#6 Danger! Danger!

When I was young I would get up early on Sunday mornings and get ready for church. This was back in those days when there were only 4 TV channels on that huge square box in your living room, excuse me 5 channels, if you considered PBS a channel. Anyway... On Sunday mornings there was only one show that I was interested in watching, the name of it, “Lost In Space”. It was a show about a family that one day hopped on a spaceship on Earth and left on a mission, and yes, you guessed it, they got lost in space. So the entire show is about them trying to get home. It was an awesome show for my 10 or 11-year-old mind and I’m sure I thought that the production was so awesome, and the stories... well they were captivating. But there was always one thing about this show that got me so frustrated. You see this family was sent with a robot that was programmed to assist and protect them on their journey. This robot had the ability to sense danger and warn the family of impending doom or dangerous situations. What I found so frustrating is that many times the robot would cry out, “Danger, Danger, Will Robinson.” If the family didn’t immediately sense danger after the warning they would look at the robot and think that he was malfunctioning, and even power him down because of it. And let me say this, that robot, he never malfunctioned, and they were always in danger. It seemed to me that after the first episode, they would have learned that the robot didn’t malfunction, and yet after the 400th episode, they still wouldn’t trust his warnings.