{"id":135927,"date":"2018-03-06T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135927"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:44:57","slug":"danger-will-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/06\/danger-will-robinson.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Danger, Will Robinson &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Netflix &#8220;Lost in Space&#8221; reboot (which drops on 13 April) looks like they&#8217;re taking some interesting twists on the original &#8212; though if you&#8217;re hoping for a serious without a precocious young William, the trailer will bring you no joy.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m seeing intrigues me enough to give it a try. Heck, if they&#8217;re willing to give me a brief, subtle, music shout-out to John Williams&#8217; original theme, I&#8217;ll definitely give them at least an episode.<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912\">Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSih-z7ucxQ\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fKLXcCkrE2h\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Netflix &#8220;Lost in Space&#8221; reboot (which drops on 13 April) looks like they&#8217;re taking some interesting twists on the original &#8212; though if you&#8217;re hoping for a serious without a precocious young William, the trailer will bring you no joy. What I&#8217;m seeing intrigues me enough to give it a try. Heck, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/06\/danger-will-robinson.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Danger, Will Robinson &#8230;&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40],"tags":[1443,1444,1445],"class_list":["post-135927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv","tag-lost-in-space","tag-netflix","tag-reboot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kdK6SftLZVFyN6CaDDxjF7-1200-801.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130958,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-return-of-lost-in-space-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":135927,"position":0},"title":"The Return of &quot;Lost in Space&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-16 5:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The basic setup for LiS is a classic -- stranded family battling for survival, alongside the man who caused them to be stranded. 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