Related: Lost In Space Season 2 Cast & Character Guide The second season of Netflix's sci-fi reboot picks up seven months after the climactic season 1 finale, with the Robinsons still stranded in a strange star system that the Robot warned was "danger." They are eventually able to reconnect with the Resolute, only to find its colonists evacuated to a nearby planet and a terrible secret within the Resolute's engine core: the entire colony ship was built around the remains of an alien ship that crashed on Earth, the so-called "Christmas Star," and an enslaved robot called Scarecrow has been piloting the Resolute back and forth from Earth to Alpha Centauri. The Robinsons also meet Ben Adler, a senior Resolute crew member who had a bond with Scarecrow that was similar to the connection between Will and the Robot. Lost in Space is currently streaming on Netflix.Lost in Space season 2 finds the Robinsons still desperately trying to get colony ship The Resolute to their destination in the Alpha Centauri star system - but by the end, they're more lost than ever! One of the stories of the season, and maybe the show, is did it evolve and how much did it? We definitely are not answering that at all definitively this season. And then when it connects with Will, it changes. In some sense, it's an obvious story we're telling, right? Where you see it in this place of being kind of like a dangerous killer or a wild animal in the very beginning. Matt Sazama: Again, there's a lot of mystery here that will sort of tantalize audiences to try to put together why it looks different when it's in that sort of hostile mode and why it takes on a humanoid form when it connects with Will.
How would you describe those two different modes?
The Robot has two clear modes, as shown by its "face" turning red or blue. Can the robot make a choice for itself of will it follow my original programming? Will it be a machine that kills or can it have true friendship? Can it have love? Can it protect this boy that I've become so attached to? Hopefully people will have feelings at the end that the robot has taken the first step into a larger world as well.
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The story of the robot in Season 1 is really is it good or is it bad? Can we trust it or can we not trust it? And with stories about artificial intelligence robots, there's always that moment of,"Is it just a machine following orders or does it have free will? Does it have a soul? Does it have consciousness?" So what we were trying to indicate is did it make an actual choice at the end for itself. Smith? Did it just make a conscious choice?īurk Sharpless: Part of that is a mystery and hopefully we an ongoing story. Why does the robot save Will in the finale even though it was linked to Dr. Max Jenkins, Lost in Space Courtesy of Netflix It was kinda the thing we built Season 1 around. That sort of revelation that's so heart-wrenching that as much as he loves the robot, perhaps he is bad. Matt Sazama: You see in the course of the season that coming of age that he has in the middle. That was a really exciting and emotional, and thrilling place to put a character named Will Robinson. In the story, what happens if this great friend of yours also has a dark side and is potentially really dangerous? So then you're put in a position where you're a kid and you're responsible for something that could be very harmful to people.
That wish fulfillment of you have this protector, this bodyguard, this friend do whatever you wanted it to and is always there for you. and even Terminator 2 of what would happen. And we tapped into the 13-year-old sense of wouldn't it be great to have a robot of our own? We were inspired by movies like The Black Stallion and E.T. How did you go about writing this friendship between the robot and Will and what did you want to accomplish with that?īurk Sharpless: The relationship between Will and the robot is really the heart of the story. (No, they didn't tell us who built it or where it's from.) To get more insight into our metal friend, we talked to Lost in Space showrunners Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama.