Lost Laptop In Space

A friend (Hi Rae!) got a new notebook for Christmas, a nice Ruby Red Inspiron and when I saw it I was very jealous, it made my 2-year old laptop look down right dowdy. I considered painting the silver lid with some of the Garnet Red in a can I have left over, so it would match the Emperor. That seemed like an awful lot of trouble. I decided to take the easy way out — a Pixel Decal laptop skin.

I didn’t think I would watch all 29 episodes in Season 1, but I thought would make it past 15 minutes of the un-aired pilot. I have little memory of watching Lost in Space when it originally aired. I do remember having a crush on Penny though, as she and I were roughly the same age. And I do remember Dr. Smith always calling the robot names like, “You bumbling bubble-headed buffoon.” Neither of those two characters were in the un-aired pilot. We almost turned it off at about 10 minutes in as the meteors that that sent the Jupiter II (called the Gemini XII here) off course turned out to be easily recognizable as wadded up aluminum foil. What finally made me hit the eject button was the 1-2 combination of terrible acting by Mark Goddard as Professor Don West and Guy Williams as Captain James Robinson when they tried to give the impression they were battling high winds on a mountain top followed by the “giant” one-eyed monster that showed up in forced perspective dressed in an outfit made of squares of burlap bags. Couldn’t take the cheese anymore.