Indeed it did.
Mostly off screen.

Astra: Lost in Space has been a really good series, where our young heroes have survived against all odds in the face of all manner of interesting science fiction scenarios. In the process of surviving those perils, they have uncovered a conspiracy, another, much larger conspiracy of incredible scope and the series has expertly set up the fact that their getting home is going to start an entirely new set of adventures that could easily provide fodder for an entire new season including some genuine conundrums and really interesting concepts with sinister implications.

Instead, these many fascinating plot threads involving many perils and a gut punch to their entire civilization is wrapped up in a convenient retrospective monologue after a time skip.

To be fair, the show has a logical resolution . It just happens off camera.  This really could have gone on for 12 more episodes even if there were additional twists. Instead, we get 15 minutes added to the episode length and a lot of exposition. The troubling and sinister implications of the larger conspiracy are only hinted at.

Among the sinister implications: how an entire generation was silenced. Also: the fact that that everybody is disarmed and all weapons have been outlawed...yet this is a very heavily armed world government....A government that has decided to perpetrate a incredible lie "for the sake of peace". Note that this very rosy reading of the motivations behind the conspiracy comes from the guy who has been raised to die.

However, the biggest disappointment to me, aside from the "missing" 12 episodes, is the fact that Acting Dr. Gyru and Pinky McTwo Tone, two absolute geniuses who saved the day multiple times, DO NOT get their promised places on Kanata's spaceship. They stay home and do girl stuff. .

It looks like the series got cut short and the writers dealt with it as best they could. As it stands this was still a very above average series. The last episode is just SO perfunctory that it is a genuine disappointment.

On the other hand, the result is that this ends up being a show that is much more about the journey and the destination, and despite the let down of the journey's end, the road show itself was a hoot.

The first 12 episodes were good enough that I still recommend it though. With the caveat that the last episode is an afterthought.

(And I eagerly look forward to the show being finished in the fanfic.)

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