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Moving a fraction of an inch at a time, they are able to disconnect the wires holding them in the magnetic field and manage to escape. However, the robots arrive too early and are only frozen rather than destroyed. The original plan was to lure the pursuing robots onto the ship with the engine, then crush them inside a magnetic field (the same way Ben killed SAR earlier in the season).
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The Robinsons' decision to " atomize" the Resolute is quite an about-turn after an entire season spent trying to get the Resolute ready for the journey to Alpha Centauri - but as with a lot of things in the show, it's something they only resort to after Plan A goes awry. Related: Netflix's The Witcher Season 1 Ending Explained How and Why The Resolute Was Destroyed The second is Ben's final words to Scarecrow: " Next time we meet, how about we do things differently from the start?" He could just be referring to some kind of shared human-robot afterlife, or it could be foreshadowing for Ben and Scarecrow actually meeting again. The first is, quite simply, that we don't know how the robots' healing process works, and Ben was touching Scarecrow when the lightning hit - which leaves room for plenty of creative sci-fi explanations for his fantastical survival. It appears that Ben dies when the lightning strikes, but since we don't see his body (and since he's such a great character) it's worth pointing out a couple of indications that he might have survived. Due to the lightning storm arriving sooner than expected, Ben decides to sacrifice himself by dragging Scarecrow out onto the ring while Will stays inside the Jupiter, which acts as a Faraday cage (protecting him from the lightning). With Scarecrow dying from the effects of its ill treatment on the Resolute, Ben and Will follow Robot's instructions and take its fallen friend to the desert planet where the evacuated colonists are living.
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It's only in Lost in Space's season finale that we find out more about these rings: first, that the robots have markings on their bodies that correspond to markings on the rings and second, that the robots appear to actually live inside the rings. The rings around the circumference of the planets act as lightning rods, which trigger regular lightning storms and allow the rings to gather power. One of the most interesting elements introduced in Lost in Space season 2 are the rings that encircle the planets of the robots' home solar system. Either the robots or their original creators appear to have turned the planets in the system into, effectively, giant battery chargers. The Alien Planet Rings and Ben Adler's Sacrifice When an initial plan to stop the robots fails, the Robinsons are forced to make a terrible choice. Unfortunately, the rest of the the alien robots aren't quite so friendly, and in the season finale the Resolute is once again targeted by a wrathful band of machines who are intent on retrieving their engine - which also happens to be the only way to get the colonists to Alpha Centauri. Related: Lost In Space Season 2 Cast & Character Guide The second season of Netflix's sci-fi reboot picks up seven months after the climactic season 1 finale, with the Robinsons still stranded in a strange star system that the Robot warned was "danger." They are eventually able to reconnect with the Resolute, only to find its colonists evacuated to a nearby planet and a terrible secret within the Resolute's engine core: the entire colony ship was built around the remains of an alien ship that crashed on Earth, the so-called "Christmas Star," and an enslaved robot called Scarecrow has been piloting the Resolute back and forth from Earth to Alpha Centauri. The Robinsons also meet Ben Adler, a senior Resolute crew member who had a bond with Scarecrow that was similar to the connection between Will and the Robot. Lost in Space season 2 finds the Robinsons still desperately trying to get colony ship The Resolute to their destination in the Alpha Centauri star system - but by the end, they're more lost than ever!