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Timmy Tatel
Maxwell Jenkins, the young actor who has played the character Will Robinson in the Netflix reboot of "Lost in Space" since it premiered in 2018, is fascinated by real-life spaceflight. In an interview with Space.com ahead of the show's third and final season, which drops Dec. 1, Jenkins revealed his love for science and his desire to fly to space one day.
"We started 'Lost in Space' before people were sending normal people to space," he said. "And within the course of like four and a half years, five years, you know, regular civilians like me and my friends have gone to space ... quite frankly, it's kind of mind-boggling, seeing all these advancements being made."
Within just the past six months, the first all-civilian mission to launch to Earth orbit, Inspiration4, lifted off for a three-day orbital journey aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. This flight happened shortly after both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin flew "regular civilians" to suborbital space and back on short tourist trips.
"I never really thought it would be possible for me to go to space," he said, pointing out how, until now, only professional astronauts, or astronauts who fly to space with agencies like NASA, really existed (with just a few exceptions). "But to go to space doesn't seem that foreign anymore. It doesn't seem that impossible."
He added that he and the crew had previously discussed what it might be like to film something like "Lost in Space" or another television show in outer space on a SpaceX mission or aboard an orbiting lab like the International Space Station.
"I would love to film something up in space, or at least be there," he said. But, Jenkins added, that dream doesn't stop in orbit around our planet. "[I would love to] step foot on Mars. I mean, it would be a dream come true to take a step on another planet," he said.
"I think valuing, you know, test scores over the quality of a human is never the right way to do things," he said. "I think if anybody is going to go to space ... I would put my life in the hands of somebody who has empathy and is kind and values human life over a test score."
The sci-fi show was an instant hit when it was first released, and many fans are devastated that there will not be a Lost In Space season 4. Although this iteration is much different than the original series, which aired from 1965 to 1968, the Robinsons are famous across space and time.
The TV series sees them stranded in a foreign world when the Resolute mothership has an accident and everyone, including the Robinson family, has to evacuate. The family was on their way to a new life in the promising lands of Alpha Centauri, but after crash-landing their spaceship in ice, they discover there was an alien robot on the loose.
Will Robinson is the primary protagonist and develops an unforeseen relationship with the robot after saving its life. Things take off from there, and the adventures and complications along the way grow direr and direr.
One of the main attractions of this show was its amazing cast. The Robinsons were great, but so were their friends, enemies and frenemies. Every main character survived the series finale, so there is potential for everyone to reunite years later.
The Robinson family consists of five essential parts. First off, we have the parents: Maureen Robinson (Molly Parker) and John Robinson (Toby Stephens). They begin the series separated, but eventually, the traumatic events surrounding their survival and their children bring them back together.
Then, of course, we have the infamous Robinson children. Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins) is often too curious for his good and gets himself in difficult situations. Judy Robinson (Taylor Russell) is the typical first-born, older-sister type and excels in every situation. Penny Robinson (Mina Sundwall) is the wild child of the crew and causes plenty of drama and trouble for herself.
Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) is certainly the frenemy type since she spends most of the series going back and forth between helping the family and using them for her gain. Finally, there is the Robot (Brian Steele), who begins as an enemy but becomes attached to Will throughout the show.
Penny and Judy head towards the wreckage of the robot ships. Many of the robot ships were destroyed, and there were tons of injured robot soldiers scattered about. Penny takes a chance and helps one, turning it into a friend instead of a foe. Some of the other teenagers follow her example.
Once they collect a team of robots they fight against SAR. Smith and Robot arrive on the scene and assist Will. Will sees what Penny accomplished and attempts to figure out how to help all the robots. John and Maureen race off to help their children.
Robot grabs the engine and destroys it, ending the final source of harm for his family. Now that all the robots are freed of their commands, some choose to leave while others stay and help rebuild Alpha Centauri and the Resolute.
The epilogue shows Maureen and John working on new technology alongside the robots. Dr. Smith confesses everything she did and sits inside a prison cell, but Maureen comes and visits her, showing a renewed friendship. Everyone enjoys dinner together, including Don, Robot, and the kids.
Will trained to be in the colony program but was ultimately denied for failing the stress test. He was accepted after his mother managed to get a seat for him, secretly changing his status with the 24th Colonist Group in a black market transaction. In exchange, she had to upload the security codes to Hastings in order to bypass the security systems of the Resolute. She then lied to him, claiming that he had, in fact, passed.
After the Jupiter 2 was stranded on an alien planet, he helped save his sister's life by coming up with the idea to use Magnesium to melt the ice she was trapped in. While out to harvest it with his father, John, he ended up becoming separated. He then encountered the Robot and was excited to be the first human, as far as he knew, to discover evidence of an alien intelligence. When the two of them were trapped on a branch together, he severed the branch in order to reunite the Robot with the rest of his body, but was sad, thinking that he had doomed himself. He was pleasantly surprised when the Robot rescued him. Though the Robot's form was at first somewhat monstrous and terrifying, he formed a bond with Will and took on a more human-like appearance make him feel more comfortable. Will's rescue of him formed a strong friendship between the two.
Will led the Robot back to his family's Jupiter spacecraft, where thanks to his ability to melt ice and powerful strength, he was able to rescue Will's sister Judy and the spacecraft from underwater.[2]
Will was separated from his Robot when the Jupiter 2 was sent hurtling in space to a watery planet. He sometimes played with a toy version of the Robot, speaking to it as if it was the Robot that he had befriended. He told it that while everyone thinks that he misses him because he helps them out of trouble, the truth is that they do fine on their own. He really just misses them because they're friends.[3]
Will aided his family as they used a lightning storm on the planet to re-energize the Jupiter 2 in order to get back into space. They discovered a giant metal trench and within it, Maureen discovered markings that looked like the one on the Robot and his ship. Will wanted to stay and investigate the glyphs, but Maureen declared that they're getting as far away from the planet as possible. Will was upset about this, but was aided by Penny, who brought him Maureen's wrist device, showing him that Maureen had taken some recordings of the glyphs. Will thanked her and told her that if the Robot couldn't find them, then he was going to find him.[4]
He and his family arrived back on the Resolute, which had been abandoned by the colonists. Will and Penny hid as Scarecrow rampaged through the vessel, but the Robinson family, with the help of Don West, was ultimately able to contain it. Will learned that his Robot had been on the vessel as well.[5] He tried to form a connection with Scarecrow like he had formed with his own Robot, but Scarecrow did not seem to react in the same way. He had a chat with his mother, in which she admitted that she had been going about things the wrong way. She had been trying to do it by herself, and showed Will the alien engine which powered the Resolute. Will then told Scarecrow that they might never be friends and that he might not even understand what he's saying, but that he didn't belong in a box, referring to the cage in which he had been trapped. In response, Scarecrow showed him evidence that SAR and Will's Robot had fought in that room. Will got a flash and realized his Robot, and Penny was on the amber planet below.[6]
Will and his mother began making plans to go down to the planet, using a photograph as reference to find the Robot, charting it as being about 200 kilometers east of base camp. They planned to meet up with John and have him drive them there. They met up with Ben Adler, who had been working on Scarecrow, and he expressed his appreciation in them letting him tag along, though Maureen said he'd come whether they wanted him to or not. Will slept during the journey and Maureen commented on how little he looks while he's sleeping. Ben expressed that he had a hope of seeing his family, who were on Alpha Centauri, again thanks to Will. He showed her some glyphs they had found on the planet, wondering what they meant. Will replied that when they found his Robot, they could ask him and Ben replied that they should just hope that they liked the answer.[7]
They arrived on the planet, where they learned that the Chariot vehicles had all been quarantined and that John wouldn't be able to join them due to needing medical care after an incident in a well. Will wondered if they were going to walk and Ben asked if it was a problem. It was a joke, however, as he revealed that he had sent for horses from base camp. Maureen commented that it was just like at grandma's, though Will noted he had never let him have his own horse because he was too little. Ben said that he now not only had a horse, but also a robot, and they should go find him. They set off, determined to make good time during the daylight they had left.
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