Jeez, this show was terrible. I wanted to end Dr Smith from within the first few episodes. She's an utterly useless character that brings nothing to the show whatsoever. Her "plans" are barely devious and so shallow, and I cannot believe that rocket scientists and other intelligent minds couldn't see right through her from the start. And you'd have at least expected John, as the special forces veteran to have known what she was about. Her "plotline" (I'll put it in quotes because you can barely call it that) was so weak and brought nothing to the show. I ended up fast forwarding her scenes because I just couldn't stand watching her rubbish, and I found the actor playing her annoying as hell.
The pacing of each episode was dreary, and I felt like the writers were just creating issues at every point just to throw some drama into the mix. It felt so forced and I certainly won't be watching season 2. I'm really surprised that it has been renewed.
I feel sorry for Toby Stephens and Molly Parker. I thought Toby Stephens was really good in Black Sails, but even though he's a main character in Lost In Space, I don't feel like you really get to know anything about him, and his scenes are barely more than just him being the unsung hero. Molly Parker's character is awful, she's so sombre for the first few episodes, living with this "secret" that she cheated to get her child into space, and I don't feel like her character doesn't really gets going either. The ending was rubbish. Are we really supposed to believe that all of the stuff in the final episode just happened to go on at exactly the right time? Yeah, whatever. I also found that things jumped a lot. Like an episode would end, and then something new would be going on but how they got to that part wasn't explained.
It's a shame. It had potential, but how they passed up on The Expanse for this is beyond me. Amazon have got a better series on their hands for sure.