I have high hopes for this series. This is TV I want my kids to watch.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is both ambitious and quaint. It attempts to convey humanity’s most expansive ideas in the space of a weekly 44-minute TV series. That’s ambitious. The show is also unabashed in its commitment to truth—it matter-of-factly presents what we know about the universe, what we’re pretty sure about, and what we don’t know yet. Cosmos doesn’t hedge: You won’t hear the narrator, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, neuter any of his statements with a gratuitous “some people believe…” counterpoint. He states the truth as a broad scientific consensus understands it today. In a media environment where truth has to compete with a “balance” designed to prevent hurt feelings, Cosmos’ straightforward tack is quaint—laudably so.
[Via The Rajam Report]
As a minor science buff myself, I found the first episode just OK. The “spaceship of imagination” thing was corny and distracting as were the “special effects” on Tyson.
I found the last minute (when Tyson was talking about Carl Sagan) more interesting and entertaining than all the previous minutes.
I’m sure it will get better though. Hopefully, the first show was laying the foundation.