In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame published "The Lost World." A man of science, he created Challenger, a man of science, leading an expedition to a South American plateau.
This series took liberties with Arthur Conan Doyle. For instance, it adds two females, one funding the expedition and the other already in situ. A woman nestling in on an expedition with men would have horrified his Victorian soul.
The storyteller in him might have approved of other changes, especially if he knew and understood interactions of time and space in the multiverse. And especially in the period of his life when he believed in fairies and Mediums.
I can't discuss the finale of the opening cliffhanger without spoilers but I can say the third season expands the show's envelope about as far as it can go. The cast plays parts in third season episodes about Jack the Ripper and the American old west. They meet new tribes (again, all speaking English) and aliens (again, all speaking English). Like "Star Trek" decades earlier in three seasons they met just about all the people they could meet (all speaking English). They did what they could with the introduction of a modern woman named Finn, but she was as much desperation from nationalistic Australian rules limiting the involvement of US and Canadian actors.
In the third season Roxton and Marguerite grow closer together while Veronica is less interested in Malone, no doubt to make their relationship a source of tension.
But in the final analysis the castaways stranded on the Plateau can only have run-ins with so many tribes, time travellers, old friends passing by and aliens. Through the third season the show remained fun and exciting, but with a pervading sense of deja vu. At the end of season three it was time to go home. But I wish they'd had a fourth season.
This series took liberties with Arthur Conan Doyle. For instance, it adds two females, one funding the expedition and the other already in situ. A woman nestling in on an expedition with men would have horrified his Victorian soul.
The storyteller in him might have approved of other changes, especially if he knew and understood interactions of time and space in the multiverse. And especially in the period of his life when he believed in fairies and Mediums.
I can't discuss the finale of the opening cliffhanger without spoilers but I can say the third season expands the show's envelope about as far as it can go. The cast plays parts in third season episodes about Jack the Ripper and the American old west. They meet new tribes (again, all speaking English) and aliens (again, all speaking English). Like "Star Trek" decades earlier in three seasons they met just about all the people they could meet (all speaking English). They did what they could with the introduction of a modern woman named Finn, but she was as much desperation from nationalistic Australian rules limiting the involvement of US and Canadian actors.
In the third season Roxton and Marguerite grow closer together while Veronica is less interested in Malone, no doubt to make their relationship a source of tension.
But in the final analysis the castaways stranded on the Plateau can only have run-ins with so many tribes, time travellers, old friends passing by and aliens. Through the third season the show remained fun and exciting, but with a pervading sense of deja vu. At the end of season three it was time to go home. But I wish they'd had a fourth season.
