Lost in Space seems to have morphed into Stuck on a Planet with Sixty Others. Hardly a surprise when a ship aimed at going to Alpha Centauri runs on petrol.

I don't know what it is about modern shows but they all seem to be aimed at feeding the same boring format to mindless audiences.

This one ticked all the boxes for the new format. It picks an old show loved for how bad it was and just changed it so it would simply be bad and unlovable.

Dr Smith was changed from a conniving old man to a woman which sets the tone for the rest of the cast with it being predominately female. This on its own wouldn't be bad but they are all really annoying female characters. The studios seem to equate "strong woman" with "really annoying woman who will ignore sensible advice because it come from a a man and go do something stupid whilst delivering really bad lines". They should really allow actors to say "really? I have to say this?". Affirmative for pre-check clearance. A genuine line, I kid you not....

That takes us on to the male characters, most of whom aren't worth discussing as they don't get much of a part.

Mr Robinson is the only male character to get much of a part and that seems necessity more than desire. Totally sidelined character whose opinion is never sought and always ignored. He may as well not be in the show. He doesn't even get to play with power tools as his wife single-handedly repairs the ship because, obviously, she has a ph.d in engineering. An ex-US Marine, undefeated on the battlefield gets his nuts easily sliced off by a scriptwriter.

That brings us to the script which also seems to follow the new template. Have the really annoying female characters cause and/or stumble from one implausible disaster to the next even more implausible disaster whilst delivering the worst lines in the world and ignoring the men. Blah blah. Such a tired format and it's only a few years old.

Then the scriptwriters made the ultimate transgression. They messed about with the Robot.

By episode 3 I was simply wishing they would start killing people off but even that wasn't to be. It was just so boring I simply turned it off.