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Haunted space station3/31/2023 Had Johnny Williams gotten on somebody's bad side that this "Mullen(b)ore" individual was instead engaged to provide material more weightless than the famous "Waltz" in "The Reluctant Stowaway" (S1 E1, 1965)? Way (not) to go there, "Joe!" 3. The screechy to thumping charmless original background score, dredged up by a complete hack who I can only hope hadn't been engaged before this its inclusion on the official CD #2 release, over worthier examples & in light of the miserable output of the material, was ridiculous. How they came up with this impossible diversion, since except in rare cases the marooned ship ended up thus after a crash landing, without her legs out which would've been obliterated had that been the case, is an Olden Days mystery that will endure until some old rusty Irwin Allen files are somehow uncovered. The recycled takeoff of the Jupiter 2, tucking in her legs as she goes, from S3 E1 "Condemned Of Space" (1967) only 6 episodes hitherto, itself only a modification of their dramatic fiery departure from the 1st planet (S2 E1 "Blastoff Into Space," 1966). It joins rare company in that I had to go skip to mah Lou (Wagner) over vast tracts of the production, unable to tolerate its glaring flaws. This glot of continuity failings, scenic warmed over leftovers, an absolutely thudding original score & a serious mistake in casting is now 1 of my least liked outings for that Robinson party. Thus it became "reduced (more than) 2 steps in rank!" from my original rating, & it's lucky I didn't go lower. So I set about getting reacquainted with it - & the "delight" factor quickly petered out. This being another in the list of Lost In Space episodes I hadn't seen in awhile, a situation not helped by a ruinous house fire last year, to find it in my recent DVR recordings occasioned an "Oh!" of delighted surprise. The bottom of the Jupiter 2 is shown as two-tone, which I do not remember from season 2. One other thing - I think they may have re-shot the scene of the Jupiter 2 leaving F-12, not re-used it from Wild Adventure (1966). This is ahead of the scene from Assignment: Earth (1968), where Isis the cat takes human female form for a few seconds near the end of the episode. btw, I think this is another case where LIS got to something before Star Trek - At one point the Zaybo, which had been either a lion or an invisible cat-like creature, is played as a human female. There was also a lot less overall silliness, and more straight story. Judy got to help out on the controls after the first liftoff, and Penny played an active part in much of this episode. Over all, the episode was more rounded in terms of giving everybody something to do. If you see something darker, that is you. I think if Jonathan Harris had any inkling that future viewers would have seen his character that way, he would never have played the scene the way he did. Second, while there may have been veiled references to homosexuality on other 50's and 60's shows and movies, I am pretty sure this was not one of them. First off, Lou Wagner was either 18 or 19 when this episode was filmed.
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