Deep down, I knew this was going to be bad. At the same time, I really, really wanted to be wrong about that.

The track record so far for Lost in Space remakes has been 0 for 0. The movie was awful, the Warner Brothers remake ("The Robinsons") was so bad that I couldn't even sit through it, and that music video was just an abomination.

I've been told that fans shouldn't compare it to the real Lost in Space, but should judge it on its own merits. fair enough! I'll do just that. There are questions I'd like answered, like why they decided to call it Lost in Space when it has nothing to do with the original TV show, but I'll let them pass.

So, with a great degree of sadness and a small amount of "well, it might not be so bad," I sat down and watched the reboot that isn't really a reboot, except when it's convenient to claim it is.

Right from the very first shot I knew there were going to be problems. Shouldn't they have been, oh I don't know, actually paying attention to the situation around them, instead of just wasting their time on a card game?

The pace of the show is slow and plodding. More than once I said out loud "OK guys, you van start the scene now."

One early scene went on and on and on, and just petered out. After a good deal of time, pretty much nothing happened. We got lots of close ups of Judy looking worried, and he Robinsons ineptly trying to do something, and then more close ups of Judy being worried. At that point I didn't care. I just wanted the whole ordeal (that is, the show itself) to end.

The characters have all of the development of the ball in a pinball machine. They bounce from situation to situation. I cared about as much for them as I'd care for the ball in a pinball game.

The special effects looked nice. But then again, my stereo speakers look nice too, but they can't hold my interest for an hour either.

All in all, as a film, ithe writing quality is the same as a mid 1990s Sci Fi channel shot on video production. It's dull and plodding, and doesn't even get the science right.

But, you know, I wanted to give it a chance. I'd watched the first two episodes in one sitting. People kept telling me it got better. So I went back and watched a couple of other episodes.

All I can say is that normally I applaud TV shows and movies that prolong suspense. The questions that the first episode raised were not addressed by the fifth episode. The pinballs kept bouncing from situation to situation. It was More Of the Old Same Old, and I was long tired of that. Besides, there were dishes that needed to be washed, and doing that looked to be more entertaining. It was time to bail.

If you like to watch pinballs or train wrecks, then by all means watch this.