Lost in Space (2018 episode 1) No Spoilers (But with completely unnecessary quotes from Shakespeare's Richard II -- in italics) After viewing the first episode, I have mixed thoughts about the show, but " To be a make-peace shall become my age ." I was thrilled to see Toby Stephens in the role of John Robinson . I remember him from one of the James Bond movies, and from Vexed in which he played the charming and hilariously politically incorrect male chauvinist DI Armstrong. Naturally, I was disappointed to see, in this first episode at least, that he was relegated to fulfilling the role of the ineffective father who is only allowed to think and act for himself when his wife (some kind of scientist/engineer/astrophysicist/geologist/etc is unconscious); even then, it's the whining son who proves more useful than the father. It's as though John Robinson is forced to say, " I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander...