Lost in Space: 90% of IMDb reviews are from Bogus Accounts

Approximately 50 out of every 100 reviews for shows and films on IMDb are verbatim duplicates by Burner IMDB accounts.

And then some trolly user writes a recent review and titles it "90% of the positive reviews are from burner accounts"

WRONG.

It is the other way around actually, the positive (or honestly critical, rather than labelling shows "politically correct" or "feminist") reviews are from real users who have been using this site for the last 15 years.

"Do what you accuse others of doing"- A notorious war criminal once said.

This show however is an excellent re-envisioning of the original show: it's a lot more interesting than the slapstick Irwin Allen version, which Jonathan Harris totally destroyed by making it all about him. But I'm sure in that original show that Jonathan Harris did not deliberately set out to ruin the show by making his character ridiculous. Between this show and the original show I would say that the original show is the one that had extremely bad writing, such as changing Dr. Smith's character from a dangerous spy (as she is depicted here) and turning him into a buffoon who always calls the robot a "Bumbling Boobie".

In fact the Dr. Smith character here is depicted as a very clever woman who has learned how to manipulate people by twisting facts around. Kind of like the current vagrant in the "orange" house.

Then there are a number of fake reviews, basically all identical that are calling this show "PC" or "feminist" or something like that, simply because there are strong women characters. Get stuffed.

Everything that the original show should have been, this show is. It has interesting story lines, clever plot twists, real science that is expounded upon, and in some cases real science that was used to describe the involvement of what becomes "the robot"

This robot did not come with the ship, Will Robinson kind of inherited it. There's not really any explanation of what it actually is or what it's purpose is only that at some times it has done bad things and at other times it has become Will Robinson's friend.

And I liked how that was developed in some of these episodes, the robot appeared to actually be learning how to become a friend to not just will Robinson but to the stranded colonists.

Also I liked the idea that it wasn't just one family stranded on this planet, there were a number of "Jupiter" spacecraft, each with the ability to become a habitat when they reach their destination.

As the show goes on we see a complicated relationship between all of the crew of the different Jupiter ships, so at times it is difficult to see exactly what is going on. Or better yet it would be better to say that it would be difficult for any one person to be aware of everything that was going on, on the planet with all of these different ships spread out. So when something very important is happening, it is usually happening many miles away from the people who need to know that it is happening. In this way the show has more of a real life sense ability to it.

But the best thing that I like about this show is that even for a brief cameo, the real Dr. Zachary Smith was played by Bill Mumy. I was hoping that there would be more of his involvement, we really don't know what happens to that character after his brief interaction with "June Harris"- which I am sure is a small homage to Jonathan Harris. Who never really wanted to be involved with the franchise when they made the movie version in the 90s- this is one of those shows, like Star Trek the next generation, it only works as an episodic television show, and that's how it was intended. To make these shows into feature length movies is difficult because there's not really enough time in a two hour movie to tell the same story that the television show told.

Although there is a superfluity of fake accounts writing one star reviews and voting down the positive reviews, i'm glad that this show has kept a rating that is basically above 7.0 on IMDb - it's kind of like how sometimes gerrymandering doesn't work when there are enough people angry so that they show up to the polls to vote. And that is what is happening on IMDb lately, there is gerrymandering going on with the incredible amount of Reddit and 8chan users that are attacking not just this show but basically every show that is on television these days, they even attacked Game of Thrones. But I'm glad that there are enough real IMDB users giving their honest opinions, which in real life will generally not manifest itself in solid one star opinions, an honest polling system at IMDB would reflect a more varied collection of the opinions of television viewers.

Because people do not rush to their computers, typewriters, hand devices and what not when they hate something, unless they are being paid to write an opinion for every movie or television show that they watch. And due to some of these reviews that I have read, I get the positive impression that the person writing it did not even bother to watch the show, and/or, they were handed a piece of paper which told them exactly what you write due to the fact that these reviews appear to repeat themselves over and over and over again.

When normal television viewers don't like something, they do not go out of their way to write 50 1-star reviews that are identical.

Comments

XweAponX said…
Notice:

Some person has posted a huge comment about this review. Normally I would allow it, but it seems to me they didn’t even bother reading what I had written.

They claimed that I was trashing the original show. I did not say that. They are saying that “the original show was not what I wanted“, well that’s not what I said either. I am not reviewing the original show, I am simply comparing. and I am basically comparing only one character, Dr. Smith.

In fact every Wednesday night I watched the original show and I don’t think I ever missed an episode. At the time I was Will Robinson‘s age so what did I know about show continuity, writing, or anything else? it was a show about aliens and spaceships and that is why I watched it.

But as I got older, I realized that the show had gone the way of voyage to the bottom of the Sea, which, as Irwin Allen became less involved with his own shows, the writing started getting totally out of hand. And even David Hedison acknowledges this, where he says that the third season of voyage to the bottom of the sea was written so badly that he could hardly tolerate being in the show anymore. But what he does acknowledge is that when Irwin Allen was involved, the show did have some good things. The fact is, by the third season of both shows, their budgets have been cut down to practically nothing so they were severely limited with what they could actually do and this impacted the storytelling.

And that is exactly what happened to lost in space. Now notice I am not reviewing the original show, so that is beyond the scope of any comments that I would want to make or any comments that I will allow to be published in my blog- and I basically wanted to answer the charge that I was “trashing the original show”. No, I was not. Next time, read my review.

If you want to discuss my review then you are going to have to stick to the subject at hand which is not the original lost in space series but this reboot, which has magnificent writing. It also does have some of the same elements that we saw in the original show but that is only for something that we can grab onto.