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September 24, 2023 7:20 PM

Prometheus Lost in Space mashup trailer.
posted by clavdivs (23 comments total)

Not the Prometheus we got, but the Prometheus we needed.
posted by zippy at 7:46 PM on September 24, 2023 [5 favorites]

Excellent work.

I can't help but feel that the Venn overlap of those who've seen both is rather narrow.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:09 PM on September 24, 2023 [3 favorites]

STOP with the FADING TO BLACK between EVERY GODDAMN SHOT.
posted by brachiopod at 9:04 PM on September 24, 2023 [3 favorites]

Love that you managed to pull out a 10 year old video with 6.4k views, clav. Solid work digging deep for this one.
posted by Literaryhero at 9:14 PM on September 24, 2023 [6 favorites]

my kind of revisionist history. Thank you. the world is better for this
posted by philip-random at 9:19 PM on September 24, 2023 [2 favorites]

Oh man, I'm slightly disappointed this isn't the Matt LeBlanc Lost In Space, in which case I am *totally* owning that Venn intersection.
posted by danhon at 10:19 PM on September 24, 2023 [3 favorites]

While we're here...
posted by brundlefly at 10:56 PM on September 24, 2023 [6 favorites]

If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now, and I'm leaving it behind.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 11:30 PM on September 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

Another fun connection between the Lost In Space and Alien franchises: Angelica Cartwright and Veronica Cartwright are sisters.
posted by The Tensor at 1:49 AM on September 25, 2023 [8 favorites]

I might have gone to see this version.
posted by kyrademon at 2:34 AM on September 25, 2023 [2 favorites]

Lost in Space looks like it was a freakin' gas... I don't want to find out it wasn't, though, so that will be as far as I take this thought.
posted by From Bklyn at 3:02 AM on September 25, 2023 [4 favorites]

Another fun connection between the Lost In Space and Alien franchises: Angelica Cartwright and Veronica Cartwright are sisters.

Typo in one name: it’s actually Angela Cartwright. (And maybe Verona Cartwright, I dunno.)
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:38 AM on September 25, 2023 [3 favorites]

Oh man, I'm slightly disappointed this isn't the Matt LeBlanc Lost In Space,

A friend of mine observes that if you think of the 1998 Lost in Space as a reboot/botched franchise launch, it’s lousy. But if you think of it as a Friends side project where Joey Tribbiani follows up his triumph as Dr. Drake Remoray on the soaps with a huge Hollywood film, it increases its appeal greatly.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:43 AM on September 25, 2023 [9 favorites]

That's brilliant. Bonus points for bringing in the vegetable people!
posted by doctornemo at 5:09 AM on September 25, 2023 [3 favorites]

I was a Star Trek kid growing up and found Lost in Space painful. Well, I decided to try it again after watching this mashup and viewed S1E1 on Prime. Gosh, that was bad. The space walk in that episode has to be the single most inept space walk in the history of space walks. And that includes the one where Alexei Leonov couldn't get back inside the airlock. Lost in Space, like all of Irwin Allen's shows, was big budget. But as a kid in the 70s it just served to remind me how stylish, cohesive, and beautifully filmed Star Trek was. (I did enjoy Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants though.)
posted by jabah at 8:44 AM on September 25, 2023 [4 favorites]

Fun fact: Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet fame was often a guest star on Lost in Space. Now Prometheus that, pal.
posted by y2karl at 8:46 AM on September 25, 2023 [3 favorites]

Also, Veronica Cartwright is the scream queen of the Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers. For what it is worth.
posted by y2karl at 9:00 AM on September 25, 2023 [4 favorites]

Literaryhero, thanks. I played this again about 2:00 a.m. and just couldn't stop laughing, I believe tears were involved by the robot in pink chaffon scarf. Squint laughing at the vegetable people, Dr. Smith as a Carrot.

I needed that and why I love this placel

I forgot, Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom in The Right Stuff.
posted by clavdivs at 3:08 PM on September 25, 2023

I feel the need to tell AI to make a Planet of the Apes (Wahlberg) mashup with Land of the Lost.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 3:11 PM on September 25, 2023 [1 favorite]

I was a Star Trek kid growing up and found Lost in Space painful. Well, I decided to try it again after watching this mashup and viewed S1E1 on Prime. Gosh, that was bad.

The series takes a very sharp turn into camp that the first episodes don't represent. It's kind of like Batman/Gilligan's Island levels of kitsch. I am not gonna say it's great but they sure do pivot.
posted by StarkRoads at 6:48 PM on September 25, 2023 [2 favorites]

I was gonna try and make a stretch of a joke about Veronica Cartwright also having an Alien 3 / Cujo connection because in both she was menaced by a quite sick dog, but it turns out that was Dee Wallace in Cujo. Cartwright would have been great too tho.
posted by cortex at 9:19 PM on September 25, 2023

In a just world, Bob Denver ought to be remembered for his role as Maynard G. Krebs in The Adventures of Dobie Gillis rather than that of Willie Gilligan on his eponymous surnamedly possessed island.
posted by y2karl at 10:26 PM on September 25, 2023 [2 favorites]

Actually, Veronica Cartwright died in Alien. After Harry Dean Stanton and before Yaphet Kotto.
posted by y2karl at 10:35 PM on September 25, 2023 [1 favorite]