Been reading these things for years and have never so fully agreed with those who say this series is ANNOYING! Scenery, CGI, sets, costumes, cinematography - All top rate, hence the 2 stars. The writing is HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. HOR-I-BLE! All these hacks did was take the original characters and do a 180 with what their strengths were. Maureen - Used to be supportive, understanding, caring. Now she's the brains of everything, know-it-all, in command, the one giving all the orders. She is ANNOYING. She's pissed at John because he chose to serve humanity instead of staying home and playing soccer dad. What a biotch! John - Used to be in command, strong, decisive. Now he is a weak, no-backbone, happy-wife-happy-life type of wussey. Don - Used to be honorable, straight forward. Now he is a smuggler who got caught. Tries way to hard to be funny and walks around with a chicken. Dr. Smith - Sniveling coward. Now a dangerous female. Judy - Will someone please explain how two white people have a brown child? If she is adopted, why not explain that early in the series? Penny - Was shy, nervous, jittery. Now she's the plucky comic-relief wannabe. Another very annoying character. Robot - Was an earth creation that went with them able to formulate complete sentences and help out in any way. Knows all science and facts. Now it is a "reformed" murdering machine from a foreign planet that can only say "Danger Will Robinson" ala "I am Groot." And 100% hands down the WORST character of them all - Will. They took a confident, intelligent, brave, leader of a person and turned him into the biggest wussy in the universe. He flunked the exams to get on the mission to begin with and his smother had to cheat him onto the expedition, he is afraid a lot, he knows almost nothing, he freezes up. And for some reason they decided to make him homosexual. I have nothing against homosexuality but why take that character and add that element. He's 11. It's not like he can act on it or they can grow that part of his character. And every episode is crap. Some new problem pops up and these people, who are hyper-intelligent enough to make an interstellar voyage, all of a sudden can't figure out how to open bottle of ketchup. Made it through 4 episodes, then got beat down by how annoying it is.