Well thought out background story continued throughout the series. The Altruisans built a "pocket" universe to live in. Safe from everything, they controlled what entered and left. What happened?
They had time travel, dimensional travel... Manipulated great energies and forces by use of the pylons which were controlled by the position of color coded crystals... but yet they vanished... Only to leave the remains of their once great race, the Sleestax.
The Marshall family "fell" into this pocket universe. Each episode they deal with daily survival, food, water, and monsters... and discovering how this world works to find a way home. They were also a family dealing with the usual joys, tears and fears families deal with. It was a good balance between the science of the "Land of the Lost" and human stories.
While Enik, the last Altruisan, unable to remember (or never having known) seeks ways to discover what happened to his people. The character of Enik was only in a few episodes but it did set the tone for a mystery of a "lost race" and were some of the best episodes.
It was sad to seen this show end, it was one of the few highlights of Saturday morning TV. If this show had been given a bigger budget and an hour time slot it could have been a prime time sci-fi series.
They had time travel, dimensional travel... Manipulated great energies and forces by use of the pylons which were controlled by the position of color coded crystals... but yet they vanished... Only to leave the remains of their once great race, the Sleestax.
The Marshall family "fell" into this pocket universe. Each episode they deal with daily survival, food, water, and monsters... and discovering how this world works to find a way home. They were also a family dealing with the usual joys, tears and fears families deal with. It was a good balance between the science of the "Land of the Lost" and human stories.
While Enik, the last Altruisan, unable to remember (or never having known) seeks ways to discover what happened to his people. The character of Enik was only in a few episodes but it did set the tone for a mystery of a "lost race" and were some of the best episodes.
It was sad to seen this show end, it was one of the few highlights of Saturday morning TV. If this show had been given a bigger budget and an hour time slot it could have been a prime time sci-fi series.