Land of the Lost

It's just one of the best memories of my childhood

The new Land Of The Lost was a total disappointment to me. I thoroughly loved the original - it had great dinosaurs for the time, and the new one had dinosaurs that weren't good for this time. The family in the original was very real - the kids fought, but their love for each other shone through. The original sleestaks were far scarier than the newer ones, and the backgrounds, the special effects, were so cool on the original. The story and effects on the new Land Of The Lost were so crazy - a jeep, a bush bunny named Christa, and an extremely unreal looking baby dinosaur. All that said, I hope that the new one will somehow be as much of an enjoyment, a life-changing, never-to-be-forgotten experience as the original was for this LOTL-er when she was seven years old.

I never saw the original. I read up on it and looked into it some more on the internet, and I'm going to have to say the remake definitely gives it justice. I don't think it really matters if the show wasn't as scientifically proved or logical as the old one from the 70's. The concept is fine and was made for a younger audience. It is not something that should be judged by validity of the story line much as the entertainment, colorful world, and characters it brought with it. The show totally rules, but some of the cast was cheesy (but don't we all like that sometimes). There was the mini dinosaur Tasha and the sasquatch guy Stink! The villains were amusing and so was the irony that the (motherless) family that get lost happens to meet a perfect replacement with a woman who had been lost in the world since she was a child! You totally want them to hook up in the show.. haha. I watched it when I was younger.. I like the nostalgic TV shows. I am an 80's TV fan, and i think 80's TV held strong, with influence well throughout the 90's. I can't say I would ever expect a show like this to air again with the shows on TV today.

As a major fan of the original Land of the Lost, I was excited to hear there would be a remake. I was unsure whether it would be a retelling of the original story, or something new. I was disappointed by it initially, but it grew on me over time. It would have benefited by having better writing! Having missed the first episode, I was confused by Christa at first. I thought maybe she was supposed to be Holly, years later! Even though it turned out to be an "alternate universe", and not the original Land, I still enjoyed it. Christa was great, with her pet triceratops. The Sleestak were OK, but I felt like they should have been called something else - they were more like orcs than Sleestak. The one part that bothered me the most was that the family never ran out of batteries or fuel! Maybe it was some mysterious unknown quality of the Land... batteries never die!

Until Nick at Night did a special where they ran episodes of Lidsville, H.R Pufnstuff, Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and a bunch of other wierded out 70's stuff...

(it was the 90's at the time and the 70's were the major trend, much like the 80's are experiencing a comeback now, THANK GOD!!) ...I had no friggen clue that the Land Of The Lost I used to watch durring saturday mornings on ABC in the early 90's was not an orriginal show (but hey nothing is ever orriginal anymore is it?) I loved the show to death for its strange "Star Trek meets the prehistoric age" atmosphere. Albeit the characters were meager and there were some nitpicks but the writers usually don't factor in the concept of kids nitpicking Sat Am TV or their parents saying--

"Hey! I remember a similar show back when I was little!"

Because of course those kids will laugh at you and look at you like you're insane so everything is fine. I myself was born in 1981 and my idea of good TV is Knight Rider.

But durring the 90's there was this resurgence of 70's stuff and so alotta music and television programs got re-made. Land Of The Lost was about a guy and his kids who's jeep got lost in some cave that transported them into the era of the dinosaurs. A scary and strange enviroment for the son and daughter as well as the dad.

Dino's are just about everywhere, and the ancient technological race called "Sleestaks" are always trying to hurt the humans. The fact that they and the cave girl speak english without being taught doesn't really bother me, its a kids show and I was young when I watched it. Kids generally don't nitpick inconsistencies in their saturday morning tv shows.

I always loved the baby dinosaur and the cave girl, they were the most memorable characters in the show for me. One of my fave episodes of the show is when the humans think they have gone home but things don't seem quite right in their old house. Everything is really a fake projection and a T Rex comes storming thru the hologram town. Awesome and ironic. Great looking special effects. And what about the themesong? Gotta find a place to download that.

After seeing the orriginal 70's incarnation of "Land Of The Lost" on Nick at Night I learned that

0 - Special effects in the 70's were crude and lame.

0 - There was too much obsession over censorship and cleanliness then.

0 - I appreciated and miss >MY< 'Land Of The Lost' that much more.

And the most important one of all.

0 - Its okay for TV producers to refurbish a show from a couple decades back so long as the kids watching it don't have a clue that its not an orriginal concept.

I know the feeling of betrayal when your fave series gets remade and all the brats watching the new stuff think you're stupid when you try to tell them about the orriginal. When Knight Rider gets remade I'm going to complain to those kids at the theatre about the orriginal and.. they're going to look at me like I'm insane.

Its conspiracy I tell ya!

-BlazeFoxKitsune=^.^=