LOST IN SPACE: Season 1: Impact
Fresh, exciting, inventive science fiction with strong family bonds.
Should You Watch It?
“Impact” gives you a strong reason to continue with this series. The Robinson family faces one emergency after another, and the episode makes their love for one another central to the story. Family comes before everything here, including comfort and personal safety.
The episode also delivers captivating characters, situations, and dialogue. Its individual plot points can feel contrived, but the survival-adventure setting and Will’s encounter with the robot are exciting and inventive. The content is generally family-friendly, though one obscenity, one light profanity, scary robot violence, and dangerous situations may trouble some viewers.
For older children and adults, this is worth watching.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESAfter an emergency landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family finds itself in a desperate fight to survive. Their spaceship sinks in a nearly frozen lake, Maureen suffers a broken leg, and Judy becomes trapped in the ice while trying to save supplies.
As the family works together to rescue her, young Will falls through an ice tunnel and encounters a mysterious robotic life form in the forest.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this episode is highly entertaining and succeeds at its intended survival-adventure mission. The family relationships are captivating, and the situations and dialogue hold your attention.
The science-fiction motifs add excitement, especially Will’s encounter with the robot. Some individual plot points feel contrived, but the characters, family bonds, and desperate circumstances make “Impact” a fresh, exciting, and inventive beginning.
The Worldview
“Impact” presents a strong moral worldview with redemptive elements. It celebrates putting family first, praying for a family member, and sacrificing one’s own life to save family. Those choices are presented as right and worthy.
The episode also includes moral complications: a mother changes records so her son can join a mission into outer space, a woman lies about her identity, and a married couple discusses divorce. These actions complicate an otherwise clear emphasis on loyalty, love, and family commitment.
The episode’s central conviction—that love is shown through self-sacrifice—aligns with Jesus’ words: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
</b> Strong moral worldview with redemptive elements where family comes before everything, prayer for family member and sacrificing one’s own life to save one’s family is celebrated and right;</p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b><span lang="IT">
Foul Language
</span></b> One obscenity, one light profanity;</p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b><span lang="FR">
Violence
</span></b> One scene where a character must use a scalpel to cut into a broken leg but nothing gruesome shown, one scene of humans being killed with robot lasers, a character is trapped in ice, spaceship crashes, explosions on large transport spaceship, boy slides down ice tunnel, forest fire threatens boy’s life, scary robot starts to grab boy but boy eventually befriends robot;<b></b></p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b>
Sex
</b> A married couple kisses deeply; <b></b></p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b>
Nudity
</b> No nudity;<b></b></p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b>
Alcohol Use
</b> No alcohol us;<b></b></p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b>
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
</b> No smoking or drug content; and,<b></b></p> <p class="SingleSpacepara"><b>
Miscellaneous Immorality
</b> A married couple discusses divorce, mother changes records to make sure her son is accepted on a mission into outer space with the rest of the family, woman lies about her identity.<b></b></p>
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The Robinsons put family before everything. What does loving your family look like when everyone is frightened or under pressure?
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 · Philippians 2:3–4Several characters risk their lives to save family members. When is sacrifice loving, and how does Jesus’ sacrifice show us the greatest form of love?
John 15:13 · Romans 5:8The episode includes prayer for a family member. What do you pray for when someone you love is in danger?
Philippians 4:6–7 · James 5:16The episode shows people making difficult moral choices, including lying and changing records. Can a good goal make a dishonest choice right?
Proverbs 12:22 · Ephesians 4:25The Final Word
Fresh, exciting, and inventive, “Impact” combines survival adventure with a deeply committed family. Its frightening robot violence and minor language call for parental awareness, but older children and adults can find a strong beginning here. Our answer is clear: WORTH WATCHING.
