WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for the reboot of Lost in Space, streaming now on Netflix.


Netflix's reboot of the 1960s Irwin Allen classic, Lost in Space is an emotional journey that delivers both a rollicking sci-fi adventure and a heartfelt story of family. This modern retelling continues the old narrative of the Robinsons being marooned on a mysterious planet, but this time the threats they face aren't just extraterrestrial beasts, but also selfish humans, domestic disputes and a killer robot.

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As they try to find their way off a doomed world and back to their interstellar colony ship, The Resolute, the Robinsons and their fellow castaways are confronted with a series of seemingly insurmountable setbacks, climaxing in a fast-paced finale. Looking back at Season 1, however, we're left with several unanswered questions.

Where Are the Robinsons Now?

Their family-size Jupiter ships drained of fuel by eel-like creatures, and their planet refuge becoming increasingly unstable, the Robinson and the other colonists are left with few options, as The Resolute is about to continue the journey to Alpha Centauri without them. What little fuel remains is enough to send one stripped-down Jupiter, piloted by John Robinson (the family's patriarch, played by Toby Stephens) and mechanic Don West (Ignacio Serricchio), into orbit in hopes of making contact with the colony ship before it's too late.

Of course, that mission goes awry, leaving most everyone to assume John and Don died in mid-flight in a dramatic explosion in mid-flight. However, a spirited Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins) discovers a bio-organic fuel supply, allowing all Jupiters to return to safety aboard The Resolute. However, before the Robinsons can rejoin the others, they set off to rescue John and Don, who are confirmed alive, but stranded in orbit aboard a piece of their ship, with oxygen running out.

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The family barely completes this mission, successfully staving off the sinister Dr. Smith (Parker Posey), and not only Robot, but also its extraterrestrial comrade, which appears from seemingly nowhere in an effort to retrieve the alien engine salvaged from Robot's crashed vessel. Victory is short-lived, though, because as the finale winds down, that engine integrates with the Jupiter 2 and transports the family to the binary star system. Will immediately recognizes it from a crude picture Robot drew in the dirt, and warned of "danger." It remains to be seen what aliens exist there and how they'll react to the humans.

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Has "Dr. Smith" Truly Turned A New Leaf?

Posey's character is revealed at the end of the premiere episode not to be Dr. Smith, but instead an imposter who stole the identity of an injured physician aboard The Resolute (played by Bill Mumy in a cameo) so she could escape both Robot's attack and, it turns out, prosecution for her own crimes. Posey's June Harris is a stowaway who also stole her sister's identity so she could travel to Alpha Centauri, and then killed a crew member who threatened to expose her charade.

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Marooned with the other colonists, her list of bad acts grows, culminating in taking control of Robot so that once she returns to The Resolute, she'll be untouchable. She struck a deal in the finale for Dr. Maureen Robinson (Molly Parker) to pilot the Jupiter 2 off the planet, and save John and Don and in the process. But when it becomes clear there isn't enough fuel for both a rescue and a safe reunion with the colony ship, it leads to a showdown between Maureen and Dr. Smith and her Robot. Maureen's first attempt to reach John with the Jupiter 2's harpoon falls short, and the chaos that follows prevents her from trying again. However, when Will slips off the hull of the ship and begins a free-fall through space, John soars in on a tow cable in the nick of time to save the boy. As everyone soon finds out, it was Dr. Smith who fired the harpoon a second time.

As a stunned Maureen interrogates her about a seemingly selfless act, June insists it's an apology for everything she’s done. When pressed if she's being genuine, however, June responds, “I said it because it’s the right thing to say. That’s what I do.” It leaves us wondering whether this wildcard character is only about self-preservation, or if she really has the capacity for good.

How Exactly Did the Alien Engine Get on Earth?

Set a few decades into the future, Lost in Space takes place against the backdrop of an Earth struggling with environmental and political instability. Somehow, though, humanity has developed the technology that permits an enormous vessel that can journey across the galaxy to the Alpha Centauri, not once but 24 times, to establish a new colony. As Maureen, a brilliant engineer, soon deduces, the engine that makes such interstellar travel almost commonplace wasn't developed on Earth; it's stolen alien technology. That's why Robot attacked The Resolute: to retrieve that engine, presumably for its extraterrestrial masters.

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We're shown, in flashbacks, news reports of a "Christmas Star," a meteor that somehow escaped detection and crashed on Earth, devastating part of Canada. But that was a cover story concocted by the world's governments to explain away an alien spacecraft. The wreckage was looted, with the technology integrated into plans that permitted The Resolute to move from theory to reality, decades ahead of schedule.

There remain some questions about that "Christmas Star," however. First and foremost, was it a crash, or was the craft shot down by Earth's defenses? And did humanity mistake the alien intentions?

What Happened to the Robots at the End?

The surprise arrival of a second extraterrestrial robot in the season finale further complicates a situation fraught with (yes) danger. Although the original Robot is now allied with Dr. Smith, there are indications that both it and its master still have goodness in them. Not to this new interloper, which boards the Jupiter 2 in multi-arm attack mode, intending to retrieve a piece of alien technology, and destroy anyone who gets in its way. However, just as it's about kill Will, Robot remembers their unique bond and decides to attack his comrade instead.

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An all-out brawl ensues, which leads to both robots being sucked out of the Jupiter 2 and into space, shortly before the alien engine hijacks the Robinsons' ship and transports it to a distant galaxy. That leaves us wondering what happened to the two battling robots. Did the ship that dropped off the second robot rescue the two combatants as they fell through space?


Streaming now on Netflix, the 10-episode first season of Lost in Space stars Toby Stephens, Molly Parker, Maxwell Jenkins, Taylor Russell, Mina Sundwall, Ignacio Serricchio and Parker Posey.