Carl Sagan's Cosmos returns to television

[SlyPokerDog]

Wow, anyone who didn't watch and enjoy that great 13 episode series is a complete loser.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

I just watched Cosmos, hour #1, on free Hulu. As expected, the attraction was special effects, not information, since I am well-versed on that. I disliked 3 things: 1) He travels in an oval spacecraft, a constant distraction from the great view behind him I'm trying to see, 2) the cartoon portions are low-quality and not up to the standard of the special effects, and 3) the unimaginative, superficial calendar portion wastes an opportunity to show evolution of both physical universe and then life.

The show copies the Sagan version in most ways, including the host standing on a deck and looking down on stars, which I disliked in the late 70s and still do. One change is that this host doesn't look up all the time with a Hollywood toothy smile. The original Cosmos was America's answer to the vastly more interesting British series Connections, starring James Burke, which I used to say was my favorite TV series of all time. I suppose it still is. You really should see it if you like science history.

Connections might be my favorite show of all time as well. The Day the Universe Changed with James Burke is a great show too.

 

[jlprk]

Connections might be my favorite show of all time as well. The Day the Universe Changed with James Burke is a great show too.

They should have named it Connections II. It's more of the same. It's great.

You're the first Connections fan I've met in, what, 35 years? It was on PBS in the late 70s. Nobody ever knows what I'm talking about. About the program Connections, of course.

 

[Denny Crane]

I watched Connections and thought it was brilliant.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

They should have named it Connections II. It's more of the same. It's great.

You're the first Connections fan I've met in, what, 35 years? It was on PBS in the late 70s. Nobody ever knows what I'm talking about. About the program Connections, of course.

Yeah they are pretty similar, but there actually is a Connections 2, and a Connections 3, both made in the 90's.

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[crandc]

Never saw connections. I'd prefer actors to cartoon recreations. But these are minor quibbles. The show is still one of the best things on TV, ever.

 

[jlprk]

This video starts with a written message on screen that lasts 5 seconds at most--Cosmos was forced by a lawsuit to make this video telling the other side.

It ends with the star saying that he's a real minister at a creationist church. Maybe all this is true.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/showbiz/2014/06/16/fod-creationist-cosmos.funny-or-die.html