skoob has a point TBD
I had never heard of this girl until today by the way.
What worries me is TBD tells me about her once before and I had no memory of it. This tells me 2 things, either she made no impact on me or I'm demented. I suspect a bit of both.
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Brian Cox on Carl Sagan and the original Cosmos.
Carl Sagan was a huge influence. Cosmos was on TV in the U.K. when I was 12, in 1980. So that would be the perfect age for a kid who is into astronomy anyway, as many are. And to have that series capture your imagination at that age, it makes an indelible impression on you. I think one of the reasons that Sagan is still relevant today, and one of the reasons he’s very relevant in television, is that his shows were partly polemic. They were not simply—as is the fashion today—these kinds of presentations of what we know and don’t know about the universe, which is exciting and spectacular, but there’s more to it than that. There’s an agenda. Not to science, but to him. He had an agenda. He thought he would build a better world if everybody understood the value of the world and behaved in a scientific manner. He really believed that. He was passionately involved in that perspective.
And that perspective is not that we’re very small or insignificant. To Sagan, the perspective was that because civilization is so rare in the universe, then our rarity could have value. Stepping away from the Earth, observing our existence on Earth, and putting our place in the universe in its proper context, for him, should make us on the planet behave in a more sensible and rational way. He recognized that we’re a village. I agree with that. The Wonders Of The Universe program has that [approach]. It has messages in it. It tries to contextualize these discoveries as well as present them. And why not? In the U.K., I am quite political. I work at university, and I am involved in the political process. I lobby really hard for funding and support for scientific and engineering programs, because I feel that those are the ways that we will progress as a civilization and as a country. That’s what I share with Sagan’s view, that you can be an activist—a scientific activist—and you should be able to do that on television and with books.
So there you go, looks like Brian Cox is a British version of Cosmos
No I don't think that at all. Being familiar with the original series I was able to contextualize the various pieces quite well. That said, the scope of the series is so broad I can't think of a way to do an effective trailer that would give the uninitiated the full picture.
Regardless, trailers are normally made by the network to get viewers, and not by the production company that actually created the show, so drawing massive conclusions from trailers is a fool's game.
But I'll humour you... what parts are you referring to? The partial use of animation? Animation does not necessarily translate to a lack of seriousness. Much of the series is about the history of scientific achievement and the animation in tonight's episode was certainly used for that end and it told a very dark story indeed (that of Giordano Bruno).
You're funny.
And I bet you cave.
I think your subsequent extrapolations painted a very different picture.
Anyway, this side show is over.
Cliff's notes... Cosmos is cool as **** people. First episode gives an appetiser for the places the following episodes is going to dig into. Check it out!
