And he was the defender of the vegetable kingdom from the depredations of the animal kingdom. Fairly relevant, particularly in the mid-1960s.

“Today, the first of what may be as many as 10 million families per year is setting out on its epic voyage into man’s newest frontier, deep space.  Reaching out into other worlds from our desperately overcrowded planet….”

Yep, the population explosion — topicality, only few seconds into the series.  Although clearly not as sustained a treatment of overpopulation as, say, Star Trek‘s “The Mark of Gideon” (coincidentally co-written by none other than Stanley “Tybo, the talking carrot” Adams), the very beginning of the Lost in Space pilot could hardly be a more prominent place from which to send a message.  Other SFnal mainstays touched upon from the very beginning: cryogenics, AI, and of course space colonization.

Conceded, that’s about as far as the show went as “serious SF”….

And hiya, BD.

Your kind of statement says more about you than it says about the fandom you were a part of.

You were in a small, insular, niche fandom, lget out, then turn around, and complain that you niche fandom acted small and insular, while painting the rest the assorted related fandoms with a RATHER wide brush, here.

“erasing women” Have you even looked at the moe~ side of the house, or rule-63 fan-foolishness?

the first Science Fiction  TV show that attempted to do serious  SF in a continuing universe

Hmm.  Hmmm….

A for Andromeda (1963)? Men Into Space (1959)?

though i think that may be giving the video a little more credit then it deserves, i cant quite make up my mind, the talking heads were saying good things, or at least a few second clip of some good things :/

I could go on, but I feel a thesis coming on…:-)

And, frankly, most fandoms simply don’t have what it takes to convince me that their alteration of Dean and Sam or Kirk and Spock or whoever is anything but internalized misogyny most of the time. Not that a lot of those fandoms don’t have their own problem with having internalized misogyny already present (I’m looking at you, Supernatural, Avengers — hell, all of comics, if you get right down to it — and several other groups).You really can’t win for losing in fandom, when it comes to fair, accurate and unsensationalized or hypersexualized examples of homosexuals, male or female. It’s either the women are dumped as soon as possible to make way for hot man on man action, or they’re marginalized, most often by other women writers.

We are our own worst enemies, some days. 

I’ve found the same. It’s probably my biggest disappointment with internet counter culture.

And as a random, apropos of nothing comment: I am seriously impressed at the ability of the presenters to speak at auctioneer/car dealership-fine-print  speeds. Unless the audio was just sped up a bit. Then I guess I wouldn’t be impressed.