La tierra perdida

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!

Ok first of all, their mother died before they left for vacation(before they visited the "lost world"). Secondly, it was cancer that killed her not a T-Rex; therefore, they were not trying to get back to their mother. "Living in the Land of the Lost" or just "Land of the Lost" was a brilliant show that had limitless possibilities. This show had a chance to become one of the longest running series on television but it was denied the opportunity!

funny thing is, I never forgot about this show, and im 26 now. the theme song would get stuck in my head randomly. however I happen to be in the library recently that has a lot of older videos, and I couldn't believe I see a videotape of this show that had 2 episodes on it. needless to say, I grabbed it and watched it when I came home. holy moly, that intro REALLY brought back waves of memories that I had almost forgotten. that theme song still catchy as ever! of course with my adult eyes I can see just how cheesy the show is, especially the acting, like that teen kevin with is LA 'tude but it was still great to see this awesome hilarious kids show as an adult and it sure was nostalgic to see it! now I've seen tim bottoms in many different things but I always knew him first as the father from land of the lost.

I've never seen or heard of a 70's version of this show as I was a 90's kid so I only know this version. I looked up the 70's version out of curiosity and jeeeeez I didn't think it could be sillier then the 90's version but my my, it is much worse. plus the 90's version had Christa, and that automatically raises it for having a hot babe.

all in all, I have such fond memories of watching this show with these characters, this was in a time when kids shows were allowed to be a little silly and cheesy, usually had some kind of moral or message and weren't trying to be all super sassy and attitude problems like they do today. this was in the golden age of nickelodeon, and sadly you wont see something this silly and charming today because everything sucks today, and that's not just my opinion.

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=^.^=

I have to agree with Wakener below with his comments on this sub par remake of the original show.

I wonder if the people who decided to make this show were actually fans of the original or if they were only taking advantage of the current dinosaur craze of the early 1990's.

I just hope that the people who are making the theatrical movie version of this show (starring Will Ferrell), which is supposed to stand true to the original series, won't louse it up.

I bet if Steven Spielberg or Tim Burton got their hands on a theatrical release of the original television show, a descent movie could be made.