than vaporizing him and just heads off into the sunset without checking if it's mission accomplished? To be fair kudos to Will for shaking it off, very impressive!

It could be much better

[facebook-08950 · 4/10 · 2 March 2022]

It is such bad writing that the protagonists are put into so many impossible situations and always survive. This episode has probably the worst example so far. Will is stabbed through the heart by SAR and survives. Why did SAR not stab him again or rip his head off to make sure? The writing is 60% good but the 40% containing massive plot holes just lets this down tremendously.

so much randomness, but it is exciting

[baronr-05221 · 4/10 · 7 December 2021]

Okay so the first two seasons also had this problem, but this season the random events and chaotic changes in direction are just too much. All the scene changes are jumpy, there's rarely continuity between scenes, in conversation or location/scenery.

On the other hand there is a lot of exciting action and many developments that stretch credulity. If it wasn't for Toby and Parker Posey I would give up.